The Attorney General would have 150 days after enactment to send Congress a detailed plan for helping police officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and 911 dispatchers — including tribal public safety officers — get treatment for job-related post-traumatic stress disorder and acute stress disorder. The plan must explain how to keep officers' treatment confidential, how a program would work across federal, state, tribal, and local agencies, draft legislative language, and how much it would cost each year to run. Congress cites findings that about 30 percent of public safety officers develop conditions like depression or PTSD during their careers, compared to 20 percent of the general public, and that hundreds of police officers die by suicide annually. The Attorney General must consult with agencies that employ these officers and with nonprofit groups that support first responders and their families while drafting the proposal. The bill does not create funding or a program directly — it only requires a formal proposal and cost estimate to be delivered to Congress.
Transparency & Accountability
- Congressional reporting requirement — Attorney General must submit a program proposal, cost estimate, and draft legislation to House and Senate Judiciary Committees within 150 days
Congressional Summary
Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act of 2025 This bill requires the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to report on one or more proposed programs for providing mental health care to public safety officers and related personnel.Under the bill, a proposed program must be administered by DOJ and must make treatment and preventative care available to public safety officers and public safety telecommunicators for job-related post-traumatic stress disorder or acute stress disorder.The bill requires the report to also include draft legislative language related to each proposed program, as well as the estimated cost for administering each proposed program.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in Senate
- Action Date
- 2025-03-04
- Date Added
- 2026-07-11
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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