[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 606 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
H.R.606
One Hundred Fourteenth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the sixth day of January, two thousand and fifteen
An Act
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude certain
compensation received by public safety officers and their dependents
from gross income.
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 ``Don't Tax Our Fallen Public Safety
Heroes Act''.
SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY PUBLIC SAFETY
OFFICERS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS.
Subsection (a) of section 104 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
is amended by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (4), by striking
the period at the end of paragraph (5) and inserting ``; and'', and by
inserting after paragraph (5) the following new paragraph:
``(6) amounts received pursuant to--
``(A) section 1201 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796); or
``(B) a program established under the laws of any State
which provides monetary compensation for surviving dependents
of a public safety officer who has died as the direct and
proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of
duty,
except that subparagraph (B) shall not apply to any amounts that
would have been payable if death of the public safety officer had
occurred other than as the direct and proximate result of a
personal injury sustained in the line of duty.''.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.