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Workers & JobsPolice, firefighters, and EMTs would get CDC facts on spotting, treating, and preventing on-the-job brain injuries
Workers & Jobs
The CDC would gather facts on how to spot, treat, and prevent brain injuries on the job. That includes tips on safety gear. It would post them online and share them with doctors, bosses, unions, and families.
More about this bill
If you are a firefighter, police officer, or EMT, this is about head injuries on your job. The CDC would gather and share facts about concussions and brain injuries in your line of work. That includes how to spot and treat them and how to prevent them. It also includes advice on protective gear. The CDC would post this on its website. It would also send it to doctors, employers, unions, patients, families, and schools of public health. Mental health workers would get facts on how brain injuries link to stress disorders, mood disorders, and thoughts of suicide. The CDC would ask these groups what they need before it builds the website. It could also use grants or contracts to help create model treatment guidelines. The bill uses the definition of public safety officer from an existing federal benefits law. That covers paid and volunteer police, firefighters, chaplains, and rescue and ambulance crews. The bill sets no dollar amount and no start date.
Congressional Summary
Public Safety Officer Concussion and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act of 2025 This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to collect and disseminate information about concussions and traumatic brain injuries among public safety officers, including information relating to diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. The CDC must put the information it collects on its website. The CDC must also disseminate the information to medical and public health professionals, public safety employers and employee representatives, and other stakeholders. In implementing the bill, the CDC may support public and private efforts to identify and create guidelines, protocols, and evidence-based practices for treating concussions and traumatic brain injuries in public safety officers.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-04-10
- Date Added
- 2026-10-16
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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