1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Gregg Wenzel Clandestine Heroes Parity Act . 2. Death benefits for survivors (a) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) officers of the Central Intelligence Agency who die during a period of assignment to a duty station in a foreign country should receive death benefits, regardless of whether the officers— (A) were killed in the performance of duty; (B) were killed due to an act of terrorism; or (C) have surviving dependents; and (2) section 8 of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 ( 50 U.S.C. 3510 ) has provided the Agency an appropriate authority for compensating officers who die abroad who fall into any gaps in existing death benefit regulations of the Agency, even before the clarifying amendments made by this Act. (b) Clarification of current authority Section 8 of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 ( 50 U.S.C. 3510 ) is amended by inserting before rental of the following: payment of death benefits in cases in which the circumstances of the death of an employee of the Agency is not covered by section 11, other similar provisions of Federal law, or any regulation issued by the Director providing death benefits, but that the Director determines such payment appropriate; . (c) Improvements to benefits (1) Requirements Section 11 of such Act ( 50 U.S.C. 3511 ) is amended— (A) in subsection (a)— (i) by striking may and inserting shall ; and (ii) by inserting before the period at the end the following: , except such adjustments may not limit or reduce the payments required by this section