Lets fire departments get federal grants for firefighter cancer prevention and early testing.
This bill would let fire departments use federal money to start programs that help prevent cancer for their staff, including tests to find cancer early. It would also set up a program where firefighters could choose to share their test results, made anonymous, for cancer research. This would help protect firefighters from cancer risks linked to their work.
Right now, federal grants for firefighters do not specifically cover cancer prevention programs or early detection tests. This bill would change that. It would let fire departments use these grants for such programs. It would also set aside $700,000,000 for these grants, with a $1,750 limit for each test. It would also create a new federal program for firefighters to voluntarily share anonymized cancer test results for research.
S 5261 · 119th Congress · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10
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