Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Passed Senate
Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers' Benefit Program Expansion Act of 2026
Official title: A bill to revise administrative procedures relating to public safety officers' death benefits, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 24, 2026
- Committee actionMay 14, 2026
- Passed SenateAug 7, 2026 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Aug 10, 2026 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 3897.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 3897, Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers’ Benefit Program Expansion Act of 2026” on October 22, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As passed by the Senate on August 7, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 22, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62875
- CBO publication date
- October 22, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 3897, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/3897
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 22, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of October 22, 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
14 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 10 Democrats
4 of 14 cosponsors (29%) are from the other party.
Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Susan Collins (R-ME), Christopher Coons (D-DE), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Thomas Tillis (R-NC), Peter Welch (D-VT).
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Related bills
- H.R. 1360 (119th) Officer John Barnes ActRelated bill
- H.R. 7718 (119th) Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program Expansion Act of 2026Related bill
- S. 571 (119th) Officer John Barnes ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.