Blocking Deadly Fentanyl Imports Act

H.R. 99/S. 1508, the "Thin Blue Line Act," which would provide additional aggravating factors for the imposition of the death penalty for targeting and killing a law enforcement officer; H.R. 207, the Stop the Violence Act, which would establish a pilot program within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to 10 trauma centers which have existing violence prevention or intervention programs designed to reduce re-admittance and reincarceration rates; H.R. 295, the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act, which would add the Secretary of the Treasury as a member of the Presidents Interagency Task Force; H.R. 449, the Pathways to Improving Homeland Security at the Local Level Act, which would direct the Assistant Secretary for State and Local Law Enforcement to produce an accessible annual catalog on the available DHS training, publications, programs, and services for their State, local and tribal partners; H.R. 489, the Strengthening Homeland Security, Intelligence and Essential Law Enforcement Departments (SHIELD) Act, which would make sure that Federal law enforcement officers required to report for duty even in the event that the Departments or agencies they serve have not been appropriated funds by Congress; H.R. 724/S. 479, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, which would provide a criminal penalty for those who engage in animal crushing as well as for those who create or distribute such films; H.R. 816, the "Officer Sean Collier Campus Police Recognition Act," which would include campus police officer within the definition of "public safety officer" for purposes of death, disability, and education benefits under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program; H.R. 838/S.265, the Threat Assessment, Prevention and Safety (TAPS) Act, which would provide resources to create a national strategy to identify, investigate, and mitigate possibly violent behavior through multi-disciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management; H.R. 1156, the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) and exempt qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms, to ensure that these officers are able to carry in the same venues as civilian concealed carry permit holders in areas like schools and national parks, as well as use public transportation and extends the exemption to magazine capacity and would allow active and retired law enforcement officers to access services at U.S. post offices, Social Security Administration offices or Veterans Affairs facilities; H.R. 1210, the Heroes Lesley Zerebney and Gilbert Vega First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers benefits (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; H.R. 1325/S. 4605, 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. 1327/S. 546, the Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act, which would reauthorize the Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) through the Fiscal Year 2090, the same reauthorization Congress provided for the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 1387, the Criminal Organizations Narcotics, Finance, Resources, Operations and Network Targeting (CONFRONT) Act, which would codify an existing Executive Order and direct the Federal government to develop a national strategy to combat transnational criminal organizations; H.R. 1595, the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which would allow U.S. banks and financial institutions to do business with companies trafficking in an illegal substance-marijuana; H.R. 1865, the National Law Enforcement Museum Commemorative Coin Act, which would direct the U.S. Mint to produce commemorative coins and divert some of the proceeds from their sale to support the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund; H.R. 1866, the Probation Officer Protection Act, which would amend section 3606 of Title 18, United States Code, to grant probation officers authority to arrest hostile third parties who obstruct or impede a probation officer in the performance of official duties; H.R. 2935/S. 1622, the Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues (SOFA) Act, which would amend current law to prevent criminal drug traffickers and manufacturers from evading Federal penalties by using analogue drugs which are just as lethal as fentanyl; H.R. 2070/S.954, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which would establish a grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in order to provide State and local law enforcement agencies with portable chemical screening devices to detect dangerous synthetic opioids and other drugs; H.R. 2329, the Law Enforcement Immersive Training Act, which would provide grants to State and local law enforcement agencies to access immersive, real-life, scenario-based training; H.R. 2368/S.998, the Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would revive and expand programs designed to help officers and their families with stress reduction, suicide prevention and the promotion of mental health and wellness; H.R. 2379/S. 1231, the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Reauthorization Act, which would permanently reauthorizes the Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) program; H.R. 2560/S.1278, the Putting First Responders First Act, which would codify existing Internal Revenue Code regulations making service-connected disability compensation exempt from Federal income taxes H.R. 2812/S.1208, the Protecting Americas First Responders Act, which would update the PSOB disability determinations and the definitions making it more consistent with existing Federal law and greatly improve the ability of our injured and disabled officers to have their claims processed more fairly and more quickly; H.R. 2935/S. 1622, the Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues (SOFA) Act, which would amend current law to prevent criminal drug traffickers and manufacturers from evading Federal penalties by using analogue drugs which are just as lethal as fentanyl; H.R. 3735/S. 2746, the "Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act," which would require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide information on suicide rates in law enforcement; H.R. 3990/S. 2750, the Operation Stonegarden Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize grants to State, local and tribal law enforcement agencies to improve border security; H.R. 4963, the Stop Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, which would update the Controlled Substances Act by adding a Schedule A to allow for the inclusion of analogue and synthetic drugs similar in effect, but chemically different, to existing scheduled substances on a temporary basis; H.R. 5376/S. 3007, the Eliminated Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, which is administered by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; H.R. 5855, the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act, which would direct the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a grant program for specified trauma centers and nonprofits to establish or expand intervention or prevention programs related to intentional violent trauma, excluding intimate partner violence; H.R. 6008, the "Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Law Enforcement Training Act," which would direct the Attorney General to develop crisis intervention training tools for use by law enforcement and other public safety officers when interacting with community members who have traumatic brain injury (TBI), another form of acquired brain injury, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); H.R. 6509, the Public Safety Officer Pandemic Response Act, which would expand and codify the presumption that a death benefit claim for a COVID-19 related death, made through Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program, will be found by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to have contracted the disease in the line of duty in most cases as well as in disability claims; H.R. 7120, the "Justice in Policing Act," which proposes a series of police reforms; H.R. 7278/S. 3985, the "Just and Unifying Solutions to Invigorate Communities Everywhere Act," which proposes a series of police reforms; H.R. 7568, the "Public Safety Officer Support Act," which would expand the eligibility of certain officers or their surviving family for death and disability benefits as provided for by the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program; H.R. 7951, the "Qualified Immunity Act," which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine; H. Res. 1093, which calls on Congress to enact a bill of rights for law enforcement officers; S. 400, the Blocking Deadly Fentanyl Imports Act, which would modernize the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) by adding countries that are significant sources of illicit fentanyl and similar synthetic opioids to the annual Majors List"; S. 465, the First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers Benefit (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; S. 495, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; S. 820, the Debbie Smith Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act; S. 1208, the "Protecting America's First Responders Act," which would update the PSOB disability determinations and the definitions making it more consistent with existing Federal law and greatly improve the ability of our injured and disabled officers to have their claims processed more fairly and more quickly; S. 1231, the "A bill to reauthorize the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program," which would permanently reauthorize the bulletproof vest program; S. 1464, the "Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act," which would address an urgent need to provide our nations law enforcement officers with training to recognize and appropriately respond to behavioral crises caused, not by criminal activity, but by mental illness and substance abuse; S. 1883, the "Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act," which would update various statutes to better fight money laundering and cash smuggling another other illicit finance crimes; S. 1978, the Corporate Transparency Act, which would require the Federal government to collect beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies unless the State already collects this information; S. 2197, the Protecting Rights of Those Exploited by Coercive Trafficking (PROTECT) Act, which would amend existing human trafficking law to specify the use of drugs or illegal substances to cause a person to engage in a commercial sex act or forced labor constitutes a form of coercion; S. 2264, Erics Law, which would amend current law to allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of capital cases; S. 2323, the Screening All Fentanyl-Enhanced (SAFE) Mail Act, which would use technology developed by the Opioid Detection Challenge in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to be deployed within 5 years to scan 100% of all international mail and express cargo for fentanyl and other synthetic opioids; S. 2701, the Federal Initiative to Guarantee Health by Targeting (FIGHT) Fentanyl Act, which would permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as Schedule 1 substances; S. 3398, 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. 3607, the Safeguarding Americas First Responders Act, which would establish a presumption that a law enforcement or other public safety officers who dies from COVID-19 or complications related to COVID-19 did so because they sustained a personal injury in the line of duty, provided that the officer engaged in line of duty actions between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021; S. 3987, the "Strong communities Act," which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers in their own community; S. 4036, the "Reforming Qualified Immunity Act," which would undermine the existing qualified immunity doctrine; S. 4186, 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. 4486, the Achieving Thorough Transparency and Accessibility for Information Navigation on Mental Health Act," which would establish an interactive, internet website-based dashboard that publicizes all Federally funded mental health related grants; and S. 4491, the "Methamphetamine Response Act," which would designate methamphetamine as an emerging drug threat which would then require the Office of National Drug Control Policy to create an Emerging Threat Response Plan.

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), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office

H.R. 99/S. 1508, the "Thin Blue Line Act," which would provide additional aggravating factors for the imposition of the death penalty for targeting and killing a law enforcement officer; H.R. 207, the Stop the Violence Act, which would establish a pilot program within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to 10 trauma centers which have existing violence prevention or intervention programs designed to reduce re-admittance and reincarceration rates; H.R. 295, the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act, which would add the Secretary of the Treasury as a member of the Presidents Interagency Task Force; H.R. 449, the Pathways to Improving Homeland Security at the Local Level Act, which would direct the Assistant Secretary for State and Local Law Enforcement to produce an accessible annual catalog on the available DHS training, publications, programs, and services for their State, local and tribal partners; H.R. 489, the Strengthening Homeland Security, Intelligence and Essential Law Enforcement Departments (SHIELD) Act, which would make sure that Federal law enforcement officers required to report for duty even in the event that the Departments or agencies they serve have not been appropriated funds by Congress; H.R. 724/S. 479, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, which would provide a criminal penalty for those who engage in animal crushing as well as for those who create or distribute such films; H.R. 816, the "Officer Sean Collier Campus Police Recognition Act," which would include campus police officer within the definition of "public safety officer" for purposes of death, disability, and education benefits under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program; H.R. 838/S.265, the Threat Assessment, Prevention and Safety (TAPS) Act, which would provide resources to create a national strategy to identify, investigate, and mitigate possibly violent behavior through multi-disciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management; H.R. 1156, the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) and exempt qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms, to ensure that these officers are able to carry in the same venues as civilian concealed carry permit holders in areas like schools and national parks, as well as use public transportation and extends the exemption to magazine capacity and would allow active and retired law enforcement officers to access services at U.S. post offices, Social Security Administration offices or Veterans Affairs facilities; H.R. 1210, the Heroes Lesley Zerebney and Gilbert Vega First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers benefits (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; H.R. 1325, 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. 1327/S. 546, the Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act, which would reauthorize the Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) through the Fiscal Year 2090, the same reauthorization Congress provided for the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 1387, the Criminal Organizations Narcotics, Finance, Resources, Operations and Network Targeting (CONFRONT) Act, which would codify an existing Executive Order and direct the Federal government to develop a national strategy to combat transnational criminal organizations; H.R. 1595, the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which would allow U.S. banks and financial institutions to do business with companies trafficking in an illegal substance-marijuana; H.R. 1865, the National Law Enforcement Museum Commemorative Coin Act, which would direct the U.S. Mint to produce commemorative coins and divert some of the proceeds from their sale to support the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund; H.R. 1866, the Probation Officer Protection Act, which would amend section 3606 of Title 18, United States Code, to grant probation officers authority to arrest hostile third parties who obstruct or impede a probation officer in the performance of official duties; H.R. 2935/S. 1622, the Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues (SOFA) Act, which would amend current law to prevent criminal drug traffickers and manufacturers from evading Federal penalties by using analogue drugs which are just as lethal as fentanyl; H.R. 2070/S.954, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which would establish a grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in order to provide State and local law enforcement agencies with portable chemical screening devices to detect dangerous synthetic opioids and other drugs; H.R. 2329, the Law Enforcement Immersive Training Act, which would provide grants to State and local law enforcement agencies to access immersive, real-life, scenario-based training; H.R. 2368/S.998, the Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would revive and expand programs designed to help officers and their families with stress reduction, suicide prevention and the promotion of mental health and wellness; H.R. 2379/S. 1231, the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Reauthorization Act, which would permanently reauthorizes the Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) program; H.R. 2560/S.1278, the Putting First Responders First Act, which would codify existing Internal Revenue Code regulations making service-connected disability compensation exempt from Federal income taxes H.R. 2812/S.1208, the Protecting Americas First Responders Act, which would update the PSOB disability determinations and the definitions making it more consistent with existing Federal law and greatly improve the ability of our injured and disabled officers to have their claims processed more fairly and more quickly; H.R. 2935/S. 1622, the Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues (SOFA) Act, which would amend current law to prevent criminal drug traffickers and manufacturers from evading Federal penalties by using analogue drugs which are just as lethal as fentanyl; H.R. 3735/S. 2746, the "Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act," which would require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide information on suicide rates in law enforcement; H.R. 3990/S. 2750, the Operation Stonegarden Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize grants to State, local and tribal law enforcement agencies to improve border security; H.R. 4963, the Stop Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, which would update the Controlled Substances Act by adding a Schedule A to allow for the inclusion of analogue and synthetic drugs similar in effect, but chemically different, to existing scheduled substances on a temporary basis; H.R. 5376/S. 3007, the Eliminated Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, which is administered by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; H.R. 6008, the "Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Law Enforcement Training Act," which would direct the Attorney General to develop crisis intervention training tools for use by law enforcement and other public safety officers when interacting with community members who have traumatic brain injury (TBI), another form of acquired brain injury, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); H.R. 6509, the Public Safety Officer Pandemic Response Act, which would expand and codify the presumption that a death benefit claim for a COVID-19 related death, made through Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program, will be found by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to have contracted the disease in the line of duty in most cases as well as in disability claims; H.R. 7120, the "Justice in Policing Act," which proposes a series of police reforms; H.R. 7278/S. 3985, the "Just and Unifying Solutions to Invigorate Communities Everywhere Act," which proposes a series of police reforms; S. 400, the Blocking Deadly Fentanyl Imports Act, which would modernize the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) by adding countries that are significant sources of illicit fentanyl and similar synthetic opioids to the annual Majors List"; S. 465, the First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers Benefit (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; S. 495, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; S. 820, the Debbie Smith Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act; S. 1208, the "Protecting America's First Responders Act," which would update the PSOB disability determinations and the definitions making it more consistent with existing Federal law and greatly improve the ability of our injured and disabled officers to have their claims processed more fairly and more quickly; S. 1231, the "A bill to reauthorize the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program," which would permanently reauthorize the bulletproof vest program; S. 1464, the "Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act," which would address an urgent need to provide our nations law enforcement officers with training to recognize and appropriately respond to behavioral crises caused, not by criminal activity, but by mental illness and substance abuse; S. 1883, the "Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act," which would update various statutes to better fight money laundering and cash smuggling another other illicit finance crimes; S. 1978, the Corporate Transparency Act, which would require the Federal government to collect beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies unless the State already collects this information; S. 2197, the Protecting Rights of Those Exploited by Coercive Trafficking (PROTECT) Act, which would amend existing human trafficking law to specify the use of drugs or illegal substances to cause a person to engage in a commercial sex act or forced labor constitutes a form of coercion; S. 2264, Erics Law, which would amend current law to allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of capital cases; S. 2323, the Screening All Fentanyl-Enhanced (SAFE) Mail Act, which would use technology developed by the Opioid Detection Challenge in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to be deployed within 5 years to scan 100% of all international mail and express cargo for fentanyl and other synthetic opioids; S. 2701, the Federal Initiative to Guarantee Health by Targeting (FIGHT) Fentanyl Act, which would permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as Schedule 1 substances; S. 3398, 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. 3607, the Safeguarding Americas First Responders Act, which would establish a presumption that a law enforcement or other public safety officers who dies from COVID-19 or complications related to COVID-19 did so because they sustained a personal injury in the line of duty, provided that the officer engaged in line of duty actions between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021; S. 3987, the "Strong communities Act," which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers in their own community; S. 4036, the "Reforming Qualified Immunity Act," which would undermine the existing qualified immunity doctrine.

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), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office

H.R. 99/S. 1508, the "Thin Blue Line Act," which would provide additional aggravating factors for the imposition of the death penalty for targeting and killing a law enforcement officer; H.R. 207, the Stop the Violence Act, which would establish a pilot program within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to 10 trauma centers which have existing violence prevention or intervention programs designed to reduce re-admittance and reincarceration rates; H.R. 295, the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act, which would add the Secretary of the Treasury as a member of the Presidents Interagency Task Force; H.R. 449, the Pathways to Improving Homeland Security at the Local Level Act, which would direct the Assistant Secretary for State and Local Law Enforcement to produce an accessible annual catalog on the available DHS training, publications, programs, and services for their State, local and tribal partners; H.R. 489, the Strengthening Homeland Security, Intelligence and Essential Law Enforcement Departments (SHIELD) Act, which would make sure that Federal law enforcement officers required to report for duty even in the event that the Departments or agencies they serve have not been appropriated funds by Congress; H.R. 724/S. 479, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, which would provide a criminal penalty for those who engage in animal crushing as well as for those who create or distribute such films; H.R. 816, the "Officer Sean Collier Campus Police Recognition Act," which would include campus police officer within the definition of "public safety officer" for purposes of death, disability, and education benefits under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program; H.R. 838/S.265, the Threat Assessment, Prevention and Safety (TAPS) Act, which would provide resources to create a national strategy to identify, investigate, and mitigate possibly violent behavior through multi-disciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management; H.R. 1156, the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) and exempt qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms, to ensure that these officers are able to carry in the same venues as civilian concealed carry permit holders in areas like schools and national parks, as well as use public transportation and extends the exemption to magazine capacity and would allow active and retired law enforcement officers to access services at U.S. post offices, Social Security Administration offices or Veterans Affairs facilities; H.R. 1210, the Heroes Lesley Zerebney and Gilbert Vega First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers benefits (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; H.R. 1325, 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. 1327/S. 546, the Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act, which would reauthorize the Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) through the Fiscal Year 2090, the same reauthorization Congress provided for the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 1387, the Criminal Organizations Narcotics, Finance, Resources, Operations and Network Targeting (CONFRONT) Act, which would codify an existing Executive Order and direct the Federal government to develop a national strategy to combat transnational criminal organizations; H.R. 1595, the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which would allow U.S. banks and financial institutions to do business with companies trafficking in an illegal substance-marijuana; H.R. 1865, the National Law Enforcement Museum Commemorative Coin Act, which would direct the U.S. Mint to produce commemorative coins and divert some of the proceeds from their sale to support the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund; H.R. 1866, the Probation Officer Protection Act, which would amend section 3606 of Title 18, United States Code, to grant probation officers authority to arrest hostile third parties who obstruct or impede a probation officer in the performance of official duties; S. 465, the First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers Benefit (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; H.R. 2070/S.954, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which would establish a grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in order to provide State and local law enforcement agencies with portable chemical screening devices to detect dangerous synthetic opioids and other drugs; H.R. 2329, the Law Enforcement Immersive Training Act, which would provide grants to State and local law enforcement agencies to access immersive, real-life, scenario-based training; H.R. 2368/S.998, the Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would revive and expand programs designed to help officers and their families with stress reduction, suicide prevention and the promotion of mental health and wellness; H.R. 2379/S. 1231, the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Reauthorization Act, which would permanently reauthorizes the Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) program; H.R. 2560/S.1278, the Putting First Responders First Act, which would codify existing Internal Revenue Code regulations making service-connected disability compensation exempt from Federal income taxes H.R. 2812/S.1208, the Protecting Americas First Responders Act, which would update the PSOB disability determinations and the definitions making it more consistent with existing Federal law and greatly improve the ability of our injured and disabled officers to have their claims processed more fairly and more quickly; H.R. 2935, the Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues (SOFA) Act, which would amend current law to prevent criminal drug traffickers and manufacturers from evading Federal penalties by using analogue drugs which are just as lethal as fentanyl; H.R. 3735/S. 2746, the "Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act," which would require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide information on suicide rates in law enforcement; H.R. 3990/S. 2750, the Operation Stonegarden Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize grants to State, local and tribal law enforcement agencies to improve border security; H.R. 4963, the Stop Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, which would update the Controlled Substances Act by adding a Schedule A to allow for the inclusion of analogue and synthetic drugs similar in effect, but chemically different, to existing scheduled substances on a temporary basis; H.R. 5376/S. 3007, the Eliminated Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, which is administered by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; H.R. 6008, the "Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Law Enforcement Training Act," which would direct the Attorney General to develop crisis intervention training tools for use by law enforcement and other public safety officers when interacting with community members who have traumatic brain injury (TBI), another form of acquired brain injury, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); H.R. 6509 (Nadler, D-NY), the Public Safety Officer Pandemic Response Act, which would expand and codify the presumption that a death benefit claim for a COVID-19 related death, made through Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program, will be found by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to have contracted the disease in the line of duty in most cases as well as in disability claims; S. 400, the Blocking Deadly Fentanyl Imports Act, which would modernize the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) by adding countries that are significant sources of illicit fentanyl and similar synthetic opioids to the annual Majors List"; S. 495, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; S. 820, the Debbie Smith Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act; S. 1208, the "Protecting America's First Responders Act," which would update the PSOB disability determinations and the definitions making it more consistent with existing Federal law and greatly improve the ability of our injured and disabled officers to have their claims processed more fairly and more quickly; S. 1231, the "A bill to reauthorize the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program," which would permanently reauthorize the bulletproof vest program; S. 1464, the "Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act," which would address an urgent need to provide our nations law enforcement officers with training to recognize and appropriately respond to behavioral crises caused, not by criminal activity, but by mental illness and substance abuse; S. 1622, the Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues (SOFA) Act, which would amend current law to prevent criminal drug traffickers and manufacturers from evading Federal penalties by using analogue drugs which are just as lethal as fentanyl; S. 1883, the "Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act," which would update various statutes to better fight money laundering and cash smuggling another other illicit finance crimes; S. 1978, the Corporate Transparency Act, which would require the Federal government to collect beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies unless the State already collects this information; S. 2197, the Protecting Rights of Those Exploited by Coercive Trafficking (PROTECT) Act, which would amend existing human trafficking law to specify the use of drugs or illegal substances to cause a person to engage in a commercial sex act or forced labor constitutes a form of coercion; S. 2264, Erics Law, which would amend current law to allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of capital cases; S. 2323, the Screening All Fentanyl-Enhanced (SAFE) Mail Act, which would use technology developed by the Opioid Detection Challenge in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to be deployed within 5 years to scan 100% of all international mail and express cargo for fentanyl and other synthetic opioids; S. 2701, the Federal Initiative to Guarantee Health by Targeting (FIGHT) Fentanyl Act, which would permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as Schedule 1 substances; S. 3398, 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; and S. 3607, the Safeguarding Americas First Responders Act, which would establish a presumption that a law enforcement or other public safety officers who dies from COVID-19 or complications related to COVID-19 did so because they sustained a personal injury in the line of duty, provided that the officer engaged in line of duty actions between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021.

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), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office