S 3474
117th Congress
Senate
Government Operations and Politics
Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices
Honoring Civil Servants Killed in the Line of Duty Act
Introduced: January 11, 2022
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Became law
Jan 11, 2022
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan 11, 2022
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English 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.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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