FIRE Cancer Act of 2024

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:

(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:

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:

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:

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 results of firefighting personnel described in paragraph (1) 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.

Section 33(i)(1) of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229(i)(1)) is amended by striking described in subsection (c)(3)(F) and inserting described in subsection (c)(3)(G).