Senate File 22 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  COURTNEY


    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 1560SS 81
  6 ec/pj/5

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 411.6, subsection 15, paragraph a, Code
  1  2 2005, 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 1560SS 81
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