Official Summaries

Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act

This bill includes Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees in the Public Safety Officers' Benefits (PSOB) program under certain conditions. Specifically, the bill extends PSOB program death and disability benefits to TSA employees performing official duties related to protecting the nation's transportation systems.

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. PSOB death benefits are payable to the eligible spouse and children of a public safety officer. Further, the Public Safety Officers’ Educational Assistance 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. 

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1159 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1159

  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.


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                    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

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers 
Act''.

SEC. 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.''.

SEC. 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.
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