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Union Calendar No. 762 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6398 
[Report No. 115–974, Part I] 
To authorize the Department of Energy to conduct collaborative research 
with the Department of Veterans Affairs in order to improve healthcare 
services for veterans in the United States, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 17, 2018 
Mr. NORMAN (for himself, Mr. DUNN, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mr. SMITH 
of Texas, Mr. LUCAS, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. KNIGHT, Mr. ROHR-
ABACHER, Mr. HULTGREN, Mr. BABIN, Mrs. COMSTOCK, Mr. ABRAHAM, 
Mr. BIGGS, Mr. MARSHALL, and Mrs. LESKO) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Tech-
nology, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 
Additional sponsors: Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. GALLAGHER, Ms. 
ROSEN, Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio, and Mr. JONES 
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 
Reported from the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology with an 
amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs discharged; committed to the Committee of 
the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July 17, 2018] 
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A BILL 
To authorize the Department of Energy to conduct collabo-
rative research with the Department of Veterans Affairs 
in order to improve healthcare services for veterans in 
the United States, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Energy 
Veterans’ Health Initiative Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) DEPARTMENT.—The term ‘‘Department’’ 
means the Department of Energy. 
(2) NATIONAL
LABORATORY.—The term ‘‘Na-
tional Laboratory’’ has the meaning given that term 
in section 2 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 
U.S.C. 15801). 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Energy. 
SEC. 3. PURPOSES. 
The purposes of this Act are to advance Department 
of Energy expertise in artificial intelligence and high per-
formance computing in order to improve health outcomes 
for veteran populations by— 
(1) supporting basic research through the appli-
cation of artificial intelligence, high performance 
computing, modeling and simulation, machine learn-
ing, and large scale data analytics to identify and 
solve outcome-defined challenges in the health sciences; 
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