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Main Subject: Health

Helping Emergency Responders Overcome Act of 2019 or the HERO Act of 2019

This bill establishes a series of programs relating to the behavioral health of public-safety officers (e.g., law-enforcement officers, firefighters, ambulance crew members, and 9-1-1 operators). For example, the bill establishes (1) a public-safety officer suicide-reporting system at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and (2) a grant program for peer-support behavioral health and wellness programs within fire departments and emergency medical services agencies.

S3244-116, HR14-116,

Senate Actions

IntroReferral
Sep. 22 2020	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

House floor actions Actions

Floor
Sep. 21 2020	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4627-4629) DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1646. Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4627-4630) Mrs. Dingell moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

Calendars
Sep. 18 2020	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 419.

Discharge
Sep. 18 2020	Committee on Science, Space, and Technology discharged.

Committee
Sep. 18 2020	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 116-519, Part I.

IntroReferral

Mar. 08
2019

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.
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.

Library of Congress Actions

Floor
Sep. 21 2020	Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H4627-4629)

Committee
Sep. 18 2020	Committee on Science, Space, and Technology discharged. Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 116-519, Part I.

IntroReferral
Mar. 08 2019	Introduced in House

House committee actions Actions

Committee
Jul. 15 2020	Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote. Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Jun. 30 2020	Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Mar. 09 2019	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar. 08 2019	Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.

House bill HR1646-116

Helping Emergency Responders Overcome Act

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