S.Amdt. 268

SA 268. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle C of title VII, add the following:

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SEC. 729. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON HEALTH CONCERNS RELATING TO
EXPOSURE TO KNOWN CHEMICAL CARCINOGENS.

It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Air
Force, as part of ongoing efforts to address the cancer and
other health concerns raised by members of the Air Force and
former members of the Air Force who reported being exposed to
known chemical carcinogens while serving at a military
installation, should work with Federal and State
environmental and health agencies to identify whether higher
than expected rates of morbidity and mortality are determined
for those members and former members.
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