AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LINE-OF-DUTY DEATH BENEFITS.

Plain English Breakdown

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Expanding Line-of-Duty Death Benefits

This bill changes Delaware law to include people who were previously eligible as 'covered persons' in line-of-duty death benefits if they die because someone is retaliating against them for doing their former job duties.

What This Bill Does

• Adds a new category of people who can get line-of-duty death benefits under Delaware law.
• Includes people like retirees or others who were previously covered by the law but are no longer active employees.
• Requires that these people's deaths must be caused by someone retaliating against them for doing their former job duties.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who used to work in certain jobs and now qualify as retirees or previous employees.
• The families of those people if they die because of retaliation from others.

Terms To Know

line-of-duty death benefits

Money given by the government to help the family of someone who died while doing their job duties.

retaliation

When someone punishes another person for something they did or said.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how much money will be given as benefits.
• It is unclear which specific jobs are covered under this new law.

Official Summary Text

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LINE-OF-DUTY DEATH BENEFITS.
This bill expands line-of-duty benefits to cover previously covered persons, such as retirees, whose death is the proximate result of actions by a person seeking retaliation against the previously covered person for performing the duties of their former office or position.

Current Bill Text

Legislation Document

SPONSOR:

Rep. Yearick & Sen. Buckson

Reps. Gray, Hilovsky, Morris; Sens. Hocker, Wilson

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE BILL NO. 107

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LINE-OF-DUTY DEATH BENEFITS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:

Section 1. Amend § 6601(2) Title 18 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows:

w. Constables commissioned pursuant to Chapter 56 of Title 24;

or

x. 911 dispatchers, as defined under § 10002 of Title 16

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or

y. Persons who qualified previously as a “covered person” under this section whose death proximately resulted from an action by a person seeking retaliation against the previously covered person relating to performing the duties of their former office or position.

SYNOPSIS

This bill expands line-of-duty benefits to cover previously covered persons, such as retirees, whose death is the proximate result of actions by a person seeking retaliation against the previously covered person for performing the duties of their former office or position.