Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2010

Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2010 - 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.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4704 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4704

   To provide public safety officer disability benefits to officers 
  disabled before the enactment of the Federal public safety officer 
                        disability benefits law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 2010

  Mr. Massa introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide public safety officer disability benefits to officers 
  disabled before the enactment of the Federal public safety officer 
                        disability benefits law.

    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 ``Disabled Public Safety Officers 
Fairness Act of 2010''.

SEC. 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 by inserting 
after ``determines that a public safety officer has'' the following: 
``, whether before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this 
Act,''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) applies to 
any public safety officer alive on or after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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