[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3647 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3647

  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

                             June 13, 1996

Mr. Manzullo (for himself, Mr. Weldon of Pennsylvania, Mr. Waxman, Mr. 
Solomon, Mr. Coleman, Mr. Coble, Mr. Evans, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Frost, 
 and Mr. Jacobs) 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Bruce M. Bryan Police and Fire 
Chaplains Public Safety Officers' Benefit Act of 1996''.

SEC. 2. 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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