Install
Protect Our Heroes Act of 2025
A bill to protect Federal, State, and local public safety officers.
- Introduced
- Committee
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To President
- Became law
Summary
Protect Our Heroes Act of 2025
This bill establishes new criminal offenses for killing or assaulting (or attempting to kill or assault or conspiring to kill) a current or former judicial officer or public safety officer in circumstances that affect interstate commerce while the officer is engaged in official duties or on account of past performance of official duties.
A violation is subject to criminal penalties—a prison term, a fine, or both.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- May 14, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- May 14, 2025 Introduced in Senate
Congressional and federal records come from official public sources: the House Clerk, the U.S. Senate, GovInfo and the Library of Congress (bill status), the Federal Register, and the congress-legislators project. They are copied on a schedule and may lag the official record by a few hours; the official sources govern. News and coverage counts are drawn from the 4Search index and reflect what the press published, not 4Search's views. Nothing here is an endorsement of any candidate, party or position. Terms of use.