[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5212 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5212

 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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 15, 2023

    Mr. Gottheimer (for himself and Mr. D'Esposito) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, 
                             and Technology

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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 2023'' or the ``FIRE Cancer Act of 2023''.

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 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)''.
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