To provide public safety officer disability benefits to officers disabled before the enactment of the Federal public safety officer disability benefits law.

June 17, 2005

Mr. KUHL of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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'.

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 is amended 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,'.

(b) Applicability- The amendment made by subsection (a) applies to any public safety officer alive on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.

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