A bill to prohibit flight in interstate or foreign commerce to avoid prosecution for the killing of a policeman or fireman.

Provides that whoever moves or travels in interstate or foreign commerce to avoid prosecution, custody, or confinement after conviction, under the laws of the place from which he flees, for willfully killing a police officer or fireman while such police officer or fireman was engaged in the performance of official duty shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

Provides that whenever a police officer or fireman is willfully killed, while such policeman or fireman is engaged in the performance of his official duties, and no person alleged to have committed such offense has been apprehended and taken into custody within twenty-four hours after the commission of such offense, it shall be presumed in the absence of proof to the contrary that the person who committed such offense has moved or traveled in interstate or foreign commerce to avoid prosecution or custody under the laws of the place at which the offense was committed. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 1075)