1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protect Our Heroes Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Law enforcement officers, first responders, and public safety officials risk their lives every day to serve and protect our neighborhoods and communities. (2) These men and women are true public servants who regularly sacrifice and encounter grave daily harm. (3) The families of law enforcement officers, first responders, and public safety officials also sacrifice and contribute to their roles as guardians of the public good. (4) In recent times, it has become apparent that these women and men are being targeted intentionally by criminals in our society. (5) Congress must do all it can to promote a system of law and order which enables law enforcement officers, first responders, and public safety officials to properly do their jobs. 3. Protection of public safety officers (a) Killing of public safety officers (1) Offense Chapter 51 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 1123. Killing of public safety officers (a) Definitions In this section— (1) the terms Federal law enforcement officer and United States judge have the meanings given those terms in section 115; (2) the term federally funded public safety officer means a public safety officer or judicial officer for a public agency that— (A) receives Federal financial assistance; and (B) is an agency of an entity that is a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or any territory or possession of the United States, an Indian tribe, or a unit of local government of that entity; (3) the term firefighter includes an individual serving as an officially recognized or designated member of a legally organized volunteer fire department and an officially recognized or designated public employee member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew