Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2011

Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2011 - 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.

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 date of 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.

Applies this Act to any public safety officer alive on or after enactment of this Act.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3367 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3367

   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

                            November 4, 2011

  Mr. Towns 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 2011''.

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--
            (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 Act,''; 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 Act, 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 Act, 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 2011.''.
    (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.
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