Amended IN Senate March 24, 2025 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 700Introduced by Senators Grayson and CorteseFebruary 21, 2025 An act to add Section 104210.3 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 700, as amended, Grayson. California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program. Existing law establishes the California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program, pursuant to which the Legislature requests the University of California, in consultation with the FIRESCOPE Program, to develop and administer a competitive grant program to award grants to eligible educational institutions to conduct research on the California fire service using a community-based participatory research model in collaboration with California firefighters. Existing law requires research conducted by program grantees to include, but not be limited to, understanding biomarkers of exposure that quantify chemical carcinogens absorbed and metabolized by firefighters and studying biomarkers of effect that quantify cancer-promoting cellular changes that ultimately lead to a cancer diagnosis. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program.This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from preventing a firefighter or fire department from voluntarily participating in a study undertaken pursuant to the above-described provisions, including allowing access to facilities and the use of equipment for the purposes of the terms of the grant.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 104210.3 is added to the Health and Safety Code, immediately following Section 14210.2, to read:104210.3. A city, county, or city and county shall not prevent a firefighter or fire department from voluntarily participating in a study undertaken pursuant to a grant awarded under Section 104210.1, including allowing access to facilities and the use of equipment for the purposes of the terms of the grant.SECTION 1.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program.
Amended IN Senate March 24, 2025 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 700Introduced by Senators Grayson and CorteseFebruary 21, 2025 An act to add Section 104210.3 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 700, as amended, Grayson. California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program. Existing law establishes the California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program, pursuant to which the Legislature requests the University of California, in consultation with the FIRESCOPE Program, to develop and administer a competitive grant program to award grants to eligible educational institutions to conduct research on the California fire service using a community-based participatory research model in collaboration with California firefighters. Existing law requires research conducted by program grantees to include, but not be limited to, understanding biomarkers of exposure that quantify chemical carcinogens absorbed and metabolized by firefighters and studying biomarkers of effect that quantify cancer-promoting cellular changes that ultimately lead to a cancer diagnosis. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program.This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from preventing a firefighter or fire department from voluntarily participating in a study undertaken pursuant to the above-described provisions, including allowing access to facilities and the use of equipment for the purposes of the terms of the grant.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
Amended IN Senate March 24, 2025
Amended IN Senate March 24, 2025
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 700
Introduced by Senators Grayson and CorteseFebruary 21, 2025
Introduced by Senators Grayson and Cortese
February 21, 2025
An act to add Section 104210.3 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 700, as amended, Grayson. California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program.
Existing law establishes the California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program, pursuant to which the Legislature requests the University of California, in consultation with the FIRESCOPE Program, to develop and administer a competitive grant program to award grants to eligible educational institutions to conduct research on the California fire service using a community-based participatory research model in collaboration with California firefighters. Existing law requires research conducted by program grantees to include, but not be limited to, understanding biomarkers of exposure that quantify chemical carcinogens absorbed and metabolized by firefighters and studying biomarkers of effect that quantify cancer-promoting cellular changes that ultimately lead to a cancer diagnosis. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program.This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from preventing a firefighter or fire department from voluntarily participating in a study undertaken pursuant to the above-described provisions, including allowing access to facilities and the use of equipment for the purposes of the terms of the grant.
Existing law establishes the California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program, pursuant to which the Legislature requests the University of California, in consultation with the FIRESCOPE Program, to develop and administer a competitive grant program to award grants to eligible educational institutions to conduct research on the California fire service using a community-based participatory research model in collaboration with California firefighters. Existing law requires research conducted by program grantees to include, but not be limited to, understanding biomarkers of exposure that quantify chemical carcinogens absorbed and metabolized by firefighters and studying biomarkers of effect that quantify cancer-promoting cellular changes that ultimately lead to a cancer diagnosis.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program.
This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from preventing a firefighter or fire department from voluntarily participating in a study undertaken pursuant to the above-described provisions, including allowing access to facilities and the use of equipment for the purposes of the terms of the grant.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 104210.3 is added to the Health and Safety Code, immediately following Section 14210.2, to read:104210.3. A city, county, or city and county shall not prevent a firefighter or fire department from voluntarily participating in a study undertaken pursuant to a grant awarded under Section 104210.1, including allowing access to facilities and the use of equipment for the purposes of the terms of the grant.SECTION 1.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 104210.3 is added to the Health and Safety Code, immediately following Section 14210.2, to read:104210.3. A city, county, or city and county shall not prevent a firefighter or fire department from voluntarily participating in a study undertaken pursuant to a grant awarded under Section 104210.1, including allowing access to facilities and the use of equipment for the purposes of the terms of the grant.
SECTION 1. Section 104210.3 is added to the Health and Safety Code, immediately following Section 14210.2, to read:
### SECTION 1.
104210.3. A city, county, or city and county shall not prevent a firefighter or fire department from voluntarily participating in a study undertaken pursuant to a grant awarded under Section 104210.1, including allowing access to facilities and the use of equipment for the purposes of the terms of the grant.
104210.3. A city, county, or city and county shall not prevent a firefighter or fire department from voluntarily participating in a study undertaken pursuant to a grant awarded under Section 104210.1, including allowing access to facilities and the use of equipment for the purposes of the terms of the grant.
104210.3. A city, county, or city and county shall not prevent a firefighter or fire department from voluntarily participating in a study undertaken pursuant to a grant awarded under Section 104210.1, including allowing access to facilities and the use of equipment for the purposes of the terms of the grant.
104210.3. A city, county, or city and county shall not prevent a firefighter or fire department from voluntarily participating in a study undertaken pursuant to a grant awarded under Section 104210.1, including allowing access to facilities and the use of equipment for the purposes of the terms of the grant.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program.