Honoring Civil Servants Killed in the Line of Duty Act
Summary
Honoring Civil Servants Killed in the Line of Duty Act This bill increases benefits to survivors of federal employees who die in the line of duty. Specifically, the bill increases the death benefit for federal employees from $10,000 to $100,000 and increases the funeral benefit from $800 to $8,800. Both amounts must be adjusted annually for inflation. The bill also excludes the death benefit from gross income for purposes of federal taxation.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jan 11, 2022
Last action Jan 11, 2022
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Committee
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Jan 11, 2022
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
upper
Jan 11, 2022
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Kyrsten Sinema
IIndependent
Co
Alex Padilla
DDemocratic
Co
Gary C. Peters
DDemocratic
Co
Rob Portman
RRepublican
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