[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3660 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3660

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
   ensure that chaplains killed in the line of duty receive benefits.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 22, 1993

  Mr. Manzullo (for himself and Mr. Weldon) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
   ensure that chaplains killed in the line of duty receive benefits.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION. 1. BENEFITS FOR CHAPLAINS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1204 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (7) as (3) 
        through (8), respectively;
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) chaplain means any individual serving as an 
        officially recognized or designated member of a legally 
        organized volunteer fire department or legally organized police 
        department, or an officially recognized or designated public 
        employee of a legally organized fire or police department who 
        was responding to a fire, rescue, or police emergency.''; and
            (3) in paragraph (8), as redesignated by paragraph (1) of 
        this Act, by striking ``or rescue squad or ambulance crew'' and 
        inserting ``rescue squad or ambulance crew, or chaplain''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the date of enactment of this Act and shall apply to 
injuries or deaths that occur in the line of duty on or after such 
date.

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