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[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1353 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1353

 To amend title 1 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
 1968 to include nonprofit and volunteer ground and air ambulance crew 
           members and first responders for certain benefits.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 25, 2009

Mr. Leahy (for himself and Mr. Sanders) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL

 
 To amend title 1 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
 1968 to include nonprofit and volunteer ground and air ambulance crew 
           members and first responders for certain benefits.

    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 ``Dale Long Emergency Medical Service 
Providers Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN NONPROFIT EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE 
              PROVIDERS.

    Section 1204 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796b) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (7), by striking ``public employee member 
        of a rescue squad or ambulance crew'' and inserting ``employee 
        or volunteer member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew 
        (including a ground or air ambulance service) that--
                    ``(A) is a public agency; or
                    ``(B) is (or is a part of) a nonprofit entity 
                serving the public that is officially authorized or 
                licensed--
                            ``(i) to engage in rescue activity or to 
                        provide emergency medical services; and
                            ``(ii) to respond to an emergency 
                        situation;''; and
            (2) in paragraph (9)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``as a 
                chaplain'' and all that follows through the semicolon, 
                and inserting ``or as a chaplain;'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking ``or'' 
                after the semicolon;
                    (C) in subparagraph (C)(ii), by striking the period 
                and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) a member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew 
                who, as authorized or licensed by law and by the 
                applicable agency or entity, is engaging in rescue 
                activity or in the provision of emergency medical 
                services.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2(1) of this Act shall apply only to 
injuries sustained on or after January 1, 2009.
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