HR 5334 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act of 2002

Introduced Sep 5, 2002 Originated House Sponsor Bob Etheridge D-NC

Latest action · Nov 15, 2002 Received in the Senate.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedSep 5, 2002
Passed HouseNov 15, 2002
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act of 2002 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide that a public safety officer who dies as the direct and proximate result of a heart attack or stroke suffered while on duty or within 24 hours after participating in a training exercise or responding to an emergency situation shall be presumed to have died as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty, for purposes of survivor benefits.

Makes this Act applicable to deaths occurring on or after January 1, 2002.

Cosponsors 113

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 5, 2002 to Nov 13, 2002; 7 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.	Original	Sep 5, 2002
R-PA	Curt Weldon	Original	Sep 5, 2002
D-NC	Melvin L. Watt	Original	Sep 5, 2002
R-OH	Michael G. Oxley	Original	Sep 5, 2002
R-MI	Nick Smith	Original	Sep 5, 2002
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews	Original	Sep 5, 2002
D-MD	Steny H. Hoyer	Original	Sep 5, 2002
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones		Sep 10, 2002
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Sep 11, 2002
R-MD	Constance A. Morella		Sep 11, 2002
R-NY	John M. McHugh		Sep 11, 2002
R-IL	John Shimkus		Sep 11, 2002
D-TX	Martin Frost		Sep 11, 2002
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty		Sep 11, 2002
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie		Sep 11, 2002
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy		Sep 11, 2002
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf		Sep 17, 2002
R-PA	Melissa A. Hart		Sep 17, 2002
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Sep 24, 2002
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Sep 24, 2002
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Sep 24, 2002
R-NY	James T. Walsh		Sep 24, 2002
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Sep 24, 2002
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Sep 24, 2002
R-CT	Rob Simmons		Sep 24, 2002
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Sep 24, 2002
R-NY	Sue W. Kelly		Sep 24, 2002
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Sep 24, 2002
D-IL	William O. Lipinski		Sep 24, 2002
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Sep 24, 2002
D-MD	Benjamin L. Cardin		Sep 26, 2002
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		Sep 26, 2002
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Sep 26, 2002
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Oct 1, 2002
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Oct 1, 2002
D-UT	Jim Matheson		Oct 1, 2002
D-CA	Joe Baca		Oct 1, 2002
D-TX	Ken Bentsen		Oct 1, 2002
R-NY	Sherwood Boehlert		Oct 1, 2002
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Oct 2, 2002
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		Oct 2, 2002
D-PA	Frank Mascara		Oct 2, 2002
D-TX	Gene Green		Oct 2, 2002
D-VA	James P. Moran		Oct 2, 2002
D-IL	Jerry F. Costello		Oct 2, 2002
D-MA	John W. Olver		Oct 2, 2002
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Oct 2, 2002
D-MO	Karen McCarthy		Oct 2, 2002
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Oct 2, 2002
R-NY	Peter T. King		Oct 2, 2002
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Oct 2, 2002
D-NY	Steve Israel		Oct 2, 2002
D-OH	Ted Strickland		Oct 2, 2002
D-MI	Bart Stupak		Oct 3, 2002
D-TN	Harold E. Ford Jr.		Oct 3, 2002
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Oct 3, 2002
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Oct 3, 2002
R-WI	Mark Green		Oct 3, 2002
D-MA	Martin T. Meehan		Oct 3, 2002
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Oct 3, 2002
R-FL	Ric Keller		Oct 3, 2002
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Oct 3, 2002
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Oct 3, 2002
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick		Oct 7, 2002
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Oct 7, 2002
D-TX	Max Sandlin		Oct 7, 2002
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Oct 8, 2002
D-MA	Barney Frank		Oct 8, 2002
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Oct 8, 2002
D-NC	David E. Price		Oct 8, 2002
D-CA	Diane E. Watson		Oct 8, 2002
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		Oct 8, 2002
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman		Oct 8, 2002
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Oct 8, 2002
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Oct 8, 2002
D-IN	Julia Carson		Oct 8, 2002
D-CA	Lois Capps		Oct 8, 2002
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Oct 8, 2002
R-NC	Robin Hayes		Oct 8, 2002
D-PA	William J. Coyne		Oct 8, 2002
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman		Oct 9, 2002
R-NY	Vito Fossella		Oct 9, 2002
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Oct 10, 2002
R-NY	Felix J. Grucci Jr.		Oct 10, 2002
D-IL	Rod R. Blagojevich		Oct 10, 2002
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Oct 16, 2002
D-GA	Cynthia A. McKinney		Oct 16, 2002
D-IL	David D. Phelps		Oct 16, 2002
D-ND	Earl Pomeroy		Oct 16, 2002
D-NY	Edolphus Towns		Oct 16, 2002
D-NC	Eva M. Clayton		Oct 16, 2002
R-PA	George W. Gekas		Oct 16, 2002
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis		Oct 16, 2002
R-NY	Jack Quinn		Oct 16, 2002
R-VA	Jo Ann Davis		Oct 16, 2002
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald		Oct 16, 2002
D-NY	Major R. Owens		Oct 16, 2002
D-MS	Ronnie Shows		Oct 16, 2002
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Oct 16, 2002
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Oct 16, 2002
D-PA	Tim Holden		Oct 16, 2002
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Oct 16, 2002
D-PR	Anibal Acevedo-Vila		Nov 13, 2002
D-CA	Bob Filner		Nov 13, 2002
R-CO	Bob Schaffer		Nov 13, 2002
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich		Nov 13, 2002
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Nov 13, 2002
D-SC	John M. Spratt, Jr.		Nov 13, 2002
R-SC	Lindsey Graham		Nov 13, 2002
D-FL	Peter Deutsch		Nov 13, 2002
D-WI	Ron Kind		Nov 13, 2002
R-NC	Sue Wilkins Myrick		Nov 13, 2002
D-LA	William J. Jefferson		Nov 13, 2002

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Judiciary Committee	Referred Sep 5, 2002Markup Oct 9, 2002Reported Nov 14, 2002
	Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee	Referred Sep 20, 2002Discharged Oct 7, 2002

Actions 14

Everything that happened, newest first.

Nov 15, 2002Mr. Armey asked unanimous consent to discharge the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Nov 15, 2002Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR 11/14/2002 H8925-9007)
Nov 15, 2002Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR 11/14/2002 H8925)
Nov 15, 2002Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Nov 15, 2002Received in the Senate.

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In the Congressional Record 4

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Senate	Debate and remarks S11246	Bill Nelson D-FL, Patrick J. Leahy D-VT	Nov 18, 2002
House	Debate and remarks H8925Text printed H8925	—	Nov 14, 2002
House	Debate and remarks H6965, H6966	Bob Etheridge D-NC, Nick Smith R-MI	Oct 2, 2002
Extensions	Debate and remarks E1518	Bob Etheridge D-NC	Sep 5, 2002

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Committee report

H. Rept. 107-786

Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2

Nov 1, 2002H.R. 5334, Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act of 2002<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on October 9, 2002</p>
Nov 1, 2002H.R. 5334, Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act of 2002Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on October 9, 2002

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 3114	Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act of 2002	Identical bill	Oct 16, 2002

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To ensure that a public safety officer who suffers a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for purposes of public safety officer survivor benefits.
Short Titles as Introduced: Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act of 2002

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.

Text 3

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Nov 16, 2002Engrossed in House
Nov 14, 2002Reported in House
Sep 5, 2002Introduced in House

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