Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
Latest action (May 20, 2025) — under General Orders. Calendar No. 78.
What it does
Congressional Research Service, Jan 23, 2025This bill extends death and disability benefits under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program (PSOB) to certain public safety officers who suffer from exposure-related cancer while on duty and their survivors. The PSOB program provides death, disability, and education benefits to public safety officers who are killed or injured in the line of duty and their survivors.
The bill specifies that exposure to a carcinogen shall be presumed to constitute a personal injury in the line of duty if
the exposure occurred while the officer was in the line of duty;the officer began serving as an officer not fewer than 5 years before the date of the diagnosis of an exposure-related cancer and the diagnosis occurred not more than 15 years after the last date of active service; andthe exposure-related cancer directly and proximately resulted in the death or permanent and total disability of the officer.The Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance must periodically review the definition of exposure-related cancer and update the definition if appropriate based on medical evidence and in accordance with the requirements of a petition process.
Face Value
as reported to the SenateHow much of this bill its name accounts for.
- Every bill starts at100
- Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.
Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out
Who lobbied on this
1 organizationThese organizations told Congress, in their own quarterly disclosures, that they were lobbying on this bill.
- International Association of Fire Fightersno position stated
“H.R. 911, Patriot Day Act H.R. 1269/S. 237, Honoring our Fallen Heroes Act H.R. 1443/S. 1247, Public Safety Officers Free Speech Act H.R. 2766/S. 2014, Special District Fairness and…” filing ↗
Most filings say only that an organization lobbied on a bill, not which side it took — where that's the case we say so rather than guessing. Quotes are verbatim from the filing. How this is built.
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