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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.
People & committees
Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26] · D–CA
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-10 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
The proposed Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act would expand eligibility for public safety officers’ death benefits to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees performing official duties related to protecting the nation’s transportation systems. The change concerns employees whose duties protect the movement of people and commerce; it does not cover every TSA employee regardless of duties.
This Act may be cited as the Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act.
Transportation Security Administration employees eligible to receive public safety officers’ death benefits
(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.
Section 2 would add qualifying TSA employees as a new category in section 1204(14) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. The employee must be performing official TSA duties related to protecting the nation’s transportation systems to ensure movement of people and commerce.
Section 1204(14) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10284(14)) is amended—
(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.
Section 3 would make the change apply to injuries sustained by qualifying TSA employees on or after October 31, 2013. This is an injury-date cutoff, allowing the proposed coverage to reach injuries predating the bill’s introduction.
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.
2025-02-10: Introduced in House
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated October 25, 2025, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on the Judiciary on February 10, 2025.
Source snapshot updated 2025-10-25T08:05:39Z. 2025-02-10: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. 2025-02-10: Introduced in House
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