Servicewomen and Veterans Menopause Research Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires DOD, coordinated with VA, to evaluate completed and ongoing research on menopause, perimenopause, and mid-life women's health for women in the uniformed services and veterans, identify gaps involving treatments, service exposures, combat roles, burn pits, toxic chemicals, PFAS, mental health, provider training, and treatment uptake, and report findings plus strategic plans within 180 days.
Who Benefits and How
Women service members benefit because DOD must examine how uniformed service, combat roles, burn pits, toxic chemicals, PFAS, and provider training affect perimenopause and menopause care. Women veterans benefit because VA must evaluate treatment availability, treatment uptake, mental-health effects, and research gaps for veteran mid-life health. DOD providers and VA providers benefit from recommendations to improve professional training resources for menopause-related care. Medical researchers benefit from strategic plans identifying research topics on hormone treatments, non-hormone treatments, safety, effectiveness, and service-related exposures.
Who Bears the Burden and How
DOD medical research staff and VA research staff must collect research results, evaluate ongoing work, identify gaps, and write reports within 180 days. DOD provider training offices and VA provider training offices must respond to recommendations for mid-life women's health training. HHS information-sharing programs may need coordination so DOD and VA work supplements rather than duplicates existing efforts. Congressional committees must evaluate each agency's findings and strategic plans.
Key Provisions
- Requires DOD, coordinated with VA, to evaluate research on menopause, perimenopause, and mid-life women's health for women in the uniformed services and veterans.
- Directs the evaluation to address treatment safety, treatment effectiveness, military service effects, combat roles, burn pits, toxic chemicals, PFAS, mental health, provider training, and treatment uptake.
- Requires DOD and VA each to report findings, provider-training recommendations, and strategic plans within 180 days.
- Requires agency activities to minimize duplication and supplement HHS information-sharing efforts.
- Provides a sense of Congress that DOD and VA should each conduct additional menopause, perimenopause, and mid-life health research.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires DOD, coordinated with VA, to evaluate completed and ongoing research on menopause, perimenopause, and mid-life women's health for women in the uniformed services and veterans, identify gaps involving treatments, service exposures, combat roles, burn pits, toxic chemicals, PFAS, mental health, provider training, and treatment uptake, and report findings plus strategic plans within 180 days.
Key Policy Areas
Military Health, Veterans Health, Women's Health, Medical Research
Primary Purpose
Requires DOD, coordinated with VA, to evaluate completed and ongoing research on menopause, perimenopause, and mid-life women's health for women in the uniformed services and veterans, identify gaps involving treatments, service exposures, combat roles, burn pits, toxic chemicals, PFAS, mental health, provider training, and treatment uptake, and report findings plus strategic plans within 180 days.
Policy Domains
House resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- Women service members benefit because DOD must examine how uniformed service, combat roles, burn pits, toxic chemicals, PFAS, and provider training affect perimenopause and menopause care
- Women veterans benefit because VA must evaluate treatment availability, treatment uptake, mental-health effects, and research gaps for veteran mid-life health
- DOD providers and VA providers benefit from recommendations to improve professional training resources for menopause-related care
- Medical researchers benefit from strategic plans identifying research topics on hormone treatments, non-hormone treatments, safety, effectiveness, and service-related exposures
Identified Costs
- DOD medical research staff and VA research staff must collect research results, evaluate ongoing work, identify gaps, and write reports within 180 days
- DOD provider training offices and VA provider training offices must respond to recommendations for mid-life women's health training
- HHS information-sharing programs may need coordination so DOD and VA work supplements rather than duplicates existing efforts
- Congressional committees must evaluate each agency's findings and strategic plans
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedCommittee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Moran with amendments. …
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. …
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with amendments …
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 119-86.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
Mrs. Murray (for herself, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Justice, Mr. Ossoff, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
Mrs. Murray (for herself and Ms. Ernst) introduced the following …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
DOD medical research staff, DOD provider training offices, Women service members
Positive-direction: Women service members
Negative-direction: DOD medical research staff, DOD provider training offices
VA provider training offices, VA research staff, Women veterans
Positive-direction: Women veterans
Negative-direction: VA provider training offices, VA research staff
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "secretary_of_defense"
- → Secretary of Defense
- "secretary_of_veterans_affairs"
- → Secretary of Veterans Affairs
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