Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act

Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act

This bill extends public safety officers' death benefits to Transportation Security Administration employees performing official duties related to protecting the nation's transportation systems.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 372 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 372

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
 provide for the eligibility of Transportation Security Administration 
 employees to receive public safety officers' death benefits, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2019

 Ms. Brownley of California (for herself, Ms. Norton, Mr. Khanna, Mr. 
 Grijalva, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Vela, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. 
 Soto, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Moore, Mr. DeFazio, 
Mr. Beyer, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Cardenas, Ms. Clarke 
   of New York, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Rush, Mr. Hastings, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. 
 Aguilar, Mr. Moulton, and Ms. Roybal-Allard) 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 for the eligibility of Transportation Security Administration 
 employees to receive public safety officers' death benefits, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 Our Fallen TSA Officers 
Act''.

SEC. 2. TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION EMPLOYEES ELIGIBLE TO 
              RECEIVE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH BENEFITS.

    Section 1204(9) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10284(9)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following:
                    ``(E) an employee of the Transportation Security 
                Administration who is performing official duties of the 
                Administration, if those official duties are related to 
                protecting the Nation's transportation systems to 
                ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect as 
if they had been enacted on October 31, 2013.
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