[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3298 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.3298

                     One Hundred Fifteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and seventeen


                                 An Act


 
 To authorize the Capitol Police Board to make payments from the United 
 States Capitol Police Memorial Fund to employees of the United States 
Capitol Police who have sustained serious line-of-duty injuries, and for 
                             other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Wounded Officers Recovery Act of 
2017''.
SEC. 2. PAYMENTS FROM UNITED STATES CAPITOL POLICE MEMORIAL FUND FOR 
EMPLOYEES KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY OR SUSTAINING SERIOUS LINE-OF-DUTY 
INJURIES.
    (a) Authorizing Payments From Fund.--Section 2 of Public Law 105-
223 (2 U.S.C. 1952) is amended--
        (1) in the section heading, by inserting ``and certain other 
    united states capitol police employees'' before the period at the 
    end;
        (2) by striking ``Subject to the regulations'' and inserting 
    ``(a) In General.--Except to the extent used or reserved for use 
    under subsection (b) and subject to the regulations''; and
        (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Payments for Employees Killed in the Line of Duty or 
Sustaining Serious Line-of-duty Injuries.--In addition to the amounts 
paid under subsection (a), and in accordance with the regulations 
issued under section 4(b), amounts in the Fund may be paid to--
        ``(1) families of employees of the United States Capitol Police 
    who were killed in the line of duty; or
        ``(2) employees of the United States Capitol Police who have 
    sustained serious line-of-duty injuries.''.
    (b) Regulations of Capitol Police Board.--Section 4 of Public Law 
105-223 (2 U.S.C. 1954) is amended--
        (1) by striking ``The Capitol Police Board'' and inserting 
    ``(a) In General.--The Capitol Police Board''; and
        (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Regulations Governing Payments for Employees Killed in the 
Line of Duty or Sustaining Serious Line-of-duty Injuries.--In carrying 
out subsection (a), the Capitol Police Board shall issue specific 
regulations governing the use of the Fund for making payments to 
families of employees of the United States Capitol Police who were 
killed in the line of duty and employees of the United States Capitol 
Police who have sustained serious line-of-duty injuries (as authorized 
under section 2(b)), including regulations--
        ``(1) establishing the conditions under which the family of an 
    employee or an employee is eligible to receive such a payment;
        ``(2) providing for the amount, timing, and manner of such 
    payments; and
        ``(3) ensuring that any such payment is in addition to, and 
    does not otherwise affect, any other form of compensation payable 
    to the family of an employee or the employee, including benefits 
    for workers' compensation under chapter 81 of title 5, United 
    States Code.''.
    (c) Treatment of Amounts Received in Response to Incident of June 
14, 2017.--The second sentence of section 1 of Public Law 105-223 (2 
U.S.C. 1951) is amended by striking ``deposit into the Fund'' and 
inserting ``deposit into the Fund, including amounts received in 
response to the shooting incident at the practice for the Congressional 
Baseball Game for Charity on June 14, 2017,''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.