109th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4732
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide Federal penalties
for killing federally funded public safety officers.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 8, 2006
Mr. PORTER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide Federal penalties
for killing federally funded public safety 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 `Sergeant Henry Prendes Memorial Act of 2006'.
SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF FEDERALLY FUNDED PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS.
(a) Offense- Chapter 51 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding
at the end the following:
`Sec. 1123. Killing of federally funded public safety officers
`(a) Whoever kills, or attempts or conspires to kill, a federally funded
public safety officer while that officer is engaged in official duties,
or on account of the performance of official duties, or kills a former federally
funded public safety officer on account of the past performance of official
duties, shall be punished by a fine under this title and imprisonment for
any term of years not less than 30, or for life, or, if death results and
the offender is prosecuted as a principal, may be sentenced to death.
`(b) As used in this section--
`(1) the term `federally funded public safety officer' means a public
safety officer for a public agency (including a court system, the National
Guard of a State to the extent the personnel of that National Guard are
not in Federal service, and the defense forces of a State authorized by
section 109 of title 32) that receives Federal financial assistance, of
an entity that is a State of the United States, the District of Columbia,
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States,
Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or any territory or possession
of the United States, an Indian tribe, or a unit of local government of
that entity;
`(2) the term `public safety officer' means an individual serving a public
agency in an official capacity, as a judicial officer, as a law enforcement
officer, as a firefighter, as a chaplain, or as a member of a rescue squad
or ambulance crew;
`(3) the term `judicial officer' means a judge or other officer or employee
of a court, including prosecutors, court security, pretrial services officers,
court reporters, and corrections, probation, and parole officers;
`(4) the term `firefighter' includes an individual serving as an official
recognized or designated member of a legally organized volunteer fire
department and an officially recognized or designated public employee
member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew; and
`(5) the term `law enforcement officer' means an individual, with arrest
powers, involved in crime and juvenile delinquency control or reduction,
or enforcement of the laws.'.
(b) Clerical Amendment- The table of sections at the beginning of chapter
51 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following new item:
`1123. Killing of federally funded public safety officers'.
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