Fallen Heroes Flag Act of 2015

H.R. 4584, the "POLICE Act," legislation to authorize Community Oriented Policing Services grantees to use grant funds for active shooter training; entire bill. S. 2840, the "POLICE Act," legislation to authorize Community Oriented Policing Services grantees to use grant funds for active shooter training; entire bill. H.R. 723, the "Fallen Heroes Flag Act," legislation to provide the immediate family of law enforcement officers, fire fighters, and other public safety officers who are killed in the line of duty with Capitol-flown flags; entire bill. S. 2755, the "Fallen Heroes Flag Act," legislation to provide the immediate family of law enforcement officers, fire fighters, and other public safety officers who are killed in the line of duty with Capitol-flown flags; entire bill. H.R. 228, the "Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2015," legislation to amend Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program through fiscal year 2018; entire bill. S. 125, the "Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program Reauthorization Act of 2015," legislation to amend Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program through fiscal year 2020; entire bill. H.R. 3036, the "9/11 Memorial Act," legislation to designate the National September 11 Memorial located at the World Trade Center site in New York City as a national memorial; entire bill. H.R. 4880, the "Protecting Lives Using Surplus Equipment Act," legislation to prohibit any regulation, rule, guidance, recommendation, or policy issued after May 15, 2015, that limits the sale or donation of excess property of the federal government to state and local law enforcement agencies; entire bill. H.R. 5123, the "HERO Benefits Reform Act of 2016," legislation to ensure that the United States provides for the families of law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other emergency responders who fall in the line of duty through the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program; entire bill. H.R. 5476, the "Honoring Hometown Heroes Act," legislation to provide for the flying of the flag at half-staff in the event of the death of a first responder in the line of duty; entire bill. S. 2694, the "Lifesaving Gear for Police Act," legislation to ensure that state and local law enforcement have equipment essential to protecting their communities from criminals and to ensure officer safety by rescinding limits placed on the sale or donation of property of the Federal Government, including excess property of the Department of Defense, to State and local agencies for law enforcement activities; entire bill. S. 2943, the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017," legislation to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, defense activities of the Department of Energy, and to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year; Sec. 1053, modification of authority to transfer Defense Department property for law enforcement activities. S. 2944, the "Public Safety Officers' Benefits Improvement Act of 2016," legislation to require adequate reporting on the Public Safety Officers' Benefit program and provide for processing improvements to increase the timeliness of claims adjudication; entire bill. Legislative proposals to address the backlog and delays in processing death and disability claims under the Public Safety Officers Benefits Program for the families of law enforcement officers who are totally disabled or killed in the line of duty, including those who died of a 9/11 health-related condition (no bill introduced), and Congressional oversight of same. Coverage under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program for public safety officers who die of a medical condition developed as a result of exposure to toxins during the rescue and recovery efforts following the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001.

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000

Government targets: Bureau of Justice Assistance, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

H.R. 723, the "Fallen Heroes Flag Act," legislation to provide the immediate family of law enforcement officers, fire fighters, and other public safety officers who are killed in the line of duty with Capitol-flown flags; entire bill. H.R. 3036, the "National 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center Act," legislation to designate the National September 11 Memorial located at the World Trade Center site in New York City as a national memorial; entire bill. H.R. 4880, the "Protecting Lives Using Surplus Equipment Act," legislation to prohibit any regulation, rule, guidance, recommendation, or policy issued after May 15, 2015, that limits the sale or donation of excess property of the federal government to state and local law enforcement agencies; entire bill. H.R. 228, the "Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program Reauthorization Act of 2015," legislation to amend Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program through fiscal year 2018; entire bill. S. 125, the "Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program Reauthorization Act of 2015," legislation to amend Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program through fiscal year 2020; entire bill. S. 1751, the "Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act," legislation creating a federal grant program to improve handgun purchaser licensing programs; entire bill. S. 2401, the "COPS Improvements Act," legislation to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to enhance the COPS ON THE BEAT grant program; entire bill. S.2694, the "Lifesaving Gear for Police Act," legislation to ensure that state and local law enforcement have equipment essential to protecting their communities from criminals and to ensure officer safety by rescinding limits placed on the sale or donation of property of the Federal Government, including excess property of the Department of Defense, to State and local agencies for law enforcement activities; entire bill. Legislative proposals to prohibit funding for restrictions placed on the sale or donation of property of the federal government, including excess property of the Department of Defense, to state and local agencies for law enforcement activities (no bill introduced). Legislative proposal in the Senate to provide Capitol-flown flags to the immediate family of fire fighters, law enforcement officers, and other public safety officers who are killed in the line of duty (no bill introduced). Legislative proposals to address the backlog and delays in processing death and disability claims under the Public Safety Officers Benefits Program for the families of law enforcement officers who fall in the line of duty, including those who died of a 9/11 health-related condition (no bill introduced), and Congressional oversight of same. Coverage under the Public Safety Officers Benefits Program for public safety officers who die of a medical condition developed as a result of exposure to toxins during the rescue and recovery efforts following the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001. Legislative proposal to require the Public Safety Officers Benefits Program to increase the transparency of its claims determination process by providing regular reports to Congress on its processing of death, disability, and educational assistance claims (no bill introduced).

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000

Government targets: Bureau of Justice Assistance, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

H.R.46, the No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act, which would significantly cut States who fund anti-drug task forces from receiving Federal funding from the Edward J. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistant Grants program; H.R. 51, the Traffic Stops Along the Border Statistics Study Act, would require the U.S. Attorney General to collect race and other data on traffic stops made by State and local law enforcement officers; H.R. 159/S. 166, the Stop Exploitation Through Trafficking Act, which would benefit law enforcement agencies in States with safe harbor laws when applying for Federal law enforcement grant programs; H.R. 181/S. 178, the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, would authorize grants be made available to law enforcement and others to develop, improve, or expand comprehensive domestic child trafficking deterrence; H.R. 228/S. 125, the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act, would reauthorize the Bulletproof Vest Partnership grant program through fiscal year 2018; H.R. 378, the Responsible Body Armor Possession Act, which would prohibit the sale, transfer, or possession of enhanced, military-grade body armor by civilians; H.R. 429, the Grand Jury Reform Act, would end the use of grand juries to evaluate the conduct of any death caused by a law enforcement officer acting in the performance of his sworn duty and require a special prosecutor to take the case before a judge; H.R. 723, the Fallen Heroes Flag Act, would provide that Members of the U.S. House of Representatives could request and then provide a flag be flown over the U.S. Capitol and then provide it to the family of a law enforcement or other public safety officer; H.R. 814, the Thin Blue Line Act, which increase the penalty for offenders who kill or attempt to kill law enforcement or other public safety officers; H.R. 923/S. 498, the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would allow any civilian concealed carry permit holder to travel to any other State issuing concealed carry permits without any training or safety requirements; H.R. 1186, the Synthetic Abuse and Labeling of Toxic Substances (SALTS) Act, which would close the existing loophole for the manufacturers on analogue drug sales and distribution; H.R. 1258, the "Pet and Women Safety (PAWS) Act," which would expand existing Federal protections to the pets of domestic abuse victims and establish a grant program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture designed to assist victims of domestic violence to safely shelter their pets when they leave their abusers; H.R. 1269/S. 665, the Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu National Blue Alert Act, would create a national alert system for law enforcement officers who are missing, killed or seriously injured in the line of duty; Section 1042, H.R. 1735, the "National Defense Authorization Acy, Fiscal Year 2016;" H.R. 1786/S. 928, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act, which would ensure continuation of the World Trade Center Health Program and the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund; H.R. 1933/S. 1056, the End Racial Profiling Act, which would define racial profiling as any consideration of race, national origin or ethnic origin to initiate a traffic stop or vehicle search-absent an eyewitness description-and requires the collection of race and other data by State and local law enforcement during routine investigatory activities; H.R. 2293, the "Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act," which would provide criminal penalties for those who engage in "animal crushing" as well as for those who create or distribute such films; H.R. 2318, the COPS Improvements and Reauthorization Act, would reauthorize, expand and improve the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) within the U.S. Department of Justice; H.R. 2330/S. 1119, the National Criminal Justice Commission Act, would create a National Criminal Justice Commission to study the nations criminal justice systems; H.R. 2667, the "School Safety Act," which would reauthorize and expand the Secure Our Schools program through 2020; H.R. 3036, the "National 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center Act," which would Federally recognize the 9/11 Memorial as a national memorial and authorize funding for its upkeep and preservation; H.R. 3537, the "Synthetic Drug Control Act," would enhance the ability fo law enforcement to combat synthesized drugs by amending the Controlled Substances Act to clarify how controlled substance analogues are to be regulated; H.R. 3968, the "Stop Meth Labs and Enhance Patient Access Act," which would encourage the use of new tamper-resistent technologies to prevent pseudoephedrine rom being extracted from cold medicines in order to be used in the production of methamphetamine; H.R. 4002, the "Criminal Code Improvement Act," which would would overturn long-standing court holdings on mens rea standards and applications and replace them with a new and arbitrary standard; Issues related to Federal equipment programs; and Issues related to Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) technology, body worn cameras(BWCs), and civil asset forfeiture.

Client expense: $55,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), White House Office