I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1149 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect federally funded public 
safety officers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 16, 2007 
Mr. DREIER (for himself, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. MCKEON, Mr. 
HERGER, Mr. ISSA, Mrs. BONO, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. GALLEGLY, and 
Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect 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 ‘‘Justice for Public 
Safety Officers Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) State and local prosecutors are the best 
equipped prosecutors to prosecute crimes against 
local and State peace officers. 
(2) Cases involving the murder of local and 
State peace officers and subsequent flight to avoid 
prosecution in the United States implicate Federal 
interests, and by providing Federal jurisdiction in 
such cases the Federal Government will be able to 
provide additional investigatory and prosecutorial re-
sources. 
(3) The United States should use all reasonable 
tools available to encourage foreign countries to 
change their extradition policies so that the possi-
bility of capital punishment or life imprisonment will 
not interfere with the timely extradition of fugitives 
of the United States. 
SEC. 3. 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 or Federal law en-
forcement officers 
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—Whoever kills, or attempts or con-
spires to kill, a federally protected safety officer while that 
officer is engaged in official duties, or on account of the 
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performance of official duties, or kills a former federally 
protected safety officer on account of the past perform-
ance of official duties as such, shall be punished— 
‘‘(1) in the case of murder, as provided under 
section 1111 but not less than 30 years; 
‘‘(2) in the case of attempted murder, as pro-
vided in section 1113 but not less than 15 years; or 
‘‘(3) in the case of manslaughter, as provided 
under section 1112. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section — 
‘‘(1) the term ‘federally protected safety officer’ 
means a public safety officer for a public agency (in-
cluding a court system, the National Guard or 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) if — 
‘‘(A) if the public agency receives, in any 
one year period, funding, equipment, or benefits 
in excess of $10,000 under a Federal program 
involving a grant, contract, subsidy, loan, guar-
antee, insurance, or other form of Federal as-
sistance, and the public agency is of an entity 
that is a State of the United States, the Dis-
trict of Columbia, the Virgin Islands of the 
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