Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
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Overview
The Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025 aims to provide benefits to public safety officers who develop exposure-related cancers. It amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to establish a presumption of injury for officers exposed to carcinogens in the line of duty, leading to death or permanent disability. The bill also creates a process for periodically updating the list of covered cancers based on medical evidence and allows for petitions from individuals to add new cancers to the definition.
Key provisions
- Establishes a presumption of injury for public safety officers diagnosed with exposure-related cancers resulting from carcinogen exposure in the line of duty.
- Defines a list of covered exposure-related cancers, including bladder, brain, breast, colon, lung, leukemia, melanoma, mesothelioma, lymphoma, ovarian, prostate, skin, and stomach cancers.
- Requires the Bureau to periodically update the list of covered cancers based on medical evidence.
- Allows individuals to petition the Bureau to add new cancers to the list of covered exposures.
- Modifies confidentiality provisions to allow for the sharing of information related to public safety officer cancer cases.
- Clarifies the definition of ‘line of duty action’ to include actions directed by the agency and those the officer is authorized to perform.
- Provides a 3-year window for filing claims related to exposure-related cancers.
- Addresses technical amendments to existing legislation to ensure consistent application of the new provisions.
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