Honoring Civil Servants Killed in the Line of Duty Act

(a) Definitions. In this section—

(1) the term agency means an agency that is authorized or required to make a payment under a covered provision; and

(2) the term covered provision means—

(A) section 5571 of title 5, United States Code, as added by section 2 of this Act;

(B) section 8102a of such title, as amended by section 4 of this Act; or

(C) section 413 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3973), as amended by section 5 of this Act.

(b) Authorization. If the head of an agency determines, with the concurrence of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, that a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other incident would result in costs that would exceed the amounts available to the agency to make additional payments under a covered provision—

(1) there are authorized to be appropriated to the agency such additional sums as may be necessary to make those additional payments; and

(2) the head of the agency may make such additional payments to the extent additional such additional sums are made available for those purposes.

(c) Sense of Congress. It is the sense of Congress that, not later than 30 days after the date on which the head of an agency submits to Congress a request for supplemental appropriations for the purposes described in subsection (b), Congress should take action with respect to that request.