S. 1501Senate116th Congress (2019-2021)In Committee

Blast Pressure Exposure Study Improvement Act

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The Blast Pressure Exposure Study Improvement Act changes the rules for the Department of Defense’s long‑term medical study on blast pressure exposure among service members. It adds a requirement to evaluate whether the study’s data can be uploaded to a defense health‑tracking system and shared with DoD and Veterans Affairs staff, and it creates an annual reporting duty to Congress.

Key Provisions

Directs the study to assess the feasibility and advisability of uploading its data into the Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System‑Industrial Hygiene (or a similar system).
Requires that DoD and Department of Veterans Affairs personnel be allowed access to that system if data sharing is approved.
Mandates an annual status report, due each January 1, to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, covering the study’s progress from FY2020 until the study is completed.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

Armed Services Committee

May 16, 2019

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Introduced in Senate

May 16, 2019

SenateIntro Referral

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

Armed Services Committee

May 16, 2019

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Introduced in SenateIssued May 16, 2019

116th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 1501

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

May 16, 2019

Ms. Warren (for herself and Ms. Ernst) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

A BILL

To modify the requirements for the longitudinal medical study of the Department of Defense on blast pressure exposure of members of the Armed Forces to assess the feasibility and advisability of uploading and sharing data, and for other purposes.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Blast Pressure Exposure Study Improvement Act.

Modification of requirements for longitudinal medical study on blast pressure exposure of members of the Armed Forces

Section 734 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115–91; 131 Stat. 1444) is amended—

(1)

in subsection (b)—

(A)

in paragraph (2), by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon;

(B)

in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and; and

(C)

by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

(4)

assess the feasibility and advisability of—

(A)

uploading the data gathered from the study into the Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System—Industrial Hygiene (DOEHRS–IH) or similar system; and

(B)

allowing personnel of the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to have access to such system.

; and

(2)

in subsection (c)—

(A)

by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and

(B)

by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph (2):

(2)

Annual status report

Not later than January 1 of each year during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 and ending on the completion of the study under subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a status report on the study.