109 HR 2970 IH: Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act U.S. House of Representatives 2005-06-17 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I 109th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2970 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 17, 2005 Mr. Kuhl of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To provide public safety officer disability benefits to officers disabled before the enactment of the Federal public safety officer disability benefits law.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act.

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Disability benefits for public safety officers disabled before enactment of Public Safety Officer disability law

(a)

In general

Section 1201(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 is amended by inserting after determines that a public safety officer has the following: , whether before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act,. (b)

Applicability

The amendment made by subsection (a) applies to any public safety officer alive on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.