Officer Sean Collier Campus Police Recognition Act of 2017

Officer Sean Collier Campus Police Recognition Act of 2017

This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the definition of public safety officer for purposes of the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program to include a campus police officer who is employed by an institution of higher education and authorized to enforce criminal laws.

Specifically, the bill extends death, disability, or education benefits to a campus police officer or survivors of a campus police officer who dies or becomes disabled as a result of an injury sustained in the line of duty on or after April 15, 2013.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3569 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3569

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
           provide death benefits for campus police officers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2017

  Mr. Capuano (for himself, Ms. Brownley of California, Mr. Castro of 
 Texas, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Keating, Mr. 
 Kennedy, Mr. King of New York, Mr. Lynch, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Moulton, 
Mr. Neal, Ms. Tsongas, Mr. Veasey, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mr. Cohen, and Mr. 
 DeSaulnier) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
           provide death benefits for campus police officers.

    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 ``Officer Sean Collier Campus Police 
Recognition Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. DEATH BENEFITS FOR CAMPUS POLICE OFFICERS.

    Section 1204 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796b) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (9) as 
        paragraphs (2) through (10), respectively;
            (2) by inserting the following before paragraph (2) (as so 
        redesignated):
            ``(1) `campus police officer' means a police officer--
                    ``(A) who is authorized to enforce the criminal 
                laws (including the authorization to make arrests); and
                    ``(B) who is employed by an institution of higher 
                education (as such term is defined in section 101 of 
                the Higher Education Act of 1965), including a police 
                or similar department operated by such institution;''; 
                and
            (3) in paragraph (10) (as so redesignated)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (C)(ii), by striking ``or'' at 
                the end;
                    (B) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; or'' ; and
                    (C) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the 
                following:
                    ``(E) a campus police officer.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to a 
personal injury sustained in the line of duty by a campus police 
officer occurring on or after April 15, 2013.
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