[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1422 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1422

 To provide for the expedited payment of certain benefits for a public 
 safety officer who was killed or suffered a catastrophic injury as a 
direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line 
of duty in connection with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 13, 2001

   Mrs. Clinton (for herself, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Hatch, Mr. 
 Specter, Mr. Biden, Mr. Warner, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Allen, Mr. Daschle, 
  Mr. Nickles, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Inhofe, and Mr. Byrd) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the expedited payment of certain benefits for a public 
 safety officer who was killed or suffered a catastrophic injury as a 
direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line 
of duty in connection with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

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

SECTION 1. EXPEDITED PAYMENT FOR HEROIC PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS.

    Notwithstanding the limitations of subsection (b) of section 1201 
or the provisions of subsections (c), (d), and (e) of such section or 
section 1202 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796, 3796a), upon certification by a public 
agency that a public safety officer employed by such agency was killed 
or suffered a catastrophic injury as a direct and proximate result of a 
personal injury sustained in the line of duty as described in section 
1201(a) of such Act in connection with the rescue or recovery efforts 
related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Director of 
the Bureau of Justice Assistance shall pay to qualified beneficiaries, 
not later than 30 days after receipt of such certification, benefits 
described under subpart 1 of part L of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3796 et 
seq.).

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act, the terms ``catastrophic injury'', 
``public agency'', and ``public safety officer'', have the same 
meanings given such terms in section 1204 of title I of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796b).
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