[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1899 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1899

To require that members of the Armed Forces who were killed or wounded 
  in the attack that occurred at a recruiting station in Little Rock, 
 Arkansas, on June 1, 2009, are treated in the same manner as members 
              who are killed or wounded in a combat zone.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 17, 2011

Mr. Boozman (for himself and Mr. Pryor) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To require that members of the Armed Forces who were killed or wounded 
  in the attack that occurred at a recruiting station in Little Rock, 
 Arkansas, on June 1, 2009, are treated in the same manner as members 
              who are killed or wounded in a combat zone.

    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 ``Honoring Ezeagwula and Long Act'' or 
the ``HEAL Act''.

SEC. 2. EQUITABLE TREATMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES KILLED OR 
              WOUNDED IN LITTLE ROCK RECRUITING STATION ATTACK.

    For purposes of all applicable Federal laws, regulations, and 
policies, the members of the Armed Forces who were killed or wounded in 
the attack that occurred at a recruiting station in Little Rock, 
Arkansas, on June 1, 2009, shall be deemed to have been killed or 
wounded in a combat zone as the result of an act of an enemy of the 
United States.
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