WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access and Research (STAR) Act - bipartisan legislation that West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito introduced with Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., last February and the Senate passed in March.

The bill will expand opportunities for childhood cancer research, improve efforts to identify and track childhood cancer incidences, and enhance the quality of life for childhood cancer survivors.

"I am proud of the work Sen. Reed and I have done to advance this bill, and I know this legislation will make an important difference in the lives of children with cancer as well as childhood cancer survivors and their families," Capito said in a news release. "I am thrilled our bill has now passed the House and look forward to President Trump signing this lifesaving bill into law soon."