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Committee considers technical changes to End of Watch trust to clarify benefits and administration
Summary
House Bill 487 clarifies who qualifies for End of Watch trust benefits, narrows the definition of catastrophic injury to severe physical incapacity, and confirms DOJ rulemaking and trust administration details; law-enforcement groups supported the cleanup language.
Sen. Barry Usher presented House Bill 487 as a technical cleanup to the End of Watch trust established to provide medical continuation and up to 60 monthly payments to families of officers catastrophically injured or killed in the line of duty. "The bill does not substantially change any of that," Usher said, calling the language a clarification to enable DOJ to implement the program.
Stakeholders including the Montana Police Protective Association, Association of Montana Troopers, Montana Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, chiefs of police and the…
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