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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2711 

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 4, 2009 

Mr. ROGERS of Michigan (for himself, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. 

KRATOVIL, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK of Arizona, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. CUMMINGS, 

Mr. BILBRAY, and Mr. WOLF) introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

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 ‘‘FBI Families of Fallen 

5 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 to the extent that the Attorney 

10 General (or a designee) authorizes or approves, if an em11 ployee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation dies while 

12 performing official duties or as a result of the performance 

13 of official duties, the Department of Justice may pay from 

14 Government funds— 

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

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

17 will reside following the death of the employee is— 

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

19 family resided at the time of the employee’s 

20 death; and 

21 ‘‘(B) within the continental United States; 

22 and 

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

24 the remains of the deceased to— 


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

2 will reside following the death of the employee; 

3 or 

4 ‘‘(B) such other place, appropriate for in5 terment, as is determined by the Attorney Gen6 eral (or designee). 

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

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

9 to a family changing its place of residence, means the mov10 ing expenses, transportation expenses, and relocation ex11 penses of the family which are attributable to the change 

12 in place of residence. 

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

14 ‘‘(1) the term ‘moving expenses’, as used with 

15 respect to a family, includes the expenses of trans16 porting, packing, crating, temporarily storing, 

17 draying, and unpacking the household goods and 

18 personal effects of such family, not in excess of 

19 18,000 pounds net weight; 

20 ‘‘(2) the term ‘relocation expenses’ has the 

21 meaning given such term under regulations pre22 scribed under section 5738, including relocation ex23 penses and relocation services described in sections 

24 5724a and 5724c, respectively; and 


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1 ‘‘(3) the term ‘continental United States’ has 

2 the meaning given such term by section 5701(6).’’. 

3 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The analysis for chap4 ter 57 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by insert5 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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