I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2281 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide Federal penalties for 
attempting to kill, conspiring to kill, or killing police officers, firefighters, 
and other federally funded public safety officers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 10, 2007 
Mr. PORTER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide Federal 
penalties for attempting to kill, conspiring to kill, or 
killing police officers, firefighters, and other federally 
funded public safety officers. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sergeant Henry 
Prendes Memorial Act of 2007’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF FEDERALLY FUNDED PUBLIC 
SAFETY OFFICERS. 
(a) OFFENSE.—Chapter 51 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘§ 1123. Killing of federally funded public safety offi-
cers 
‘‘(a) Whoever kills, or attempts or conspires to kill, 
a federally funded public safety officer while that officer 
is engaged in official duties, or on account of the perform-
ance of official duties, or kills a former federally funded 
public safety officer on account of the past performance 
of official duties, shall be punished by a fine under this 
title and imprisonment for any term of years not less than 
30, or for life, or, if death results and the offender is pros-
ecuted as a principal, may be sentenced to death. 
‘‘(b) As used in this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘federally funded public safety of-
ficer’ means a public safety officer for a public agen-
cy (including a court system, the National Guard of 
a State to the extent the personnel of that National 
Guard are not in Federal service, and the defense 
forces of a State authorized by section 109 of title 
32) that receives Federal financial assistance, of an 
entity that is a State of the United States, the Dis-
trict of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam, 
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American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mar-
iana Islands, or any territory or possession of the 
United States, an Indian tribe, or a unit of local 
government of that entity; 
‘‘(2) the term ‘public safety officer’ means an 
individual serving a public agency in an official ca-
pacity, as a judicial officer, as a law enforcement of-
ficer, as a firefighter, as a chaplain, or as a member 
of a rescue squad or ambulance crew; 
‘‘(3) the term ‘judicial officer’ means a judge or 
other officer or employee of a court, including pros-
ecutors, court security, pretrial services officers, 
court reporters, and corrections, probation, and pa-
role officers; 
‘‘(4) the term ‘firefighter’ includes an individual 
serving as an official recognized or designated mem-
ber of a legally organized volunteer fire department 
and an officially recognized or designated public em-
ployee member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew; 
and 
‘‘(5) the term ‘law enforcement officer’ means 
an individual, with arrest powers, involved in crime 
and juvenile delinquency control or reduction, or en-
forcement of the laws.’’. 
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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 51 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
item: 
‘‘1123. Killing of federally funded public safety officers.’’. 
Æ 
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