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2024 · fourth_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 130/S. 459, the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responders; H.R. 233, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court; H.R. 304, the Stop Enabling Repeat Violence and Endangering (SERVE) Our Communities Act, which would establish an annual grant program for State and local governments to fund programs like transitional services, mentoring, and job training for young offenders; H.R. 355, the Back the Blue Act, which would improve protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, impose time and other limits on Federal courts review of habeas corpus, amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), and provide new grants; H.R. 472/S. 645, the Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act, which directs the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a state-of-the-art treatment program for public safety officers experiencing acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or similar conditions; H.R. 743, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 795/S. 261, the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 898/S. 546, the Recruit and Retain Act, which would authorize COPS grantees to use grant funds for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R. 1005, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize and expand the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; H.R. 1105, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; H.R. 1649, the Establishing Accreditation Grants for Law Enforcement (EAGLE) Act, which would establish a grant program that would pay the certification or re-certification fees for small to mid-size agencies that have fewer than 350 employees; H.R. 1719, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; H.R. 1839/S. 993, the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act, listing it as a Schedule III drug for illicit use; H.R. 2548, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would direct the CDC to expand their data collection efforts, publicly release their findings, and suggest protocols to prevent instances of Traumatic Brain Injuries for Law Enforcement; H.R. 2601, the National Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act, which would require the full cooperation of any grant recipient that contracts with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to operate the National Human Trafficking Hotline, sharing information and assisting efforts by State and local law enforcement to combat human trafficking; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act," which would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; H.R. 2722/S.3554, the Providing Child Care to Police Officers Act, which would establish a grant pilot program to provide child care services for the minor children of law enforcement officers to accommodate the shift work and abnormal work hours of such officers, and to enhance recruitment and retention of such officers; H.R. 2949, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; H.R. 3005/S.3356, the Postal Police Reform Act," which would reverse a 2020 directive from the United States Postal Service (USPS) that bans postal police from performing their patrol duties outside of real estate owned or leased by the postal service. Prior to this directive, the postal police additionally had jurisdiction over all postal service property and were authorized to protect mail carriers, collection boxes, and vehicles; H.R. 3150, the Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets (OPIOIDS) Act., which would empower the Attorney General to award grants to local law enforcement departments and forensic laboratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses; H.R. 3170/S. 1514, the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which creates a home loan benefits program for first responders and educators based on the successful U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs home loan program available to our nations veterans; H.R. 3269/S. 4255, the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would create a new definition for a less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal firearms law; H.R. 3333/S.1271, the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, which would direct the resources of the U.S. government to target the fentanyl supply chain; H.R. 3449, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; H.R. 4384, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; H.R. 4639, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would impose a probable cause standard for certain types of information; H.R. 5029, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 5182, the Child Online Safety Modernization Act, which would strengthen the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children CyberTipline by modernizing and improving the reporting process, extending the required preservation period for individual reports to one year, and replacing the term, child pornography, with child sexual abuse materials throughout all Federal statutes; H.R. 5266, the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would empower the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; H.R. 5538, the Border Patrol Pay Fix Act, which would allow the majority of Border Patrol agents to receive a special overtime pay rate; H.R. 5798, the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act, which would undue certain provisions of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) passed by the Washington D.C. City Council; H.R. 6246, the Eliminate Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, the nations centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children; H.R. 6688, the Cold Case Modernization Act, which will extend DOJ grant funding for forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) testing to cover the identification process of all unidentified human remains, without regard to the manner of their death; H.R. 7185, the HIDTA Reauthorization Act., which would reauthorize the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program; H.R. 7456, the "First Responders Emergency Assistance Act.", which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.R. 7487, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act., which would allocate $400 million to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program under the Office of National Drug Control Policy. H.R. 7720(Kean, R-NJ), which would allow grant funds from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) to be used for the purchase of fentanyl testing kits and opioid reversal agents; H.R. 7730 (Spanberger, D-VA), directing the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable such online sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combatting online sales of fentanyl; H.R. 7456 (Duarte, R-CA) the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act., which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.R. 8989 (Salazar, R-FL) the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 9390 (Johnson, R-SD) the Supporting Opportunities to Build Everyday Responsibility (SOBER) Act, which would expand a grant program for 24/7 sobriety programs; H.R. 9641/S. 5060 (Schultz, D-FL) the Providing Resources, Officers, and Technology to Eradicate Cyber Threats (PROTECT) Our Children Act, which would reauthorize the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force program for three years; H.R. 9576 (Phillips, D-MN), the Pathways to Policing Act, which would provide $50 million a year to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to operate a nationwide marketing and recruitment campaign; H.R. 9660 (Neguse, D-CO) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protection Act (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in Good Samaritan laws by ensuring that people cannot be prosecuted for drug possession when they seek medical assistance after witnessing or experiencing an overdose; H.R. 9871 (Larsen, D-WA) the End Fentanyl Trafficking with Local Task Forces Act, which would invest and expand in multiple anti-drug task forces in the U.S. Department of Justice to improve cooperation and collaboration between departments to combat the fentanyl epidemic; H.R. 9910 (Spanberger, D-VA) the Supporting Federal Employees in the National Guard & Reserves Act, which would increase the paid leave available for Federal law enforcement and correctional officers in the National Guard from 15 to 36 days per fiscal year; H.R. 9928 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would restructure the service timeline for Park Police officers by reducing the number and time between pay grade steps; H.R. 9929 (Miller-Meeks, R-IA) the Corrections Officer Blake Schwarz Suicide Prevention Act, which would establish a grant program that would provide funding to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, States, and localities to carry out mental health screenings and provide referrals, where applicable, to mental healthcare providers for those corrections officers who are struggling with their mental health; H.J. Res. 42/S.J. Res. 26, a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) by the Washington, D.C. City Council; H. Res. 285, a resolution calling on Congress to respect the rights of law enforcement officers and establish a Bill of Rights for them; S. 474, the Revising Existing Procedures on Reporting via Technology (REPORT) Act, which would provide the CyberTipline, a critical tool for law enforcement run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the necessary resources and infrastructure needed to protect children from digital exploitation; S. 499, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; S. 529, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; S.894, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would help law enforcement agencies establish concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI) protocols; S. 930, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; S. 972/H.R. 8420, the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which provides a one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); S. 994, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 8918/S. 1080, the Cooper Davis Act, which would require social media providers to report all suspected illicit drug activity occurring on their platforms to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); S. 1170, Project Safe Childhood, which updates and expands provisions included in the original Project Safe Childhood initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act, which provides special privacy protections to certain child victims and witnesses in criminal prosecutions; S. 1207, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, which would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention in an effort to combat the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; S. 1306, the COPS Reauthorization Act, which will reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and all the programs it administers through 2029; S. 1331, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; S. 1387, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; S. 1447, the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act, which would authorize the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to select existing violence prevention or intervention programs, administered by State and local trauma centers, to receive Federal grants to expand existing programs, study the effectiveness of those programs, and examine their impacts on reincarceration and re-admittance rates; S. 1507, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which establishes a grant program within the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to aid State and local law enforcement in obtaining portable chemical screening devices to identify the substances they encounter daily; S. 1530, the COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act, which allows underserved and rural communities greater flexibility to use COPS grants to raise law enforcement salaries to help retain good officers and improve recruitment efforts; S. 1569, the Back the Blue Act. which improves protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, judges, and other public safety officers; S. 1857, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act, which would reauthorize, and increase funding for, Operation Stonegarden; S. 2313, the Driving for Opportunity Act, which would create a grant program for States to reinstate drivers licenses that were suspended for unpaid fines and fees; S. 2567, the Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act, which would reauthorize the programs in the Computer Crime Enforcement Act; S. 2569, the "Fentanyl Safe Testing and Overdose Prevention Act". which would amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify that the possession, sale, purchase, importation, exportation, or transportation of drug testing equipment that tests for the presence of fentanyl or xylazine is not unlawful; S. 2596, the Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, would amend current law (18 U.SC. 3607) expunging an individuals minor possession offense if the individual meets the laws stringent requirements. This legislation amends this rule, eliminating the age requirement; S. 2637/H.R. 8871, the Law Enforcement Scenario-Based Training for Safety and De-Escalation Act, which would direct the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to authorize grants to State, and local law enforcement agencies to provide law enforcement personnel access to an immersive, real-life, scenario-based training curriculum which will improve community-police relations, as well as officer safety and resilience; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act, would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.3522, the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would require the Attorney General to develop reports relating to violent attacks against law enforcement officers, and for other purposes; S. 3643, the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act, which would update current law concerning hawala and other informal value transfer systems like those used by international terrorists and trafficking organizations, additionally, purposes to double the penalties for those who violate bulk-cash smuggling laws; S. 3763, the Violent Incident Clearance and Technological Investigative Methods (VICTIM) Act, which would establish a grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to help State, Tribal, and local law enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes; S. 4450 (Kelly D-AZ), the Educational and Career Opportunities for Public Safety Act, which would offer officers financial assistance for higher education for those who have served for a period of eight years with the same agency and who are willing to commit to serving at least an additional four. S. 4569 (Cantwel,l D-WA), the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; S. 4970 (Ossoff, D-GA), the Female Officers Ballistic Protection Act, which would ensure that women in law enforcement have improved ballistic body armor; S. 5056 (Grassley, R-IA), the Stop the Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, which will add a Schedule A to the existing five schedules of the Controlled Substances Act, allowing synthetic analogues to be prohibited; S. 5062 (Blackburn, R-TN), the Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act, which would require the OIG to conduct reviews and analysis into cases of sexual harassment and assault, report those findings to Congress, and subsequently have corrective rules promulgated by the U.S. Attorney General; S. 5128 (Casey, D-PA), the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would authorize the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; S. 5270 (Kelly-AZ), the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies;
Client expense: $75,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
2024 · fourth_quarter · Telecommunications
Issues related to privacy including: S. 395 S. 1165 S. 1409 S. 3325 S. 3337 S. 1418 H.R. 7891 H.R. 7890 H.R. 8818 H.R. 8989
Client expense: $1,010,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2024 · fourth_quarter · Computer Industry
Issues related to technology and information policy, including issues related to consumer and childrens privacy, data protection, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, educational technology, competition, and innovation; S.1409/H.R.7891, Kids Online Safety Act; H.R.7890, Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act; H.R.8818, American Privacy Rights Act of 2024; S.222/H.R.4370, PREVAIL Act; S.2140, Patent Eligibility Restoration Act; H.R.9197, Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act; H.R.9194, Nucleic Acid Screening for Biosecurity Act; H.R.9211, LIFT AI Act; H.R.9215, Workforce for AI Trust Act; H.R.9402, NSF AI Education Act of 2024; H.R.9403, Expanding AI Voices Act; H.R.5077, CREATE AI Act; H.R.9497, AI Advancement and Reliability Act; H.R.9466, AI Development Practices Act; H.R.7569, DEFIANCE Act of 2024; H.R.8989, TAKE IT DOWN Act.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $60,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2024 · fourth_quarter · Science/Technology
Online privacy and security as it impacts internet infrastructure and encryption, including related provisions in STOP CSAM Act (S. 1199), EARN IT Act (S. 1270), Kids Online Safety Act (S. 1409 / H.R. 7891), Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act (S. 2073), and TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 4569 / H.R. 8989)
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2024 · fourth_quarter · Science/Technology
Issues related to artificial intelligence and technology. Issues related to deepfakes. The TAKE IT DOWN ACT (S.4569/ H.R.8989). The NO FAKES Act of 2024 (S.4875/ H.R.9551).
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $10,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2024 · fourth_quarter · Science/Technology
Issues related to artificial intelligence and technology. Issues related to deepfakes. The TAKE IT DOWN ACT (S.4569/ H.R.8989). The NO FAKES Act of 2024 (S.4875/ H.R.9551).
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $10,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2024 · fourth_quarter · Science/Technology
Issues related to artificial intelligence and technology. Issues related to deepfakes. The TAKE IT DOWN ACT (S.4569/ H.R.8989). The NO FAKES Act of 2024 (S.4875/ H.R.9551).
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $10,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2024 · fourth_quarter · Science/Technology
Issues related to artificial intelligence and technology. Issues related to deepfakes. The TAKE IT DOWN ACT (S.4569/ H.R.8989). The NO FAKES Act of 2024 (S.4875/ H.R.9551).
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $10,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2024 · fourth_quarter · Science/Technology
Issues related to artificial intelligence and technology. Issues related to deepfakes. The TAKE IT DOWN ACT (S.4569/ H.R.8989). The NO FAKES Act of 2024 (S.4875/ H.R.9551).
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $10,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2024 · fourth_quarter · Computer Industry
Issues related to child online safety, online privacy, content moderation, competition; S. 1409/H.R. 7891, Kids Online Safety Act; S. 1291, Protecting Kids on Social Media Act; S. 1418/H.R. 7890, Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0); S. 4569/H.R. 8989, TAKE IT DOWN Act
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $60,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2024 · fourth_quarter · Computer Industry
Internet issues, including liability protections for online platforms; Legislation and regulation related to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act; Content moderation; Modernizing financial services; Issues related to privacy and security; S. 1409/H.R. 7891, Kids Online Safety Act; S. 1418/H.R. 7890, Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0); S. 1207, Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act of 2023; S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligations to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment Act of 2023 (STOP CSAM Act); S. 4569/H.R. 8989, TAKE IT DOWN Act
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $60,000
2024 · fourth_quarter · Computer Industry
Issues related to content moderation on the internet; Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act; S. 1409/H.R. 7891, Kids Online Safety Act; S. 1418/H.R. 7890, Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0); S. 1207, Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act of 2023; S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligations to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment Act of 2023 (STOP CSAM Act); H.R. 5082/S. 474, Revising Existing Procedures On Reporting via Technology (REPORT) Act; S. 4569/H.R. 8989, TAKE IT DOWN Act
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $80,000
2024 · fourth_quarter · Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
Monitor S. 395 - Clean Slate for Kids Online Act - for changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act; Monitor and advocate for operational improvements to S. 1409 - Kids Online Safety Act; Monitor and advocate for improvements to S. 1418 - Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act; Monitor S. 1291 - Protecting Kids on Social Media Act. Monitor H.R. 5778 - Sammy's Law - for changes to requirements of online platforms. Monitor S. 3321 -- Lowering Broadband Costs for Consumers Act -- for changes to the Universal Service Fund. Monitor and advocate for comprehensive, federal data privacy reform in H.R. 8818 -- American Privacy Rights Act; Monitor S. 4422 -- Fair Repair Act; Monitor and advocate for improvements to S. 4569 and H.R. 8989 -- Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks (TAKE IT DOWN) Act; Monitor S. 4178 - Future of Artificial Intelligence Innovation Act; Monitor and advocate for improvements to S. 2073 - Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act.
Client expense: $1,430,000 · Firm income: Not reported
2024 · fourth_quarter · Telecommunications
Buy America requirements; Artificial Intelligence; Facial Recognition; Implementation of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; Spectrum auction authority; Data Privacy; FCC Nominees; H.R. 5077 - Creating Resources for Every American to Experiment with Artificial Intelligence Act (S. 2714 CREATE AI ACT); American Privacy Rights Act; S. 2770 - Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act; Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act; S.4569/H.R. 8989 - Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks (TAKE IT DOWN) Act
Client expense: $690,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Natl Economic Council (NEC), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), White House Office
2024 · fourth_quarter · Computer Industry
Public policy issues impacting technology companies including privacy, antitrust, and online consumer protection; The Childrens Online Privacy Protection Rule; H.R.1165, Data Privacy Act of 2023; S.1409, Kids Online Safety Act; S.1993, No Section 230 Immunity for AI Act; H.R.8818, American Privacy Rights Act of 2024; H.R.9197, Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act; H.R.9194, Nucleic Acid Screening for Biosecurity Act; H.R.9211, LIFT AI Act; H.R.9215, Workforce for AI Trust Act; H.R.9402, NSF AI Education Act of 2024; H.R.9403, Expanding AI Voices Act; H.R.5077, CREATE AI Act; H.R.9497, AI Advancement and Reliability Act; H.R.9466, AI Development Practices Act; NDAA acquisition and maintenance; H.R.7569, DEFIANCE Act of 2024; H.R.8989, TAKE IT DOWN Act.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $60,000
2024 · fourth_quarter · Science/Technology
H.R.8989/S.4569 - Take it Down Act re: language related to offenses involving minors.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $10,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2024 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 130/S. 459, the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responders; H.R. 233, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court; H.R. 304, the Stop Enabling Repeat Violence and Endangering (SERVE) Our Communities Act, which would establish an annual grant program for State and local governments to fund programs like transitional services, mentoring, and job training for young offenders; H.R. 355, the Back the Blue Act, which would improve protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, impose time and other limits on Federal courts review of habeas corpus, amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), and provide new grants; H.R. 472/S. 645, the Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act, which directs the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a state-of-the-art treatment program for public safety officers experiencing acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or similar conditions; H.R. 743, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 795/S. 261, the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 898/S. 546, the Recruit and Retain Act, which would authorize COPS grantees to use grant funds for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R. 1005, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize and expand the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; H.R. 1105, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; H.R. 1649, the Establishing Accreditation Grants for Law Enforcement (EAGLE) Act, which would establish a grant program that would pay the certification or re-certification fees for small to mid-size agencies that have fewer than 350 employees; H.R. 1719, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; H.R. 1839/S. 993, the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act, listing it as a Schedule III drug for illicit use; H.R. 2548, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would direct the CDC to expand their data collection efforts, publicly release their findings, and suggest protocols to prevent instances of Traumatic Brain Injuries for Law Enforcement; H.R. 2601, the National Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act, which would require the full cooperation of any grant recipient that contracts with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to operate the National Human Trafficking Hotline, sharing information and assisting efforts by State and local law enforcement to combat human trafficking; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act," which would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; H.R. 2722/S.3554, the Providing Child Care to Police Officers Act, which would establish a grant pilot program to provide child care services for the minor children of law enforcement officers to accommodate the shift work and abnormal work hours of such officers, and to enhance recruitment and retention of such officers; H.R. 2949, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; H.R. 3005/S.3356, the Postal Police Reform Act," which would reverse a 2020 directive from the United States Postal Service (USPS) that bans postal police from performing their patrol duties outside of real estate owned or leased by the postal service. Prior to this directive, the postal police additionally had jurisdiction over all postal service property and were authorized to protect mail carriers, collection boxes, and vehicles; H.R. 3150, the Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets (OPIOIDS) Act., which would empower the Attorney General to award grants to local law enforcement departments and forensic laboratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses; H.R. 3170/S. 1514, the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which creates a home loan benefits program for first responders and educators based on the successful U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs home loan program available to our nations veterans; H.R. 3269/S. 4255, the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would create a new definition for a less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal firearms law; H.R. 3333/S.1271, the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, which would direct the resources of the U.S. government to target the fentanyl supply chain; H.R. 3449, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; H.R. 4384, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; H.R. 4639, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would impose a probable cause standard for certain types of information; H.R. 5029, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 5182, the Child Online Safety Modernization Act, which would strengthen the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children CyberTipline by modernizing and improving the reporting process, extending the required preservation period for individual reports to one year, and replacing the term, child pornography, with child sexual abuse materials throughout all Federal statutes; H.R. 5266, the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would empower the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; H.R. 5538, the Border Patrol Pay Fix Act, which would allow the majority of Border Patrol agents to receive a special overtime pay rate; H.R. 5798, the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act, which would undue certain provisions of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) passed by the Washington D.C. City Council; H.R. 6246, the Eliminate Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, the nations centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children; H.R. 6688, the Cold Case Modernization Act, which will extend DOJ grant funding for forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) testing to cover the identification process of all unidentified human remains, without regard to the manner of their death; H.R. 7185, the HIDTA Reauthorization Act., which would reauthorize the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program; H.R. 7456, the "First Responders Emergency Assistance Act.", which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.R. 7487, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act., which would allocate $400 million to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program under the Office of National Drug Control Policy. H.R. 7720(Kean, R-NJ), which would allow grant funds from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) to be used for the purchase of fentanyl testing kits and opioid reversal agents; H.R. 7730 (Spanberger, D-VA), directing the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable such online sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combatting online sales of fentanyl; H.R. 7456 (Duarte, R-CA) the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act., which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.R. 8989 (Salazar, R-FL) the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 9390 (Johnson, R-SD) the Supporting Opportunities to Build Everyday Responsibility (SOBER) Act, which would expand a grant program for 24/7 sobriety programs; H.R. 9641/S. 5060 (Schultz, D-FL) the Providing Resources, Officers, and Technology to Eradicate Cyber Threats (PROTECT) Our Children Act, which would reauthorize the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force program for three years; H.R. 9576 (Phillips, D-MN), the Pathways to Policing Act, which would provide $50 million a year to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to operate a nationwide marketing and recruitment campaign; H.R. 9660 (Neguse, D-CO) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protection Act (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in Good Samaritan laws by ensuring that people cannot be prosecuted for drug possession when they seek medical assistance after witnessing or experiencing an overdose; H.R. 9871 (Larsen, D-WA) the End Fentanyl Trafficking with Local Task Forces Act, which would invest and expand in multiple anti-drug task forces in the U.S. Department of Justice to improve cooperation and collaboration between departments to combat the fentanyl epidemic; H.R. 9910 (Spanberger, D-VA) the Supporting Federal Employees in the National Guard & Reserves Act, which would increase the paid leave available for Federal law enforcement and correctional officers in the National Guard from 15 to 36 days per fiscal year; H.R. 9928 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would restructure the service timeline for Park Police officers by reducing the number and time between pay grade steps; H.R. 9929 (Miller-Meeks, R-IA) the Corrections Officer Blake Schwarz Suicide Prevention Act, which would establish a grant program that would provide funding to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, States, and localities to carry out mental health screenings and provide referrals, where applicable, to mental healthcare providers for those corrections officers who are struggling with their mental health; H.J. Res. 42/S.J. Res. 26, a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) by the Washington, D.C. City Council; H. Res. 285, a resolution calling on Congress to respect the rights of law enforcement officers and establish a Bill of Rights for them; S. 474, the Revising Existing Procedures on Reporting via Technology (REPORT) Act, which would provide the CyberTipline, a critical tool for law enforcement run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the necessary resources and infrastructure needed to protect children from digital exploitation; S. 499, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; S. 529, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; S.894, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would help law enforcement agencies establish concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI) protocols; S. 930, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; S. 972/H.R. 8420, the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which provides a one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); S. 994, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 8918/S. 1080, the Cooper Davis Act, which would require social media providers to report all suspected illicit drug activity occurring on their platforms to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); S. 1170, Project Safe Childhood, which updates and expands provisions included in the original Project Safe Childhood initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act, which provides special privacy protections to certain child victims and witnesses in criminal prosecutions; S. 1207, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, which would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention in an effort to combat the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; S. 1306, the COPS Reauthorization Act, which will reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and all the programs it administers through 2029; S. 1331, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; S. 1387, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; S. 1447, the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act, which would authorize the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to select existing violence prevention or intervention programs, administered by State and local trauma centers, to receive Federal grants to expand existing programs, study the effectiveness of those programs, and examine their impacts on reincarceration and re-admittance rates; S. 1507, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which establishes a grant program within the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to aid State and local law enforcement in obtaining portable chemical screening devices to identify the substances they encounter daily; S. 1530, the COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act, which allows underserved and rural communities greater flexibility to use COPS grants to raise law enforcement salaries to help retain good officers and improve recruitment efforts; S. 1569, the Back the Blue Act. which improves protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, judges, and other public safety officers; S. 1857, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act, which would reauthorize, and increase funding for, Operation Stonegarden; S. 2313, the Driving for Opportunity Act, which would create a grant program for States to reinstate drivers licenses that were suspended for unpaid fines and fees; S. 2567, the Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act, which would reauthorize the programs in the Computer Crime Enforcement Act; S. 2569, the "Fentanyl Safe Testing and Overdose Prevention Act". which would amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify that the possession, sale, purchase, importation, exportation, or transportation of drug testing equipment that tests for the presence of fentanyl or xylazine is not unlawful; S. 2596, the Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, would amend current law (18 U.SC. 3607) expunging an individuals minor possession offense if the individual meets the laws stringent requirements. This legislation amends this rule, eliminating the age requirement; S. 2637/H.R. 8871, the Law Enforcement Scenario-Based Training for Safety and De-Escalation Act, which would direct the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to authorize grants to State, and local law enforcement agencies to provide law enforcement personnel access to an immersive, real-life, scenario-based training curriculum which will improve community-police relations, as well as officer safety and resilience; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act, would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.3522, the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would require the Attorney General to develop reports relating to violent attacks against law enforcement officers, and for other purposes; S. 3643, the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act, which would update current law concerning hawala and other informal value transfer systems like those used by international terrorists and trafficking organizations, additionally, purposes to double the penalties for those who violate bulk-cash smuggling laws; S. 3763, the Violent Incident Clearance and Technological Investigative Methods (VICTIM) Act, which would establish a grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to help State, Tribal, and local law enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes; S. 4450 (Kelly D-AZ), the Educational and Career Opportunities for Public Safety Act, which would offer officers financial assistance for higher education for those who have served for a period of eight years with the same agency and who are willing to commit to serving at least an additional four. S. 4569 (Cantwel,l D-WA), the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; S. 4970 (Ossoff, D-GA), the Female Officers Ballistic Protection Act, which would ensure that women in law enforcement have improved ballistic body armor; S. 5056 (Grassley, R-IA), the Stop the Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, which will add a Schedule A to the existing five schedules of the Controlled Substances Act, allowing synthetic analogues to be prohibited; S. 5062 (Blackburn, R-TN), the Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act, which would require the OIG to conduct reviews and analysis into cases of sexual harassment and assault, report those findings to Congress, and subsequently have corrective rules promulgated by the U.S. Attorney General; S. 5128 (Casey, D-PA), the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would authorize the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; S. 5270 (Kelly-AZ), the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies;
2024 · third_quarter · Telecommunications
Issues related to privacy including: S. 395 S. 1165 S. 1409 S. 3325 S. 3337 S. 1418 H.R. 7891 H.R. 7890 H.R. 8818 H.R. 8989
Client expense: $990,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2024 · third_quarter · Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
Monitor S. 395 - Clean Slate for Kids Online Act - for changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act; Monitor and advocate for operational improvements to S. 1409 - Kids Online Safety Act; Monitor and advocate for improvements to S. 1418 - Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act; Monitor S. 1291 - Protecting Kids on Social Media Act. Monitor H.R. 5778 - Sammy's Law - for changes to requirements of online platforms. Monitor S. 3321 -- Lowering Broadband Costs for Consumers Act -- for changes to the Universal Service Fund. Monitor and advocate for comprehensive, federal data privacy reform in H.R. 8818 -- American Privacy Rights Act; Monitor S. 4422 -- Fair Repair Act; Monitor and advocate for improvements to S. 4569 and H.R. 8989 -- Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks (TAKE IT DOWN) Act; Monitor S. 4178 - Future of Artificial Intelligence Innovation Act; Monitor and advocate for improvements to S. 2073 - Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act.
Client expense: $1,290,000 · Firm income: Not reported
2024 · third_quarter · Telecommunications
Buy America requirements; Artificial Intelligence; Facial Recognition; Implementation of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; Spectrum auction authority; Data Privacy; FCC Nominees; H.R. 5077 - Creating Resources for Every American to Experiment with Artificial Intelligence Act (S. 2714 CREATE AI ACT); American Privacy Rights Act; S. 2770 - Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act; Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act; S.4569/H.R. 8989 - Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks (TAKE IT DOWN) Act
Client expense: $610,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Natl Economic Council (NEC), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), White House Office
2024 · third_quarter · Science/Technology
H.R.8989/S.4569 - Take it Down Act re: language related to offenses involving minors.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $10,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
| Republican |
| UT |
| Chrissy Houlahan | Democratic | PA |
| Christopher H. Smith | Republican | NJ |
| Debbie Dingell | Democratic | MI |
| Debbie Lesko | Republican | AZ |
| Donald G. Davis | Democratic | NC |
| Guy Reschenthaler | Republican | PA |
| Jim Costa | Democratic | CA |
| Madeleine Dean | Democratic | PA |
| Monica De La Cruz | Republican | TX |
| Nancy Mace | Republican | SC |
| Randy K. Weber, Sr. | Republican | TX |
| Roger Williams | Republican | TX |
| Stacey E. Plaskett | Democratic | VI |
| Susie Lee | Democratic | NV |
| Vern Buchanan | Republican | FL |
| Wesley Hunt | Republican | TX |
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Client expense: $75,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE