Title: Wounded Officers Recovery Act of 2017
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
Wounded Officers Recovery Act of 2017
This bill authorizes the Capitol Police Board to make payments from the United States Capitol Police Memorial Fund to employees of the U.S. Capitol Police who have sustained serious line-of-duty injuries.
The board is required to issue specific regulations governing the fund's use for making such payments. These regulations shall ensure that the payments are in addition to, and do not otherwise affect, other forms of compensation payable to the employee, including worker's compensation benefits.
The bill requires amounts received by the board in response to the shooting incident at the practice for the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity on June 14, 2017, to be deposited into the fund.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1608 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1608

To authorize the Capitol Police Board to make payments from the United 
 States Capitol Police Memorial Fund to employees of the United States 
 Capitol Police who have sustained serious line-of-duty injuries, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 20, 2017

    Mr. Flake (for himself, Mr. Paul, Mr. Donnelly, and Mr. Murphy) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                 Committee on Rules and Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Capitol Police Board to make payments from the United 
 States Capitol Police Memorial Fund to employees of the United States 
 Capitol Police who have sustained serious line-of-duty injuries, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Wounded Officers Recovery Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. PAYMENTS FROM UNITED STATES CAPITOL POLICE MEMORIAL FUND TO 
              EMPLOYEES SUSTAINING SERIOUS LINE-OF-DUTY INJURIES.

    (a) Authorizing Payments From Fund.--Section 2 of Public Law 105-
223 (2 U.S.C. 1952) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by inserting ``and certain 
        other united states capitol police employees'' before the 
        period at the end;
            (2) by striking ``Subject to the regulations'' and 
        inserting ``(a) In General.--Except to the extent used or 
        reserved for use under subsection (b) and subject to the 
        regulations''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Payments for Employees Sustaining Serious Line-of-Duty 
Injuries.--In addition to the amounts paid under subsection (a), 
amounts in the Fund may be paid to employees of the United States 
Capitol Police who have sustained serious line-of-duty injuries, in 
accordance with the regulations issued under section 4(b).''.
    (b) Regulations of Capitol Police Board.--Section 4 of Public Law 
105-223 (2 U.S.C. 1954) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The Capitol Police Board'' and inserting 
        ``(a) In General.--The Capitol Police Board''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Regulations Governing Payments to Employees Sustaining 
Serious Line-of-Duty Injuries.--In carrying out subsection (a), the 
Capitol Police Board shall issue specific regulations governing the use 
of the Fund for making payments to employees of the United States 
Capitol Police who have sustained serious line-of-duty injuries (as 
authorized under section 2(b)), including regulations--
            ``(1) establishing the conditions under which an employee 
        is eligible to receive such a payment;
            ``(2) providing for the amount, timing, and manner of such 
        payments; and
            ``(3) ensuring that any such payment is in addition to, and 
        does not otherwise affect, any other form of compensation 
        payable to the employee, including benefits for workers' 
        compensation under chapter 81 of title 5, United States 
        Code.''.
    (c) Treatment of Amounts Received in Response to Incident of June 
14, 2017.--The second sentence of section 1 of Public Law 105-223 (2 
U.S.C. 1951) is amended by striking ``deposit into the Fund'' and 
inserting ``deposit into the Fund, including amounts received in 
response to the shooting incident at the practice for the Congressional 
Baseball Game for Charity on June 14, 2017,''.
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