H.R. 9845 — Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Enhancement Act of 2026

This section extends from 24 hours to 72 hours the period after nonroutine stressful or strenuous physical activity during which a public safety officer’s heart attack or stroke is presumed to qualify as a line-of-duty death or disability. It eliminates the requirement that the event not be directly and proximately caused by factors other than cardiovascular-disease risk factors and removes the remaining condition in paragraph (3).