H.R. 4625: Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2016

114th Congress · introduced 2016-02-25 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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Where it came from: introduced 2016-02-25 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Hanna, Richard L. [R-NY-22] · what a sponsor is
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Official title

Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2016

Plain summary

Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2016 This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop and maintain a voluntary patient registry to monitor, collect, and make available epidemiological information related to cancer incidence and trends among firefighters. The CDC should seek to include specified information in the registry, including the number and type of fire incidents attended by an individual. To collect information for the registry, the CDC may incorporate questions into existing public health surveys, questionnaires, and other databases. The CDC must: (1) encourage the inclusion in the registry of data on minority, female, and volunteer firefighters; and (2) seek feedback on the registry from nonfederal experts. The CDC must develop an approval process for making registry data available for research without a fee if findings or publications derived from the research are made public or available to stakeholders.

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Official text

Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2016

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Sponsor: Rep. Hanna, Richard L. [R-NY-22] · 118 cosponsors

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Paul Tonko (D-NY), Diana DeGette (D-CO), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Mark Takano (D-CA), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), John Garamendi (D-CA), Mike Bost (R-IL), Andy Barr (R-KY), Bill Foster (D-IL) and 58 more.

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Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-114hr4625.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/hr>

Record fed-us-cong114-hr4625 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114