[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 385 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 385

   To include nonprofit and volunteer ground and air ambulance crew 
           members and first responders for certain benefits.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 17, 2011

 Mr. Leahy (for himself, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Conrad, and Mr. 
   Franken) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To include nonprofit and volunteer ground and air ambulance crew 
           members and first responders for certain 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 ``Dale Long Emergency Medical Service 
Providers Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY.

    Section 1204 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796b) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (7), by striking ``public employee member 
        of a rescue squad or ambulance crew;'' and inserting ``employee 
        or volunteer member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew 
        (including a ground or air ambulance service) that--
                    ``(A) is a public agency; or
                    ``(B) is (or is a part of) a nonprofit entity 
                serving the public that--
                            ``(i) is officially authorized or licensed 
                        to engage in rescue activity or to provide 
                        emergency medical services; and
                            ``(ii) is officially designated as a pre-
                        hospital emergency medical response agency;''; 
                        and
            (2) in paragraph (9)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``as a 
                chaplain'' and all that follows through the semicolon, 
                and inserting ``or as a chaplain;'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking ``or'' 
                after the semicolon;
                    (C) in subparagraph (C)(ii), by striking the period 
                and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) a member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew 
                who, as authorized or licensed by law and by the 
                applicable agency or entity (and as designated by such 
                agency or entity), is engaging in rescue activity or in 
                the provision of emergency medical services.''.

SEC. 3. OFFSET.

    Of the unobligated balances available under the Department of 
Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund, $12,000,000 are permanently cancelled.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall apply only to injuries 
sustained on or after June 1, 2009.
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