IIB 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2711 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 9, 2009 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
AN ACT 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Special Agent Samuel 
Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act’’. 
SEC. 2. TRANSPORTATION OF DEPENDENTS, REMAINS, AND 
EFFECTS OF CERTAIN FEDERAL EMPLOYEES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 57 of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after 
section 5724c the following: 
‘‘§ 5724d. Transportation of dependents, remains, and 
effects of certain Federal employees 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Under regulations prescribed 
under section 5738 and when the head of the agency con-
cerned (or a designee thereof) authorizes or approves, if 
a covered employee dies while performing official duties 
or as a result of the performance of official duties, the 
agency may pay from Government funds— 
‘‘(1) the qualified expenses of the immediate 
family of the employee, if the place where the family 
will reside following the death of the employee is— 
‘‘(A) different from the place where the 
family resided at the time of the employee’s 
death; and 
‘‘(B) within the United States; and 
‘‘(2) the expenses of preparing and transporting 
the remains of the deceased to— 
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‘‘(A) the place where the immediate family 
will reside following the death of the employee; 
or 
‘‘(B) such other place, appropriate for in-
terment, as is determined by the agency head 
(or designee). 
‘‘(b) QUALIFIED EXPENSES.—For purposes of this 
section, the term ‘qualified expenses’, as used with respect 
to a family changing its place of residence, means the mov-
ing expenses, transportation expenses, and relocation ex-
penses of the family which are attributable to the change 
in place of residence. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘covered employee’ means— 
‘‘(A) a law enforcement officer, as defined 
by section 5541; and 
‘‘(B) any employee in or under the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation who is not described in 
subparagraph (A); 
‘‘(2) the term ‘moving expenses’, as used with 
respect to a family, includes the expenses of trans-
porting, 
packing, 
crating, 
temporarily 
storing, 
draying, and unpacking the household goods and 
personal effects of such family, not in excess of 
18,000 pounds net weight; and 
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