Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2024
Latest action · Jun 5, 2024 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 415.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 22, 2023
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2023
This 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-related cancer shall be presumed to constitute a personal injury in the line of duty if
- the public safety officer was exposed to or in contact with heat, radiation, or a carcinogen that is linked to an exposure-related cancer;
- the officer began serving as an officer not later than 5 years before the date of the diagnosis of an exposure-related cancer and the diagnosis occurred not later than 15 years after the last date of active service; and
- the 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 (BJA) must periodically review the definition of exposure-related cancer. It directs the BJA to add additional cancers to the definition under certain circumstances (e.g., a petition process).
Cosponsors 37
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 22, 2023 to Nov 12, 2024; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-ND | Kevin Cramer | Original | Mar 22, 2023 |
| R-NE | Deb Fischer | Jul 27, 2023 | |
| R-WY | John Barrasso | Jul 27, 2023 | |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Jul 27, 2023 | |
| D-IL | Tammy Duckworth | Jul 27, 2023 | |
| D-NH | Jeanne Shaheen | Nov 14, 2023 | |
| R-FL | Marco Rubio | Nov 14, 2023 | |
| D-RI | Sheldon Whitehouse | May 15, 2024 | |
| R-TX | Ted Cruz | May 15, 2024 | |
| D-CA | Alex Padilla | Jun 5, 2024 | |
| D-DE | Christopher A. Coons | Jun 5, 2024 | |
| D-NJ | Cory A. Booker | Jun 5, 2024 | |
| R-TX | John Cornyn | Jun 5, 2024 | |
| D-GA | Jon Ossoff | Jun 5, 2024 | |
| R-MO | Josh Hawley | Jun 5, 2024 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Judiciary Committee | Referred Mar 22, 2023Markup May 16, 2024Reported Jun 5, 2024 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 5, 2024Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Durbin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- Jun 5, 2024Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 415.
- May 16, 2024Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- Mar 22, 2023Introduced in Senate
- Mar 22, 2023Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S1225 | Amy Klobuchar D-MN | Apr 19, 2023 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Aug 13, 2024S. 930, Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2024As reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on June 5, 2024
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 1269 | Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025 | Cross-Congress related bill | Feb 12, 2025 |
| HR 1719 | Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2023 | Identical bill | Sep 25, 2024 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide public safety officer benefits for exposure-related cancers, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2023
- Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate
- Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2024
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 5, 2024Reported to Senate
- Mar 22, 2023Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
