HR 1610
FIRE Cancer Act of 2025
Summary
Firefighter Investments to Recognize Exposure to Cancer Act of 2025 or the FIRE Cancer Act of 2025 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) for firefighting personnel. It also establishes a joint cancer research program between FEMA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 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.
Bill status
- Status
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Rep. Josh Gottheimer [D-NJ-5]
- Cosponsors
- 6
- Policy area
- Health
- Introduced
- 2025-02-26
- Latest action
- 2025-02-26: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-02-26: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
- 2025-02-26: Introduced in House
- 2025-02-26: Introduced in House