Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act

Bill: 119-hr-1159
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2025-02-10
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Latest action: action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-02-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act</strong></p><p>This bill includes Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees in the&nbsp;Public Safety Officers' Benefits (PSOB) program under certain conditions. Specifically, the bill&nbsp;extends PSOB program&nbsp;death and disability benefits&nbsp;to TSA employees performing official duties related to protecting the nation's transportation systems.</p><p>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.&nbsp;PSOB death benefits are payable to the eligible spouse and children of a public safety officer.&nbsp;Further, the Public Safety Officers’ Educational Assistance&nbsp;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.&nbsp;</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1159 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 10, 2025 Ms. Brownley (for herself, Ms. DelBene , Mr. Torres of New York , Mr. Carbajal , Ms. Strickland , Mrs. McIver , Ms. Waters , Ms. Titus , Mr. Connolly , and Ms. Ross ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act . 2. Transportation Security Administration employees eligible to receive public safety officers’ death benefits Section 1204(14) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 34 U.S.C. 10284(14) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (F), by striking or at the end; (2) in subparagraph (G), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; or ; and (3) by inserting after subparagraph (G) the following: (H) an employee of the Transportation Security Administration who is performing official duties of the Administration, if those official duties are related to protecting the Nation's transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce. . 3. Applicability This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect an injury sustained by an individual described in subparagraph (H) of section 1204(14) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 34 U.S.C. 10284(14) ), as added by this Act, on or after October 31, 2013.