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Parkinson’s Protection for Firefighters Act

To amend title 5, United States Code, to include Parkinson's disease in the list of illnesses and diseases deemed to be proximately caused by employment in fire protection activities, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jun 2, 2026

Latest action (Jun 2, 2026) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Referred to
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Issues
Healthcare

Summary

- Adds Parkinson's disease to the list of illnesses and diseases presumed to be proximately caused by fire protection employment under federal workers' compensation law.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor

Actions (2)
  1. Jun 2, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. · senate
  2. Jun 2, 2026 Introduced in Senate

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 4453 — To amend title 5, United States Code, to include Parkinson's disease in the list of illnesses and diseases deemed to be proximately caused by employment in fire protection activities, and for other purposes. · Introduced Jul 16, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 8863 — To amend title 5, United States Code, to add certain employees of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to the definition of employees in fire protection activities for the purpose of compensation for certain illnesses and diseases deemed to be proximately caused by employment in fire protection activities. · Introduced May 15, 2026 · Cong. 119 62%
  • S 4554 — Renewing our PACT Act of 2026 · Introduced May 18, 2026 · Cong. 119 58%
  • HR 5619 — Federal Firefighter Paycheck Protection Act · Introduced Sep 30, 2025 · Cong. 119 58%
  • HR 10001 — Wildfire Responder Protection Act · Introduced Jul 30, 2026 · Cong. 119 58%
  • S 4824 — Wildland Firefighter Hazard Pay Correction Act · Introduced Jun 18, 2026 · Cong. 119 57%

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

June 2, 2026

Mr. Banks (for himself and Mr. Kim) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

A BILL

To amend title 5, United States Code, to include Parkinson’s disease in the list of illnesses and diseases deemed to be proximately caused by employment in fire protection activities, 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 “Parkinson’s Protection for Firefighters Act”.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE IN LIST OF ILLNESSES AND DISEASES DEEMED TO BE PROXIMATELY CAUSED BY EMPLOYMENT IN FIRE PROTECTION ACTIVITIES.

Section 8143b(b) of title 5, United States Code, is amended—

(1) in the subsection heading, by striking “Diseased” and inserting “Diseases”;

(2) in paragraph (1), by striking “activedate” and inserting “active date”; and

(3) in paragraph (2)—

(A) by redesignating subparagraphs (L) through (P) as subparagraphs (M) through (Q), respectively; and

(B) by inserting after subparagraph (K) the following:

“(L) Parkinson’s disease.”. <all>

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