[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2281 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2281

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide Federal penalties for 
  attempting to kill, conspiring to kill, or killing police officers, 
    firefighters, and other federally funded public safety officers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 2007

  Mr. Porter introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide Federal penalties for 
  attempting to kill, conspiring to kill, or killing police officers, 
    firefighters, and other federally funded public safety officers.

    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 ``Sergeant Henry Prendes Memorial Act 
of 2007''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF FEDERALLY FUNDED PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS.

    (a) Offense.--Chapter 51 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 1123. Killing of federally funded public safety officers
    ``(a) Whoever kills, or attempts or conspires to kill, a federally 
funded public safety officer while that officer is engaged in official 
duties, or on account of the performance of official duties, or kills a 
former federally funded public safety officer on account of the past 
performance of official duties, shall be punished by a fine under this 
title and imprisonment for any term of years not less than 30, or for 
life, or, if death results and the offender is prosecuted as a 
principal, may be sentenced to death.
    ``(b) As used in this section--
            ``(1) the term `federally funded public safety officer' 
        means a public safety officer for a public agency (including a 
        court system, the National Guard of a State to the extent the 
        personnel of that National Guard are not in Federal service, 
        and the defense forces of a State authorized by section 109 of 
        title 32) that receives Federal financial assistance, of an 
        entity that is a State of the United States, the District of 
        Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands 
        of the United States, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory 
        of the Pacific Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
        Mariana Islands, or any territory or possession of the United 
        States, an Indian tribe, or a unit of local government of that 
        entity;
            ``(2) the term `public safety officer' means an individual 
        serving a public agency in an official capacity, as a judicial 
        officer, as a law enforcement officer, as a firefighter, as a 
        chaplain, or as a member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew;
            ``(3) the term `judicial officer' means a judge or other 
        officer or employee of a court, including prosecutors, court 
        security, pretrial services officers, court reporters, and 
        corrections, probation, and parole officers;
            ``(4) the term `firefighter' includes an individual serving 
        as an official recognized or designated member of a legally 
        organized volunteer fire department and an officially 
        recognized or designated public employee member of a rescue 
        squad or ambulance crew; and
            ``(5) the term `law enforcement officer' means an 
        individual, with arrest powers, involved in crime and juvenile 
        delinquency control or reduction, or enforcement of the 
        laws.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 51 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new item:

``1123. Killing of federally funded public safety officers.''.
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