- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 37
- Latest action
- Mar 6, 2025
What it does
The HERO Act would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a national data system to track suicide incidence among public safety officers, including firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, and public safety telecommunicators, with detailed demographic and occupational breakdowns, and to report findings biennially to Congress and the public. It would also authorize grants for peer-support behavioral health programs in fire and EMS departments, behavioral health programs for healthcare providers, development of educational resources for mental health professionals treating first responders, and the creation and updating of evidence-based best practices for…
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Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Ami Bera
- Adam Smith
- Angie Craig
- April McClain Delaney
- Bonnie Watson Coleman
- Brian Fitzpatrick
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
- Deborah Ross
- Dina Titus
- Don Bacon
- Donald Norcross
- Eleanor Norton
- Emanuel Cleaver
- Eugene Vindman
- Frank Mrvan
- George Latimer
- Jared Huffman
- Jefferson Van Drew
- Jimmy Panetta
- Josh Harder
- Judy Chu
- Kim Schrier
- Kristen McDonald Rivet
- LaMonica McIver
- Laura Gillen
- Madeleine Dean
- Mark Pocan
- Salud Carbajal
- Sean Casten
- Seth Magaziner
- Shontel Brown
- Shri Thanedar
- Stephen Lynch
- Thomas Kean
- Thomas Suozzi
- Timothy Kennedy
- William Keating
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