Lump-sum payment to survivors of police officer killed in line of duty

(1) The Crime Victims Compensation Board may award a lump-sum payment not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to the family of a police officer employed by a city, county, or urban-county government who is killed in the line of duty as a police officer for such city, county, or urban-county and who is not eligible to receive death or disability benefits under a pension plan of the city, county, or urban-county. (2) This section shall apply to any officer killed in the line of duty since January 1, 1986.