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Calendar No. 441 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4018 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 28, 2012 
Received 
JUNE 29, 2012 
Read the first time 
JULY 9, 2012 
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
AN ACT 
To improve the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program. 
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 title may be cited as the ‘‘Public Safety Officers’ 
Benefits Improvements Act of 2012’’. 
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SEC. 2. BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN NONPROFIT EMERGENCY 
MEDICAL SERVICE PROVIDERS; MISCELLA-
NEOUS AMENDMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title I of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3711 
et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 901(a) (42 U.S.C. 3791(a))— 
(A) in paragraph (26), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
at the end; 
(B) in paragraph (27), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(28) the term ‘hearing examiner’ includes any 
medical or claims examiner.’’; 
(2) in section 1201 (42 U.S.C. 3796)— 
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘fol-
lows:’’ and all that follows and inserting the fol-
lowing: ‘‘follows (if the payee indicated is living 
on the date on which the determination is 
made)— 
‘‘(1) if there is no child who survived the public 
safety officer, to the surviving spouse of the public 
safety officer; 
‘‘(2) if there is at least 1 child who survived the 
public safety officer and a surviving spouse of the 
public safety officer, 50 percent to the surviving 
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child (or children, in equal shares) and 50 percent 
to the surviving spouse; 
‘‘(3) if there is no surviving spouse of the public 
safety officer, to the surviving child (or children, in 
equal shares); 
‘‘(4) if there is no surviving spouse of the public 
safety officer and no surviving child— 
‘‘(A) to the surviving individual (or individ-
uals, in shares per the designation, or, other-
wise, in equal shares) designated by the public 
safety officer to receive benefits under this sub-
section in the most recently executed designa-
tion of beneficiary of the public safety officer on 
file at the time of death with the public safety 
agency, organization, or unit; or 
‘‘(B) if there is no individual qualifying 
under subparagraph (A), to the surviving indi-
vidual (or individuals, in equal shares) des-
ignated by the public safety officer to receive 
benefits under the most recently executed life 
insurance policy of the public safety officer on 
file at the time of death with the public safety 
agency, organization, or unit; 
‘‘(5) if there is no individual qualifying under 
paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4), to the surviving par-
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ent (or parents, in equal shares) of the public safety 
officer; or 
‘‘(6) if there is no individual qualifying under 
paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), or (5), to the surviving 
individual (or individuals, in equal shares) who 
would qualify under the definition of the term ‘child’ 
under section 1204 but for age.’’; 
(B) in subsection (b)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘direct result of a cata-
strophic’’ and inserting ‘‘direct and proxi-
mate result of a personal’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘pay,’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘the same’’ and inserting 
‘‘pay the same’’; 
(iii) by striking ‘‘in any year’’ and in-
serting ‘‘to the public safety officer (if liv-
ing on the date on which the determination 
is made)’’; 
(iv) by striking ‘‘in such year, ad-
justed’’ and inserting ‘‘with respect to the 
date on which the catastrophic injury oc-
curred, as adjusted’’; 
(v) by striking ‘‘, to such officer’’; 
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