Bereavement Benefits for State Employees — "Respecting Their Sacrifice Act"

• Heads of law enforcement agencies may grant up to 8 hours of administrative leave to state law enforcement officers to attend the funeral of a fellow officer from their agency who was killed in the line of duty, with discretion to deny leave to maintain adequate staffing levels
• Travel expenses may be authorized for state law enforcement officers to attend the in-state funeral of an officer killed in the line of duty
• Funeral and burial expense payments for full-time law enforcement, correctional, or correctional probation officers killed in the line of duty are increased from $1,000 to $10,000, with employing agencies additionally permitted to pay up to $5,000 toward venue expenses
• State motor vehicles assigned to law enforcement officers may be used to attend in-state funerals of officers killed in the line of duty, with agency head direction or permission, by expanding the definition of "official state business"
• Effective July 1, 2023, with the administrative leave provision taking effect October 1, 2023