Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act of 2025
Legislative Progress
Introduced
March 10, 2025
Latest Action
August 1, 2025
Primary Sponsor
Catherine Cortez MastoDemocratic(NV)
Momentum (last 30 days)
0
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0 actions · 0 new cosponsors · 0 votes
Speed vs cohort
91pct
144d open
vs 5,674 other S bills in the 119th — cohort avg 32d
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2026 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 378 (Buchanan, R-FL) the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of aggravating factors in death penalty determinations for those who target, kill, or attempt to kill a law enforcement or other public safety officer; H.R. 503 (Foxx, R-NC) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine; H.R. 621 (Joyce, R-OH), the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 633 (Salazar, R-FL) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 911 (Fitzpatrick, R-FL) the Patriot Day Act, which would establish September 11th as a permanent Federal holiday; H.R. 993 (Correa, D-CA) the Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies (DRONE) Act, which would allow law enforcement agencies to use Edward R. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) funds to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems; H.R. 1046 (Bacon, R-NE) the Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; H.R. 1236 (Barr, R-KY) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits program and allow survivors to file for death or disability benefits for officers no in active service, provided their death or disability was connected to their service as a law enforcement officer; H.R. 1260 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would address the growing crisis that faces the USPP and its ability to protect and serve the public; H.R. 1266 (Panetta, D-CA), the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would appropriate steps to add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act; H.R. 1269 (Scanlon, D-PA) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program; H.R. 1443 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Public Safety Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 1505 (Stauber, D-MN) the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; PRIORITY - H.R. 1551 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Protect and Serve Act, which would impose Federal penalties on individuals who deliberately target local, State or Federal law enforcement officers with violence; H.R. 1556 (Bresnahan, R-PA) Erics Law, which would amend current law to 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. 1726 (Neguse, D-CO) the Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act; H.R. 2305 (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; PRIORITY - H.R. 2094 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; H.R. 2096 (Garbarino, R-NY) the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act. which would restore the collective bargaining rights, non-disclosure protections, and disciplinary protocols of MPD officers that were lost in the implementation of the CPJRAA; H.R. 2194 (Harder, D-CA) the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs in order to enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies; H.R. 2189 (Fitzgerald, R-WI) the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; H.R. 2240 (Moore, R-NC) the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would expand the data collected by the Federal government on attacks and aggressions against law enforcement officers in a comprehensive way; H.R. 2502 (Kaptur, D-OH) the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act, which would provide grants to law enforcement departments at the state, local, territorial, and tribal level to obtain vital behavioral health crisis response training to resolve behavioral health crisis situations more safely and effectively; H.R. 2654 (Stauber, D-MN), the Lifesaving Gear for Police Act, which would protect the important surplus equipment programs for State and local law enforcement, like the 1033 program, from politically-driven interference and competing Executive Orders; H.R. 2711 (Gottheimer, D-NJ,) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 175 law enforcement officers; H.R. 2735 (Nehls, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes. H.R. 2752 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Ensuring Safer Schools Act, which would allow funds from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be utilized for the training of military veterans and retired law enforcement officers to become school resource officers; H.R. 2964 (Taylor, R-OH) the Fight Fentanyl Act, which would provide over $333 million annually for the HIDTA program and allow for and support programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies. H.R. 3267 (Houlahan, D-PA), the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would eliminate a technicality in the law that requires an applicant to be employed in a public service job to qualify for public loan forgiveness; H.R. 3366 (Pappas, D-NH), 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 and mid-sized law enforcement agencies; H.R. 3372 (Sykes, D-OH), 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; H.R. 3398 (Kennedy, D-NY), the Aaron Salter, Jr. Responsible Body Armor Protection Act, which would bar civilians from purchasing, owning, or possessing enhanced body armor with ballistic resistance that meets or exceeds the RF1 standard; H.R. 3598 (Nehls, R-TX,) the De-escalation Drone Pilot Program Act, which would establish a pilot program for small, nonlethal deescalation unmanned aircraft to be used for law enforcement and public safety; H.R.3633 (Hill, R-AR) the "Digital Asset Market Clarity Act," which would establishes a regulatory framework for digital commodities, defined by the bill as digital assets that rely upon a blockchain for their value. H.R.3832 (Bacon, R-NE), the Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act, which would allow a surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen public safety officer who died in service or as a result of their service to apply for U.S. citizenship more quickly; H.R.4024 (Carbajal, D-CA), the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which would provide a needed one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); H.R. 4334 (Kustoff, R-TN), the Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act, which would better equip Federal prosecutors to pursue criminals; H.R. 4607 (Neguse, D-C0) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protections (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in the 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. 5282 (Reschenthaler, R-NY) the Reauthorizing Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would reauthorize funds made available from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to continue services for law enforcement officers and their families to include stress reduction and suicide prevention through 2029; H.R. 5391 (Deluzio, D-PA) the Bipartisan Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program Expansion Act, which would increase reauthorization of the Patrick J. Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership program; H.R. 5403 (Landsman, D-OH) the Enhancing COPS Hiring Program Grants for Local Law Enforcement Act H.R 5594 (McDonald Rivet, D-MI) the Protect Your Pin Act, which would expand guidelines to allow local law enforcement agencies to use grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justices Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes program to combat identity theft. H.R. 5744 (Vindman, D-VA) the Targeting Online Sales of Fentanyl Act, which would direct the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable online its sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combating such; H.R. 6042 (Smith, R-NJ) the Law Against Nefarious Drones, Enforcement, Deconfliction (LANDED) Act, which would create policies for acquiring and deploying approved counter-UAS detection systems, authorize processes for State agencies to detect, monitor, and mitigate drone threats, and establish a grant program to fund equipment and training; H.R. 5107 (Clyde, R-GA) the Common-Sense Law Enforcement and Accountability Now in DC (CLEAN DC) Act, which would repeal the entirety of D.C.s Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022. This legislation goes beyond just the restoration of the collective bargaining provisions and would also eliminate restrictive measures that have hampered the ability of the officers serving the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to do their jobs and allow them to perform their duties more effectively while maintaining essential protections; H.R. 6120 (Zinke, R-MT) the Strengthening Resources for Our Schools (SROs) Act, which would mend existing law to offer a Federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any officer or veteran who chooses to serve as a School Resource Officer; H.R. 6602 (Torres, D-CA) the Supporting Blue Envelope Programs Act, which would allow individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) to physically present a blue envelope to officers during traffic stops in order to improve outcomes; H.R. 6605 (Vasquez, D-NM) the Secure Our Skies Drone Safety Act, which would require the Government Accountability Office to submit reports to Congress on the use of drone and counter-drone systems by law enforcement agencies and to submit recommendations on which policies should be changed to ensure law enforcement agencies can properly counter these threats; H.R. 6683 (Williams, R-TX) the Safer Schools Act, which would by creating two pilot grant programs for public schools within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); H.R. 6911 (Harrigan, R-NC) the COPS Anti-Organized Crime and Cartel Enforcement Act, which would establish a new grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) that would provide resources for State and local law enforcement agencies to create and equip specialized units dedicated to combatting organized crime, cartel operations, and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). H.R. 7033 (Goldman, D-NY) the Federal Correctional Officer Paycheck Protection Act, which would establish a 35% increase to the General Schedule base pay for all BOP correctional staff, including GS, GL, and custodial wage-grade employees. H.R. 7114 (Moore, R-NC) the No Bounties on Badges Act, which would offer a Federal reward to anyone who provides credible information leading to the prevention, arrest, or conviction of an individual offering bounties to intimidate, harm, or kill a law enforcement officer; H.R. 7184 (McDowell, R-NC) the Preventing Rogue Equipment for Synthetic Substances (PRESS) Act, which would provide Federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies with the authority to hold foreign entities accountable for intentionally importing pill presses and precursor chemicals for illicit drug manufacturing; H.R. 7718 (Weber, R-TX) the Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers Benefits Program Expansion Act, which would improve the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) Program, ensuring that the men and women who serve our communities-and their families-receive timely and meaningful support when tragedy strikes; H.R. 7834 (Lee, R-FL) the Safe Cloud Storage Act, which establishes baseline security and data protection standards for cloud service providers that store sensitive government and law enforcement information; H.R. 7876 (Landsman, D-OH) the Secret Service-Local Law Enforcement Partnership Act, which would create an Extraordinary Protection Reimbursement Program that would authorize more than $61 million for law enforcement agencies that collaborate with the USSS. H.R. 8675 (Bice, R-OK) the Training Rural Law Enforcement Officers Act H.R. 8746 (Evans, R-PA) 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 and local law enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes. H.R. 8750 (Harder, D-CA) the COPS Reauthorization Act H.R. 8776 (Gillen, D-NY) the Officer Wellness and Peer Support Act H.R. 9503 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Officer Leslie Coffelt U.S. Secret Service Police Act H.R. 9937 (Stutzman, R-IN) the No Leniency for Fentanyl Dealers Act H.R. 10349 (Tran, D-CA) the Emergency Responders Mental Health Training (EMT) Act H.R. 10551 (Figures, D-AL) the Public Service Educational Assistance Act H.R. 10678 (Kean, R-NJ) the Fight Against Fentanyl Act S. 2, the Secure America Act, would would fund several federal law enforcement agencies. S. 83 (Cruz, R-TX), the Thin Blue Line Act, which would provide that the murder of local or State prosecutors, law enforcement officers, or other public safety officers also be considered an aggravating factor in a Federal case; S. 122 (Banks, R-ID) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades; S. 146 (Cruz, R-TX) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; S. 167 (Tillis, R-NC) 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; S. 180 (Grassley R-IA) the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); S. 516 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, which would prohibit the distribution of Non-Consensually Distributed Intimate Images (NDII) that loopholes in select States have thus far prevented; S. 666 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the First Responders Wellness Act, which would establish a national hotline for first responders through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); S. 678 (Cortez Masto, D-NV) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office within the U.S. Department of Justice, that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 200 law enforcement officers; S. 679 (Kennedy, R-LA) the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) exempting qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms; S. 767 (Kelly, D-AZ) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) 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; S. 911 (Masto, D-NV) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the PSOB Program to ensure that Chief Proffitts family, and any others in a similar situation, would be eligible to apply for the programs benefit; PRIORITY - S. 978 (Moody, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; S. 1077 (Collins, R-ME) the District of Columbia Local Funds Act, which would restore the District of Columbias ability to implement its Fiscal Year 2025 budget; S. 1247 (Schmitt, R-MO) the Public Safety Officer Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; S. 1283 (Hagerty, R-TN), the Innovate to De-Escalate Modernization Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; S. 1295 (Justice, R-WV) the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against Narcotics (BOP SCAN) in Mail Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; S. 1300 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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. 1316 (Peters, D-MI) the Strong Communities Act, which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1401 (Kennedy, R-LA) the Targeting Child Predators Act, which would extend the time law enforcement can seek a court order to delay a subpoena notification from 90 to 180 days; S. 1409 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Public Safety Officer Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would establish concussion protocols for Law Enforcement Agencies. S. 1572 (Blackburn, R-TN) the Federal Carjacking Enforcement Act, which would update the Federal statute governing carjacking offenses to make it easier for prosecutors to bring charges; S. 1595 (Cornyn, R-TX), the Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Act, which would expand the existing U.S. Department of Justices Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.2200 (Gallego, D-AZ), the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act, which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies to areas near the Northern and Southern border; S. 2400(Fetterman, D-PA) the Art Market Integrity Act, which would require art dealers and auction houses to implement robust anti-money laundering compliance measures. S. 3023 (Blackburn, R-TN) the Safe Cloud Storage Act, which would establish baseline security and data protection standards for cloud service providers that store sensitive government and law enforcement information; S. 3189 (Sheehy, R-MT) the Strengthening Resources for Our Schools (SROs) Act, which would mend existing law to offer a Federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any officer or veteran who chooses to serve as a School Resource Officer; S.3366 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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, judges, and other public safety officers.; S.3453 (Scott, R-FL) the No Bounties on Badges Act, which would offer a Federal reward to anyone who provides credible information leading to the prevention, arrest, or conviction of an individual offering bounties to intimidate, harm, or kill a law enforcement officer. S. 3626 (Shaheen, D-NH) the Federal Correctional Officer Paycheck Protection Act, which would establish a 35% increase to the General Schedule base pay for all BOP correctional staff, including GS, GL, and custodial wage-grade employees; S. 3801(Grassley, R-IA) the the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act S. 3897 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers Benefits Program Expansion Act, which would improve the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) Program, ensuring that the men and women who serve our communities-and their families-receive timely and meaningful support when tragedy strikes; S. 4260 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Child Predators Accountability Act, which would refine statutory definitions to ensure that the law encompasses both active and passive involvement of minors in sexually explicit depictions when the offender intentionally includes a child. S. 4446 (Moody, R-FL) the Preventing Rogue Equipment for Synthetic Substances (PRESS) Act, which would provide Federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies with the authority to hold foreign entities accountable for intentionally importing pill presses and precursor chemicals for illicit drug manufacturing. S. 4500 (Kennedy, R-LA) 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 and local law enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes. S.4514 (Duckworth, IL-D) 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 corrections officers who are struggling with their mental health; S. 5109 (Lankford, R-OK) the Training Rural Law Enforcement Officers Act, which would authorize the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to extend grants to certified and accredited law enforcement-related nonprofit organizations in order to train agencies that have fewer than 50 sworn personnel at no cost to them individually nor as a department; S.5644 (Moody, R-FL), which would amend the Bank Secrecy Act to exempt cash reward payments by crime stopper organizations from certain currency transaction reports.
Received in the House.
Held at the desk.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4796; text: CR S4797)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 81.
Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley without amendment. Without written report.
Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
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2026 · second_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 378 (Buchanan, R-FL) the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of aggravating factors in death penalty determinations for those who target, kill, or attempt to kill a law enforcement or other public safety officer; H.R. 503 (Foxx, R-NC) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine; H.R. 621 (Joyce, R-OH), the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 633 (Salazar, R-FL) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 911 (Fitzpatrick, R-FL) the Patriot Day Act, which would establish September 11th as a permanent Federal holiday; H.R. 993 (Correa, D-CA) the Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies (DRONE) Act, which would allow law enforcement agencies to use Edward R. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) funds to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems; H.R. 1046 (Bacon, R-NE) the Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; H.R. 1236 (Barr, R-KY) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits program and allow survivors to file for death or disability benefits for officers no in active service, provided their death or disability was connected to their service as a law enforcement officer; H.R. 1260 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would address the growing crisis that faces the USPP and its ability to protect and serve the public; H.R. 1266 (Panetta, D-CA), the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would appropriate steps to add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act; H.R. 1269 (Scanlon, D-PA) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program; H.R. 1443 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Public Safety Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 1505 (Stauber, D-MN) the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; PRIORITY - H.R. 1551 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Protect and Serve Act, which would impose Federal penalties on individuals who deliberately target local, State or Federal law enforcement officers with violence; H.R. 1556 (Bresnahan, R-PA) Erics Law, which would amend current law to 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. 1726 (Neguse, D-CO) the Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization 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. 1773 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would make firearm thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison; H.R. 2305 (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; PRIORITY - H.R. 2094 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; H.R. 2096 (Garbarino, R-NY) the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act. which would restore the collective bargaining rights, non-disclosure protections, and disciplinary protocols of MPD officers that were lost in the implementation of the CPJRAA; H.R. 2194 (Harder, D-CA) the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs in order to enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies; H.R. 2189 (Fitzgerald, R-WI) the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; H.R. 2240 (Moore, R-NC) the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would expand the data collected by the Federal government on attacks and aggressions against law enforcement officers in a comprehensive way; H.R. 2502 (Kaptur, D-OH) the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act, which would provide grants to law enforcement departments at the state, local, territorial, and tribal level to obtain vital behavioral health crisis response training to resolve behavioral health crisis situations more safely and effectively; H.R. 2654 (Stauber, D-MN), the Lifesaving Gear for Police Act, which would protect the important surplus equipment programs for State and local law enforcement, like the 1033 program, from politically-driven interference and competing Executive Orders; H.R. 2711 (Gottheimer, D-NJ,) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 175 law enforcement officers; H.R. 2735 (Nehls, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes. H.R. 2752 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Ensuring Safer Schools Act, which would allow funds from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be utilized for the training of military veterans and retired law enforcement officers to become school resource officers; H.R. 2964 (Taylor, R-OH) the Fight Fentanyl Act, which would provide over $333 million annually for the HIDTA program and allow for and support programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies. H.R. 3267 (Houlahan, D-PA), the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would eliminate a technicality in the law that requires an applicant to be employed in a public service job to qualify for public loan forgiveness; H.R. 3366 (Pappas, D-NH), 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 and mid-sized law enforcement agencies; H.R. 3372 (Sykes, D-OH), 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; H.R. 3398 (Kennedy, D-NY), the Aaron Salter, Jr. Responsible Body Armor Protection Act, which would bar civilians from purchasing, owning, or possessing enhanced body armor with ballistic resistance that meets or exceeds the RF1 standard; H.R. 3598 (Nehls, R-TX,) the De-escalation Drone Pilot Program Act, which would establish a pilot program for small, nonlethal deescalation unmanned aircraft to be used for law enforcement and public safety; H.R.3633 (Hill, R-AR) the "Digital Asset Market Clarity Act," which would establishes a regulatory framework for digital commodities, defined by the bill as digital assets that rely upon a blockchain for their value. H.R.3832 (Bacon, R-NE), the Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act, which would allow a surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen public safety officer who died in service or as a result of their service to apply for U.S. citizenship more quickly; H.R.4024 (Carbajal, D-CA), the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which would provide a needed one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); H.R. 4334 (Kustoff, R-TN), the Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act, which would better equip Federal prosecutors to pursue criminals; H.R. 4607 (Neguse, D-C0) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protections (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in the 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. 5282 (Reschenthaler, R-NY) the Reauthorizing Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would reauthorize funds made available from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to continue services for law enforcement officers and their families to include stress reduction and suicide prevention through 2029; H.R. 5391 (Deluzio, D-PA) the Bipartisan Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program Expansion Act, which would increase reauthorization of the Patrick J. Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership program; H.R. 5403 (Landsman, D-OH) the Enhancing COPS Hiring Program Grants for Local Law Enforcement Act, which would allow funds administered by the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be used to provide bonuses for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R 5594 (McDonald Rivet, D-MI) the Protect Your Pin Act, which would expand guidelines to allow local law enforcement agencies to use grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justices Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes program to combat identity theft. H.R. 5744 (Vindman, D-VA) the Targeting Online Sales of Fentanyl Act, which would direct the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable online its sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combating such; H.R. 6042 (Smith, R-NJ) the Law Against Nefarious Drones, Enforcement, Deconfliction (LANDED) Act, which would create policies for acquiring and deploying approved counter-UAS detection systems, authorize processes for State agencies to detect, monitor, and mitigate drone threats, and establish a grant program to fund equipment and training; H.R. 5107 (Clyde, R-GA) the Common-Sense Law Enforcement and Accountability Now in DC (CLEAN DC) Act, which would repeal the entirety of D.C.s Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022. This legislation goes beyond just the restoration of the collective bargaining provisions and would also eliminate restrictive measures that have hampered the ability of the officers serving the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to do their jobs and allow them to perform their duties more effectively while maintaining essential protections; H.R. 6120 (Zinke, R-MT) the Strengthening Resources for Our Schools (SROs) Act, which would mend existing law to offer a Federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any officer or veteran who chooses to serve as a School Resource Officer; H.R. 6602 (Torres, D-CA) the Supporting Blue Envelope Programs Act, which would allow individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) to physically present a blue envelope to officers during traffic stops in order to improve outcomes; H.R. 6605 (Vasquez, D-NM) the Secure Our Skies Drone Safety Act, which would require the Government Accountability Office to submit reports to Congress on the use of drone and counter-drone systems by law enforcement agencies and to submit recommendations on which policies should be changed to ensure law enforcement agencies can properly counter these threats; H.R. 6683 (Williams, R-TX) the Safer Schools Act, which would by creating two pilot grant programs for public schools within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); H.R. 6911 (Harrigan, R-NC) the COPS Anti-Organized Crime and Cartel Enforcement Act, which would establish a new grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) that would provide resources for State and local law enforcement agencies to create and equip specialized units dedicated to combatting organized crime, cartel operations, and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). H.R. 7033 (Goldman, D-NY) the Federal Correctional Officer Paycheck Protection Act, which would establish a 35% increase to the General Schedule base pay for all BOP correctional staff, including GS, GL, and custodial wage-grade employees. H.R. 7114 (Moore, R-NC) the No Bounties on Badges Act, which would offer a Federal reward to anyone who provides credible information leading to the prevention, arrest, or conviction of an individual offering bounties to intimidate, harm, or kill a law enforcement officer; H.R. 7184 (McDowell, R-NC) the Preventing Rogue Equipment for Synthetic Substances (PRESS) Act, which would provide Federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies with the authority to hold foreign entities accountable for intentionally importing pill presses and precursor chemicals for illicit drug manufacturing; H.R. 7718 (Weber, R-TX) the Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers Benefits Program Expansion Act, which would improve the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) Program, ensuring that the men and women who serve our communities-and their families-receive timely and meaningful support when tragedy strikes; H.R. 7834 (Lee, R-FL) the Safe Cloud Storage Act, which establishes baseline security and data protection standards for cloud service providers that store sensitive government and law enforcement information; H.R. 7876 (Landsman, D-OH) the Secret Service-Local Law Enforcement Partnership Act, which would create an Extraordinary Protection Reimbursement Program that would authorize more than $61 million for law enforcement agencies that collaborate with the USSS. H.R. 8746 (Evans, R-PA) 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 and local law enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes. H.R. 8750 (Harder, D-CA) the COPS Reauthorization Act, which would establish and reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and all the programs it administers through 2031. H.R. 9503 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Officer Leslie Coffelt U.S. Secret Service Police Act, S. 2, the Secure America Act, would would fund several federal law enforcement agencies. S. 83 (Cruz, R-TX), the Thin Blue Line Act, which would provide that the murder of local or State prosecutors, law enforcement officers, or other public safety officers also be considered an aggravating factor in a Federal case; S. 122 (Banks, R-ID) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades; S. 146 (Cruz, R-TX) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; S. 167 (Tillis, R-NC) 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; S. 180 (Grassley R-IA) the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); S. 237 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program. S. 516 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, which would prohibit the distribution of Non-Consensually Distributed Intimate Images (NDII) that loopholes in select States have thus far prevented; S. 666 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the First Responders Wellness Act, which would establish a national hotline for first responders through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); S. 678 (Cortez Masto, D-NV) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office within the U.S. Department of Justice, that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 200 law enforcement officers; S. 679 (Kennedy, R-LA) the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) exempting qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms; S. 767 (Kelly, D-AZ) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) 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; S. 911 (Masto, D-NV) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the PSOB Program to ensure that Chief Proffitts family, and any others in a similar situation, would be eligible to apply for the programs benefit; PRIORITY - S. 978 (Moody, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; S. 1077 (Collins, R-ME) the District of Columbia Local Funds Act, which would restore the District of Columbias ability to implement its Fiscal Year 2025 budget; S. 1247 (Schmitt, R-MO) the Public Safety Officer Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; S. 1283 (Hagerty, R-TN), the Innovate to De-Escalate Modernization Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; S. 1295 (Justice, R-WV) the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against Narcotics (BOP SCAN) in Mail Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; S. 1300 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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. 1316 (Peters, D-MI) the Strong Communities Act, which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1333 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes; S. 1401 (Kennedy, R-LA) the Targeting Child Predators Act, which would extend the time law enforcement can seek a court order to delay a subpoena notification from 90 to 180 days; S. 1409 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Public Safety Officer Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would establish concussion protocols for Law Enforcement Agencies. S. 1572 (Blackburn, R-TN) the Federal Carjacking Enforcement Act, which would update the Federal statute governing carjacking offenses to make it easier for prosecutors to bring charges; S. 1595 (Cornyn, R-TX), the Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Act, which would expand the existing U.S. Department of Justices Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.2200 (Gallego, D-AZ), the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act, which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies to areas near the Northern and Southern border; S. 2400(Fetterman, D-PA) the Art Market Integrity Act, which would require art dealers and auction houses to implement robust anti-money laundering compliance measures. S. 3023 (Blackburn, R-TN) the Safe Cloud Storage Act, which would establish baseline security and data protection standards for cloud service providers that store sensitive government and law enforcement information; S. 3189 (Sheehy, R-MT) the Strengthening Resources for Our Schools (SROs) Act, which would mend existing law to offer a Federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any officer or veteran who chooses to serve as a School Resource Officer; S.3366 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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, judges, and other public safety officers.; S.3453 (Scott, R-FL) the No Bounties on Badges Act, which would offer a Federal reward to anyone who provides credible information leading to the prevention, arrest, or conviction of an individual offering bounties to intimidate, harm, or kill a law enforcement officer. S. 3626 (Shaheen, D-NH) the Federal Correctional Officer Paycheck Protection Act, which would establish a 35% increase to the General Schedule base pay for all BOP correctional staff, including GS, GL, and custodial wage-grade employees; S. 3801(Grassley, R-IA) the the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act, which would update and enhance Federal laws to combat money laundering operations and restrict the ability of criminals to profit from their crimes; S. 3897 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers Benefits Program Expansion Act, which would improve the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) Program, ensuring that the men and women who serve our communities-and their families-receive timely and meaningful support when tragedy strikes; S. 4260 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Child Predators Accountability Act, which would refine statutory definitions to ensure that the law encompasses both active and passive involvement of minors in sexually explicit depictions when the offender intentionally includes a child. S. 4446 (Moody, R-FL) the Preventing Rogue Equipment for Synthetic Substances (PRESS) Act, which would provide Federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies with the authority to hold foreign entities accountable for intentionally importing pill presses and precursor chemicals for illicit drug manufacturing S. 4500 (Kennedy, R-LA) 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 and local law enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes.
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2026 · first_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
PASSED HOUSE - H.R. 27 (Griffith, R-VA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. H.R. 378 (Buchanan, R-FL) the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of aggravating factors in death penalty determinations for those who target, kill, or attempt to kill a law enforcement or other public safety officer; H.R. 503 (Foxx, R-NC) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine; H.R. 621 (Joyce, R-OH), the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 633 (Salazar, R-FL) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 911 (Fitzpatrick, R-FL) the Patriot Day Act, which would establish September 11th as a permanent Federal holiday; H.R. 993 (Correa, D-CA) the Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies (DRONE) Act, which would allow law enforcement agencies to use Edward R. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) funds to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems; H.R. 1046 (Bacon, R-NE) the Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; H.R. 1236 (Barr, R-KY) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits program and allow survivors to file for death or disability benefits for officers no in active service, provided their death or disability was connected to their service as a law enforcement officer; H.R. 1260 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would address the growing crisis that faces the USPP and its ability to protect and serve the public; H.R. 1266 (Panetta, D-CA), the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would appropriate steps to add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act; H.R. 1269 (Scanlon, D-PA) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program; H.R. 1443 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Public Safety Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 1505 (Stauber, D-MN) the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; PRIORITY - H.R. 1551 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Protect and Serve Act, which would impose Federal penalties on individuals who deliberately target local, State or Federal law enforcement officers with violence; H.R. 1556 (Bresnahan, R-PA) Erics Law, which would amend current law to 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. 1726 (Neguse, D-CO) the Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization 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. 1773 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would make firearm thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison; H.R. 2305 (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; PRIORITY - H.R. 2094 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; H.R. 2096 (Garbarino, R-NY) the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act. which would restore the collective bargaining rights, non-disclosure protections, and disciplinary protocols of MPD officers that were lost in the implementation of the CPJRAA; H.R. 2194 (Harder, D-CA) the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs in order to enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies; H.R. 2189 (Fitzgerald, R-WI) the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; H.R. 2240 (Moore, R-NC) the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would expand the data collected by the Federal government on attacks and aggressions against law enforcement officers in a comprehensive way; H.R. 2502 (Kaptur, D-OH) the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act, which would provide grants to law enforcement departments at the state, local, territorial, and tribal level to obtain vital behavioral health crisis response training to resolve behavioral health crisis situations more safely and effectively; H.R. 2654 (Stauber, D-MN), the Lifesaving Gear for Police Act, which would protect the important surplus equipment programs for State and local law enforcement, like the 1033 program, from politically-driven interference and competing Executive Orders; H.R. 2711 (Gottheimer, D-NJ,) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 175 law enforcement officers; H.R. 2735 (Nehls, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes. H.R. 2752 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Ensuring Safer Schools Act, which would amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by allowing funds from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be utilized for the training of military veterans and retired law enforcement officers to become school resource officers; H.R. 2964 (Taylor, R-OH) the Fight Fentanyl Act, which would provide over $333 million annually for the HIDTA program and allow for and support programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies. H.R. 3267 (Houlahan, D-PA), the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would eliminate a technicality in the law that requires an applicant to be employed in a public service job to qualify for public loan forgiveness; H.R. 3366 (Pappas, D-NH), 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 and mid-sized law enforcement agencies; H.R. 3372 (Sykes, D-OH), 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; H.R. 3398 (Kennedy, D-NY), the Aaron Salter, Jr. Responsible Body Armor Protection Act, which would bar civilians from purchasing, owning, or possessing enhanced body armor with ballistic resistance that meets or exceeds the RF1 standard; H.R. 3598 (Nehls, R-TX,) the De-escalation Drone Pilot Program Act, which would establish a pilot program for small, nonlethal deescalation unmanned aircraft to be used for law enforcement and public safety, and for other purposes. H.R.3832 (Bacon, R-NE), the Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act, which would allow a surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen public safety officer who died in service or as a result of their service to apply for U.S. citizenship more quickly by waiving the five-year continuous residence and the 30-month physical presence requirements for naturalization. H.R.4024 (Carbajal, D-CA), the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which would provide a needed one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); H.R. 4334 (Kustoff, R-TN), the Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act, which would better equip Federal prosecutors to pursue criminals; H.R. 4607 (Neguse, D-C0) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protections (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in the 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. 5282 (Reschenthaler, R-NY) the Reauthorizing Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would reauthorize funds made available from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to continue services for law enforcement officers and their families to include stress reduction and suicide prevention through 2029; H.R. 5391 (Deluzio, D-PA) the Bipartisan Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program Expansion Act, which would increase reauthorization of the Patrick J. Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership program; H.R. 5403 (Landsman, D-OH) the Enhancing COPS Hiring Program Grants for Local Law Enforcement Act, which would allow funds administered by the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be used to provide bonuses for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R 5594 (McDonald Rivet, D-MI) the Protect Your Pin Act, which would expand guidelines to allow local law enforcement agencies to use grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justices Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes program to combat identity theft. H.R. 5744 (Vindman, D-VA) the Targeting Online Sales of Fentanyl Act, which would direct the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable online its sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combating such; H.R. 6042 (Smith, R-NJ) the Law Against Nefarious Drones, Enforcement, Deconfliction (LANDED) Act, which would create policies for acquiring and deploying approved counter-UAS detection systems, authorize processes for State agencies to detect, monitor, and mitigate drone threats, and establish a grant program to fund equipment and training; H.R. 5107 (Clyde, R-GA) the Common-Sense Law Enforcement and Accountability Now in DC (CLEAN DC) Act, which would repeal the entirety of D.C.s Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022. This legislation goes beyond just the restoration of the collective bargaining provisions and would also eliminate restrictive measures that have hampered the ability of the officers serving the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to do their jobs and allow them to perform their duties more effectively while maintaining essential protections; H.R. 6120 (Zinke, R-MT) the Strengthening Resources for Our Schools (SROs) Act, which would mend existing law to offer a Federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any officer or veteran who chooses to serve as a School Resource Officer; H.R. 6602 (Torres, D-CA) the Supporting Blue Envelope Programs Act, which would allow individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) to physically present a blue envelope to officers during traffic stops in order to improve outcomes; H.R. 6605 (Vasquez, D-NM) the Secure Our Skies Drone Safety Act, which would require the Government Accountability Office to submit reports to Congress on the use of drone and counter-drone systems by law enforcement agencies and to submit recommendations on which policies should be changed to ensure law enforcement agencies can properly counter these threats; H.R. 6683 (Williams, R-TX) the Safer Schools Act, which would by creating two pilot grant programs for public schools within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); H.R. 6911 (Harrigan, R-NC) the COPS Anti-Organized Crime and Cartel Enforcement Act, which would establish a new grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) that would provide resources for State and local law enforcement agencies to create and equip specialized units dedicated to combatting organized crime, cartel operations, and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). H.R. 7033 (Goldman, D-NY) the Federal Correctional Officer Paycheck Protection Act, which would establish a 35% increase to the General Schedule base pay for all BOP correctional staff, including GS, GL, and custodial wage-grade employees. H.R. 7114 (Moore, R-NC) the No Bounties on Badges Act, which would offer a Federal reward to anyone who provides credible information leading to the prevention, arrest, or conviction of an individual offering bounties to intimidate, harm, or kill a law enforcement officer; H.R. 7184 (McDowell, R-NC) the Preventing Rogue Equipment for Synthetic Substances (PRESS) Act, which would provide Federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies with the authority to hold foreign entities accountable for intentionally importing pill presses and precursor chemicals for illicit drug manufacturing; H.R. 7718 (Weber, R-TX) the Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers Benefits Program Expansion Act, which would improve the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) Program, ensuring that the men and women who serve our communities-and their families-receive timely and meaningful support when tragedy strikes; H.R. 7834 (Lee, R-FL) the Safe Cloud Storage Act, which establishes baseline security and data protection standards for cloud service providers that store sensitive government and law enforcement information; H.R. 7876 (Landsman, D-OH) the Secret Service-Local Law Enforcement Partnership Act, which would create an Extraordinary Protection Reimbursement Program that would authorize more than $61 million for law enforcement agencies that collaborate with the USSS. S. 83 (Cruz, R-TX), the Thin Blue Line Act, which would provide that the murder of local or State prosecutors, law enforcement officers, or other public safety officers also be considered an aggravating factor in a Federal case; S. 122 (Banks, R-ID) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades; S. 146 (Cruz, R-TX) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; PRIORITY - S. 167 (Tillis, R-NC) 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; S. 180 (Grassley R-IA) the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); S. 237 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program. S. 331 (Cassidy, R-LA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. S. 516 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, which would prohibit the distribution of Non-Consensually Distributed Intimate Images (NDII) that loopholes in select States have thus far prevented; S. 666 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the First Responders Wellness Act, which would establish a national hotline for first responders through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); S. 678 (Cortez Masto, D-NV) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office within the U.S. Department of Justice, that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 200 law enforcement officers; TOP PRIORITY - S. 679 (Kennedy, R-LA) the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) exempting qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms; S. 767 (Kelly, D-AZ) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) 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; S. 911 (Masto, D-NV) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the PSOB Program to ensure that Chief Proffitts family, and any others in a similar situation, would be eligible to apply for the programs benefit; PRIORITY - S. 978 (Moody, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; S. 1077 (Collins, R-ME) the District of Columbia Local Funds Act, which would restore the District of Columbias ability to implement its Fiscal Year 2025 budget; S. 1247 (Schmitt, R-MO) the Public Safety Officer Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; S. 1283 (Hagerty, R-TN), the Innovate to De-Escalate Modernization Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; S. 1295 (Justice, R-WV) the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against Narcotics (BOP SCAN) in Mail Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; S. 1300 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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. 1316 (Peters, D-MI) the Strong Communities Act, which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1333 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes; S. 1401 (Kennedy, R-LA) the Targeting Child Predators Act, which would extend the time law enforcement can seek a court order to delay a subpoena notification from 90 to 180 days; S. 1409 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Public Safety Officer Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would establish concussion protocols for Law Enforcement Agencies. S. 1572 (Blackburn, R-TN) the Federal Carjacking Enforcement Act, which would update the Federal statute governing carjacking offenses to make it easier for prosecutors to bring charges; S. 1595 (Cornyn, R-TX), the Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Act, which would expand the existing U.S. Department of Justices Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.2200 (Gallego, D-AZ), the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act, which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies to areas near the Northern and Southern border; S. 2400(Fetterman, D-PA) the Art Market Integrity Act, which would require art dealers and auction houses to implement robust anti-money laundering compliance measures. S. 3023 (Blackburn, R-TN) the Safe Cloud Storage Act, which would establish baseline security and data protection standards for cloud service providers that store sensitive government and law enforcement information; S. 3189 (Sheehy, R-MT) the Strengthening Resources for Our Schools (SROs) Act, which would mend existing law to offer a Federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any officer or veteran who chooses to serve as a School Resource Officer; S.3366 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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, judges, and other public safety officers.; S.3453 (Scott, R-FL) the No Bounties on Badges Act, which would offer a Federal reward to anyone who provides credible information leading to the prevention, arrest, or conviction of an individual offering bounties to intimidate, harm, or kill a law enforcement officer. S. 3626 (Shaheen, D-NH) the Federal Correctional Officer Paycheck Protection Act, which would establish a 35% increase to the General Schedule base pay for all BOP correctional staff, including GS, GL, and custodial wage-grade employees; S. 3801(Grassley, R-IA) the the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act, which would update and enhance Federal laws to combat money laundering operations and restrict the ability of criminals to profit from their crimes; S. 3897 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers Benefits Program Expansion Act, which would improve the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) Program, ensuring that the men and women who serve our communities-and their families-receive timely and meaningful support when tragedy strikes; S. 4260 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Child Predators Accountability Act, which would refine statutory definitions to ensure that the law encompasses both active and passive involvement of minors in sexually explicit depictions when the offender intentionally includes a child.
Client expense: $100,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
2026 · second_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 378 (Buchanan, R-FL) the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of aggravating factors in death penalty determinations for those who target, kill, or attempt to kill a law enforcement or other public safety officer; H.R. 503 (Foxx, R-NC) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine; H.R. 621 (Joyce, R-OH), the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 633 (Salazar, R-FL) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 911 (Fitzpatrick, R-FL) the Patriot Day Act, which would establish September 11th as a permanent Federal holiday; H.R. 993 (Correa, D-CA) the Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies (DRONE) Act, which would allow law enforcement agencies to use Edward R. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) funds to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems; H.R. 1046 (Bacon, R-NE) the Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; H.R. 1236 (Barr, R-KY) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits program and allow survivors to file for death or disability benefits for officers no in active service, provided their death or disability was connected to their service as a law enforcement officer; H.R. 1260 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would address the growing crisis that faces the USPP and its ability to protect and serve the public; H.R. 1266 (Panetta, D-CA), the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would appropriate steps to add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act; H.R. 1269 (Scanlon, D-PA) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program; H.R. 1443 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Public Safety Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 1505 (Stauber, D-MN) the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; PRIORITY - H.R. 1551 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Protect and Serve Act, which would impose Federal penalties on individuals who deliberately target local, State or Federal law enforcement officers with violence; H.R. 1556 (Bresnahan, R-PA) Erics Law, which would amend current law to 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. 1726 (Neguse, D-CO) the Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization 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. 1773 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would make firearm thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison; H.R. 2305 (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; PRIORITY - H.R. 2094 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; H.R. 2096 (Garbarino, R-NY) the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act. which would restore the collective bargaining rights, non-disclosure protections, and disciplinary protocols of MPD officers that were lost in the implementation of the CPJRAA; H.R. 2194 (Harder, D-CA) the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs in order to enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies; H.R. 2189 (Fitzgerald, R-WI) the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; H.R. 2240 (Moore, R-NC) the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would expand the data collected by the Federal government on attacks and aggressions against law enforcement officers in a comprehensive way; H.R. 2502 (Kaptur, D-OH) the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act, which would provide grants to law enforcement departments at the state, local, territorial, and tribal level to obtain vital behavioral health crisis response training to resolve behavioral health crisis situations more safely and effectively; H.R. 2654 (Stauber, D-MN), the Lifesaving Gear for Police Act, which would protect the important surplus equipment programs for State and local law enforcement, like the 1033 program, from politically-driven interference and competing Executive Orders; H.R. 2711 (Gottheimer, D-NJ,) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 175 law enforcement officers; H.R. 2735 (Nehls, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes. H.R. 2752 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Ensuring Safer Schools Act, which would allow funds from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be utilized for the training of military veterans and retired law enforcement officers to become school resource officers; H.R. 2964 (Taylor, R-OH) the Fight Fentanyl Act, which would provide over $333 million annually for the HIDTA program and allow for and support programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies. H.R. 3267 (Houlahan, D-PA), the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would eliminate a technicality in the law that requires an applicant to be employed in a public service job to qualify for public loan forgiveness; H.R. 3366 (Pappas, D-NH), 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 and mid-sized law enforcement agencies; H.R. 3372 (Sykes, D-OH), 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; H.R. 3398 (Kennedy, D-NY), the Aaron Salter, Jr. Responsible Body Armor Protection Act, which would bar civilians from purchasing, owning, or possessing enhanced body armor with ballistic resistance that meets or exceeds the RF1 standard; H.R. 3598 (Nehls, R-TX,) the De-escalation Drone Pilot Program Act, which would establish a pilot program for small, nonlethal deescalation unmanned aircraft to be used for law enforcement and public safety; H.R.3633 (Hill, R-AR) the "Digital Asset Market Clarity Act," which would establishes a regulatory framework for digital commodities, defined by the bill as digital assets that rely upon a blockchain for their value. H.R.3832 (Bacon, R-NE), the Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act, which would allow a surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen public safety officer who died in service or as a result of their service to apply for U.S. citizenship more quickly; H.R.4024 (Carbajal, D-CA), the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which would provide a needed one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); H.R. 4334 (Kustoff, R-TN), the Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act, which would better equip Federal prosecutors to pursue criminals; H.R. 4607 (Neguse, D-C0) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protections (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in the 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. 5282 (Reschenthaler, R-NY) the Reauthorizing Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would reauthorize funds made available from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to continue services for law enforcement officers and their families to include stress reduction and suicide prevention through 2029; H.R. 5391 (Deluzio, D-PA) the Bipartisan Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program Expansion Act, which would increase reauthorization of the Patrick J. Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership program; H.R. 5403 (Landsman, D-OH) the Enhancing COPS Hiring Program Grants for Local Law Enforcement Act, which would allow funds administered by the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be used to provide bonuses for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R 5594 (McDonald Rivet, D-MI) the Protect Your Pin Act, which would expand guidelines to allow local law enforcement agencies to use grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justices Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes program to combat identity theft. H.R. 5744 (Vindman, D-VA) the Targeting Online Sales of Fentanyl Act, which would direct the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable online its sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combating such; H.R. 6042 (Smith, R-NJ) the Law Against Nefarious Drones, Enforcement, Deconfliction (LANDED) Act, which would create policies for acquiring and deploying approved counter-UAS detection systems, authorize processes for State agencies to detect, monitor, and mitigate drone threats, and establish a grant program to fund equipment and training; H.R. 5107 (Clyde, R-GA) the Common-Sense Law Enforcement and Accountability Now in DC (CLEAN DC) Act, which would repeal the entirety of D.C.s Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022. This legislation goes beyond just the restoration of the collective bargaining provisions and would also eliminate restrictive measures that have hampered the ability of the officers serving the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to do their jobs and allow them to perform their duties more effectively while maintaining essential protections; H.R. 6120 (Zinke, R-MT) the Strengthening Resources for Our Schools (SROs) Act, which would mend existing law to offer a Federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any officer or veteran who chooses to serve as a School Resource Officer; H.R. 6602 (Torres, D-CA) the Supporting Blue Envelope Programs Act, which would allow individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) to physically present a blue envelope to officers during traffic stops in order to improve outcomes; H.R. 6605 (Vasquez, D-NM) the Secure Our Skies Drone Safety Act, which would require the Government Accountability Office to submit reports to Congress on the use of drone and counter-drone systems by law enforcement agencies and to submit recommendations on which policies should be changed to ensure law enforcement agencies can properly counter these threats; H.R. 6683 (Williams, R-TX) the Safer Schools Act, which would by creating two pilot grant programs for public schools within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); H.R. 6911 (Harrigan, R-NC) the COPS Anti-Organized Crime and Cartel Enforcement Act, which would establish a new grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) that would provide resources for State and local law enforcement agencies to create and equip specialized units dedicated to combatting organized crime, cartel operations, and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). H.R. 7033 (Goldman, D-NY) the Federal Correctional Officer Paycheck Protection Act, which would establish a 35% increase to the General Schedule base pay for all BOP correctional staff, including GS, GL, and custodial wage-grade employees. H.R. 7114 (Moore, R-NC) the No Bounties on Badges Act, which would offer a Federal reward to anyone who provides credible information leading to the prevention, arrest, or conviction of an individual offering bounties to intimidate, harm, or kill a law enforcement officer; H.R. 7184 (McDowell, R-NC) the Preventing Rogue Equipment for Synthetic Substances (PRESS) Act, which would provide Federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies with the authority to hold foreign entities accountable for intentionally importing pill presses and precursor chemicals for illicit drug manufacturing; H.R. 7718 (Weber, R-TX) the Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers Benefits Program Expansion Act, which would improve the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) Program, ensuring that the men and women who serve our communities-and their families-receive timely and meaningful support when tragedy strikes; H.R. 7834 (Lee, R-FL) the Safe Cloud Storage Act, which establishes baseline security and data protection standards for cloud service providers that store sensitive government and law enforcement information; H.R. 7876 (Landsman, D-OH) the Secret Service-Local Law Enforcement Partnership Act, which would create an Extraordinary Protection Reimbursement Program that would authorize more than $61 million for law enforcement agencies that collaborate with the USSS. H.R. 8746 (Evans, R-PA) 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 and local law enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes. H.R. 8750 (Harder, D-CA) the COPS Reauthorization Act, which would establish and reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and all the programs it administers through 2031. H.R. 9503 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Officer Leslie Coffelt U.S. Secret Service Police Act, S. 2, the Secure America Act, would would fund several federal law enforcement agencies. S. 83 (Cruz, R-TX), the Thin Blue Line Act, which would provide that the murder of local or State prosecutors, law enforcement officers, or other public safety officers also be considered an aggravating factor in a Federal case; S. 122 (Banks, R-ID) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades; S. 146 (Cruz, R-TX) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; S. 167 (Tillis, R-NC) 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; S. 180 (Grassley R-IA) the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); S. 237 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program. S. 516 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, which would prohibit the distribution of Non-Consensually Distributed Intimate Images (NDII) that loopholes in select States have thus far prevented; S. 666 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the First Responders Wellness Act, which would establish a national hotline for first responders through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); S. 678 (Cortez Masto, D-NV) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office within the U.S. Department of Justice, that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 200 law enforcement officers; S. 679 (Kennedy, R-LA) the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) exempting qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms; S. 767 (Kelly, D-AZ) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) 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; S. 911 (Masto, D-NV) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the PSOB Program to ensure that Chief Proffitts family, and any others in a similar situation, would be eligible to apply for the programs benefit; PRIORITY - S. 978 (Moody, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; S. 1077 (Collins, R-ME) the District of Columbia Local Funds Act, which would restore the District of Columbias ability to implement its Fiscal Year 2025 budget; S. 1247 (Schmitt, R-MO) the Public Safety Officer Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; S. 1283 (Hagerty, R-TN), the Innovate to De-Escalate Modernization Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; S. 1295 (Justice, R-WV) the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against Narcotics (BOP SCAN) in Mail Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; S. 1300 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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. 1316 (Peters, D-MI) the Strong Communities Act, which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1333 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes; S. 1401 (Kennedy, R-LA) the Targeting Child Predators Act, which would extend the time law enforcement can seek a court order to delay a subpoena notification from 90 to 180 days; S. 1409 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Public Safety Officer Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would establish concussion protocols for Law Enforcement Agencies. S. 1572 (Blackburn, R-TN) the Federal Carjacking Enforcement Act, which would update the Federal statute governing carjacking offenses to make it easier for prosecutors to bring charges; S. 1595 (Cornyn, R-TX), the Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Act, which would expand the existing U.S. Department of Justices Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.2200 (Gallego, D-AZ), the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act, which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies to areas near the Northern and Southern border; S. 2400(Fetterman, D-PA) the Art Market Integrity Act, which would require art dealers and auction houses to implement robust anti-money laundering compliance measures. S. 3023 (Blackburn, R-TN) the Safe Cloud Storage Act, which would establish baseline security and data protection standards for cloud service providers that store sensitive government and law enforcement information; S. 3189 (Sheehy, R-MT) the Strengthening Resources for Our Schools (SROs) Act, which would mend existing law to offer a Federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any officer or veteran who chooses to serve as a School Resource Officer; S.3366 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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, judges, and other public safety officers.; S.3453 (Scott, R-FL) the No Bounties on Badges Act, which would offer a Federal reward to anyone who provides credible information leading to the prevention, arrest, or conviction of an individual offering bounties to intimidate, harm, or kill a law enforcement officer. S. 3626 (Shaheen, D-NH) the Federal Correctional Officer Paycheck Protection Act, which would establish a 35% increase to the General Schedule base pay for all BOP correctional staff, including GS, GL, and custodial wage-grade employees; S. 3801(Grassley, R-IA) the the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act, which would update and enhance Federal laws to combat money laundering operations and restrict the ability of criminals to profit from their crimes; S. 3897 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers Benefits Program Expansion Act, which would improve the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) Program, ensuring that the men and women who serve our communities-and their families-receive timely and meaningful support when tragedy strikes; S. 4260 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Child Predators Accountability Act, which would refine statutory definitions to ensure that the law encompasses both active and passive involvement of minors in sexually explicit depictions when the offender intentionally includes a child. S. 4446 (Moody, R-FL) the Preventing Rogue Equipment for Synthetic Substances (PRESS) Act, which would provide Federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies with the authority to hold foreign entities accountable for intentionally importing pill presses and precursor chemicals for illicit drug manufacturing S. 4500 (Kennedy, R-LA) 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 and local law enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes.
Client expense: $100,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
2026 · first_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
PASSED HOUSE - H.R. 27 (Griffith, R-VA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. H.R. 378 (Buchanan, R-FL) the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of aggravating factors in death penalty determinations for those who target, kill, or attempt to kill a law enforcement or other public safety officer; H.R. 503 (Foxx, R-NC) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine; H.R. 621 (Joyce, R-OH), the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 633 (Salazar, R-FL) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 911 (Fitzpatrick, R-FL) the Patriot Day Act, which would establish September 11th as a permanent Federal holiday; H.R. 993 (Correa, D-CA) the Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies (DRONE) Act, which would allow law enforcement agencies to use Edward R. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) funds to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems; H.R. 1046 (Bacon, R-NE) the Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; H.R. 1236 (Barr, R-KY) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits program and allow survivors to file for death or disability benefits for officers no in active service, provided their death or disability was connected to their service as a law enforcement officer; H.R. 1260 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would address the growing crisis that faces the USPP and its ability to protect and serve the public; H.R. 1266 (Panetta, D-CA), the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would appropriate steps to add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act; H.R. 1269 (Scanlon, D-PA) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program; H.R. 1443 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Public Safety Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 1505 (Stauber, D-MN) the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; PRIORITY - H.R. 1551 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Protect and Serve Act, which would impose Federal penalties on individuals who deliberately target local, State or Federal law enforcement officers with violence; H.R. 1556 (Bresnahan, R-PA) Erics Law, which would amend current law to 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. 1726 (Neguse, D-CO) the Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization 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. 1773 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would make firearm thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison; H.R. 2305 (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; PRIORITY - H.R. 2094 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; H.R. 2096 (Garbarino, R-NY) the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act. which would restore the collective bargaining rights, non-disclosure protections, and disciplinary protocols of MPD officers that were lost in the implementation of the CPJRAA; H.R. 2194 (Harder, D-CA) the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs in order to enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies; H.R. 2189 (Fitzgerald, R-WI) the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; H.R. 2240 (Moore, R-NC) the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would expand the data collected by the Federal government on attacks and aggressions against law enforcement officers in a comprehensive way; H.R. 2502 (Kaptur, D-OH) the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act, which would provide grants to law enforcement departments at the state, local, territorial, and tribal level to obtain vital behavioral health crisis response training to resolve behavioral health crisis situations more safely and effectively; H.R. 2654 (Stauber, D-MN), the Lifesaving Gear for Police Act, which would protect the important surplus equipment programs for State and local law enforcement, like the 1033 program, from politically-driven interference and competing Executive Orders; H.R. 2711 (Gottheimer, D-NJ,) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 175 law enforcement officers; H.R. 2735 (Nehls, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes. H.R. 2752 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Ensuring Safer Schools Act, which would amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by allowing funds from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be utilized for the training of military veterans and retired law enforcement officers to become school resource officers; H.R. 2964 (Taylor, R-OH) the Fight Fentanyl Act, which would provide over $333 million annually for the HIDTA program and allow for and support programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies. H.R. 3267 (Houlahan, D-PA), the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would eliminate a technicality in the law that requires an applicant to be employed in a public service job to qualify for public loan forgiveness; H.R. 3366 (Pappas, D-NH), 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 and mid-sized law enforcement agencies; H.R. 3372 (Sykes, D-OH), 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; H.R. 3398 (Kennedy, D-NY), the Aaron Salter, Jr. Responsible Body Armor Protection Act, which would bar civilians from purchasing, owning, or possessing enhanced body armor with ballistic resistance that meets or exceeds the RF1 standard; H.R. 3598 (Nehls, R-TX,) the De-escalation Drone Pilot Program Act, which would establish a pilot program for small, nonlethal deescalation unmanned aircraft to be used for law enforcement and public safety, and for other purposes. H.R.3832 (Bacon, R-NE), the Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act, which would allow a surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen public safety officer who died in service or as a result of their service to apply for U.S. citizenship more quickly by waiving the five-year continuous residence and the 30-month physical presence requirements for naturalization. H.R.4024 (Carbajal, D-CA), the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which would provide a needed one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); H.R. 4334 (Kustoff, R-TN), the Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act, which would better equip Federal prosecutors to pursue criminals; H.R. 4607 (Neguse, D-C0) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protections (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in the 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. 5282 (Reschenthaler, R-NY) the Reauthorizing Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would reauthorize funds made available from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to continue services for law enforcement officers and their families to include stress reduction and suicide prevention through 2029; H.R. 5391 (Deluzio, D-PA) the Bipartisan Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program Expansion Act, which would increase reauthorization of the Patrick J. Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership program; H.R. 5403 (Landsman, D-OH) the Enhancing COPS Hiring Program Grants for Local Law Enforcement Act, which would allow funds administered by the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be used to provide bonuses for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R 5594 (McDonald Rivet, D-MI) the Protect Your Pin Act, which would expand guidelines to allow local law enforcement agencies to use grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justices Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes program to combat identity theft. H.R. 5744 (Vindman, D-VA) the Targeting Online Sales of Fentanyl Act, which would direct the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable online its sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combating such; H.R. 6042 (Smith, R-NJ) the Law Against Nefarious Drones, Enforcement, Deconfliction (LANDED) Act, which would create policies for acquiring and deploying approved counter-UAS detection systems, authorize processes for State agencies to detect, monitor, and mitigate drone threats, and establish a grant program to fund equipment and training; H.R. 5107 (Clyde, R-GA) the Common-Sense Law Enforcement and Accountability Now in DC (CLEAN DC) Act, which would repeal the entirety of D.C.s Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022. This legislation goes beyond just the restoration of the collective bargaining provisions and would also eliminate restrictive measures that have hampered the ability of the officers serving the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to do their jobs and allow them to perform their duties more effectively while maintaining essential protections; H.R. 6120 (Zinke, R-MT) the Strengthening Resources for Our Schools (SROs) Act, which would mend existing law to offer a Federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any officer or veteran who chooses to serve as a School Resource Officer; H.R. 6602 (Torres, D-CA) the Supporting Blue Envelope Programs Act, which would allow individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) to physically present a blue envelope to officers during traffic stops in order to improve outcomes; H.R. 6605 (Vasquez, D-NM) the Secure Our Skies Drone Safety Act, which would require the Government Accountability Office to submit reports to Congress on the use of drone and counter-drone systems by law enforcement agencies and to submit recommendations on which policies should be changed to ensure law enforcement agencies can properly counter these threats; H.R. 6683 (Williams, R-TX) the Safer Schools Act, which would by creating two pilot grant programs for public schools within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); H.R. 6911 (Harrigan, R-NC) the COPS Anti-Organized Crime and Cartel Enforcement Act, which would establish a new grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) that would provide resources for State and local law enforcement agencies to create and equip specialized units dedicated to combatting organized crime, cartel operations, and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). H.R. 7033 (Goldman, D-NY) the Federal Correctional Officer Paycheck Protection Act, which would establish a 35% increase to the General Schedule base pay for all BOP correctional staff, including GS, GL, and custodial wage-grade employees. H.R. 7114 (Moore, R-NC) the No Bounties on Badges Act, which would offer a Federal reward to anyone who provides credible information leading to the prevention, arrest, or conviction of an individual offering bounties to intimidate, harm, or kill a law enforcement officer; H.R. 7184 (McDowell, R-NC) the Preventing Rogue Equipment for Synthetic Substances (PRESS) Act, which would provide Federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies with the authority to hold foreign entities accountable for intentionally importing pill presses and precursor chemicals for illicit drug manufacturing; H.R. 7718 (Weber, R-TX) the Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers Benefits Program Expansion Act, which would improve the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) Program, ensuring that the men and women who serve our communities-and their families-receive timely and meaningful support when tragedy strikes; H.R. 7834 (Lee, R-FL) the Safe Cloud Storage Act, which establishes baseline security and data protection standards for cloud service providers that store sensitive government and law enforcement information; H.R. 7876 (Landsman, D-OH) the Secret Service-Local Law Enforcement Partnership Act, which would create an Extraordinary Protection Reimbursement Program that would authorize more than $61 million for law enforcement agencies that collaborate with the USSS. S. 83 (Cruz, R-TX), the Thin Blue Line Act, which would provide that the murder of local or State prosecutors, law enforcement officers, or other public safety officers also be considered an aggravating factor in a Federal case; S. 122 (Banks, R-ID) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades; S. 146 (Cruz, R-TX) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; PRIORITY - S. 167 (Tillis, R-NC) 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; S. 180 (Grassley R-IA) the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); S. 237 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program. S. 331 (Cassidy, R-LA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. S. 516 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, which would prohibit the distribution of Non-Consensually Distributed Intimate Images (NDII) that loopholes in select States have thus far prevented; S. 666 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the First Responders Wellness Act, which would establish a national hotline for first responders through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); S. 678 (Cortez Masto, D-NV) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office within the U.S. Department of Justice, that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 200 law enforcement officers; TOP PRIORITY - S. 679 (Kennedy, R-LA) the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) exempting qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms; S. 767 (Kelly, D-AZ) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) 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; S. 911 (Masto, D-NV) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the PSOB Program to ensure that Chief Proffitts family, and any others in a similar situation, would be eligible to apply for the programs benefit; PRIORITY - S. 978 (Moody, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; S. 1077 (Collins, R-ME) the District of Columbia Local Funds Act, which would restore the District of Columbias ability to implement its Fiscal Year 2025 budget; S. 1247 (Schmitt, R-MO) the Public Safety Officer Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; S. 1283 (Hagerty, R-TN), the Innovate to De-Escalate Modernization Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; S. 1295 (Justice, R-WV) the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against Narcotics (BOP SCAN) in Mail Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; S. 1300 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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. 1316 (Peters, D-MI) the Strong Communities Act, which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1333 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes; S. 1401 (Kennedy, R-LA) the Targeting Child Predators Act, which would extend the time law enforcement can seek a court order to delay a subpoena notification from 90 to 180 days; S. 1409 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Public Safety Officer Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would establish concussion protocols for Law Enforcement Agencies. S. 1572 (Blackburn, R-TN) the Federal Carjacking Enforcement Act, which would update the Federal statute governing carjacking offenses to make it easier for prosecutors to bring charges; S. 1595 (Cornyn, R-TX), the Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Act, which would expand the existing U.S. Department of Justices Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.2200 (Gallego, D-AZ), the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act, which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies to areas near the Northern and Southern border; S. 2400(Fetterman, D-PA) the Art Market Integrity Act, which would require art dealers and auction houses to implement robust anti-money laundering compliance measures. S. 3023 (Blackburn, R-TN) the Safe Cloud Storage Act, which would establish baseline security and data protection standards for cloud service providers that store sensitive government and law enforcement information; S. 3189 (Sheehy, R-MT) the Strengthening Resources for Our Schools (SROs) Act, which would mend existing law to offer a Federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any officer or veteran who chooses to serve as a School Resource Officer; S.3366 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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, judges, and other public safety officers.; S.3453 (Scott, R-FL) the No Bounties on Badges Act, which would offer a Federal reward to anyone who provides credible information leading to the prevention, arrest, or conviction of an individual offering bounties to intimidate, harm, or kill a law enforcement officer. S. 3626 (Shaheen, D-NH) the Federal Correctional Officer Paycheck Protection Act, which would establish a 35% increase to the General Schedule base pay for all BOP correctional staff, including GS, GL, and custodial wage-grade employees; S. 3801(Grassley, R-IA) the the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act, which would update and enhance Federal laws to combat money laundering operations and restrict the ability of criminals to profit from their crimes; S. 3897 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers Benefits Program Expansion Act, which would improve the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) Program, ensuring that the men and women who serve our communities-and their families-receive timely and meaningful support when tragedy strikes; S. 4260 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Child Predators Accountability Act, which would refine statutory definitions to ensure that the law encompasses both active and passive involvement of minors in sexually explicit depictions when the offender intentionally includes a child.
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2025 · fourth_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
PASSED HOUSE - H.R. 27 (Griffith, R-VA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. H.R. 378 (Buchanan, R-FL) the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of aggravating factors in death penalty determinations for those who target, kill, or attempt to kill a law enforcement or other public safety officer; H.R. 621 (Joyce, R-OH), the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 633 (Salazar, R-FL) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 911 (Fitzpatrick, R-FL) the Patriot Day Act, which would establish September 11th as a permanent Federal holiday; H.R. 993 (Correa, D-CA) the Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies (DRONE) Act, which would allow law enforcement agencies to use Edward R. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) funds to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems; H.R. 1046 (Bacon, R-NE) the Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; H.R. 1236 (Barr, R-KY) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits program and allow survivors to file for death or disability benefits for officers no in active service, provided their death or disability was connected to their service as a law enforcement officer; H.R. 1260 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would address the growing crisis that faces the USPP and its ability to protect and serve the public; H.R. 1266 (Panetta, D-CA), the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would appropriate steps to add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act; H.R. 1269 (Scanlon, D-PA) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program; H.R. 1443 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Public Safety Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 1505 (Stauber, D-MN) the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; PRIORITY - H.R. 1551 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Protect and Serve Act, which would impose Federal penalties on individuals who deliberately target local, State or Federal law enforcement officers with violence; H.R. 1556 (Bresnahan, R-PA) Erics Law, which would amend current law to 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. 1726 (Neguse, D-CO) the Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization 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. 1773 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would make firearm thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison; PRIORITY - H.R. 2094 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; H.R. 2096 (Garbarino, R-NY) the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act. which would restore the collective bargaining rights, non-disclosure protections, and disciplinary protocols of MPD officers that were lost in the implementation of the CPJRAA; H.R. 2194 (Harder, D-CA) the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs in order to enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies; H.R. 2189 (Fitzgerald, R-WI) the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; H.R. 2240 (Moore, R-NC) the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would expand the data collected by the Federal government on attacks and aggressions against law enforcement officers in a comprehensive way; H.R. 2502 (Kaptur, D-OH) the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act, which would provide grants to law enforcement departments at the state, local, territorial, and tribal level to obtain vital behavioral health crisis response training to resolve behavioral health crisis situations more safely and effectively; H.R. 2654 (Stauber, D-MN), the Lifesaving Gear for Police Act, which would protect the important surplus equipment programs for State and local law enforcement, like the 1033 program, from politically-driven interference and competing Executive Orders; H.R. 2711 (Gottheimer, D-NJ,) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 175 law enforcement officers; H.R. 2735 (Nehls, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes. H.R. 2752 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Ensuring Safer Schools Act, which would amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by allowing funds from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be utilized for the training of military veterans and retired law enforcement officers to become school resource officers; H.R. 2964 (Taylor, R-OH) the Fight Fentanyl Act, which would provide over $333 million annually for the HIDTA program and allow for and support programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies. H.R. 3267 (Houlahan, D-PA), the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would eliminate a technicality in the law that requires an applicant to be employed in a public service job to qualify for public loan forgiveness; H.R. 3366 (Pappas, D-NH), 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 and mid-sized law enforcement agencies; H.R. 3372 (Sykes, D-OH), 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; H.R. 3398 (Kennedy, D-NY), the Aaron Salter, Jr. Responsible Body Armor Protection Act, which would bar civilians from purchasing, owning, or possessing enhanced body armor with ballistic resistance that meets or exceeds the RF1 standard; H.R.3832 (Bacon, R-NE), the Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act, which would allow a surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen public safety officer who died in service or as a result of their service to apply for U.S. citizenship more quickly by waiving the five-year continuous residence and the 30-month physical presence requirements for naturalization. H.R.4024 (Carbajal, D-CA), the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which would provide a needed one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); H.R. 4334 (Kustoff, R-TN), the Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act, which would better equip Federal prosecutors to pursue criminals; H.R. 4607 (Neguse, D-C0) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protections (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in the 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. 5282 (Reschenthaler, R-NY) the Reauthorizing Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would reauthorize funds made available from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to continue services for law enforcement officers and their families to include stress reduction and suicide prevention through 2029; H.R. 5391 (Deluzio, D-PA) the Bipartisan Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program Expansion Act, which would increase reauthorization of the Patrick J. Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership program; H.R. 5403 (Landsman, D-OH) the Enhancing COPS Hiring Program Grants for Local Law Enforcement Act, which would allow funds administered by the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be used to provide bonuses for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R 5594 (McDonald Rivet, D-MI) the Protect Your Pin Act, which would expand guidelines to allow local law enforcement agencies to use grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justices Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes program to combat identity theft. H.R. 5744 (Vindman, D-VA) the Targeting Online Sales of Fentanyl Act, which would direct the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable online its sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combating such; H.R. 6042 (Smith, R-NJ) the Law Against Nefarious Drones, Enforcement, Deconfliction (LANDED) Act, which would create policies for acquiring and deploying approved counter-UAS detection systems, authorize processes for State agencies to detect, monitor, and mitigate drone threats, and establish a grant program to fund equipment and training; H.R. 6120 (Zinke, R-MT) the Strengthening Resources for Our Schools (SROs) Act, which would mend existing law to offer a Federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any officer or veteran who chooses to serve as a School Resource Officer; H.R. 6602 (Torres, D-CA) the Supporting Blue Envelope Programs Act, which would allow individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) to physically present a blue envelope to officers during traffic stops in order to improve outcomes; H.R. 6605 (Vasquez, D-NM) the Secure Our Skies Drone Safety Act, which would require the Government Accountability Office to submit reports to Congress on the use of drone and counter-drone systems by law enforcement agencies and to submit recommendations on which policies should be changed to ensure law enforcement agencies can properly counter these threats; H.R. 6683 (Williams, R-TX) the Safer Schools Act, which would by creating two pilot grant programs for public schools within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); H.R. 6911 (Harrigan, R-NC) the COPS Anti-Organized Crime and Cartel Enforcement Act, which would establish a new grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) that would provide resources for State and local law enforcement agencies to create and equip specialized units dedicated to combatting organized crime, cartel operations, and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). H.R. 7114 (Moore, R-NC) the No Bounties on Badges Act, which would offer a Federal reward to anyone who provides credible information leading to the prevention, arrest, or conviction of an individual offering bounties to intimidate, harm, or kill a law enforcement officer; S. 83 (Cruz, R-TX), the Thin Blue Line Act, which would provide that the murder of local or State prosecutors, law enforcement officers, or other public safety officers also be considered an aggravating factor in a Federal case; S. 122 (Banks, R-ID) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades; S. 146 (Cruz, R-TX) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; PRIORITY - S. 167 (Tillis, R-NC) 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; S. 180 (Grassley R-IA) the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); S. 237 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program. S. 331 (Cassidy, R-LA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. S. 516 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, which would prohibit the distribution of Non-Consensually Distributed Intimate Images (NDII) that loopholes in select States have thus far prevented; S. 666 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the First Responders Wellness Act, which would establish a national hotline for first responders through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); S. 678 (Cortez Masto, D-NV) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office within the U.S. Department of Justice, that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 200 law enforcement officers; TOP PRIORITY - S. 679 (Kennedy, R-LA) the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) exempting qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms; S. 767 (Kelly, D-AZ) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) 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; S. 911 (Masto, D-NV) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the PSOB Program to ensure that Chief Proffitts family, and any others in a similar situation, would be eligible to apply for the programs benefit; PRIORITY - S. 978 (Moody, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; S. 1077 (Collins, R-ME) the District of Columbia Local Funds Act, which would restore the District of Columbias ability to implement its Fiscal Year 2025 budget; S. 1247 (Schmitt, R-MO) the Public Safety Officer Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; S. 1283 (Hagerty, R-TN), the Innovate to De-Escalate Modernization Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; S. 1295 (Justice, R-WV) the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against Narcotics (BOP SCAN) in Mail Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; S. 1300 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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. 1316 (Peters, D-MI) the Strong Communities Act, which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1333 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes; S. 1401 (Kennedy, R-LA) the Targeting Child Predators Act, which would extend the time law enforcement can seek a court order to delay a subpoena notification from 90 to 180 days; S. 1409 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Public Safety Officer Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would establish concussion protocols for Law Enforcement Agencies. S. 1595 (Cornyn, R-TX), the Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Act, which would expand the existing U.S. Department of Justices Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.2200 (Gallego, D-AZ), the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act, which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies to areas near the Northern and Southern border; S. 2400(Fetterman, D-PA) the Art Market Integrity Act, which would require art dealers and auction houses to implement robust anti-money laundering compliance measures. S. 3023 (Blackburn, R-TN) the Safe Cloud Storage Act, which would establish baseline security and data protection standards for cloud service providers that store sensitive government and law enforcement information; S. 3189 (Sheehy, R-MT) the Strengthening Resources for Our Schools (SROs) Act, which would mend existing law to offer a Federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any officer or veteran who chooses to serve as a School Resource Officer; S.3366 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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, judges, and other public safety officers.; S.3453 (Scott, R-FL) the No Bounties on Badges Act, which would offer a Federal reward to anyone who provides credible information leading to the prevention, arrest, or conviction of an individual offering bounties to intimidate, harm, or kill a law enforcement officer.
2025 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
PASSED HOUSE - H.R. 27 (Griffith, R-VA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. H.R. 378 (Buchanan, R-FL) the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of aggravating factors in death penalty determinations for those who target, kill, or attempt to kill a law enforcement or other public safety officer; H.R. 621 (Joyce, R-OH), the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 633 (Salazar, R-FL) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 911 (Fitzpatrick, R-FL) the Patriot Day Act, which would establish September 11th as a permanent Federal holiday; H.R. 993 (Correa, D-CA) the Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies (DRONE) Act, which would allow law enforcement agencies to use Edward R. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) funds to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems; H.R. 1046 (Bacon, R-NE) the Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; H.R. 1236 (Barr, R-KY) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits program and allow survivors to file for death or disability benefits for officers no in active service, provided their death or disability was connected to their service as a law enforcement officer; H.R. 1260 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would address the growing crisis that faces the USPP and its ability to protect and serve the public; H.R. 1266 (Panetta, D-CA), the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would appropriate steps to add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act; H.R. 1269 (Scanlon, D-PA) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program; H.R. 1443 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Public Safety Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 1505 (Stauber, D-MN) the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; PRIORITY - H.R. 1551 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Protect and Serve Act, which would impose Federal penalties on individuals who deliberately target local, State or Federal law enforcement officers with violence; H.R. 1556 (Bresnahan, R-PA) Erics Law, which would amend current law to 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. 1726 (Neguse, D-CO) the Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization 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. 1773 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would make firearm thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison; PRIORITY - H.R. 2094 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; H.R. 2096 (Garbarino, R-NY) the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act. which would restore the collective bargaining rights, non-disclosure protections, and disciplinary protocols of MPD officers that were lost in the implementation of the CPJRAA; H.R. 2194 (Harder, D-CA) the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs in order to enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies; H.R. 2189 (Fitzgerald, R-WI) the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; H.R. 2240 (Moore, R-NC) the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would expand the data collected by the Federal government on attacks and aggressions against law enforcement officers in a comprehensive way; H.R. 2502 (Kaptur, D-OH) the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act, which would provide grants to law enforcement departments at the state, local, territorial, and tribal level to obtain vital behavioral health crisis response training to resolve behavioral health crisis situations more safely and effectively; H.R. 2654 (Stauber, D-MN), the Lifesaving Gear for Police Act, which would protect the important surplus equipment programs for State and local law enforcement, like the 1033 program, from politically-driven interference and competing Executive Orders; H.R. 2711 (Gottheimer, D-NJ,) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 175 law enforcement officers; H.R. 2735 (Nehls, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes. H.R. 2752 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Ensuring Safer Schools Act, which would amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by allowing funds from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be utilized for the training of military veterans and retired law enforcement officers to become school resource officers; H.R. 2964 (Taylor, R-OH) the Fight Fentanyl Act, which would provide over $333 million annually for the HIDTA program and allow for and support programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies. H.R. 3267 (Houlahan, D-PA), the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would eliminate a technicality in the law that requires an applicant to be employed in a public service job to qualify for public loan forgiveness; H.R. 3366 (Pappas, D-NH), 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 and mid-sized law enforcement agencies; H.R. 3372 (Sykes, D-OH), 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; H.R. 3398 (Kennedy, D-NY), the Aaron Salter, Jr. Responsible Body Armor Protection Act, which would bar civilians from purchasing, owning, or possessing enhanced body armor with ballistic resistance that meets or exceeds the RF1 standard; H.R.3832 (Bacon, R-NE), the Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act, which would allow a surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen public safety officer who died in service or as a result of their service to apply for U.S. citizenship more quickly by waiving the five-year continuous residence and the 30-month physical presence requirements for naturalization. H.R.4024 (Carbajal, D-CA), the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which would provide a needed one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); H.R. 4334 (Kustoff, R-TN), the Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act, which would better equip Federal prosecutors to pursue criminals; H.R. 4607 (Neguse, D-C0) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protections (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in the 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. 5282 (Reschenthaler, R-NY) the Reauthorizing Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would reauthorize funds made available from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to continue services for law enforcement officers and their families to include stress reduction and suicide prevention through 2029; H.R. 5391 (Deluzio, D-PA) the Bipartisan Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program Expansion Act, which would increase reauthorization of the Patrick J. Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership program; H.R. 5403 (Landsman, D-OH) the Enhancing COPS Hiring Program Grants for Local Law Enforcement Act, which would allow funds administered by the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be used to provide bonuses for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R 5594 (McDonald Rivet, D-MI) the Protect Your Pin Act, which would expand guidelines to allow local law enforcement agencies to use grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justices Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes program to combat identity theft. S. 83 (Cruz, R-TX), the Thin Blue Line Act, which would provide that the murder of local or State prosecutors, law enforcement officers, or other public safety officers also be considered an aggravating factor in a Federal case; S. 122 (Banks, R-ID) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades; S. 146 (Cruz, R-TX) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; PRIORITY - S. 167 (Tillis, R-NC) 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; S. 180 (Grassley R-IA) the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); S. 237 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program. S. 331 (Cassidy, R-LA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. S. 516 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, which would prohibit the distribution of Non-Consensually Distributed Intimate Images (NDII) that loopholes in select States have thus far prevented; S. 666 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the First Responders Wellness Act, which would establish a national hotline for first responders through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); S. 678 (Cortez Masto, D-NV) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office within the U.S. Department of Justice, that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 200 law enforcement officers; TOP PRIORITY - S. 679 (Kennedy, R-LA) the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) exempting qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms; S. 767 (Kelly, D-AZ) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) 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; S. 911 (Masto, D-NV) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the PSOB Program to ensure that Chief Proffitts family, and any others in a similar situation, would be eligible to apply for the programs benefit; PRIORITY - S. 978 (Moody, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; S. 1077 (Collins, R-ME) the District of Columbia Local Funds Act, which would restore the District of Columbias ability to implement its Fiscal Year 2025 budget; S. 1247 (Schmitt, R-MO) the Public Safety Officer Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; S. 1283 (Hagerty, R-TN), the Innovate to De-Escalate Modernization Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; S. 1295 (Justice, R-WV) the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against Narcotics (BOP SCAN) in Mail Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; S. 1300 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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. 1316 (Peters, D-MI) the Strong Communities Act, which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1333 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes; S. 1401 (Kennedy, R-LA) the Targeting Child Predators Act, which would extend the time law enforcement can seek a court order to delay a subpoena notification from 90 to 180 days; S. 1409 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Public Safety Officer Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would establish concussion protocols for Law Enforcement Agencies. S. 1595 (Cornyn, R-TX), the Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Act, which would expand the existing U.S. Department of Justices Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.2200 (Gallego, D-AZ), the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act, which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies to areas near the Northern and Southern border; S. 2400(Fetterman, D-PA) the Art Market Integrity Act, which would require art dealers and auction houses to implement robust anti-money laundering compliance measures.
2025 · second_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
PASSED HOUSE - H.R. 27 (Griffith, R-VA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. H.R. 378 (Buchanan, R-FL) the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of aggravating factors in death penalty determinations for those who target, kill, or attempt to kill a law enforcement or other public safety officer; H.R. 621 (Joyce, R-OH), the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 633 (Salazar, R-FL) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 911 (Fitzpatrick, R-FL) the Patriot Day Act, which would establish September 11th as a permanent Federal holiday; H.R. 993 (Correa, D-CA) the Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies (DRONE) Act, which would allow law enforcement agencies to use Edward R. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) funds to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems; H.R. 1046 (Bacon, R-NE) the Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; H.R. 1236 (Barr, R-KY) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits program and allow survivors to file for death or disability benefits for officers no in active service, provided their death or disability was connected to their service as a law enforcement officer; H.R. 1260 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would address the growing crisis that faces the USPP and its ability to protect and serve the public; H.R. 1266 (Panetta, D-CA), the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would appropriate steps to add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act; H.R. 1269 (Scanlon, D-PA) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program; H.R. 1443 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Public Safety Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 1505 (Stauber, D-MN) the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; PRIORITY - H.R. 1551 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Protect and Serve Act, which would impose Federal penalties on individuals who deliberately target local, State or Federal law enforcement officers with violence; H.R. 1556 (Bresnahan, R-PA) Erics Law, which would amend current law to 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. 1726 (Neguse, D-CO) the Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization 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. 1773 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would make firearm thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison; PRIORITY - H.R. 2094 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; H.R. 2096 (Garbarino, R-NY) the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act. which would restore the collective bargaining rights, non-disclosure protections, and disciplinary protocols of MPD officers that were lost in the implementation of the CPJRAA; H.R. 2194 (Harder, D-CA) the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs in order to enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies; H.R. 2189 (Fitzgerald, R-WI) the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; H.R. 2240 (Moore, R-NC) the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would expand the data collected by the Federal government on attacks and aggressions against law enforcement officers in a comprehensive way; H.R. 2502 (Kaptur, D-OH) the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act, which would provide grants to law enforcement departments at the state, local, territorial, and tribal level to obtain vital behavioral health crisis response training to resolve behavioral health crisis situations more safely and effectively; H.R. 2654 (Stauber, D-MN), the Lifesaving Gear for Police Act, which would protect the important surplus equipment programs for State and local law enforcement, like the 1033 program, from politically-driven interference and competing Executive Orders; H.R. 2711 (Gottheimer, D-NJ,) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 175 law enforcement officers; H.R. 2735 (Nehls, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes. H.R. 2752 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Ensuring Safer Schools Act, which would amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by allowing funds from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be utilized for the training of military veterans and retired law enforcement officers to become school resource officers; H.R. 2964 (Taylor, R-OH) the Fight Fentanyl Act, which would provide over $333 million annually for the HIDTA program and allow for and support programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies. H.R. 3267 (Houlahan, D-PA), the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would eliminate a technicality in the law that requires an applicant to be employed in a public service job to qualify for public loan forgiveness; H.R. 3366 (Pappas, D-NH), 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 and mid-sized law enforcement agencies; H.R. 3372 (Sykes, D-OH), 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; H.R. 3398 (Kennedy, D-NY), the Aaron Salter, Jr. Responsible Body Armor Protection Act, which would bar civilians from purchasing, owning, or possessing enhanced body armor with ballistic resistance that meets or exceeds the RF1 standard; H.R.3832 (Bacon, R-NE), the Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act, which would allow a surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen public safety officer who died in service or as a result of their service to apply for U.S. citizenship more quickly by waiving the five-year continuous residence and the 30-month physical presence requirements for naturalization. H.R.4024 (Carbajal, D-CA), the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which would provide a needed one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); H.R. 4334 (Kustoff, R-TN), the Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act, which would better equip Federal prosecutors to pursue criminals; S. 83 (Cruz, R-TX), the Thin Blue Line Act, which would provide that the murder of local or State prosecutors, law enforcement officers, or other public safety officers also be considered an aggravating factor in a Federal case; S. 122 (Banks, R-ID) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades; S. 146 (Cruz, R-TX) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; PRIORITY - S. 167 (Tillis, R-NC) 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; S. 180 (Grassley R-IA) the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); S. 237 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program. S. 331 (Cassidy, R-LA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. S. 516 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, which would prohibit the distribution of Non-Consensually Distributed Intimate Images (NDII) that loopholes in select States have thus far prevented; S. 666 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the First Responders Wellness Act, which would establish a national hotline for first responders through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); S. 678 (Cortez Masto, D-NV) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office within the U.S. Department of Justice, that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 200 law enforcement officers; TOP PRIORITY - S. 679 (Kennedy, R-LA) the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) exempting qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms; S. 767 (Kelly, D-AZ) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) 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; S. 911 (Masto, D-NV) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the PSOB Program to ensure that Chief Proffitts family, and any others in a similar situation, would be eligible to apply for the programs benefit; PRIORITY - S. 978 (Moody, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; S. 1077 (Collins, R-ME) the District of Columbia Local Funds Act, which would restore the District of Columbias ability to implement its Fiscal Year 2025 budget; S. 1247 (Schmitt, R-MO) the Public Safety Officer Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; S. 1283 (Hagerty, R-TN), the Innovate to De-Escalate Modernization Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; S. 1295 (Justice, R-WV) the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against Narcotics (BOP SCAN) in Mail Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; S. 1300 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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. 1316 (Peters, D-MI) the Strong Communities Act, which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1333 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes; S. 1401 (Kennedy, R-LA) the Targeting Child Predators Act, which would extend the time law enforcement can seek a court order to delay a subpoena notification from 90 to 180 days; S. 1409 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Public Safety Officer Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would establish concussion protocols for Law Enforcement Agencies. S. 1595 (Cornyn, R-TX), the Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Act, which would expand the existing U.S. Department of Justices Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.2200 (Gallego, D-AZ), the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act, which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies to areas near the Northern and Southern border;
2025 · first_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
PASSED HOUSE - H.R. 27 (Griffith, R-VA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. H.R. 378 (Buchanan, R-FL) the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of aggravating factors in death penalty determinations for those who target, kill, or attempt to kill a law enforcement or other public safety officer; H.R. 621 (Joyce, R-OH), the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 633 (Salazar, R-FL) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 911 (Fitzpatrick, R-FL) the Patriot Day Act, which would establish September 11th as a permanent Federal holiday; H.R. 993 (Correa, D-CA) the Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies (DRONE) Act, which would allow law enforcement agencies to use Edward R. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) funds to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems; H.R. 1046 (Bacon, R-NE) the Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; H.R. 1236 (Barr, R-KY) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits program and allow survivors to file for death or disability benefits for officers no in active service, provided their death or disability was connected to their service as a law enforcement officer; H.R. 1260 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would address the growing crisis that faces the USPP and its ability to protect and serve the public; H.R. 1266 (Panetta, D-CA), the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would appropriate steps to add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act; H.R. 1269 (Scanlon, D-PA) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program; H.R. 1443 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Public Safety Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 1505 (Stauber, D-MN) the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; PRIORITY - H.R. 1551 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Protect and Serve Act, which would impose Federal penalties on individuals who deliberately target local, State or Federal law enforcement officers with violence; H.R. 1556 (Bresnahan, R-PA) Erics Law, which would amend current law to 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. 1726 (Neguse, D-CO) the Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization 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. 1773 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would make firearm thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison; PRIORITY - H.R. 2094 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; H.R. 2096 (Garbarino, R-NY) the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act. which would restore the collective bargaining rights, non-disclosure protections, and disciplinary protocols of MPD officers that were lost in the implementation of the CPJRAA; H.R. 2194 (Harder, D-CA) the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs in order to enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies; H.R. 2240 (Moore, R-NC) the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would expand the data collected by the Federal government on attacks and aggressions against law enforcement officers in a comprehensive way; H.R. 2502 (Kaptur, D-OH) the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act, which would provide grants to law enforcement departments at the state, local, territorial, and tribal level to obtain vital behavioral health crisis response training to resolve behavioral health crisis situations more safely and effectively; H.R. 2654 (Stauber, D-MN), the Lifesaving Gear for Police Act, which would protect the important surplus equipment programs for State and local law enforcement, like the 1033 program, from politically-driven interference and competing Executive Orders; H.R. 2711 (Gottheimer, D-NJ,) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 175 law enforcement officers; H.R. 2735 (Nehls, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes. H.R. 2964 (Taylor, R-OH) the Fight Fentanyl Act, which would provide over $333 million annually for the HIDTA program and allow for and support programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies. S. 83 (Cruz, R-TX), the Thin Blue Line Act, which would provide that the murder of local or State prosecutors, law enforcement officers, or other public safety officers also be considered an aggravating factor in a Federal case; S. 122 (Banks, R-ID) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades; S. 146 (Cruz, R-TX) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; PRIORITY - S. 167 (Tillis, R-NC) 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; S. 180 (Grassley R-IA) the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); S. 237 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program. S. 331 (Cassidy, R-LA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. S. 516 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, which would prohibit the distribution of Non-Consensually Distributed Intimate Images (NDII) that loopholes in select States have thus far prevented; S. 666 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the First Responders Wellness Act, which would establish a national hotline for first responders through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); S. 678 (Cortez Masto, D-NV) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office within the U.S. Department of Justice, that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 200 law enforcement officers; TOP PRIORITY - S. 679 (Kennedy, R-LA) the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) exempting qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms; S. 767 (Kelly, D-AZ) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) 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; S. 911 (Masto, D-NV) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the PSOB Program to ensure that Chief Proffitts family, and any others in a similar situation, would be eligible to apply for the programs benefit; PRIORITY - S. 978 (Moody, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; S. 1077 (Collins, R-ME) the District of Columbia Local Funds Act, which would restore the District of Columbias ability to implement its Fiscal Year 2025 budget; S. 1247 (Schmitt, R-MO) the Public Safety Officer Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; S. 1295 (Justice, R-WV) the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against Narcotics (BOP SCAN) in Mail Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; S. 1300 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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. 1316 (Peters, D-MI) the Strong Communities Act, which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1333 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes; S. 1401 (Kennedy, R-LA) the Targeting Child Predators Act, which would extend the time law enforcement can seek a court order to delay a subpoena notification from 90 to 180 days; S. 1409 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Public Safety Officer Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would establish concussion protocols for Law Enforcement Agencies.
2025 · fourth_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
PASSED HOUSE - H.R. 27 (Griffith, R-VA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. H.R. 378 (Buchanan, R-FL) the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of aggravating factors in death penalty determinations for those who target, kill, or attempt to kill a law enforcement or other public safety officer; H.R. 621 (Joyce, R-OH), the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 633 (Salazar, R-FL) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 911 (Fitzpatrick, R-FL) the Patriot Day Act, which would establish September 11th as a permanent Federal holiday; H.R. 993 (Correa, D-CA) the Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies (DRONE) Act, which would allow law enforcement agencies to use Edward R. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) funds to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems; H.R. 1046 (Bacon, R-NE) the Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; H.R. 1236 (Barr, R-KY) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits program and allow survivors to file for death or disability benefits for officers no in active service, provided their death or disability was connected to their service as a law enforcement officer; H.R. 1260 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would address the growing crisis that faces the USPP and its ability to protect and serve the public; H.R. 1266 (Panetta, D-CA), the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would appropriate steps to add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act; H.R. 1269 (Scanlon, D-PA) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program; H.R. 1443 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Public Safety Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 1505 (Stauber, D-MN) the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; PRIORITY - H.R. 1551 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Protect and Serve Act, which would impose Federal penalties on individuals who deliberately target local, State or Federal law enforcement officers with violence; H.R. 1556 (Bresnahan, R-PA) Erics Law, which would amend current law to 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. 1726 (Neguse, D-CO) the Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization 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. 1773 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would make firearm thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison; PRIORITY - H.R. 2094 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; H.R. 2096 (Garbarino, R-NY) the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act. which would restore the collective bargaining rights, non-disclosure protections, and disciplinary protocols of MPD officers that were lost in the implementation of the CPJRAA; H.R. 2194 (Harder, D-CA) the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs in order to enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies; H.R. 2189 (Fitzgerald, R-WI) the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; H.R. 2240 (Moore, R-NC) the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would expand the data collected by the Federal government on attacks and aggressions against law enforcement officers in a comprehensive way; H.R. 2502 (Kaptur, D-OH) the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act, which would provide grants to law enforcement departments at the state, local, territorial, and tribal level to obtain vital behavioral health crisis response training to resolve behavioral health crisis situations more safely and effectively; H.R. 2654 (Stauber, D-MN), the Lifesaving Gear for Police Act, which would protect the important surplus equipment programs for State and local law enforcement, like the 1033 program, from politically-driven interference and competing Executive Orders; H.R. 2711 (Gottheimer, D-NJ,) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 175 law enforcement officers; H.R. 2735 (Nehls, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes. H.R. 2752 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Ensuring Safer Schools Act, which would amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by allowing funds from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be utilized for the training of military veterans and retired law enforcement officers to become school resource officers; H.R. 2964 (Taylor, R-OH) the Fight Fentanyl Act, which would provide over $333 million annually for the HIDTA program and allow for and support programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies. H.R. 3267 (Houlahan, D-PA), the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would eliminate a technicality in the law that requires an applicant to be employed in a public service job to qualify for public loan forgiveness; H.R. 3366 (Pappas, D-NH), 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 and mid-sized law enforcement agencies; H.R. 3372 (Sykes, D-OH), 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; H.R. 3398 (Kennedy, D-NY), the Aaron Salter, Jr. Responsible Body Armor Protection Act, which would bar civilians from purchasing, owning, or possessing enhanced body armor with ballistic resistance that meets or exceeds the RF1 standard; H.R.3832 (Bacon, R-NE), the Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act, which would allow a surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen public safety officer who died in service or as a result of their service to apply for U.S. citizenship more quickly by waiving the five-year continuous residence and the 30-month physical presence requirements for naturalization. H.R.4024 (Carbajal, D-CA), the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which would provide a needed one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); H.R. 4334 (Kustoff, R-TN), the Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act, which would better equip Federal prosecutors to pursue criminals; H.R. 4607 (Neguse, D-C0) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protections (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in the 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. 5282 (Reschenthaler, R-NY) the Reauthorizing Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would reauthorize funds made available from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to continue services for law enforcement officers and their families to include stress reduction and suicide prevention through 2029; H.R. 5391 (Deluzio, D-PA) the Bipartisan Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program Expansion Act, which would increase reauthorization of the Patrick J. Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership program; H.R. 5403 (Landsman, D-OH) the Enhancing COPS Hiring Program Grants for Local Law Enforcement Act, which would allow funds administered by the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be used to provide bonuses for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R 5594 (McDonald Rivet, D-MI) the Protect Your Pin Act, which would expand guidelines to allow local law enforcement agencies to use grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justices Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes program to combat identity theft. H.R. 5744 (Vindman, D-VA) the Targeting Online Sales of Fentanyl Act, which would direct the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable online its sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combating such; H.R. 6042 (Smith, R-NJ) the Law Against Nefarious Drones, Enforcement, Deconfliction (LANDED) Act, which would create policies for acquiring and deploying approved counter-UAS detection systems, authorize processes for State agencies to detect, monitor, and mitigate drone threats, and establish a grant program to fund equipment and training; H.R. 6120 (Zinke, R-MT) the Strengthening Resources for Our Schools (SROs) Act, which would mend existing law to offer a Federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any officer or veteran who chooses to serve as a School Resource Officer; H.R. 6602 (Torres, D-CA) the Supporting Blue Envelope Programs Act, which would allow individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) to physically present a blue envelope to officers during traffic stops in order to improve outcomes; H.R. 6605 (Vasquez, D-NM) the Secure Our Skies Drone Safety Act, which would require the Government Accountability Office to submit reports to Congress on the use of drone and counter-drone systems by law enforcement agencies and to submit recommendations on which policies should be changed to ensure law enforcement agencies can properly counter these threats; H.R. 6683 (Williams, R-TX) the Safer Schools Act, which would by creating two pilot grant programs for public schools within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); H.R. 6911 (Harrigan, R-NC) the COPS Anti-Organized Crime and Cartel Enforcement Act, which would establish a new grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) that would provide resources for State and local law enforcement agencies to create and equip specialized units dedicated to combatting organized crime, cartel operations, and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). H.R. 7114 (Moore, R-NC) the No Bounties on Badges Act, which would offer a Federal reward to anyone who provides credible information leading to the prevention, arrest, or conviction of an individual offering bounties to intimidate, harm, or kill a law enforcement officer; S. 83 (Cruz, R-TX), the Thin Blue Line Act, which would provide that the murder of local or State prosecutors, law enforcement officers, or other public safety officers also be considered an aggravating factor in a Federal case; S. 122 (Banks, R-ID) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades; S. 146 (Cruz, R-TX) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; PRIORITY - S. 167 (Tillis, R-NC) 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; S. 180 (Grassley R-IA) the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); S. 237 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program. S. 331 (Cassidy, R-LA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. S. 516 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, which would prohibit the distribution of Non-Consensually Distributed Intimate Images (NDII) that loopholes in select States have thus far prevented; S. 666 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the First Responders Wellness Act, which would establish a national hotline for first responders through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); S. 678 (Cortez Masto, D-NV) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office within the U.S. Department of Justice, that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 200 law enforcement officers; TOP PRIORITY - S. 679 (Kennedy, R-LA) the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) exempting qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms; S. 767 (Kelly, D-AZ) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) 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; S. 911 (Masto, D-NV) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the PSOB Program to ensure that Chief Proffitts family, and any others in a similar situation, would be eligible to apply for the programs benefit; PRIORITY - S. 978 (Moody, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; S. 1077 (Collins, R-ME) the District of Columbia Local Funds Act, which would restore the District of Columbias ability to implement its Fiscal Year 2025 budget; S. 1247 (Schmitt, R-MO) the Public Safety Officer Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; S. 1283 (Hagerty, R-TN), the Innovate to De-Escalate Modernization Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; S. 1295 (Justice, R-WV) the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against Narcotics (BOP SCAN) in Mail Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; S. 1300 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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. 1316 (Peters, D-MI) the Strong Communities Act, which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1333 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes; S. 1401 (Kennedy, R-LA) the Targeting Child Predators Act, which would extend the time law enforcement can seek a court order to delay a subpoena notification from 90 to 180 days; S. 1409 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Public Safety Officer Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would establish concussion protocols for Law Enforcement Agencies. S. 1595 (Cornyn, R-TX), the Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Act, which would expand the existing U.S. Department of Justices Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.2200 (Gallego, D-AZ), the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act, which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies to areas near the Northern and Southern border; S. 2400(Fetterman, D-PA) the Art Market Integrity Act, which would require art dealers and auction houses to implement robust anti-money laundering compliance measures. S. 3023 (Blackburn, R-TN) the Safe Cloud Storage Act, which would establish baseline security and data protection standards for cloud service providers that store sensitive government and law enforcement information; S. 3189 (Sheehy, R-MT) the Strengthening Resources for Our Schools (SROs) Act, which would mend existing law to offer a Federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any officer or veteran who chooses to serve as a School Resource Officer; S.3366 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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, judges, and other public safety officers.; S.3453 (Scott, R-FL) the No Bounties on Badges Act, which would offer a Federal reward to anyone who provides credible information leading to the prevention, arrest, or conviction of an individual offering bounties to intimidate, harm, or kill a law enforcement officer.
2025 · fourth_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Issues relating to public safety, consent decree transparency, and nationwide standards; HELPER Act (S. 978, H.R. 2094); Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act (S. 237, H.R. 1269); Law Enforcement Officer and Firefighter Recreation Pass Act (H.R. 183); National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support, and Community Outreach Act (H.R. 309); Reauthorizing Support and Treatment for Officers in Crisis Act (S. 419); First Responders Care Expansion (FRCE) Act; The Providing Child Care for Police Officers Act; Invest to Protect Act (S. 768, H.R. 2711); LEOSA Reform Act (S. 679, H.R. 2243); Prevent Family Fire Act (H.R. 169); Thin Blue Line Act (S. 83, H.R. 378); Protect and Serve Act (S. 167, H.R. 1551); HALT Fentanyl Act (S. 331, H.R. 27); Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act / BOP SCAN Mail Act (S. 1295, H.R. 1046); Combating Illicit Xylazine Act (S. 545, H.R. 1266); Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act (S. 234, H.R. 350); Combating Organized Retail Crime Act (S. 1404, H.R. 2853); HIRRE Prosecutors Act; Supporting the Health and Safety of Law Enforcement Act; Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act (H.R. 909); DRONE Act (H.R. 1058); Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act (S.180, H.R.621); Strong Communities Act of 2025 (S.1316, H.R.3458); Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act (S.911, H.R.1236); PROTECT Our Children Reauthorization Act of 2025 (S.539, H.R.1274); Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Act (S.1595); Retired Law Enforcement Officers Continuing Service Act (S.1563, H.R.3846); Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program
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2025 · fourth_quarter · Government Issues
H.R. 1410, the "9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act," a bill to amend title XXXIII of the Public Health Service Act with respect to flexibility and funding for the World Trade Center Health Program; entire bill. Legislative proposal to extend funding for the World Trade Center Health Program and revise programmatic funding requirements (no bill introduced). H.R. 5864, the "Improving Police CARE Act," legislation to establish standards for trauma kits purchased using funds provided under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program; entire bill. Legislative proposal to revise administrative procedures relating to death benefits under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program (PSOB), reform the provision of disability benefits to injured public safety officers, and revise the federal tax treatment of PSOB death and disability benefits (no bill introduced). S. 1071, the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026," legislation to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, Division H, Title LXXXII ("Judiciary Matters"), sections 8202 ("PROTECT Our Children Act reauthorization"), 8203 ("Trauma kit standards"), 8204 ("Inclusion of certain retired public safety officers in the public safety officers' death benefits program"), and 8205 ("Honoring our fallen heroes"); and Title LXXXVI ("Securing the Airspace, Facilitating Emergency Response, and Safeguarding Key Infrastructure, Entertainment Venues, and Stadiums" ("SAFER SKIES")). S. 1316, the "Strong Communities Act," legislation to provide that COPS grant funds may be used for local law enforcement recruits to attend schools or academies if the recruits agree to serve in precincts of law enforcement agencies in their communities; entire bill. General education regarding the need to improve the delivery of benefits and services under the Public Safety Officers Benefits' Program to disabled law enforcement officers and the families of fallen officers. General education regarding the operations and staffing needs of the World Trade Center Health Program. H.R. 1269, the "Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act," a bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide public safety officer benefits for exposure-related cancers; entire bill. S. 1563, the "Retired Law Enforcement Officers Continuing Service Act," a bill to establish a Justice Department grant program a grant program for law enforcement agencies to hire retired officers to help with civilian law enforcement tasks; entire bill. S. 1595, the "Improving Police CARE Act," legislation to establish standards for trauma kits purchased using funds provided under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program; entire bill. S. 180, the "Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposures Act," legislation to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the use of grant amounts for providing training and resources for first responders on the use of containment devices to prevent secondary exposure to fentanyl and other potentially lethal substances, and purchasing such containment devices for use by first responders; entire bill. S. 2296, the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026," legislation to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy; S. Amdt. 3272, the "Law Enforcement and Crime Victims Support Package." S. 237, the "Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act," a bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide public safety officer benefits for exposure-related cancers; entire bill. S. 419, the Reauthorizing Support and Treatment for Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, legislation to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize grants to support law enforcement officers and families; entire bill. S. 539, the "PROTECT Our Children Reauthorization Act," legislation to reauthorize the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 and Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces; entire bill. S. 739, the "9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act," a bill to amend title XXXIII of the Public Health Service Act with respect to flexibility and funding for the World Trade Center Health Program; entire bill. S. 911, the "Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act," a bill to amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits Program to expand eligibility for death and disability benefits to certain retired law enforcement officers; entire bill.
2025 · fourth_quarter · Government Issues
General education regarding the impact on federal law enforcement officers of the statutory cap on Law Enforcement Availability Pay. H.R. 3170, the "Improving Access to Workers Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act," legislation to amend chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, to cover, for purposes of workers compensation under such chapter, services by physician assistants and nurse practitioners provided to injured Federal workers; entire bill. H.R. 3305, the "LEO Fair Retirement Act," legislation to allow retiring federal officers to apply the value of uncompensated overtime earned, but never received, as a credit towards their retirement annuity; entire bill. H.R. 6548, the "DHS Suicide Prevention and Resiliency for Law Enforcement Act," a bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Program for Department employees; entire bill. Legislative proposal to allow retiring federal officers to apply the value of uncompensated overtime earned, but never received, as a credit towards their retirement annuity (no bill introduced). Legislative proposal to amend the Federal Employee Compensation Act to modernize the provision of benefits to federal law enforcement officers disabled in the line of duty (no bill introduced). Legislative proposal to amend the Federal Employees Compensation Act to create a presumption of disability for federal law enforcement officers for post-traumatic and acute stress disorders (no bill introduced). S. 1071, the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026," legislation to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, Division H, Title LXXXII ("Judiciary Matters"), sections 8204 ("Inclusion of certain retired public safety officers in the public safety officers' death benefits program"), and 8205 ("Honoring our fallen heroes"). S. 1563, the "Retired Law Enforcement Officers Continuing Service Act," a bill to establish a Justice Department grant program for law enforcement agencies to hire retired officers to help with civilian law enforcement tasks; entire bill. S. 2296, the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026," legislation to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy; S. Amdt. 3272, the "Law Enforcement and Crime Victims Support Package." S. 237, the "Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act," a bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide public safety officer benefits for exposure-related cancers; entire bill. S. 2982, the "Federal Employees Civil Relief Act," legislation to suspend the enforcement of certain civil liabilities of Federal employees and contractors during a lapse in appropriations, or during a breach of the statutory debt limit. S. 3001, the "Shutdown Fairness Act," legislation to appropriate funds for pay and allowances of excepted Federal employees for periods of work performed during a lapse in appropriations; entire bill. S. 3012, the "Shutdown Fairness Act," legislation to appropriate funds for pay and allowances of excepted Federal employees for periods of work performed during a lapse in appropriations; entire bill. S. 3077, the "Safer Supervision Act," a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide appropriate standards for the inclusion of a term of supervised release after imprisonment; Sec. 4, "Law Enforcement Availability Pay for Probation and Pretrial Services Officers," and Sec. 6, "GAO Report." S. 3168, the "Shutdown Fairness Act," legislation to appropriate funds for pay and allowances of excepted Federal employees for periods of work performed during a lapse in appropriations; entire bill. S. 911, the "Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act," a bill to amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits Program to expand eligibility for death and disability benefits to certain retired law enforcement officers; entire bill.
2025 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
PASSED HOUSE - H.R. 27 (Griffith, R-VA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. H.R. 378 (Buchanan, R-FL) the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of aggravating factors in death penalty determinations for those who target, kill, or attempt to kill a law enforcement or other public safety officer; H.R. 621 (Joyce, R-OH), the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 633 (Salazar, R-FL) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 911 (Fitzpatrick, R-FL) the Patriot Day Act, which would establish September 11th as a permanent Federal holiday; H.R. 993 (Correa, D-CA) the Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies (DRONE) Act, which would allow law enforcement agencies to use Edward R. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) funds to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems; H.R. 1046 (Bacon, R-NE) the Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; H.R. 1236 (Barr, R-KY) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits program and allow survivors to file for death or disability benefits for officers no in active service, provided their death or disability was connected to their service as a law enforcement officer; H.R. 1260 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would address the growing crisis that faces the USPP and its ability to protect and serve the public; H.R. 1266 (Panetta, D-CA), the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would appropriate steps to add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act; H.R. 1269 (Scanlon, D-PA) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program; H.R. 1443 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Public Safety Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 1505 (Stauber, D-MN) the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; PRIORITY - H.R. 1551 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Protect and Serve Act, which would impose Federal penalties on individuals who deliberately target local, State or Federal law enforcement officers with violence; H.R. 1556 (Bresnahan, R-PA) Erics Law, which would amend current law to 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. 1726 (Neguse, D-CO) the Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization 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. 1773 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would make firearm thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison; PRIORITY - H.R. 2094 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; H.R. 2096 (Garbarino, R-NY) the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act. which would restore the collective bargaining rights, non-disclosure protections, and disciplinary protocols of MPD officers that were lost in the implementation of the CPJRAA; H.R. 2194 (Harder, D-CA) the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs in order to enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies; H.R. 2189 (Fitzgerald, R-WI) the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; H.R. 2240 (Moore, R-NC) the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would expand the data collected by the Federal government on attacks and aggressions against law enforcement officers in a comprehensive way; H.R. 2502 (Kaptur, D-OH) the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act, which would provide grants to law enforcement departments at the state, local, territorial, and tribal level to obtain vital behavioral health crisis response training to resolve behavioral health crisis situations more safely and effectively; H.R. 2654 (Stauber, D-MN), the Lifesaving Gear for Police Act, which would protect the important surplus equipment programs for State and local law enforcement, like the 1033 program, from politically-driven interference and competing Executive Orders; H.R. 2711 (Gottheimer, D-NJ,) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 175 law enforcement officers; H.R. 2735 (Nehls, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes. H.R. 2752 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Ensuring Safer Schools Act, which would amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by allowing funds from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be utilized for the training of military veterans and retired law enforcement officers to become school resource officers; H.R. 2964 (Taylor, R-OH) the Fight Fentanyl Act, which would provide over $333 million annually for the HIDTA program and allow for and support programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies. H.R. 3267 (Houlahan, D-PA), the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would eliminate a technicality in the law that requires an applicant to be employed in a public service job to qualify for public loan forgiveness; H.R. 3366 (Pappas, D-NH), 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 and mid-sized law enforcement agencies; H.R. 3372 (Sykes, D-OH), 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; H.R. 3398 (Kennedy, D-NY), the Aaron Salter, Jr. Responsible Body Armor Protection Act, which would bar civilians from purchasing, owning, or possessing enhanced body armor with ballistic resistance that meets or exceeds the RF1 standard; H.R.3832 (Bacon, R-NE), the Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act, which would allow a surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen public safety officer who died in service or as a result of their service to apply for U.S. citizenship more quickly by waiving the five-year continuous residence and the 30-month physical presence requirements for naturalization. H.R.4024 (Carbajal, D-CA), the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which would provide a needed one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); H.R. 4334 (Kustoff, R-TN), the Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act, which would better equip Federal prosecutors to pursue criminals; H.R. 4607 (Neguse, D-C0) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protections (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in the 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. 5282 (Reschenthaler, R-NY) the Reauthorizing Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would reauthorize funds made available from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to continue services for law enforcement officers and their families to include stress reduction and suicide prevention through 2029; H.R. 5391 (Deluzio, D-PA) the Bipartisan Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program Expansion Act, which would increase reauthorization of the Patrick J. Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership program; H.R. 5403 (Landsman, D-OH) the Enhancing COPS Hiring Program Grants for Local Law Enforcement Act, which would allow funds administered by the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be used to provide bonuses for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R 5594 (McDonald Rivet, D-MI) the Protect Your Pin Act, which would expand guidelines to allow local law enforcement agencies to use grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justices Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes program to combat identity theft. S. 83 (Cruz, R-TX), the Thin Blue Line Act, which would provide that the murder of local or State prosecutors, law enforcement officers, or other public safety officers also be considered an aggravating factor in a Federal case; S. 122 (Banks, R-ID) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades; S. 146 (Cruz, R-TX) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; PRIORITY - S. 167 (Tillis, R-NC) 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; S. 180 (Grassley R-IA) the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); S. 237 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program. S. 331 (Cassidy, R-LA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. S. 516 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, which would prohibit the distribution of Non-Consensually Distributed Intimate Images (NDII) that loopholes in select States have thus far prevented; S. 666 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the First Responders Wellness Act, which would establish a national hotline for first responders through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); S. 678 (Cortez Masto, D-NV) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office within the U.S. Department of Justice, that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 200 law enforcement officers; TOP PRIORITY - S. 679 (Kennedy, R-LA) the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) exempting qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms; S. 767 (Kelly, D-AZ) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) 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; S. 911 (Masto, D-NV) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the PSOB Program to ensure that Chief Proffitts family, and any others in a similar situation, would be eligible to apply for the programs benefit; PRIORITY - S. 978 (Moody, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; S. 1077 (Collins, R-ME) the District of Columbia Local Funds Act, which would restore the District of Columbias ability to implement its Fiscal Year 2025 budget; S. 1247 (Schmitt, R-MO) the Public Safety Officer Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; S. 1283 (Hagerty, R-TN), the Innovate to De-Escalate Modernization Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; S. 1295 (Justice, R-WV) the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against Narcotics (BOP SCAN) in Mail Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; S. 1300 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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. 1316 (Peters, D-MI) the Strong Communities Act, which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1333 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes; S. 1401 (Kennedy, R-LA) the Targeting Child Predators Act, which would extend the time law enforcement can seek a court order to delay a subpoena notification from 90 to 180 days; S. 1409 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Public Safety Officer Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would establish concussion protocols for Law Enforcement Agencies. S. 1595 (Cornyn, R-TX), the Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Act, which would expand the existing U.S. Department of Justices Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.2200 (Gallego, D-AZ), the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act, which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies to areas near the Northern and Southern border; S. 2400(Fetterman, D-PA) the Art Market Integrity Act, which would require art dealers and auction houses to implement robust anti-money laundering compliance measures.
2025 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Issues relating to public safety, consent decree transparency, and nationwide standards; HELPER Act (S. 978, H.R. 2094); Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act (S. 237, H.R. 1269); Law Enforcement Officer and Firefighter Recreation Pass Act (H.R. 183); National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support, and Community Outreach Act (H.R. 309); Reauthorizing Support and Treatment for Officers in Crisis Act (S. 419); First Responders Care Expansion (FRCE) Act; The Providing Child Care for Police Officers Act; Invest to Protect Act (S. 768, H.R. 2711); LEOSA Reform Act (S. 679, H.R. 2243); Prevent Family Fire Act (H.R. 169); Thin Blue Line Act (S. 83, H.R. 378); Protect and Serve Act (S. 167, H.R. 1551); HALT Fentanyl Act (S. 331, H.R. 27); Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act / BOP SCAN Mail Act (S. 1295, H.R. 1046); Combating Illicit Xylazine Act (S. 545, H.R. 1266); Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act (S. 234, H.R. 350); Combating Organized Retail Crime Act (S. 1404, H.R. 2853); HIRRE Prosecutors Act; Supporting the Health and Safety of Law Enforcement Act; Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act (H.R. 909); DRONE Act (H.R. 1058); Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act (S.180, H.R.621); Strong Communities Act of 2025 (S.1316, H.R.3458); Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act (S.911, H.R.1236); PROTECT Our Children Reauthorization Act of 2025 (S.539, H.R.1274); Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Act (S.1595); Retired Law Enforcement Officers Continuing Service Act (S.1563, H.R.3846); Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $50,000
2025 · third_quarter · Health Issues
S 911, HR 1236- Chief Herbert Proffitt Act Medicaid- Funding, Eligibility Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Nomination for HHS/ oppose Dr. Mehmet Oz for CMS Administration/ oppose S 46, HR 247- Health Care Affordability Act of 2026 S 750, HR 1683- Protecting America's Seniors Access to Care Act HR 3415, S 1709- Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety HR 5145- Bipartisan Premium Tax Credit Expansion Act S 2824- Bill to extend ACA tax credits (2 years) HR 4849, S 2556- Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act of 2025 HR 5228- HCBS Worker Protection Act S 2954- Health Care Workforce Expansion Act HR 2528- Association Health Care Plans Act
Client expense: $750,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2025 · third_quarter · Government Issues
General education regarding the need to ensure state and local law enforcement have full authority to detect, track, identify, and mitigate unmanned aircraft systems that threaten public safety. General education regarding the need to improve the delivery of benefits and services under the Public Safety Officers Benefits' Program to disabled law enforcement officers and the families of fallen officers. General education regarding the operations and staffing needs of the World Trade Center Health Program. H.R. 1058, the "Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies Act," legislation to authorize the use of certain Department of Justice grants to purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems to benefit public safety; entire bill. H.R. 1269, the "Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act," a bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide public safety officer benefits for exposure-related cancers; entire bill. H.R. 1410, the "9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act," a bill to amend title XXXIII of the Public Health Service Act with respect to flexibility and funding for the World Trade Center Health Program; entire bill. S. 739, the "9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act," a bill to amend title XXXIII of the Public Health Service Act with respect to flexibility and funding for the World Trade Center Health Program; entire bill. H.R. 3838, the "Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026," legislation to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy; House Rules Committee Amendment #490 to insert Sections 6 and 7 of the "9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act of 2025" with a revision of the multiplier to 1.05 to ensure funding of the World Trade Center Health Program; Amendment #922 to reauthorize federal counter-unmanned aircraft systems authority through October 1, 2030, and expand federal efforts to detect, track, and mitigate drone threats. Legislative proposal to revise administrative procedures relating to death benefits under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program (PSOB), reform the provision of disability benefits to injured public safety officers, and revise the federal tax treatment of PSOB death and disability benefits (no bill introduced). S. 1316, the "Strong Communities Act," legislation to provide that COPS grant funds may be used for local law enforcement recruits to attend schools or academies if the recruits agree to serve in precincts of law enforcement agencies in their communities; entire bill. S. 1563, the "Retired Law Enforcement Officers Continuing Service Act," a bill to establish a Justice Department grant program for law enforcement agencies to hire retired officers to help with civilian law enforcement tasks; entire bill. S. 1595, the "Improving Police CARE Act," legislation to establish standards for trauma kits purchased using funds provided under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program; entire bill. S. 180, the "Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposures Act," legislation to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the use of grant amounts for providing training and resources for first responders on the use of containment devices to prevent secondary exposure to fentanyl and other potentially lethal substances, and purchasing such containment devices for use by first responders; entire bill. S. 2296, the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026," legislation to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy; S. Amdt. 3272, the "Law Enforcement and Crime Victims Support Package"; S. Amdt. 3173, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide public safety officer benefits for exposure-related cancers; S. Amdt. 3174, to establish a Justice Department grant program for law enforcement agencies to hire retired officers to help with civilian law enforcement tasks. S. 237, the "Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act," a bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide public safety officer benefits for exposure-related cancers; entire bill. S. 419, the Reauthorizing Support and Treatment for Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, legislation to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize grants to support law enforcement officers and families; entire bill. S. 911, the "Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act," a bill to amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits Program to expand eligibility for death and disability benefits to certain retired law enforcement officers; entire bill.
2025 · second_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
PASSED HOUSE - H.R. 27 (Griffith, R-VA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. H.R. 378 (Buchanan, R-FL) the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of aggravating factors in death penalty determinations for those who target, kill, or attempt to kill a law enforcement or other public safety officer; H.R. 621 (Joyce, R-OH), the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 633 (Salazar, R-FL) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 911 (Fitzpatrick, R-FL) the Patriot Day Act, which would establish September 11th as a permanent Federal holiday; H.R. 993 (Correa, D-CA) the Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies (DRONE) Act, which would allow law enforcement agencies to use Edward R. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) funds to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems; H.R. 1046 (Bacon, R-NE) the Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; H.R. 1236 (Barr, R-KY) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits program and allow survivors to file for death or disability benefits for officers no in active service, provided their death or disability was connected to their service as a law enforcement officer; H.R. 1260 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would address the growing crisis that faces the USPP and its ability to protect and serve the public; H.R. 1266 (Panetta, D-CA), the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would appropriate steps to add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act; H.R. 1269 (Scanlon, D-PA) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program; H.R. 1443 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Public Safety Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 1505 (Stauber, D-MN) the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; PRIORITY - H.R. 1551 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Protect and Serve Act, which would impose Federal penalties on individuals who deliberately target local, State or Federal law enforcement officers with violence; H.R. 1556 (Bresnahan, R-PA) Erics Law, which would amend current law to 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. 1726 (Neguse, D-CO) the Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization 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. 1773 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would make firearm thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison; PRIORITY - H.R. 2094 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; H.R. 2096 (Garbarino, R-NY) the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act. which would restore the collective bargaining rights, non-disclosure protections, and disciplinary protocols of MPD officers that were lost in the implementation of the CPJRAA; H.R. 2194 (Harder, D-CA) the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs in order to enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies; H.R. 2189 (Fitzgerald, R-WI) the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; H.R. 2240 (Moore, R-NC) the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would expand the data collected by the Federal government on attacks and aggressions against law enforcement officers in a comprehensive way; H.R. 2502 (Kaptur, D-OH) the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act, which would provide grants to law enforcement departments at the state, local, territorial, and tribal level to obtain vital behavioral health crisis response training to resolve behavioral health crisis situations more safely and effectively; H.R. 2654 (Stauber, D-MN), the Lifesaving Gear for Police Act, which would protect the important surplus equipment programs for State and local law enforcement, like the 1033 program, from politically-driven interference and competing Executive Orders; H.R. 2711 (Gottheimer, D-NJ,) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 175 law enforcement officers; H.R. 2735 (Nehls, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes. H.R. 2752 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Ensuring Safer Schools Act, which would amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by allowing funds from the DOJs Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to be utilized for the training of military veterans and retired law enforcement officers to become school resource officers; H.R. 2964 (Taylor, R-OH) the Fight Fentanyl Act, which would provide over $333 million annually for the HIDTA program and allow for and support programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies. H.R. 3267 (Houlahan, D-PA), the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would eliminate a technicality in the law that requires an applicant to be employed in a public service job to qualify for public loan forgiveness; H.R. 3366 (Pappas, D-NH), 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 and mid-sized law enforcement agencies; H.R. 3372 (Sykes, D-OH), 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; H.R. 3398 (Kennedy, D-NY), the Aaron Salter, Jr. Responsible Body Armor Protection Act, which would bar civilians from purchasing, owning, or possessing enhanced body armor with ballistic resistance that meets or exceeds the RF1 standard; H.R.3832 (Bacon, R-NE), the Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act, which would allow a surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen public safety officer who died in service or as a result of their service to apply for U.S. citizenship more quickly by waiving the five-year continuous residence and the 30-month physical presence requirements for naturalization. H.R.4024 (Carbajal, D-CA), the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which would provide a needed one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); H.R. 4334 (Kustoff, R-TN), the Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act, which would better equip Federal prosecutors to pursue criminals; S. 83 (Cruz, R-TX), the Thin Blue Line Act, which would provide that the murder of local or State prosecutors, law enforcement officers, or other public safety officers also be considered an aggravating factor in a Federal case; S. 122 (Banks, R-ID) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades; S. 146 (Cruz, R-TX) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; PRIORITY - S. 167 (Tillis, R-NC) 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; S. 180 (Grassley R-IA) the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); S. 237 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program. S. 331 (Cassidy, R-LA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. S. 516 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, which would prohibit the distribution of Non-Consensually Distributed Intimate Images (NDII) that loopholes in select States have thus far prevented; S. 666 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the First Responders Wellness Act, which would establish a national hotline for first responders through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); S. 678 (Cortez Masto, D-NV) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office within the U.S. Department of Justice, that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 200 law enforcement officers; TOP PRIORITY - S. 679 (Kennedy, R-LA) the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) exempting qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms; S. 767 (Kelly, D-AZ) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) 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; S. 911 (Masto, D-NV) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the PSOB Program to ensure that Chief Proffitts family, and any others in a similar situation, would be eligible to apply for the programs benefit; PRIORITY - S. 978 (Moody, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; S. 1077 (Collins, R-ME) the District of Columbia Local Funds Act, which would restore the District of Columbias ability to implement its Fiscal Year 2025 budget; S. 1247 (Schmitt, R-MO) the Public Safety Officer Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; S. 1283 (Hagerty, R-TN), the Innovate to De-Escalate Modernization Act, which would establish the term less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal statute to ensure that these devices are properly classified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) based on a new five step criteria; S. 1295 (Justice, R-WV) the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against Narcotics (BOP SCAN) in Mail Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; S. 1300 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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. 1316 (Peters, D-MI) the Strong Communities Act, which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1333 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes; S. 1401 (Kennedy, R-LA) the Targeting Child Predators Act, which would extend the time law enforcement can seek a court order to delay a subpoena notification from 90 to 180 days; S. 1409 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Public Safety Officer Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would establish concussion protocols for Law Enforcement Agencies. S. 1595 (Cornyn, R-TX), the Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Act, which would expand the existing U.S. Department of Justices Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.2200 (Gallego, D-AZ), the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act, which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies to areas near the Northern and Southern border;
2025 · second_quarter · Government Issues
S. 1300, the "Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act," legislation to reauthorize the Project Safe Neighborhoods grant program; entire bill. S. 237, the "Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act," a bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide public safety officer benefits for exposure-related cancers; entire bill. H.R. 1269, the "Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act," a bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide public safety officer benefits for exposure-related cancers; entire bill. H.R. 3081, the "Law Enforcement Solidarity Act," a bill to provide that jurisdictions with law enforcement cooperation restrictions are ineligible for certain federal funds; entire bill. H.R. 1410, the "9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act," a bill to amend title XXXIII of the Public Health Service Act with respect to flexibility and funding for the World Trade Center Health Program; entire bill. S. 739, the "9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act," a bill to amend title XXXIII of the Public Health Service Act with respect to flexibility and funding for the World Trade Center Health Program; entire bill. H.R. 1, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," legislation to provide for reconciliation pursuant to H.Con. Res. 14; amendment proposal to include funding for the World Trade Center Health Program (no amendment introduced). H.R. 2711, the "Invest to Protect Act," legislation to provide law enforcement grants for smaller departments to recruit new officers, provide retention bonuses, and allow departments to provide mental health resources for their officers; entire bill. H.R. 2654, the "Lifesaving Gear for Police Act," a bill to prohibit the enforcement of certain regulations relating to sale, donation, and transfer of federal government property to state and local law enforcement agencies; entire bill. H.R. 621, the "Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposures Act," legislation to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the use of grant amounts for providing training and resources for first responders on the use of containment devices to prevent secondary exposure to fentanyl and other potentially lethal substances, and purchasing such containment devices for use by first responders; entire bill. S. 180, the "Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposures Act," legislation to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the use of grant amounts for providing training and resources for first responders on the use of containment devices to prevent secondary exposure to fentanyl and other potentially lethal substances, and purchasing such containment devices for use by first responders; entire bill. S. 419, the Reauthorizing Support and Treatment for Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, legislation to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize grants to support law enforcement officers and families; entire bill. S. 911, the "Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act," a bill to amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits Program to expand eligibility for death and disability benefits to certain retired law enforcement officers; entire bill. H.R. 2240, the "Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act," legislation to require the Attorney General to develop reports relating to violent attacks against law enforcement officers; entire bill. S. 1418, the "Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act," legislation to require the Attorney General to develop reports relating to violent attacks against law enforcement officers; entire bill. S. 1563, the "Retired Law Enforcement Officers Continuing Service Act," a bill to establish a Justice Department grant program for law enforcement agencies to hire retired officers to help with civilian law enforcement tasks; entire bill. H.Res. 395, a resolution establishing a "Bill of Rights" to support law enforcement personnel nationwide in their work to protect our communities; entire resolution. S. 1595, the "Improving Police CARE Act," legislation to establish standards for trauma kits purchased using funds provided under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program; entire bill. H.R. 2722, the "Providing Child Care for Police Officers Act," a bill to 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; entire bill. H.R. 3497, the "Medal of Sacrifice Act," a bill to establish a medal of service for law enforcement officers and first responders who are killed in the line of duty; entire bill. H.R. 2096, the "Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act," legislation to restore the right to negotiate matters pertaining to the discipline of law enforcement officers of the District of Columbia through collective bargaining, and to restore the statute of limitations for bringing disciplinary cases against members or civilian employees of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia; entire bill. Legislative proposal to amend the U.S. Tax Code to ensure no tax on benefits provided to the families of fallen officers (no bill introduced). S. 1316, the "Strong Communities Act," legislation to provide that COPS grant funds may be used for local law enforcement recruits to attend schools or academies if the recruits agree to serve in precincts of law enforcement agencies in their communities; entire bill. H.R. 3458, the "Strong Communities Act," legislation to provide that COPS grant funds may be used for local law enforcement recruits to attend schools or academies if the recruits agree to serve in precincts of law enforcement agencies in their communities; entire bill. Nomination of Anthony D'Esposito to be Inspector General, Department of Labor (PN60-8).
2025 · first_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
PASSED HOUSE - H.R. 27 (Griffith, R-VA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. H.R. 378 (Buchanan, R-FL) the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of aggravating factors in death penalty determinations for those who target, kill, or attempt to kill a law enforcement or other public safety officer; H.R. 621 (Joyce, R-OH), the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 633 (Salazar, R-FL) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 911 (Fitzpatrick, R-FL) the Patriot Day Act, which would establish September 11th as a permanent Federal holiday; H.R. 993 (Correa, D-CA) the Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies (DRONE) Act, which would allow law enforcement agencies to use Edward R. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) funds to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems; H.R. 1046 (Bacon, R-NE) the Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; H.R. 1236 (Barr, R-KY) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the Public Safety Officers Benefits program and allow survivors to file for death or disability benefits for officers no in active service, provided their death or disability was connected to their service as a law enforcement officer; H.R. 1260 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would address the growing crisis that faces the USPP and its ability to protect and serve the public; H.R. 1266 (Panetta, D-CA), the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would appropriate steps to add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act; H.R. 1269 (Scanlon, D-PA) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program; H.R. 1443 (Van Drew, R-NJ) the Public Safety Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 1505 (Stauber, D-MN) the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; PRIORITY - H.R. 1551 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Protect and Serve Act, which would impose Federal penalties on individuals who deliberately target local, State or Federal law enforcement officers with violence; H.R. 1556 (Bresnahan, R-PA) Erics Law, which would amend current law to 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. 1726 (Neguse, D-CO) the Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization 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. 1773 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would make firearm thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison; PRIORITY - H.R. 2094 (Rutherford, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; H.R. 2096 (Garbarino, R-NY) the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act. which would restore the collective bargaining rights, non-disclosure protections, and disciplinary protocols of MPD officers that were lost in the implementation of the CPJRAA; H.R. 2194 (Harder, D-CA) the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs in order to enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies; H.R. 2240 (Moore, R-NC) the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would expand the data collected by the Federal government on attacks and aggressions against law enforcement officers in a comprehensive way; H.R. 2502 (Kaptur, D-OH) the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act, which would provide grants to law enforcement departments at the state, local, territorial, and tribal level to obtain vital behavioral health crisis response training to resolve behavioral health crisis situations more safely and effectively; H.R. 2654 (Stauber, D-MN), the Lifesaving Gear for Police Act, which would protect the important surplus equipment programs for State and local law enforcement, like the 1033 program, from politically-driven interference and competing Executive Orders; H.R. 2711 (Gottheimer, D-NJ,) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 175 law enforcement officers; H.R. 2735 (Nehls, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes. H.R. 2964 (Taylor, R-OH) the Fight Fentanyl Act, which would provide over $333 million annually for the HIDTA program and allow for and support programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies. S. 83 (Cruz, R-TX), the Thin Blue Line Act, which would provide that the murder of local or State prosecutors, law enforcement officers, or other public safety officers also be considered an aggravating factor in a Federal case; S. 122 (Banks, R-ID) the Qualified Immunity Act, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades; S. 146 (Cruz, R-TX) the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; PRIORITY - S. 167 (Tillis, R-NC) 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; S. 180 (Grassley R-IA) the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); S. 237 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program. S. 331 (Cassidy, R-LA) the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. S. 516 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, which would prohibit the distribution of Non-Consensually Distributed Intimate Images (NDII) that loopholes in select States have thus far prevented; S. 666 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the First Responders Wellness Act, which would establish a national hotline for first responders through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); S. 678 (Cortez Masto, D-NV) the Invest to Protect Act, which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office within the U.S. Department of Justice, that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 200 law enforcement officers; TOP PRIORITY - S. 679 (Kennedy, R-LA) the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) exempting qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms; S. 767 (Kelly, D-AZ) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) 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; S. 911 (Masto, D-NV) the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, which would amend the PSOB Program to ensure that Chief Proffitts family, and any others in a similar situation, would be eligible to apply for the programs benefit; PRIORITY - S. 978 (Moody, R-FL) the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would give law enforcement more opportunities to find homes they can afford on a public servants salary based on the VA home loan program; S. 1077 (Collins, R-ME) the District of Columbia Local Funds Act, which would restore the District of Columbias ability to implement its Fiscal Year 2025 budget; S. 1247 (Schmitt, R-MO) the Public Safety Officer Free Speech Act, which would clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates this right; S. 1295 (Justice, R-WV) the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against Narcotics (BOP SCAN) in Mail Act, which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities; S. 1300 (Cornyn, R-TX) 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. 1316 (Peters, D-MI) the Strong Communities Act, which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1333 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in Federal child abuse criminal statutes; S. 1401 (Kennedy, R-LA) the Targeting Child Predators Act, which would extend the time law enforcement can seek a court order to delay a subpoena notification from 90 to 180 days; S. 1409 (Cornyn, R-TX) the Public Safety Officer Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would establish concussion protocols for Law Enforcement Agencies.
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| KS |
| Margaret Wood Hassan | Democratic | NH |
| Mitch McConnell | Republican | KY |
| Richard Blumenthal | Democratic | CT |
| Richard J. Durbin | Democratic | IL |
| Ruben Gallego | Democratic | AZ |
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