PUBLIC LAW 107-196-JUNE 24, 2002 116 STAT. 719 Public Law 107-196 107th Congress An Act To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to ensure that chaplains killed in the line of duty receive public safety officer death benefits. 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 "Mychal Judge Police and Fire Chaplains Public Safety Officers' Benefit Act of 2002". SEC. 2. BENEFITS FOR CHAPLAINS. (a) IN GENERAL. —Section 1204 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796b) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (7) as (3) through (8), respectively; (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following: "(2) 'chaplain' includes any individual serving as an officially recognized or designated member of a legally organized volunteer fire department or legally organized police department, or an officially recognized or designated public employee of a legally organized fire or police department who was responding to a fire, rescue, or police emergency;"; and (3) in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (8), as redesignated by paragraph (1), by inserting after "firefighter," the following: "as a chaplain,". (b) ELIGIBLE BENEFICIARIES.— Section 1201(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3796(a)) is amended— (1) in paragraph (3), by striking "or" at the end; (2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and (3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following new paragraph: "(4) if there is no surviving spouse or surviving child, to the individual designated by such officer as beneficiary under such officer's most recently executed life insurance policy, provided that such individual survived such officer; or". June 24, 2002 [S. 2431] Mychal Judge Pohce and Fire Chaplains Public Safety Officers' Benefit Act of 2002. 42 USC 3711 note.
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