H.R. 1269 · 119th Congress

Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025

Introduced on Feb 12, 2025 by Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-5). 180 cosponsors, 48 of them from another party. Latest action (Feb 12, 2025): Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Feb 12, 2025
Cosponsors
180
48 from the other party
Policy area
Crime and Law Enforcement
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

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.

Subjects

  • Cancer
  • Congressional oversight
  • Disability assistance
  • Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
  • Government information and archives
  • Law enforcement officers
  • Worker safety and health

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Introduced in House, Feb 12, 2025). Public domain.

Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025

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 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; 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 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.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Mary Gay ScanlonD-PA-5Sponsor

Democrats · 132

Republicans · 48

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

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  1. Feb 12, 2025Introduced in House
  2. Feb 12, 2025Introduced in House
  3. Feb 12, 2025 · HouseReferred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. National Fraternal Order of Police6 reports
    $600K reported (all issues)
  2. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS5 reports
    $349.3K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS$5,280 in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  3. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS4 reports
    $130K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS, INC.$187.9K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  4. International Association of Firefighters4 reports
    $46.1K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS$5,280 in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  5. National Volunteer Fire Council4 reports
    $40K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: NATIONAL VOLUNTEER FIRE COUNCIL, INC.$60K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  6. Peace Officers Research Association of California4 reports
    $200K reported (all issues)
  7. Sergeants Benevolent Association of New York City4 reports
    $140K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.