SUMMERS, PATEK, LEVIN, OSTMANN, SALLEE, CHAMPION, CIERPOIT, GROSS, GASKILL, MILLER, BENNETT, HARTZLER (124), EVANS, BERKSTRESSER, BARNETT, LOUDON AND ALTER.
Read 1st time January 20, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 650, RSMo, relating to the department of public safety by adding thereto one new section relating to public safety officers killed in the line of duty.
Section A. Chapter 650, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 650.010, to read as follows:
650.010. 1. As used in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms mean:
(1) "Burial benefit", an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars to be used for the burial of a public safety officer killed in the line of duty;
(2) "Death benefit", a lump sum amount of fifty thousand dollars to be paid as provided in this section;
(3) "Department", the department of public safety;
(4) "Eligible child", the natural, adopted or stepchild of a public safety officer;
(5) "Line of duty", any action of a public safety officer, whose primary function is crime control or reduction, enforcement of the criminal law, or suppression of fires, is authorized or obligated by law, rule, regulation or condition of employment or service to perform;
(6) "Public safety officer", any firefighter, police officer, capitol police officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff, parole officer, probation officer, state correctional employee, water safety officer, park ranger, conservation officer or highway patrolman employed by the state of Missouri or a political subdivision thereof who is killed or permanently and totally disabled in the line of duty;
(7) "Spouse", the widow or widower of a public safety officer at the time of death of such public safety officer.
2. Within the limits of the amounts appropriated therefor, the department shall provide, as defined in this section, a burial benefit and a death benefit to:
(1) A spouse of a public safety officer killed in the line of duty; or
(2) If there is no surviving spouse, an eligible child of a public safety officer or employee killed in the line of duty.
3. Any benefits provided pursuant to this section are in addition to any benefits available pursuant to the workers' compensation laws. Any benefits paid pursuant to this section are not a credit against any benefits owed pursuant to the workers' compensation laws.
4. The department shall promulgate all necessary rules for the implementation of this section.
5. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated pursuant to the authority of this section shall become effective unless
it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo.
Missouri House of Representatives