§1954 — Title 2 The Congress | U.S. Code

Summary

The Capitol Police Board must run the Fund and make rules for how payments are made. Those rules need approval from the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the House Committee on Oversight. Any money left in the Fund after the six-month period that starts on August 7, 1998 must be paid to the families of Detective John Michael Gibson and Private First Class Jacob Joseph Chestnut. After that period, the Board can spend remaining money as it decides. The Board must also use Fund money to hire a financial adviser or trustee to help those two families with payments. The Board must also create rules for using the Fund to pay families of Capitol Police killed or seriously injured on duty. The rules must say who can get a payment, how much and when payments will be made, and must make sure these payments are extra and do not reduce any other benefits the family or employee gets, including workers’ compensation.

Title 2, §1954

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(a)The Capitol Police Board shall administer and manage the Fund (including establishing the timing and manner of making payments under section 1952 of this title) in accordance with regulations issued by the Board, subject to the approval of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives. Under such regulations, the Board shall pay any balance remaining in the Fund upon the expiration of the 6-month period which begins on August 7, 1998, to the families of Detective John Michael Gibson and Private First Class Jacob Joseph Chestnut in accordance with section 1952 of this title, and shall disburse any amounts in the Fund after the expiration of such period in such manner as the Board may establish. Under such regulations, and using amounts in the Fund, a financial adviser or trustee, as appropriate, for the families of Detective John Michael Gibson and Private First Class Jacob Joseph Chestnut of the United States Capitol Police shall be appointed to advise the families respecting disbursements to them of amounts in the Fund.

(b)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 1952(b) of this title), 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.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was classified to section 207c–3 of former Title 40, prior to the enactment of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, by Pub. L. 107–217, § 1, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1062.

Amendments

2017—Pub. L. 115–45 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, and added subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on House Oversight of House of Representatives changed to Committee on House Administration of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 6, 1999.

§1954 Administration by Capitol Police Board