Senator Dean Heller was at the White House Tuesday and Wednesday as President Donald Trump signed two pieces of legislation into law. The Childhood Cancer STAR Act will fund $30 million to help America's young cancer patients. The money will be used for research, quality of life for survivors and to increase pediatric expertise at the National Institute of Health.

"We're in great shape now that we have the funding mechanism that's in place and be able to help these young adults and be able to help all those children as we continue to fight this terrible disease," Heller, R-Nevada said.

Logan is a cancer survivor who will celebrate his sixth birthday, June 7. He was diagnosed with High Risk Stage Four Neuroblastoma when he was two years old.

"It was devastating," Eric Smith, Logan's father said. "You get the news and you never know what's next. You never think 'Oh, my son's going to have cancer.'"

Smith hopes this funding will help his son's quality of life as he gets older, knowing that a lot of cancer patients have side effects from their cancer or treatment down the road.

"Ten years ago, Logan wouldn't have survived and that's a big part of why the STAR Act was looking at survivors," Smith said. "Looking at those late term effects. What did we do to these children as we saved them?"

Johnny Hartman is another survivor. He was diagnosed with Stage Four Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma during his second year of college at Cal Poly. The Spanish Springs grad went to Washington D.C. in April to lobby for the bill's passage.

"Hopefully, with this extra $30 million, children won't have to go through chemo and won't have to go through these toxic treatment plans and it's not going to be a death sentence, it's not going to make them more sick," Hartman said. "They may keep their hair and the may even be able to go through school. Hopefully, we'll get to a point where cancer is just like the flu."

Hartman says this money will help save lives, especially since only four percent of the federal cancer funding goes towards pediatric cancer research.

"There will be more survivors and there will be healthier survivors," Hartman said. "Their quality of life after treatment and after cancer will be impaired drastically from this bill."

Heller also attended the signing of the VA MISSION Act at the White House Rose Garden, Wednesday morning. The bill is expected to further fund and reform the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, including streamlining the health care system.

"We're trying to make sure that these veterans get the best health care that they've earned and also do it as quickly as possible," Heller said.

Heller says many rural Nevada veterans have to drive hours to get to the closest VA Hospital. This legislation allows veterans to go to a private doctor who is certified to treat veterans. Heller says the VA will pay for it at a lower price, rather than making a long trip.

"It doesn't make sense if you're waiting nine days, 10 days, two weeks to get health care treatment when you can go down the street for a hospital or to a private clinic, and get the same work done."

$55 billion is going into the VA health system. Three of Heller's proposals are in the MISSION Act, including the Veteran Transplant Coverage Act. It allows veterans to get an organ donation from a non-veteran.

"This obviously expands that so that non-veterans their organs can be used at a VA hospital," Heller said.

The legislation is also geared to expand eligibility for caregivers and recruit and retain doctors.