Mobile Cancer Screening Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 4417 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4417 To amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements for supporting new mobile cancer screening units to expand patient access to essential screening services in rural and underserved communities, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 15, 2025 Mr. Ruiz (for himself, Mr. Evans of Colorado, and Ms. Wasserman Schultz) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements for supporting new mobile cancer screening units to expand patient access to essential screening services in rural and underserved communities, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Mobile Cancer Screening Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Each year, 2,000,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with cancer. (2) Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, with 127,070 deaths in 2023 alone. Despite its prevalence, only 4.5 percent of eligible individuals were screened for lung cancer in 2022. (3) Mobile cancer screening units have proven effective in increasing access to essential screenings, including for breast cancer