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Rep. Crow, Jason [D-CO-6] · D–CO
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Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2026-09-24 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
The proposed COMBAT Care Act would allow the Defense Department, in consultation with the State Department, to establish military injury-care education, training, and research partnerships with foreign militaries. These programs could bring military medical professionals together to share experience, improve care systems, and study injuries from emerging weapons. Establishing the programs and including the listed activities would be optional.
This Act may be cited as the Cooperative Overseas Military Battlefield Advancement in Trauma Care Act or the COMBAT Care Act.
(a) Partnerships The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of State, may establish a joint education and training program on military trauma care and research with appropriate personnel of the military forces of one or more foreign countries.
(b) Elements The Secretary may include in each joint education and training program on military trauma care and research under subsection (a) the following:
(4) The conduct of joint research and development initiatives addressing the health effects of new and emerging weapons and methods of warfare. (5) Capacity-building programs to support the development, sustainment, and modernization of military trauma care systems and programs.
Programs could share lessons from treating combat casualties in past conflicts and hold conferences and professional exchanges for U.S. and participating foreign military medical professionals. They could also exchange knowledge about health policy, administration, and the supply and movement of medical supplies and equipment.
(1) The sharing of relevant lessons learned in combat casualty care derived from prior conflicts. (2) The conduct of joint conferences, symposia, and professional exchange programs involving military medical professionals from the United States and the foreign countries participating in the program. (3) Collaboration through structured knowledge exchanges on matters relating to health policy, health administration, and medical logistics, including with respect to medical supplies and equipment.
Programs could conduct joint research and development on the health effects of new weapons and methods of warfare. They could also help develop, maintain, and modernize military systems for treating traumatic injuries.
(4) The conduct of joint research and development initiatives addressing the health effects of new and emerging weapons and methods of warfare. (5) Capacity-building programs to support the development, sustainment, and modernization of military trauma care systems and programs.
Programs could coordinate treatment principles, data collection, improvements in care, and clinical best practices between U.S. armed forces and participating foreign military medical services. This coordination would run through the Defense Health Agency's Joint Trauma System.
(6) Coordination, through the Joint Trauma System of the Defense Health Agency, of trauma care doctrine, data collection, performance improvement, and clinical best practices with the Armed Forces of the United States and the military medical services of the foreign countries participating in the program.
Participating foreign military forces could receive training in traumatic-injury care and combat wound infections. Training could also cover post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide prevention related to military trauma treatment, as well as care for injuries and diseases not incurred in combat.
(7) The provision of training to the military forces of such foreign countries with respect to— (A) military trauma care; (B) combat wound infection; (C) post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide prevention relating to the treatment of military trauma care; and (D) care for injuries and diseases that are not incurred in combat.
To carry out the programs, the Defense Secretary could use existing legal powers under chapter 16 of title 10 of the United States Code and other applicable statutes. The supplied bill does not reproduce those laws, so their specific requirements and restrictions cannot be described from this evidence.
(c) Use of authorities In carrying out the joint education and training program on military trauma care and research under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense may use the authorities under chapter 16 of title 10, United States Code, and other applicable statutory authorities available to the Secretary.
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated October 5, 2026, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on Armed Services on September 24, 2026. This snapshot does not establish what happened afterward.
Source snapshot updated 2026-10-05T19:26:25Z. 2026-09-24: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. 2026-09-24: Introduced in House
A closer look
Reviewed version: Introduced in House · 2026-09-24. These findings describe provisions and who may benefit; they are not judgments of waste, corruption, or motive.
This review covers the supplied bill text. “None identified” does not rule out provisions in later versions or accompanying reports and disclosures.
Provisions outside the bill’s main subject, or policy changes attached to appropriations.
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Spending directed to particular recipients or places outside ordinary competitive or formula-based allocation.
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Narrow exceptions, exemptions, or preferential treatment that warrant a closer look.
None identified in the reviewed text
No materially narrow carve-out, special exemption, or preferential treatment beyond the program's intended coverage was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion is limited to that version and does not establish absence in other versions or accompanying materials.
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