1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Veterans Burn Pits Exposure Recognition Act of 2019 . 2. Findings; sense of Congress (a) Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The health of some members of the Armed Forces and veterans who served in certain locations, often multiple times, may have been affected by their service near burn pits. (2) Determining the location of burn pits, and the scope of health effects associated to exposure, remains the subject of much investigation and research by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, other government agencies, and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (3) The locations of burn pits used by the Department of Defense and partnered armed forces, and the possible health effects associated by their use, may never be completely known, as— (A) some location and air and soil quality data is fragmentary; and (B) the research involved with establishing links between burn pit exposure and health conditions by necessity is complex, years in length, and in the end, in some cases, inconclusive. (4) In the interim, though, some veterans have already been adversely affected by their exposure to burn pits, and their claims to certain benefits furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs can be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. (5) When filing a claim for certain benefits furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the application requires that each veteran show evidence of their exposure to burn pits, however if the evidence of exposure to burn pits is not provided, the claim is often denied. (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) if it is determined that a veteran was deployed to a covered location during a certain period, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs should concede that the member or veteran was exposed to certain toxins, chemicals, and hazards