Senate File 204 SENATE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT (SUCCESSOR TO SF 140) Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to eligible beneficiaries for a line of duty 2 death benefit under the statewide fire and police retirement 3 system and providing effective and applicability dates. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 1716SV 80 6 ec/pj/5 PAG LIN 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 1 34 1 35