A bill that would provide lifetime death benefits for remarried spouses of first responders who were killed in the line of duty, regardless of when the death or remarriage occurred, is nearing a House vote.
House Bill 2119 corrects an oversight from two years ago, when lawmakers approved the same measure but did not make it retroactive to Sept. 1, 2015, says sponsor Rep. Kyle Kacal, R-Bryan.
Ashlee Hardy of the Metroplex Texas chapter of Concerns of Police Survivors (COPS) testified April 3 before the House Banking & Insurance Committee that Texas has about 250 surviving sp...
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