House Passes Firefighter Cancer Registry Act

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved the creation of a national registry for firefighters who develop job-related cancers in an effort to help prevent the disease.

The Firefighter Cancer Registry Act was unanimously approved by House members on Friday, allowing the Centers for Disease Control to create a specialized registry to help researchers and epidemiologists study the risks firefighters face for developing certain types of cancer.

The House had previously approved the legislation on Sept. 12 before the Senate amended the bill on May 10 and then approved it by unanimous consent.

All that remains now is for the bill to reach the desk of President Donald Trump and be signed into law.

The bipartisan bill was introduced in the House by Congressmen Chris Collins (R-NY) and Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ), while similar legislation was introduced in the Senate by Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).

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