House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Michael Lecik Military Firefighters Protection Act
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish presumptions of service connection for diseases associated with firefighting.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 21, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 4, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2244.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BACON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 52, March 21, 2025, Page H1189):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 21, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 56 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2244, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2244
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 9, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 11, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
7 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 6 Democrats
6 of 7 cosponsors (86%) are from the other party.
Jason Crow (D-CO), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Thomas Kean (R-NJ), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Gabe Vasquez (D-NM), Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Don Bacon.
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- H.R. 4583 (119th) Living Donor Protection Act of 2025
- H.R. 3946 (119th) FIGHT Act of 2025
- H.R. 1046 (119th) Marc Fischer Memorial Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.