Ensuring Casualty Assistance for our Firefighters Act

This bill would require the Secretary of the Interior, within 6 months of the law taking effect, to create a Wildland Fire Management Casualty Assistance Program. The program would help the next-of-kin of firefighters and wildland fire support personnel who are killed, critically injured, or made ill in the line of duty. It would cover notifying families, reimbursing family travel costs to visit the injured or deceased worker, assigning and training casualty assistance officers, providing case managers and counselors, and offering free online information about federal benefits. The program would not change existing Line of Duty Death benefits, and the bill defines who counts as next-of-kin in order of priority.

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Sponsors

• Josh Harder Democrat sponsor
• 3 cosponsors