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Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
This bill allows public safety officers and their surviving families to receive federal line-of-duty disability and death benefits if the officer develops certain cancers linked to job-related toxic exposures. To qualify under this automatic link, an officer must have served for at least five years and received a cancer diagnosis within 15 years of active duty. The rule applies to claims dating back to January 1, 2020, and gives eligible claimants a three-year window from the bill's enactment to apply.
People affected—not determinable from the text provided
Fiscal magnitude—CBO cost estimate published (S. 237, Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025, 2025-07-22); dollar figure pending review extraction — see receipt
Reach54provisional · pending reviewrigor: heuristic llm
What this bill touches.
Substance use & mental health+35Policing & funding−38Personal data & privacy+30Workplace standards+48
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- Public safety officers and their surviving family membersCreates a presumption that covered exposure-related cancers, job-related mental health conditions, and authorized COVID-19-related activities resulting in death or permanent and total disability qualify as line-of-duty events for federal Public Safety Officers' Benefits, retroactive to January 1, 2020.
- Individuals and entities submitting records to the Office of Justice ProgramsReceives expanded privacy and confidentiality protections for information and records submitted to or maintained by any component of the Office of Justice Programs, retroactive to December 27, 1979, and applying to all pending matters.
- Members of the publicGains the formal right to petition the Bureau of Justice Assistance to add new forms of cancer to the covered exposure-related cancer list based on competent medical evidence.
Who it burdens
- Bureau of Justice AssistanceMust review the list of covered exposure-related cancers at least once every 3 years, refer public petitions for additional cancers to medical experts within 180 days, and notify congressional committees of substantive updates.