The state Department of Veterans’ Affairs would receive funding to conduct a lung cancer detection study under a bill receiving general file consideration Feb. 17.

LB987, introduced by Omaha Sen. Bob Krist, would require the department to contract with the University of Nebraska Medical Center Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases for a study with a sample of up to 500 veterans to validate diagnostic technology for the early detection of lung cancer. The department would be required to report the results of the study to the Legislature no later than July 1, 2011.