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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 2884 

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the transportation 

of the dependents, remains, and effects of certain Federal employees 

who die while performing official duties or as a result of the performance 

of official duties. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

DECEMBER 15, 2009 

Mr. LIEBERMAN (for himself, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. VOINOVICH, and Mr. AKAKA) 

introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

A BILL 

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the 

transportation of the dependents, remains, and effects 

of certain Federal employees who die while performing 

official duties or as a result of the performance of official 

duties. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Special Agent Samuel 

5 Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. TRANSPORTATION OF DEPENDENTS, REMAINS, AND 

2 EFFECTS OF CERTAIN FEDERAL EMPLOYEES. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 57 of 

4 title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after 

5 section 5724c the following: 

6 ‘‘§ 5724d. Transportation of dependents, remains, and 

7 effects of certain Federal employees 

8 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Under regulations prescribed 

9 under section 5738 and when the head of the agency con10 cerned (or a designee thereof) authorizes or approves, if 

11 a covered employee dies while performing official duties 

12 or as a result of the performance of official duties, the 

13 agency may pay from Government funds— 

14 ‘‘(1) the qualified expenses of the immediate 

15 family of the employee, if the place where the family 

16 will reside following the death of the employee is— 

17 ‘‘(A) different from the place where the 

18 family resided at the time of the employee’s 

19 death; and 

20 ‘‘(B) within the United States; and 

21 ‘‘(2) the expenses of preparing and transporting 

22 the remains of the deceased to— 

23 ‘‘(A) the place where the immediate family 

24 will reside following the death of the employee; 

25 or 


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1 ‘‘(B) such other place, appropriate for in2 terment, as is determined by the agency head 

3 (or designee). 

4 ‘‘(b) QUALIFIED EXPENSES.—For purposes of this 

5 section, the term ‘qualified expenses’, as used with respect 

6 to a family changing its place of residence, means the mov7 ing expenses, transportation expenses, and relocation ex8 penses of the family which are attributable to the change 

9 in place of residence. 

10 ‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— 

11 ‘‘(1) the term ‘covered employee’ means— 

12 ‘‘(A) a law enforcement officer, as defined 

13 in section 5541; 

14 ‘‘(B) any employee in or under the Federal 

15 Bureau of Investigation who is not described in 

16 subparagraph (A); and 

17 ‘‘(C) a customs and border protection offi18 cer, as defined in section 8331(31); 

19 ‘‘(2) the term ‘moving expenses’, as used with 

20 respect to a family, includes the expenses of trans21 porting, packing, crating, temporarily storing, 

22 draying, and unpacking the household goods and 

23 personal effects of such family, not in excess of 

24 18,000 pounds net weight; and 


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1 ‘‘(3) the term ‘relocation expenses’ has the 

2 meaning given such term under regulations pre3 scribed under section 5738, including relocation ex4 penses and relocation services described in sections 

5 5724a and 5724c, respectively.’’. 

6 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The analysis for chap7 ter 57 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by insert8 ing after the item relating to section 5724c the following: 

‘‘5724d. Transportation of dependents, remains, and effects of certain Federal 

employees.’’. 

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