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H.R. 5637: Michael Lecik Military Firefighters Protection Act

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H.R. 5637: Michael Lecik Military Firefighters Protection Act

116th Congress · introduced 2020-01-16 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2020-01-16 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Spanberger, Abigail Davis [D-VA-7] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Michael Lecik Military Firefighters Protection Act

Plain summary

Michael Lecik Military Firefighters Protection Act This bill establishes a presumption of service-connection for specified diseases becoming manifest in certain veterans to a degree of disability of 10% or more within 15 years of the veteran's separation from active military, naval, or air service. Under a presumption of service-connection, specific diseases or disabilities diagnosed in certain veterans are presumed to have been caused by the circumstances of their military service. Health care benefits and disability compensation may then be awarded. Veterans addressed by this bill are those who (1) trained in fire suppression, and (2) served on active duty in a military occupational specialty or career field with a primary responsibility of firefighting or damage control for at least five years in the aggregate.

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Official text

Michael Lecik Military Firefighters Protection Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Spanberger, Abigail Davis [D-VA-7] · 53 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Don Bacon (R-NE), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY), Tom Cole (R-OK), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Haley M. Stevens (D-MI), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Norma J. Torres (D-CA), Josh Harder (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), W. Gregory Steube (R-FL), Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY), Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA), Joe Neguse (D-CO), H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA), Sean Casten (D-IL), Jason Crow (D-CO), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Jim Costa (D-CA), Kim Schrier (D-WA), Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX), Ilhan Omar (D-MN)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr5637 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116