Fairness for Fallen Officers Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-1321
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2015-05-13
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Atmospheric science and weather

Employee benefits and pensions

Law enforcement officers

Worker safety and health
Latest action: action_date: 2015-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-05-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Fairness for Fallen Officers Act of 2015</strong></p> <p> Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include a climate-related injury (including hypothermia, heatstroke, and hyperthermia) sustained by a public safety officer who engaged in a situation involving exposure to extreme environmental conditions while on duty as a personal injury for which death benefits or benefits for permanent and total disability shall be provided.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1321 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 13, 2015 Mr. Coons (for himself, Mr. Portman , Ms. Ayotte , and Mr. Peters ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To expand benefits to the families of public safety officers who suffer fatal climate-related injuries sustained in the line of duty and proximately resulting in death.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fairness for Fallen Officers Act of 2015 . 2. Benefits for families of public safety officers who suffer fatal climate-related injuries Section 1201 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 42 U.S.C. 3796 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (b), by inserting or climate-related injury (as defined in subsection (l)) after personal injury ; (2) in subsection (k)— (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking or vascular rupture and inserting vascular rupture, or climate-related injury ; (B) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting exposure to extreme environmental conditions, after disaster relief, ; (C) in paragraph (2), by striking or vascular rupture and inserting vascular rupture, or climate-related injury ; (D) in paragraph (3), by striking or vascular rupture and inserting vascular rupture, or climate-related injury ; and (E) in the flush text following paragraph (3), by striking or vascular rupture and inserting vascular rupture, or climate-related injury ; and (3) by amending subsection (l) to read as follows: (l) For purposes of subsection (k)— (1) the term climate-related injury means an injury that is caused by an environmental condition experienced by an officer, including hypothermia, heatstroke, and hyperthermia; and (2) the term nonroutine stressful or strenuous physical excludes actions of a clerical, administrative, or nonmanual nature. .