Study cancer in Vietnam veterans exposed to liver flukes.
H.R. 586 — Vietnam Veterans Liver Fluke Cancer Study Act · Filed by Nicolas LaLota (R-NY) · 8 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 21, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill tells the VA and CDC to study bile duct cancer. Vietnam veterans may have eaten food with liver flukes while serving in Southeast Asia. The VA will count how many veterans get this cancer. The VA will report findings to Congress within one year. The VA will keep watching this group. The bill moves a pension payment deadline to December 31, 2031.
Who it affects
Vietnam veterans who may have been exposed to liver flukes. The VA and CDC, which will do the study. Congress, which will get the report.
One thing to notice
The study could show that bile duct cancer came from military service. If it does, the VA might add this cancer to the disability pay list.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
8 cosponsors: 5 Democrats, 3 Republicans.
- Jan 21, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 21, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs”
- Apr 7, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection”
- Apr 7, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Dec 2025 to Dec 2025.
Those reports show $161,271 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 169 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Nicolas LaLota, who sponsored the bill, received $959,333 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Disabled American Veterans — $161,271 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- bile duct cancer — A rare cancer that grows in tubes carrying digestive fluid from the liver.
- liver flukes — Tiny parasites that live in food and can cause cancer if eaten.
- VA — The Department of Veterans Affairs, which helps veterans with health care and pay.
- CDC — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a government health agency.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,605 characters) on Jul 25, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jan 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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