1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Helping Emergency Responders Overcome Act of 2018 . 2. Data system to capture national public safety officer suicide incidence The Public Health Service Act is amended by inserting after section 317T of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 247b–22 ) the following: 317U. Data system to capture national public safety officer suicide incidence (a) In general The Secretary, acting primarily through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and in coordination with other agencies as the Secretary determines appropriate, shall— (1) develop and maintain a data system, to be known as the Public Safety Officer Suicide Reporting System, for the purposes of— (A) collecting data on the suicide incidence among public safety officers; and (B) facilitating the study of successful interventions to reduce suicide among public safety officers; and (2) integrate such system into the National Violent Death Reporting System, so long as the Secretary determines such integration to be consistent with the purposes described in paragraph (1). (b) Data collection In collecting data for the Public Safety Officer Suicide Reporting System, the Secretary shall, at a minimum, collect the following information: (1) The total number of suicides in the United States among all public safety officers in a given calendar year. (2) Suicide rates for public safety officers in a given calendar year, disaggregated by— (A) age and gender of the public safety officer; (B) State; (C) occupation; (D) status of the public safety officer as volunteer, paid-on-call, or career