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LODD Benefit - H.R.4310 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013
Subtitle H, Section. 1086
(Sec. 1086) Dale Long Public Safety Officers' Benefits Improvements Act of 2012 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to revise provisions concerning public safety officer death or disability benefits, including by: (1) modifying the list of recipients of death benefits payable when a public safety officer has died as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty to include as an eligible individual, if there is no other individual meeting existing eligibility requirements, the surviving individual (or individuals, in equal shares) who would qualify as an eligible "child" but for age; (2) revising the criteria for death resulting from a heart attack, stroke, or vascular rupture suffered by a public safety officer while on duty; and (3) including within the definitions of "member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew" and "public safety officer" an employee or volunteer member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew that is a public agency or a nonprofit entity that is officially authorized or licensed to engage in rescue activity or to provide emergency medical services and that engages in such activities or provides such services as part of an official emergency response system.
www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/4310
Subtitle H, Section. 1086
(Sec. 1086) Dale Long Public Safety Officers' Benefits Improvements Act of 2012 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to revise provisions concerning public safety officer death or disability benefits, including by: (1) modifying the list of recipients of death benefits payable when a public safety officer has died as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty to include as an eligible individual, if there is no other individual meeting existing eligibility requirements, the surviving individual (or individuals, in equal shares) who would qualify as an eligible "child" but for age; (2) revising the criteria for death resulting from a heart attack, stroke, or vascular rupture suffered by a public safety officer while on duty; and (3) including within the definitions of "member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew" and "public safety officer" an employee or volunteer member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew that is a public agency or a nonprofit entity that is officially authorized or licensed to engage in rescue activity or to provide emergency medical services and that engages in such activities or provides such services as part of an official emergency response system.
www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/4310
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