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[S. 2431 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.2431

                      One Hundred Seventh Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
          the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two


                                 An Act


 
   To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
 ensure that chaplains killed in the line of duty receive public safety 
                         officer death 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 ``Mychal Judge Police and Fire 
Chaplains Public Safety Officers' Benefit Act of 2002''.

SEC. 2. BENEFITS FOR CHAPLAINS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1204 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796b) is amended--
        (1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (7) as (3) through 
    (8), respectively;
        (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
        ``(2) `chaplain' includes 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 subparagraph (A) of paragraph (8), as redesignated by 
    paragraph (1), by inserting after ``firefighter,'' the following: 
    ``as a chaplain,''.
    (b) Eligible Beneficiaries.--Section 1201(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
3796(a)) is amended--
        (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``or'' at the end;
        (2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and
        (3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following new 
    paragraph:
        ``(4) if there is no surviving spouse or surviving child, to 
    the individual designated by such officer as beneficiary under such 
    officer's most recently executed life insurance policy, provided 
    that such individual survived such officer; or''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on September 11, 2001, and shall apply to injuries or deaths 
that occur in the line of duty on or after such date.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.