House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
HERO Act
Official title: To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to improve the detection, prevention, and treatment of mental health issues among public safety officers, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Ami Bera D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 6, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 6, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1902.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BERA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 43, March 6, 2025, Page H1039):mental healthSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 6, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 13 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1902, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1902
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 14, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 19, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of October 14, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
36 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 32 Democrats
4 of 36 cosponsors (11%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Sean Casten (D-IL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Angie Craig (D-MN), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Josh Harder (D-CA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Thomas Kean (R-NJ), William Keating (D-MA), Timothy Kennedy (D-NY), George Latimer (D-NY), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Seth Magaziner (D-RI), April McClain Delaney (D-MD), Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI), LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), Frank Mrvan (D-IN), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Deborah Ross (D-NC), Kim Schrier (D-WA), Adam Smith (D-WA), Thomas Suozzi (D-NY) and 6 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ami Bera.
- H.R. 3429 (119th) US-Japan-ROK Trilateral Cooperation Act
- H.R. 2488 (119th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3817 Marysville Boulevard in Sacramento, California, as the…
- H.R. 6428 (119th) To require the Secretary of State to submit a report on participation in educational and cultural exchange programs.
- H.R. 6126 (119th) United States Foreign Service Commemorative Coin Act
- H.Res. 880 (119th) Recognizing the strategic value of the historical partnership between the United States and India.
- H.R. 10223 (119th) End Tuberculosis Now Act of 2026
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 19, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.