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S. 237119th CongressCrime and Law Enforcement
Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) · 59 active : 28 Republicans, 30 Democrats, 1 Independent
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 78.
Where it standsBefore the Senate2 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govHonoring 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;
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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 cance
r and update the definition if appropriate based on medical evidence and in accordance with the requirements of a petition process.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Cancer
- Congressional oversight
- Disability assistance
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government information and archives
- Law enforcement officers
- Worker safety and health
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 2Swing 70–100
- 24Middle 30–70
- 74Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
59 activeShow all 59 cosponsors
- Adam B. Schiff (D-CA)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Deb Fischer (R-NE)
- Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- James C. Justice (R-WV)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Jim Banks (R-IN)
- John Barrasso (R-WY)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- John Fetterman (D-PA)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Mark R. Warner (D-VA)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
