[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1321 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1321

To expand benefits to the families of public safety officers who suffer 
   fatal climate-related injuries sustained in the line of duty and 
                    proximately resulting in death.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 13, 2015

   Mr. Coons (for himself, Mr. Portman, Ms. Ayotte, and Mr. Peters) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To expand benefits to the families of public safety officers who suffer 
   fatal climate-related injuries sustained in the line of duty and 
                    proximately resulting in death.

    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 ``Fairness for Fallen Officers Act of 
2015''.

SEC. 2. BENEFITS FOR FAMILIES OF PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS WHO SUFFER 
              FATAL CLIMATE-RELATED INJURIES.

    Section 1201 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by inserting ``or climate-related 
        injury (as defined in subsection (l))'' after ``personal 
        injury'';
            (2) in subsection (k)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
                striking ``or vascular rupture'' and inserting 
                ``vascular rupture, or climate-related injury'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting ``exposure to 
                extreme environmental conditions,'' after ``disaster 
                relief,'';
                    (C) in paragraph (2), by striking ``or vascular 
                rupture'' and inserting ``vascular rupture, or climate-
                related injury'';
                    (D) in paragraph (3), by striking ``or vascular 
                rupture'' and inserting ``vascular rupture, or climate-
                related injury''; and
                    (E) in the flush text following paragraph (3), by 
                striking ``or vascular rupture'' and inserting 
                ``vascular rupture, or climate-related injury''; and
            (3) by amending subsection (l) to read as follows:
    ``(l) For purposes of subsection (k)--
            ``(1) the term `climate-related injury' means an injury 
        that is caused by an environmental condition experienced by an 
        officer, including hypothermia, heatstroke, and hyperthermia; 
        and
            ``(2) the term `nonroutine stressful or strenuous physical' 
        excludes actions of a clerical, administrative, or nonmanual 
        nature.''.
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