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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.
Summary
The FIRE Cancer Act of 2025 amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act to authorize the Assistance to Firefighters grant program to fund cancer prevention programs for firefighting personnel. The bill allows grants of up to $1,750 per firefighter to cover multi-cancer early detection testing and other forms of preventative testing. The legislation authorizes $700 million in appropriations for these cancer prevention grants. Additionally, the bill directs the FEMA Administrator and Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to jointly establish a voluntary program through which firefighters may share anonymized test results to help identify trends and causes of cancer among firefighting personnel, with personal information safeguarded.
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Sponsor (1)
7 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Josh Gottheimer’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- BLACKSTONE $116,700
- APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT $71,500
- KKR & CO INC. $50,600
- CENTERVIEW PARTNERS $25,000
- FORTRESS INVESTMENT GROUP $23,200
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Actions (2)
- Feb 26, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. · house
- Feb 26, 2025 Introduced in House
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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
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)”. <all>
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