[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 919 Introduced in House (IH)]
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 919
To ensure that a public safety officer who suffers a fatal heart attack
or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of
duty for purposes of public safety officer survivor benefits.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 26, 2003
Mr. Etheridge (for himself, Mr. Weldon of Pennsylvania, Mr. Hoyer, Mr.
Oxley, Mr. McHugh, Mr. Spratt, Mr. Deutsch, Mrs. McCarthy of New York,
Mr. Smith of Michigan, Mr. Emanuel, Mr. Walsh, Ms. Watson, Mr.
McIntyre, Mr. Quinn, Ms. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Wilson of South
Carolina, Mr. Kind, Mr. Acevedo-Vila, Mr. Serrano, Ms. Kilpatrick, Mr.
Hinchey, Mr. Markey, Ms. Norton, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Sandlin, Mr. Shimkus,
Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. Watt, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. LoBiondo, Mr.
Jefferson, Mr. Green of Texas, Mr. Frost, Mr. Price of North Carolina,
Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Lucas of Kentucky, Mr. Boswell, Mr. Crane, Mr. Allen,
Mr. Wexler, Mr. Turner of Texas, Mr. Bell, Mr. Udall of Colorado, Mr.
McNulty, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Lampson, Ms. Hooley of Oregon, Ms. Baldwin,
Mr. Wu, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Ballance, and Mr. Miller of North Carolina)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
the Judiciary
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A BILL
To ensure that a public safety officer who suffers a fatal heart attack
or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of
duty for purposes of public safety officer survivor benefits.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits
Act''.
SEC. 2. FATAL HEART ATTACK OR STROKE ON DUTY PRESUMED TO BE DEATH IN
LINE OF DUTY FOR PURPOSES OF PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER
SURVIVOR BENEFITS.
Section 1201 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796) is amended by adding at the end the following new
subsection:
``(k) For purposes of this section, if a public safety officer dies
as the direct and proximate result of a heart attack or stroke suffered
while on duty or within 24 hours after participating in a training
exercise or responding to an emergency situation, that officer shall be
presumed to have died as the direct and proximate result of a personal
injury sustained in the line of duty.''.
SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY.
Subsection (k) of section 1201 of such Act (as added by section 2)
shall apply to deaths occurring on or after January 1, 2002.
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