H.R. 530 · 119th Congress · Armed forces and national security
ACES Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
Bundled: this vote covered more than one measure.
House · May 5, 2025
Roll call ↗376
5
Passed the House.
Not single-subject. Section 2 orders the aircrew cancer study. Section 3 is an unrelated rider that amends 38 U.S.C. 5503(d)(7) to extend a pension payment limit from November 30, 2031 to December 31, 2031. The two share no subject beyond both touching veterans law.
Passed the House on May 5, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
- IntroducedJan 16, 2025
- CommitteeJan 16, 2025
- Passed HouseMay 5, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 35
- 16 Democrats, 19 Republicans
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Veterans' AffairsHouse Committee on Veterans' Affairs
- Lobbying
- At least 7
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This bill directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a study on the prevalence and mortality of cancer among people who served as active duty aircrew of fixed-wing aircraft.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, May 5, 2025
Yea unless marked
D · House · NC-12
D · House · CA-33
R · House · GA-12
This bill directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a study on the prevalence and mortality of cancer among people who served as active duty aircrew of fixed-wing aircraft. The Secretary must seek the agreement within 30 days of enactment and finalize it within 60 days of entering negotiations. If the Secretary misses that deadline, the Secretary must report to the Veterans' Affairs Committees and brief them every 60 days. The study identifies occupational exposures, reviews the literature for associations with overall cancer and eleven named cancers, and determines prevalence and mortality using existing data. The National Academies then reports the results to the Secretary and the committees. The bill also carries a separate provision that changes one date in the pension payment limits of title 38, moving November 30, 2031 to December 31, 2031.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 7 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 32 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm and by 6 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: Disabled American Veterans; Paralyzed Veterans of America; Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA); Wounded Warrior Project; With Honor Action, Inc. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 2 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.