Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5292
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2014-07-30
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies

Department of Justice

Disability assistance

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Fires

Health personnel

Law enforcement officers
Latest action: action_date: 2014-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-07-30
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2014 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for payment of disability benefits to public safety officers who became permanently and totally disabled prior to the enactment of such Act. </p> <p>Allows a public safety officer seeking a benefit on the basis of having been permanently and totally disabled as the direct result of a catastrophic injury sustained in the line of duty before the enactment of such Act to file a claim during the same period that would be applicable to an officer disabled after the date of enactment, except that in lieu of such a period beginning on the date of the injury it shall begin on the date of the enactment of this Act.</p> <p>Applies this Act to any public safety officer alive on or after enactment of this Act.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5292 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 30, 2014 Mr. Reed (for himself and Ms. Slaughter ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To provide public safety officer disability benefits to officers disabled before the enactment of the Federal public safety officer disability benefits law.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2014 . 2. Disability benefits for public safety officers disabled before enactment of public safety officer disability law (a) In general Section 1201(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 42 U.S.C. 3796(b) ) is amended— (1) by inserting after determines that a public safety officer has the following: , whether before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this part, ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new sentence: In the case of a public safety officer seeking a benefit under the previous sentence on the basis of having been permanently and totally disabled as the direct result of a catastrophic injury sustained in the line of duty before the date of the enactment of this part, such officer may file a claim under this subsection during the same period that would be applicable to such an officer so disabled after the date of the enactment of this part, except that in lieu of such a period beginning on the date of the injury such period shall begin on the date of the enactment of the Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2014. . (b) Applicability The amendments made by subsection (a) apply to any public safety officer alive on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.