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]
[H.R. 3298 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3298

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2017

  Mr. Barton (for himself, Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
    Loudermilk, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Duncan of South 
Carolina, Mr. Bergman, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. 
 Walker, Mr. DeSantis, Mr. Thomas J. Rooney of Florida, Mr. Crawford, 
    Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Brooks of Alabama, Mr. Bishop of Michigan, Mr. 
  Conaway, Mr. Palazzo, Mr. Posey, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. 
Lewis of Minnesota, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Walberg, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Womack, 
   Mr. Mullin, Mr. Wittman, Mr. Valadao, Mr. Meehan, Mr. Denham, Mr. 
      Swalwell of California, Mr. Brady of Texas, Mr. Costello of 
Pennsylvania, Mr. Gaetz, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. Kelly of Mississippi, 
    Mr. LaHood, Mr. Paulsen, Mr. Pearce, Mr. Ross, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. 
   Wenstrup, Mr. Williams, Mr. Yoder, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Richmond, Mr. 
 Gohmert, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Aguilar, Mr. Suozzi, Ms. Barragan, Mr. 
Panetta, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Walz, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, 
Mr. Beyer, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Mr. Perlmutter, Mr. 
 Kildee, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
  Sires, Mr. Yarmuth, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Capuano, Mr. 
  Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Norcross, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Hastings, Mr. 
 Scott of Virginia, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Jeffries, Mr. Ruiz, Ms. 
 Fudge, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mrs. Beatty, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Ms. 
Clarke of New York, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Lee, 
Mrs. Demings, Mr. McEachin, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Danny K. Davis 
of Illinois, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Payne, Mr. 
Brown of Maryland, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Mr. Ellison, 
  Mr. Cardenas, Ms. Sanchez, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. Welch, Mr. Veasey, Mr. 
   Lynch, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Kihuen, Mr. Polis, and Ms. Eddie Bernice 
Johnson of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                 the Committee on House 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) by striking ``Subject to the regulations'' and 
        inserting ``(a) In General.--Subject to the regulations''; and
            (2) 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) establishing 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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