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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5025 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5025

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 11, 2024

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

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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 2024'' or the ``FIRE Cancer Act of 2024''.

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:
                    ``(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:
            ``(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:
            ``(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:
    ``(r) Cancer Research.--
            ``(1) In general.--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.
            ``(2) Sharing.--Any results of firefighting personnel 
        described in paragraph (1) 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.--Section 33(i)(1) of the 
Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229(i)(1)) 
is amended by striking ``described in subsection (c)(3)(F)'' and 
inserting ``described in subsection (c)(3)(G)''.
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