HEAL Act

Honoring Ezeagwula and Long Act or the HEAL Act - Requires that Armed Forces members who were killed or wounded in the attack that occurred at a recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas, on June 1, 2009, be treated as having been killed or wounded in a combat zone as the result of an act of an enemy of the United States for the purposes of all applicable federal laws, regulations, and policies.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2683 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2683

To require that members of the Armed Forces who were killed or wounded 
  in the attack that occurred at a recruiting station in Little Rock, 
 Arkansas, on June 1, 2009, are treated in the same manner as members 
              who are killed or wounded in a combat zone.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2011

Mr. Griffin of Arkansas (for himself, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Womack, and Mr. 
Ross of Arkansas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To require that members of the Armed Forces who were killed or wounded 
  in the attack that occurred at a recruiting station in Little Rock, 
 Arkansas, on June 1, 2009, are treated in the same manner as members 
              who are killed or wounded in a combat zone.

    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 ``Honoring Ezeagwula and Long Act'' or 
the ``HEAL Act''.

SEC. 2. EQUITABLE TREATMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES KILLED OR 
              WOUNDED IN LITTLE ROCK RECRUITING STATION ATTACK.

    For purposes of all applicable Federal laws, regulations, and 
policies, the members of the Armed Forces who were killed or wounded in 
the attack that occurred at a recruiting station in Little Rock, 
Arkansas, on June 1, 2009, shall be deemed to have been killed or 
wounded in a combat zone as the result of an act of an enemy of the 
United States.
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