[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2014 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2014

 To provide technical corrections to chapter 1513 of title 36, United 
 States Code, relating to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 31, 2000

 Mr. Sarbanes introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To provide technical corrections to chapter 1513 of title 36, United 
 States Code, relating to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.

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

SECTION 1. NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION TECHNICAL 
              CORRECTIONS ACT OF 2000.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``National Fallen 
Firefighters Foundation Technical Corrections Act of 2000''.
    (b) Purposes.--Section 151302 of title 36, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
            ``(1) primarily--
                    ``(A) to encourage, accept, and administer private 
                gifts of property for the benefit of the National 
                Fallen Firefighters' Memorial and the annual memorial 
                service associated with the memorial; and
                    ``(B) to, in coordination with the Federal 
                Government and fire services (as that term is defined 
                in section 4 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control 
                Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2203)), plan, direct, and manage 
                the memorial service referred to in subparagraph 
                (A);'';
            (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``and Federal'' after 
        ``non-Federal'';
            (3) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) by striking ``State and local'' and inserting 
                ``Federal, State, and local''; and
                    (B) by striking ``and'' after the semicolon;
            (4) in paragraph (4), by striking the period and inserting 
        a semicolon; and
            (5) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) to provide for a national program to assist families 
        of fallen firefighters and fire departments in dealing with 
        line-of-duty deaths of those firefighters; and
            ``(6) to promote national, State, and local initiatives to 
        increase public awareness of fire and life safety.''.
    (c) Board of Directors.--Section 151303 of title 36, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking subsections (f) and (g) and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(f) Status and Compensation.--(1) Appointment to the board shall 
not constitute employment by or the holding of an office of the United 
States.
    ``(2) Members of the board shall serve without compensation.''; and
            (2) in subsection (h), by striking ``(h)'' and inserting 
        ``(g)''.
    (d) Officers and Employees.--Section 151304 of title 36, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``not more than 2''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``are not'' and 
        inserting ``shall not be considered''.
    (e) Support by the Administrator.--Section 151307(a)(1) of title 
36, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The Administrator'' and inserting 
        ``During the 10-year period beginning on the date of enactment 
        of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Technical 
        Corrections Act of 2000, the Administrator''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``shall'' and 
        inserting ``may''.
                                 <all>