SCREENS for Cancer Act of 2025

This bill reauthorizes and improves the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) for fiscal years 2026 through 2030. It amends the Public Health Service Act to expand program activities, update reporting requirements, and authorize funding.

Sec. 3, National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program: This section makes several changes to the program. It updates the program's purposes to include prevention, ensuring appropriate follow-up services, enhancing support activities like patient navigation and evidence-based strategies to increase screening, reducing disparities in cancer incidents and deaths, and improving equitable access to screening. It also removes a previous subsection on waivers. The section changes the reporting schedule for the program's report to Congress from annually to every 5 years, starting 2 years after this bill's enactment. Finally, it authorizes $235,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030 for the program.

Sec. 4, GAO Study: This section requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress by September 30, 2027, on the NBCCEDP. The report must include an estimate of eligible individuals, a summary of trends in the number of people served, and an assessment of factors driving those trends, including barriers to accessing screenings.