House File 220 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  REICHERT


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act concerning the line of duty death benefit under the
  2    statewide fire and police retirement system and providing an
  3    appropriation and an effective date.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1883HH 82
  6 ec/es/88

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 411.6, subsection 15, paragraph a, Code
  1  2 2007, 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" designated by the
  1 10 member as the member's beneficiary, the amount of one hundred
  1 11 thousand dollars, which shall be payable in a lump sum.
  1 12    Sec. 2.  Section 411.6, subsection 15, Code 2007, is
  1 13 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1 14    NEW PARAGRAPH.  c.  There is appropriated annually from the
  1 15 general fund of the state to the system an amount sufficient
  1 16 to pay line of duty death benefit claims under this
  1 17 subsection.  The director of the department of administrative
  1 18 services shall issue warrants for payment of line of duty
  1 19 death benefit claims approved for payment by the system.
  1 20    Sec. 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of
  1 21 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1 22                           EXPLANATION
  1 23    This bill modifies the eligible beneficiaries for the
  1 24 $100,000 line of duty death benefit for a person covered under
  1 25 the statewide fire and police retirement system established in
  1 26 Code chapter 411.  Currently, a line of duty death benefit is
  1 27 payable as provided for an accidental death benefit and goes
  1 28 to the following in descending order:  the member's spouse,
  1 29 the member's minor children, or the member's parents.  The
  1 30 bill provides that the member may designate the beneficiary of
  1 31 the death benefit.
  1 32    The bill also provides that any line of duty death benefit
  1 33 claim payable to a member of the retirement system shall be
  1 34 paid by an appropriation from the general fund of the state
  1 35 and not from the pension system fund.
  2  1    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
  2  2 LSB 1883HH 82
  2  3 ec:nh/es/88.1