# 119-hr-4671: Ensuring Casualty Assistance for our Firefighters Act

119-hr-4671, Ensuring Casualty Assistance for our Firefighters Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Harder, Josh [D-CA-9] (D-CA); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-27).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-4671
- Congress: 119
- Title: Ensuring Casualty Assistance for our Firefighters Act
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2025-07-23
- Sponsor: Rep. Harder, Josh [D-CA-9] (D-CA)
- Cosponsors: 3
- Policy area: Emergency Management
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-08-27

## Summary

**Creates a Wildland Fire Management Casualty Assistance Program** that would coordinate notifications, reimburse travel, and provide centralized case management and benefits navigation for families of firefighters and wildland fire support personnel. It also sets standards for casualty officers and data collection to improve survivor support. - Families and next-of-kin would get coordinated death and hospitalization notifications, travel reimbursement to visit hospitalized personnel, rapid access to counselors and case managers, and a free online hub with personalized federal benefits information. - Firefighters and wildland fire support personnel who are critically injured or killed would trigger defined casualty assistance duties, training and accountability for casualty officers, and formal liaison with benefit agencies to speed claims. - The Secretary of the Interior would be required to establish the Program within six months and collect data in coordination with the U.S. Fire Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

## Cosponsors (3)

- Rep. Franklin, Scott [R-FL-18] (R-FL), 2025-07-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1] (R-PA), 2025-08-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-6] (D-CA), 2025-11-20T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Help for wildland firefighter families: benefit, low. If enacted, Interior would create a casualty assistance program within six months. It would aid families of federal wildland firefighters and support staff who are critically hurt, become ill on duty, or die. Families would get clear notifications, case managers and counselors, and a free website w…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025
- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act
- 119-hr-1923: Modernizing Wildfire Safety and Prevention Act of 2025
- 119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- 119-hr-3277: Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-4671 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4671)

## Related
- [119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4206)
- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262)
- [119-hr-1923: Modernizing Wildfire Safety and Prevention Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1923)
- [119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage A…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-842)
- [119-hr-3277: Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3277)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4671 (as of 2026-08-27).