S.Amdt. 6248

SA 6248. Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Mrs. Gillibrand) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 B of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 730. STUDY ON COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENINGS FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES EXPOSED TO OPEN BURN PITS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a study on the feasibility and advisability of providing colorectal cancer screenings to covered members of the Armed Forces.

(b) Conduct of Study.--

(1) Selection.--In conducting the study under subsection (a), the Secretary shall--

(A) select a group of covered members of the Armed Forces and offer those members colorectal cancer screenings, including colonoscopies, fecal occult blood tests, cologuard, and fecal immunochemical tests; and

(B) select a control sample of covered members of the Armed Forces to be provided screenings under the laws administered by the Secretary other than under this section.

(2) Participation.--The Secretary shall permit covered members of the Armed Forces to elect to participate in the study under subsection (a) and shall cap the number of participants once the Secretary determines there is an appropriate sample size for purposes of the study.

(c) Report.--Not later than five years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the study conducted under subsection (a).

(d) Definitions.--In this section:

(1) Covered member of the armed forces.--The term “covered member of the Armed Forces” means a member of the Armed Forces under the age of 45 who was exposed to an open burn pit not later than the date that is five years before the date of the enactment of this Act.

(2) Open burn pit.--The term “open burn pit” has the meaning given that term in section 201(c) of the Dignified Burial and Other Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-260; 38 U.S.C. 527 note).