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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 237 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to |
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| 6 | 6 | | provide public safety officer benefits for exposure-related cancers, and |
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| 7 | 7 | | for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY23, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. K |
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| 11 | 11 | | LOBUCHAR(for herself, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. BANKS, Mr. BARRASSO, Mrs. |
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| 12 | 12 | | B |
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| 13 | 13 | | LACKBURN, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. COONS, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. CRUZ, |
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| 14 | 14 | | Ms. D |
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| 15 | 15 | | UCKWORTH, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. FETTERMAN, Mrs. FISCHER, Mr. |
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| 17 | 17 | | RAHAM, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. JUSTICE, MR. KELLY, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. |
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| 19 | 19 | | ADILLA, Mr. ROUNDS, Mr. SCHIFF, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. SHEEHY, Ms. |
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| 20 | 20 | | S |
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| 21 | 21 | | MITH, Mr. WARNER, Ms. WARREN, Mr. WELCH, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, and |
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| 22 | 22 | | Mr. W |
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| 23 | 23 | | YDEN) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and re- |
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| 24 | 24 | | ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 25 | 25 | | A BILL |
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| 26 | 26 | | To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets |
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| 27 | 27 | | Act of 1968 to provide public safety officer benefits |
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| 28 | 28 | | for exposure-related cancers, and for other purposes. |
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| 29 | 29 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Honoring Our Fallen 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Heroes Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 37 | 37 | | SEC. 2. HONORING OUR FALLEN HEROES. 1 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (a) C |
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| 39 | 39 | | ANCER-RELATEDDEATHS AND DISABIL-2 |
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| 40 | 40 | | ITIES.— 3 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (1) I |
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| 42 | 42 | | N GENERAL.—Section 1201 of title I of the 4 |
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| 43 | 43 | | Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 5 |
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| 44 | 44 | | 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10281) is amended by adding at 6 |
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| 45 | 45 | | the end the following: 7 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(p) E |
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| 47 | 47 | | XPOSURE-RELATEDCANCERS.— 8 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ‘‘(1) D |
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| 49 | 49 | | EFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 9 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ‘‘(A) C |
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| 51 | 51 | | ARCINOGEN.—The term ‘carcinogen’ 10 |
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| 52 | 52 | | means an agent that is— 11 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ‘‘(i) classified by the International 12 |
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| 54 | 54 | | Agency for Research on Cancer under 13 |
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| 55 | 55 | | Group 1 or Group 2A; and 14 |
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| 56 | 56 | | ‘‘(ii) reasonably linked to an exposure- 15 |
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| 57 | 57 | | related cancer. 16 |
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| 58 | 58 | | ‘‘(B) D |
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| 59 | 59 | | IRECTOR.—The term ‘Director’ 17 |
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| 60 | 60 | | means the Director of the Bureau. 18 |
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| 61 | 61 | | ‘‘(C) E |
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| 62 | 62 | | XPOSURE-RELATED CANCER .—As 19 |
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| 63 | 63 | | updated from time to time in accordance with 20 |
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| 64 | 64 | | paragraph (3), the term ‘exposure-related can-21 |
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| 65 | 65 | | cer’ means— 22 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ‘‘(i) bladder cancer; 23 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ‘‘(ii) brain cancer; 24 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘(iii) breast cancer; 25 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ‘‘(iv) cervical cancer; 26 |
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| 73 | 73 | | ‘‘(v) colon cancer; 1 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ‘‘(vi) colorectal cancer; 2 |
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| 75 | 75 | | ‘‘(vii) esophageal cancer; 3 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ‘‘(viii) kidney cancer; 4 |
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| 77 | 77 | | ‘‘(ix) leukemia; 5 |
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| 78 | 78 | | ‘‘(x) lung cancer; 6 |
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| 79 | 79 | | ‘‘(xi) malignant melanoma; 7 |
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| 80 | 80 | | ‘‘(xii) mesothelioma; 8 |
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| 81 | 81 | | ‘‘(xiii) multiple myeloma; 9 |
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| 82 | 82 | | ‘‘(xiv) non-Hodgkins lymphoma; 10 |
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| 83 | 83 | | ‘‘(xv) ovarian cancer; 11 |
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| 84 | 84 | | ‘‘(xvi) prostate cancer; 12 |
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| 85 | 85 | | ‘‘(xvii) skin cancer; 13 |
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| 86 | 86 | | ‘‘(xviii) stomach cancer; 14 |
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| 87 | 87 | | ‘‘(xix) testicular cancer; 15 |
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| 88 | 88 | | ‘‘(xx) thyroid cancer; 16 |
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| 89 | 89 | | ‘‘(xxi) any form of cancer that is con-17 |
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| 90 | 90 | | sidered a WTC-related health condition 18 |
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| 91 | 91 | | under section 3312(a) of the Public Health 19 |
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| 92 | 92 | | Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300mm–22(a)); 20 |
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| 93 | 93 | | and 21 |
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| 94 | 94 | | ‘‘(xxii) any form of cancer added to 22 |
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| 95 | 95 | | this definition pursuant to an update in ac-23 |
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| 96 | 96 | | cordance with paragraph (3). 24 |
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| 100 | 100 | | ‘‘(2) PERSONAL INJURY SUSTAINED IN THE 1 |
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| 101 | 101 | | LINE OF DUTY.— 2 |
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| 102 | 102 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 103 | 103 | | N GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-3 |
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| 104 | 104 | | graph (B), as determined by the Bureau, the 4 |
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| 105 | 105 | | exposure of a public safety officer to a car-5 |
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| 106 | 106 | | cinogen shall be presumed to constitute a per-6 |
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| 107 | 107 | | sonal injury within the meaning of subsection 7 |
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| 108 | 108 | | (a) or (b) sustained in the line of duty by the 8 |
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| 109 | 109 | | officer and directly and proximately resulting in 9 |
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| 110 | 110 | | death or permanent and total disability, if— 10 |
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| 111 | 111 | | ‘‘(i) the exposure occurred while the 11 |
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| 112 | 112 | | public safety officer was engaged in line of 12 |
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| 113 | 113 | | duty action or activity; 13 |
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| 114 | 114 | | ‘‘(ii) the public safety officer began 14 |
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| 115 | 115 | | serving as a public safety officer not fewer 15 |
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| 116 | 116 | | than 5 years before the date of the diag-16 |
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| 117 | 117 | | nosis of the public safety officer with an 17 |
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| 118 | 118 | | exposure-related cancer; 18 |
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| 119 | 119 | | ‘‘(iii) the public safety officer was di-19 |
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| 120 | 120 | | agnosed with the exposure-related cancer 20 |
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| 121 | 121 | | not more than 15 years after the public 21 |
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| 122 | 122 | | safety officer’s last date of active service as 22 |
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| 123 | 123 | | a public safety officer; and 23 |
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| 124 | 124 | | ‘‘(iv) the exposure-related cancer di-24 |
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| 125 | 125 | | rectly and proximately results in the death 25 |
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| 130 | 130 | | public safety officer. 2 |
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| 131 | 131 | | ‘‘(B) E |
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| 132 | 132 | | XCEPTION.—The presumption 3 |
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| 133 | 133 | | under subparagraph (A) shall not apply if com-4 |
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| 134 | 134 | | petent medical evidence establishes that the ex-5 |
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| 135 | 135 | | posure of the public safety officer to the car-6 |
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| 136 | 136 | | cinogen was not a substantial contributing fac-7 |
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| 137 | 137 | | tor in the death or disability of the public safety 8 |
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| 138 | 138 | | officer. 9 |
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| 139 | 139 | | ‘‘(3) A |
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| 140 | 140 | | DDITIONAL EXPOSURE -RELATED CAN-10 |
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| 141 | 141 | | CERS.— 11 |
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| 142 | 142 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 143 | 143 | | N GENERAL.—From time to time 12 |
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| 144 | 144 | | but not less frequently than once every 3 years, 13 |
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| 145 | 145 | | the Director shall— 14 |
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| 146 | 146 | | ‘‘(i) review the definition of ‘exposure- 15 |
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| 147 | 147 | | related cancer’ under paragraph (1); and 16 |
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| 148 | 148 | | ‘‘(ii) if appropriate, update the defini-17 |
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| 149 | 149 | | tion, in accordance with this paragraph— 18 |
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| 150 | 150 | | ‘‘(I) by rule; or 19 |
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| 151 | 151 | | ‘‘(II) by publication in the Fed-20 |
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| 152 | 152 | | eral Register or on the public website 21 |
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| 153 | 153 | | of the Bureau. 22 |
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| 154 | 154 | | ‘‘(B) B |
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| 155 | 155 | | ASIS FOR UPDATES.— 23 |
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| 156 | 156 | | ‘‘(i) I |
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| 157 | 157 | | N GENERAL.—The Director shall 24 |
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| 158 | 158 | | make an update under subparagraph 25 |
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| 162 | 162 | | (A)(ii) in any case in which the Director 1 |
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| 163 | 163 | | finds such an update to be appropriate 2 |
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| 164 | 164 | | based on competent medical evidence of 3 |
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| 165 | 165 | | significant risk to public safety officers of 4 |
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| 166 | 166 | | developing the form of exposure-related 5 |
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| 167 | 167 | | cancer that is the subject of the update 6 |
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| 168 | 168 | | from engagement in their public safety ac-7 |
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| 169 | 169 | | tivities. 8 |
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| 170 | 170 | | ‘‘(ii) E |
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| 171 | 171 | | VIDENCE.—The competent 9 |
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| 172 | 172 | | medical evidence described in clause (i) 10 |
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| 173 | 173 | | may include recommendations, risk assess-11 |
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| 174 | 174 | | ments, and scientific studies by— 12 |
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| 175 | 175 | | ‘‘(I) the National Institute for 13 |
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| 176 | 176 | | Occupational Safety and Health; 14 |
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| 177 | 177 | | ‘‘(II) the National Toxicology 15 |
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| 178 | 178 | | Program; 16 |
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| 179 | 179 | | ‘‘(III) the National Academies of 17 |
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| 180 | 180 | | Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; 18 |
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| 181 | 181 | | or 19 |
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| 182 | 182 | | ‘‘(IV) the International Agency 20 |
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| 183 | 183 | | for Research on Cancer. 21 |
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| 184 | 184 | | ‘‘(C) P |
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| 185 | 185 | | ETITIONS TO ADD TO THE LIST OF 22 |
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| 186 | 186 | | EXPOSURE-RELATED CANCERS.— 23 |
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| 187 | 187 | | ‘‘(i) I |
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| 188 | 188 | | N GENERAL.—Any person may 24 |
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| 189 | 189 | | petition the Director to add a form of can-25 |
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| 193 | 193 | | cer to the definition of ‘exposure-related 1 |
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| 194 | 194 | | cancer’ under paragraph (1). 2 |
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| 195 | 195 | | ‘‘(ii) C |
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| 196 | 196 | | ONTENT OF PETITION.—A peti-3 |
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| 197 | 197 | | tion under clause (i) shall provide informa-4 |
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| 198 | 198 | | tion to show that there is sufficient com-5 |
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| 199 | 199 | | petent medical evidence of significant risk 6 |
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| 200 | 200 | | to public safety officers of developing the 7 |
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| 201 | 201 | | cancer from engagement in their public 8 |
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| 202 | 202 | | safety activities. 9 |
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| 203 | 203 | | ‘‘(iii) T |
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| 204 | 204 | | IMELY AND SUBSTANTIVE DE -10 |
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| 205 | 205 | | CISIONS.— 11 |
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| 206 | 206 | | ‘‘(I) R |
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| 207 | 207 | | EFERRAL.—Not later than 12 |
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| 208 | 208 | | 180 days after receipt of a petition 13 |
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| 209 | 209 | | satisfying clause (ii), the Director 14 |
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| 210 | 210 | | shall refer the petition to appropriate 15 |
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| 211 | 211 | | medical experts for review, analysis 16 |
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| 212 | 212 | | (including risk assessment and sci-17 |
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| 213 | 213 | | entific study), and recommendation. 18 |
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| 214 | 214 | | ‘‘(II) C |
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| 215 | 215 | | ONSIDERATION.—The Di-19 |
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| 216 | 216 | | rector shall consider each rec-20 |
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| 217 | 217 | | ommendation under subclause (I) and 21 |
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| 218 | 218 | | promptly take appropriate action in 22 |
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| 219 | 219 | | connection with the recommendation 23 |
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| 220 | 220 | | pursuant to subparagraph (B). 24 |
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| 224 | 224 | | ‘‘(iv) NOTIFICATION TO CONGRESS .— 1 |
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| 225 | 225 | | Not later than 30 days after taking any 2 |
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| 226 | 226 | | substantive action in connection with a rec-3 |
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| 227 | 227 | | ommendation under clause (iii)(II), the Di-4 |
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| 228 | 228 | | rector shall notify the Committee on the 5 |
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| 229 | 229 | | Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee 6 |
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| 230 | 230 | | on the Judiciary of the House of Rep-7 |
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| 231 | 231 | | resentatives of the substantive action.’’. 8 |
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| 232 | 232 | | (2) A |
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| 233 | 233 | | PPLICABILITY.—The amendment made by 9 |
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| 234 | 234 | | paragraph (1) shall apply to any claim under— 10 |
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| 235 | 235 | | (A) section 1201(a) of title I of the Omni-11 |
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| 236 | 236 | | bus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 12 |
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| 237 | 237 | | 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10281(a)) that is predicated 13 |
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| 238 | 238 | | upon the death of a public safety officer on or 14 |
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| 239 | 239 | | after January 1, 2020, that is the direct and 15 |
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| 240 | 240 | | proximate result of an exposure-related cancer; 16 |
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| 241 | 241 | | or 17 |
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| 242 | 242 | | (B) section 1201(b) of title I of the Omni-18 |
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| 243 | 243 | | bus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 19 |
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| 244 | 244 | | 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10281(b)) that is filed on or 20 |
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| 245 | 245 | | after January 1, 2020, and predicated upon a 21 |
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| 246 | 246 | | disability that is the direct and proximate result 22 |
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| 247 | 247 | | of an exposure-related cancer. 23 |
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| 248 | 248 | | (3) T |
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| 249 | 249 | | IME FOR FILING CLAIM.—Notwithstanding 24 |
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| 250 | 250 | | any other provision of law, an individual who desires 25 |
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| 254 | 254 | | to file a claim that is predicated upon the amend-1 |
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| 255 | 255 | | ment made by paragraph (1) shall not be precluded 2 |
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| 256 | 256 | | from filing such a claim within 3 years of the date 3 |
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| 257 | 257 | | of enactment of this Act. 4 |
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| 258 | 258 | | (b) C |
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| 259 | 259 | | ONFIDENTIALITY OFINFORMATION.— 5 |
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| 260 | 260 | | (1) I |
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| 261 | 261 | | N GENERAL.—Section 812(a) of title I of 6 |
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| 262 | 262 | | the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 7 |
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| 263 | 263 | | 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10231(a)) is amended— 8 |
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| 264 | 264 | | (A) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘fur-9 |
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| 265 | 265 | | nished under this title by any person and iden-10 |
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| 266 | 266 | | tifiable to any specific private person’’ and in-11 |
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| 267 | 267 | | serting ‘‘furnished under any law to any compo-12 |
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| 268 | 268 | | nent of the Office of Justice Programs, or fur-13 |
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| 269 | 269 | | nished otherwise under this title, by any entity 14 |
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| 270 | 270 | | or person, including any information identifi-15 |
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| 271 | 271 | | able to any specific private person,’’; and 16 |
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| 272 | 272 | | (B) in the second sentence, by striking 17 |
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| 273 | 273 | | ‘‘person furnishing such information’’ and in-18 |
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| 274 | 274 | | serting ‘‘entity or person furnishing such infor-19 |
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| 275 | 275 | | mation or to whom such information pertains’’. 20 |
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| 276 | 276 | | (2) E |
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| 277 | 277 | | FFECTIVE DATE; APPLICABILITY.—The 21 |
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| 278 | 278 | | amendments made by paragraph (1) shall— 22 |
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| 279 | 279 | | (A) shall take effect for all purposes as if 23 |
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| 284 | 284 | | (B) apply to any matter pending, before 1 |
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| 285 | 285 | | the Department of Justice or otherwise, as of 2 |
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| 286 | 286 | | the date of enactment of this Act. 3 |
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| 287 | 287 | | (c) T |
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| 288 | 288 | | ECHNICALAMENDMENTS.— 4 |
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| 289 | 289 | | (1) I |
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| 290 | 290 | | N GENERAL.—Section 1201(o)(2) of title I 5 |
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| 291 | 291 | | of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 6 |
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| 292 | 292 | | of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10281(o)(2)) is amended— 7 |
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| 293 | 293 | | (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘or 8 |
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| 294 | 294 | | (b)’’ after ‘‘subsection (a)’’; 9 |
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| 295 | 295 | | (B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ‘‘or 10 |
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| 296 | 296 | | (b)’’ after ‘‘subsection (a)’’; and 11 |
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| 297 | 297 | | (C) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ‘‘or 12 |
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| 298 | 298 | | (b)’’ after ‘‘subsection (a)’’. 13 |
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| 299 | 299 | | (2) A |
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| 300 | 300 | | PPLICABILITY.—The amendments made 14 |
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| 301 | 301 | | by paragraph (1) shall apply to any matter pending 15 |
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| 302 | 302 | | before the Department of Justice as of the date of 16 |
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| 303 | 303 | | enactment of this Act. 17 |
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| 304 | 304 | | SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS. 18 |
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| 305 | 305 | | (a) I |
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| 306 | 306 | | NGENERAL.—Section 3 of the Safeguarding 19 |
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| 307 | 307 | | America’s First Responders Act of 2020 (34 U.S.C. 20 |
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| 308 | 308 | | 10281 note) is amended by adding at the end the fol-21 |
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| 309 | 309 | | lowing: 22 |
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| 310 | 310 | | ‘‘(d) D |
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| 311 | 311 | | EFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘line of 23 |
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| 312 | 312 | | duty action’ includes any action— 24 |
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| 316 | 316 | | ‘‘(1) in which a public safety officer engaged at 1 |
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| 317 | 317 | | the direction of the agency served by the public safe-2 |
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| 318 | 318 | | ty officer; or 3 |
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| 319 | 319 | | ‘‘(2) the public safety officer is authorized or 4 |
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| 320 | 320 | | obligated to perform.’’. 5 |
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| 321 | 321 | | (b) A |
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| 322 | 322 | | PPLICABILITY.— 6 |
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| 323 | 323 | | (1) I |
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| 324 | 324 | | N GENERAL.—The amendment made by 7 |
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| 325 | 325 | | subsection (a) shall apply to any claim under section 8 |
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| 326 | 326 | | 3 of the Safeguarding America’s First Responders 9 |
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| 327 | 327 | | Act of 2020 (34 U.S.C. 10281 note)— 10 |
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| 328 | 328 | | (A) that is predicated upon the death of a 11 |
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| 329 | 329 | | public safety officer on or after January 1, 12 |
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| 330 | 330 | | 2020; or 13 |
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| 331 | 331 | | (B) that is— 14 |
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| 332 | 332 | | (i) predicated upon the disability of a 15 |
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| 333 | 333 | | public safety officer; and 16 |
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| 334 | 334 | | (ii) filed on or after January 1, 2020. 17 |
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| 335 | 335 | | (2) T |
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| 336 | 336 | | IME FOR FILING CLAIM.—Notwithstanding 18 |
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| 337 | 337 | | any other provision of law, an individual who desires 19 |
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| 338 | 338 | | to file a claim that is predicated upon the amend-20 |
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| 339 | 339 | | ment made by subsection (a) shall not be precluded 21 |
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| 340 | 340 | | from filing such a claim within 3 years of the date 22 |
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| 341 | 341 | | of enactment of this Act. 23 |
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