Title: Blast Pressure Exposure Study Improvement Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Blast Pressure Exposure Study Improvement Act
This bill requires the Department of Defense, as part of its study on traumatic brain injuries caused by blast pressure exposure, to assess the feasibility and advisability of uploading and sharing study data.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1501 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1501

 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.


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                   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

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

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

SEC. 2. 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.''.
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