To establish a medal of service for law enforcement officers and first responders, section 2, Sec. 2.
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The President is to issue a medal of sacrifice
The document says “shall”Who acts: PresidentHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“The President shall issue a medal of sacrifice for law enforcement officers and first responders who were killed in the line of duty.”
Subsection (a) directs the President to issue a medal of sacrifice for law enforcement officers and first responders killed in the line of duty. The Act creates the medal itself and amends no existing statute. Everything else in the section turns on this medal.
What the document actually says
“The President shall issue a medal of sacrifice for law enforcement officers and first responders who were killed in the line of duty.”
That sentence, in plain words
The President must give out a medal. It is called the medal of sacrifice. It goes to police and rescue workers who died while doing their job.
What this is about
This is the main idea of the law. It makes a new medal. The rest of this part says who can get it, who helps run it, and what it looks like.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
Medal of Sacrifice Act of 2025, Public Law 119-94, sec. 2, 140 Stat. 830 (2026). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ94/html/PLAW-119publ94.htm
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“The President is to issue a medal of sacrifice,” Medal of Sacrifice Act of 2025, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/medal-sacrifice-act-2025/proposal/sec02-president-issues-the-medal/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).
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