# H.R. 530 (119th): ACES Act

ACES Act This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study and report on the prevalence and mortality of cancers among veterans who served on active duty as aircrew members and regularly flew in fixed-wing aircraft.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: cancer_study. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: procedural. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: procedural_motion. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: public_health_research. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: veterans_affairs. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 115: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The measure is an ordinary prudential good: a factual study intended to understand cancer risk among a defined group of veterans, with no operative moral harm and no clear direct restraint of evil. It is not a clear moral good in the sense of defending justice against a named wrong, so 'mixed' is used as the closest fit for a benign, purely prudential measure.
Theological note: Scripture commends diligent care for those who have borne costly service and for the health and welfare of neighbors, which gives this study a modest relevance to stewardship and public care for veterans. The bill raises no direct moral question about killing, sexual corruption, coercion, or injustice, so its relevance is prudential rather than a matter of clear moral verdict.

## Recorded votes

Roll 115: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Yea 376 · Nay 5 · Other 52.

HTML: https://justmeasure.org/bill/hr-530-119/