Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act
Latest action · Feb 10, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 10, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act
This bill includes Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees in the Public Safety Officers' Benefits (PSOB) program under certain conditions. Specifically, the bill extends PSOB program death and disability benefits to TSA employees performing official duties related to protecting the nation's transportation systems.
As background, the PSOB program provides cash benefits to federal, state, and local law enforcement officers; firefighters; employees of emergency management agencies; and members of emergency medical services agencies who are killed or permanently and totally disabled as the result of personal injuries sustained in the line of duty. PSOB death benefits are payable to the eligible spouse and children of a public safety officer. Further, the Public Safety Officers’ Educational Assistance program, a component of the PSOB program, provides higher-education assistance to the children and spouses of public safety officers who are eligible for PSOB death or disability benefits.
Cosponsors 20
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 10, 2025 to Oct 24, 2025; 9 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NC | Deborah K. Ross | Original | Feb 10, 2025 |
| D-NV | Dina Titus | Original | Feb 10, 2025 |
| D-VA | Gerald E. Connolly | Original | Feb 10, 2025 |
| D-NJ | LaMonica McIver | Original | Feb 10, 2025 |
| D-WA | Marilyn Strickland | Original | Feb 10, 2025 |
| D-CA | Maxine Waters | Original | Feb 10, 2025 |
| D-NY | Ritchie Torres | Original | Feb 10, 2025 |
| D-CA | Salud O. Carbajal | Original | Feb 10, 2025 |
| D-WA | Suzan K. DelBene | Original | Feb 10, 2025 |
| D-NY | Grace Meng | Feb 11, 2025 | |
| D-MI | Haley M. Stevens | Feb 11, 2025 | |
| D-NY | John W. Mannion | Feb 11, 2025 | |
| D-HI | Jill N. Tokuda | Feb 12, 2025 | |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Feb 18, 2025 | |
| D-NY | George Latimer | Feb 27, 2025 | |
| D-NY | Paul Tonko | Feb 27, 2025 | |
| D-FL | Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick | Feb 27, 2025 | |
| D-TX | Lizzie Fletcher | Mar 18, 2025 | |
| D-CO | Joe Neguse | Apr 1, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | Oct 24, 2025 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Feb 10, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 10, 2025Introduced in House
- Feb 10, 2025Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 27, February 10, 2025, page H614.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for the eligibility of Transportation Security Administration employees to receive public safety officers death benefits, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 10, 2025Introduced in House
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.
