Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act to increase from $50,000 to $100,000 the amount of benefits paid to public safety officers (law enforcement officers and fire fighters) who die as a result of an injury sustained in the line of duty.
Removes the requirement that parents be dependents of the deceased in order to receive such benefits.
H.R. 5210 passed in Senate relating to this measure.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on The Judiciary.
Referred to Subcommittee on Criminal Justice.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
See H.R.4758.
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