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HR 1610 · in committee · major

FIRE Cancer Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • The bill expands federal grants to fire departments to fund cancer prevention and early detection programs for firefighters.
  • Firefighting personnel and emergency medical services organizations are affected by the new grant opportunities.
  • The bill establishes a research program between FEMA and CDC to study cancer trends in firefighters using voluntary anonymized testing data.

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    How would fire departments decide which cancer prevention and detection programs to prioritize with the new federal grants?

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    What specific evidence supports the connection between firefighting and elevated cancer rates that the bill aims to address?

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    How might the voluntary anonymized testing data collected by FEMA and CDC change cancer screening practices across different fire departments?

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Josh Gottheimer

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Introduced 2025-02-26

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-02-26 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

  2. 2025-02-26 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  3. 2025-02-26 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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