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1 1 Section 1. Section 411.6, subsection 15, paragraph a, Code
1 2 2003, is amended to read as follows:
1 3 a. If, upon the receipt of evidence and proof from the
1 4 chief of the police or fire department that the death of a
1 5 member in service was the direct and proximate result of a
1 6 traumatic personal injury incurred in the line of duty, the
1 7 system decides that death was so caused, there shall be paid,
1 8 to a person authorized to receive an accidental death benefit
1 9 as provided in subsection 9, paragraph "b", the amount of one
1 10 hundred thousand dollars, which shall be payable in a lump
1 11 sum. However, for purposes of this subsection, a child who no
1 12 longer meets the definition of child in section 411.1 shall be
1 13 eligible to receive a line of duty death benefit pursuant to
1 14 this subsection.
1 15 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE – RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY. This
1 16 Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon
1 17 enactment and is retroactively applicable to July 1, 2002, and
1 18 is applicable to covered deaths occurring on and after that
1 19 date.
1 20 EXPLANATION
1 21 This bill modifies the eligible beneficiaries for the
1 22 $100,000 line of duty death benefit for a person covered under
1 23 the statewide fire and police retirement system established in
1 24 Code chapter 411. Currently, a line of duty death benefit is
1 25 payable as provided for an accidental death benefit and goes
1 26 to the following in decreasing order: the member's spouse,
1 27 the member's minor children, or the member's parents. The
1 28 bill provides that a member's adult child or children are
1 29 eligible to receive a line of duty death benefit.
1 30 The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies
1 31 retroactively to deaths occurring on or after July 1, 2002.
1 32 LSB 1716SV 80
1 33 ec/pj/5
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