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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. 
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 ‘‘FBI Families of Fallen 
Heroes Act’’. 
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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 to the extent that the Attorney 
General (or a designee) authorizes or approves, if an em-
ployee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation dies while 
performing official duties or as a result of the performance 
of official duties, the Department of Justice 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 continental 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 Attorney Gen-
eral (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 ‘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; 
‘‘(2) the term ‘relocation expenses’ has the 
meaning given such term under regulations pre-
scribed under section 5738, including relocation ex-
penses and relocation services described in sections 
5724a and 5724c, respectively; and 
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