S. 825 — Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act of 2025

This section finds that 30 percent of public safety officers develop behavioral health conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, compared to 20 percent of the general population, and that between 125 and 300 police officers die by suicide each year. It states that individual departments generally lack resources for full-time mental health experts and notes the 2019 LEMHWA report's recommendation for remote or regional mental health programs.

This section requires the Attorney General, through the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, to submit a report within 150 days to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees on at least one proposed program providing evidence-based trauma-informed care, peer support, and family services to treat or prevent job-related post-traumatic stress disorder or acute stress disorder among public safety officers and public safety telecommunicators. The report must address confidentiality protections, efficient nationwide administration at state, tribal, territorial, and local levels, draft authorizing legislation, and annual funding estimates.