To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to ensure that chaplains killed in the line of duty receive public safety officer death benefits.
Provides that, if there is no surviving spouse or surviving child, any such benefits shall be paid to the person designated by such officer as beneficiary under that officer's most recently executed life insurance policy, provided that such person survived such officer. (Current law restricts such beneficiaries to the spouse, child, or parent.)
Became Public Law No: 107-196.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Subcommittee on Crime Discharged.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 107-384.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 107-384.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 222.
Mr. Sensenbrenner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3393-3395, H3399-3400)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3297.
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Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H3393-3394)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3393-3394)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Laid on the table. See S. 2431 for further action.