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This bill would let firefighter grant money be used to create cancer prevention programs for firefighters. It would help pay for early cancer screening and other preventive tests, with a cap on how much grant money can be spent on each test. The bill also sets aside federal funding for these programs and creates a voluntary way for firefighters to share test results anonymously with health agencies so officials can better study cancer risks and possible causes in the fire service.
- Grant funds could be used to set up cancer prevention programs for firefighting personnel, including multi-cancer early detection tests or similar preventive screenings.
- Up to $1,750 from grant money could be used for each qualifying cancer test.
- The bill authorizes $700 million for these firefighter cancer prevention grants.
- FEMA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would work together on a voluntary, anonymous reporting program to help identify cancer patterns and causes among firefighters.
Official Summaries
Firefighter Investments to Recognize Exposure to Cancer Act of 2025 or the FIRE Cancer Act of 2025
This bill expands the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA's) Assistance to Firefighters Grant program for fire departments and emergency medical services organizations to include cancer prevention programs (e.g., multi-cancer early detection testing) for firefighting personnel. It also establishes a joint cancer research program between FEMA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through which firefighting personnel may voluntarily share the anonymized results of preventative cancer testing so the CDC can study trends or causes of cancer in such personnel.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1610 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1610
To amend the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to make
available under the assistance to firefighters grant program the
establishment of cancer prevention programs, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 26, 2025
Mr. Gottheimer (for himself, Mr. Bacon, Ms. Gillen, and Mr. Lawler)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Science, Space, and Technology
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A BILL
To amend the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to make
available under the assistance to firefighters grant program the
establishment of cancer prevention programs, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Firefighter Investments to Recognize
Exposure to Cancer Act of 2025'' or the ``FIRE Cancer Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. CANCER PREVENTION PROGRAMS FOR FIREFIGHTERS.
(a) In General.--Section 33 of the Federal Fire Prevention and
Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229) is amended--
(1) in subsection (c)(3)--
(A) by redesignating subparagraphs (F) through (N)
as subparagraphs (G) through (O), respectively; and
(B) by inserting after subparagraph (E) the
following new subparagraph:
``(F) To establish cancer prevention programs for
firefighting personnel, including providing multi-
cancer early detection testing or other forms of
preventative tests.'';
(2) in subsection (i), by adding at the end the following
new paragraph:
``(4) Maximum amount for certain cancer tests.--Not more
than $1,750 from available grant funds under subsection
(c)(3)(F) may be obligated and expended for each multi-cancer
early detection test or other form of preventative test.'';
(3) in subsection (q), by adding at the end the following
new paragraph:
``(4) Cancer prevention programs.--There is authorized to
be appropriated $700,000,000 for grants under subsection
(c)(3)(F).'';
(4) by redesignating subsection (r) as subsection (s); and
(5) by inserting after subsection (q) the following new
subsection:
``(r) Cancer Research.--The Administrator of FEMA and the Director
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shall jointly
establish a voluntary program through which firefighting personnel may
share with the Centers results of multi-cancer early detection testing
or other forms of preventative tests in order to identify any trends or
causes of cancer in such personnel. Any such results shall be shared in
an anonymized, de-identified manner that safeguards the personally
identifiable information of such personnel in order to prevent
attribution to any such personnel of any such shared results.''.
(b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--Paragraph (1) of section
33(i) of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C.
2229(i)) is amended by striking ``described in subsection (c)(3)(F)''
and inserting ``described in subsection (c)(3)(G)''.
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