US Congress Senate Bill 1714

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Spectrum:
Status: Introduced on May 19 2021 - 25% progression
Action: 2021-05-19 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2784)
Pending: Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Specifically authorizes the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, and other agencies to provide payments to agency personnel who incur brain injuries from hostilities while on assignment. Specifically, the bill allows agency personnel and their families to receive payments for brain injuries that are incurred (1) during a period of assignment to a foreign duty station; (2) in connection with war, insurgency, hostile acts, terrorist activity, or other agency-designated incidents; and (3) not as the result of willful misconduct. The bill's authority applies to injuries incurred before, on, or after the date of the bill's enactment. Agencies must submit classified reports on the bill's implementation, including the number of payments made and the amount of each payment. Since 2016, some intelligence, diplomatic, and other governmental personnel have reported experiencing unusual cognitive and neurological impairments while on assignment (particularly abroad), the source of which is currently under investigation. Symptoms were first reported by personnel stationed in Cuba and have since been collectively referred to as Havana Syndrome.

HAVANA Act of 2021 Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks Act of 2021

Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]	Sen. Marco Rubio [R-FL]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]
Sen. John Cornyn [R-TX]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Sen. Ben Sasse [R-NE]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR]	Sen. Angus King [I-ME]	Sen. James Risch [R-ID]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-05-19	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2784)

HB3556 (Related) 2021-06-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
SB1828 (Related) 2021-10-08 - Became Public Law No: 117-46.
HB3356 (Related) 2021-05-19 - Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1714/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/s1714/BILLS-117s1714is.pdf