Don't Tax Our Fallen Public Safety Heroes Act

Bill: 114-s-916
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2015-04-14
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Income tax exclusion

Law enforcement officers
Latest action: action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 49.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-04-14
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Don't Tax Our Fallen Public Safety Heroes Act </strong></p> <p>Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for income tax purposes, federal public safety officer death benefits or amounts&nbsp;paid under a state program to surviving dependents of a public safety officer who died as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty.</p>

action_date: 2015-04-14
action_desc: Reported to Senate without amendment
text: <p>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)</p> <p><strong>Don't Tax Our Fallen Public Safety Heroes Act </strong></p> <p>(Sec. 2) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for income tax purposes, federal public safety officer death benefits or amounts&nbsp;paid under a state program to surviving dependents of a public safety officer who died as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty.</p>

tv_txt: II Calendar No. 49 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 916 [Report No. 114–26] IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 14, 2015 Mr. Hatch , from the Committee on Finance , reported the following original bill; which was read twice and placed on the calendar A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude certain compensation received by public safety officers and their dependents from gross income.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Don't Tax Our Fallen Public Safety Heroes Act . 2. Exclusion of certain compensation received by public safety officers and their dependents Subsection (a) of section 104 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking and at the end of paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end of paragraph (5) and inserting ; and , and by inserting after paragraph (5) the following new paragraph: (6) amounts received pursuant to— (A) section 1201 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 42 U.S.C. 3796 ); or (B) a program established under the laws of any State which provides monetary compensation for surviving dependents of a public safety officer who has died as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty, except that subparagraph (B) shall not apply to any amounts that would have been payable if the death of the public safety officer had occurred other than as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty. .

April 14, 2015 Read twice and placed on the calendar