Firefighter Cancer Registry Act
The source supplies the latest action, but no lifecycle stage.
Latest action (14 Apr 2016): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
What this bill does
This bill, the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act, would require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to create and manage a voluntary system for collecting information on cancer among firefighters. The goal is to track cancer rates and trends within this profession.
The registry would gather de-identified data such as cancer diagnoses, treatments, and details about a firefighter's service, including the number and types of fires attended. The CDC would also work to ensure that data from minority, female, and volunteer firefighters is included. This information could be gathered by adding questions to existing public health surveys and databases.
The bill was introduced in the Senate in April 2016 and was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. It is currently in the committee stage, meaning it has not yet been voted on by the full Senate or moved to the House of Representatives.
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Official summary
Firefighter Cancer Registry Act
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 types 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.
Timeline
14 Apr 2016
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Common questions
- What does S. 2799 do?
- This bill, the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act, would require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to create and manage a voluntary system for collecting information on cancer among firefighters. The goal is to track cancer rates and trends within this profession. The registry would gather de-identified data such as cancer diagnoses, treatments, and details about a firefighter's service, including the number and types of fires attended. The CDC would also work to ensure that data from minority, female, and volunteer firefighters is included. This information could be gathered by adding questions to existing public health surveys and databases. The bill was introduced in the Senate in April 2016 and was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. It is currently in the committee stage, meaning it has not yet been voted on by the full Senate or moved to the House of Representatives.
- Has S. 2799 become law?
- The source does not supply a confirmed lifecycle stage for S. 2799. Check the latest action and official source below.
- Who sponsored S. 2799?
- S. 2799 was sponsored by Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] (D-NJ), with 17 cosponsors.
- What's the latest action on S. 2799?
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (14 Apr 2016).
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