FIRE Cancer Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-1610
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2025-02-26
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer

Fires

First responders and emergency personnel

Health programs administration and funding

Health promotion and preventive care

Medical research

Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Latest action: action_date: 2025-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-02-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Firefighter Investments to Recognize Exposure to Cancer Act of 2025 or the FIRE Cancer Act of 2025</strong></p><p>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)&nbsp;for firefighting personnel. It also establishes a joint cancer research program between FEMA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)&nbsp;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.</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1610 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.

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 . 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) .