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EMT Act
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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.
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H.R. 3226 (Garbarino, R-NY), the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, which would expand the definition of law enforcement officer as it applies to salary and retirement benefits so that all Federal law enforcement officers will have access to them.
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons; 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; S.4671 (Graham, R-SC) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would enhance penalties for those convicted of stealing a firearm from a Federal Firearms Licensee.
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Marc Fischer Memorial Act
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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.
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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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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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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.
Marc Fischer Memorial Act
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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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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.
Fight Against Fentanyl Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act of 2025
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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.
Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
U.S. Park Police Modernization Act
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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.
U.S. Park Police Modernization Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
U.S. Park Police Modernization Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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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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.
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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.
Combating Illicit Xylazine Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Combating Illicit Xylazine Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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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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.
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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.
Combating Illicit Xylazine Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
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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.
Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
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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.
Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act of 2025
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H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 3327 (Bacon, R-NE) the Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; H.R. 6147 (Landsman, D-OH) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50; S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); S. 3221 (Gallego, D-AZ) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50;
9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 3327 (Bacon, R-NE) the Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; H.R. 6147 (Landsman, D-OH) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50; S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); S. 3221 (Gallego, D-AZ) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50;
9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act of 2025
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H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 3327 (Bacon, R-NE) the Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; H.R. 6147 (Landsman, D-OH) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50; S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); S. 3221 (Gallego, D-AZ) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50;
9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act of 2025
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H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 3327 (Bacon, R-NE) the Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; H.R. 6147 (Landsman, D-OH) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50; S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); S. 3221 (Gallego, D-AZ) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50;
9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act of 2025
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H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 3327 (Bacon, R-NE) the Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; H.R. 6147 (Landsman, D-OH) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50; S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); S. 3221 (Gallego, D-AZ) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50;
Public Safety Free Speech Act
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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.
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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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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.
Public Safety Free Speech Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Public Safety Free Speech Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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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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.
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Protect and Serve Act of 2025
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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.
Protect and Serve Act of 2025
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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.
Protect and Serve Act of 2025
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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.
Protect and Serve Act of 2025
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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.
Protect and Serve Act of 2025
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2025
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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.
Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2025
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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.
Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons; 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; S.4671 (Graham, R-SC) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would enhance penalties for those convicted of stealing a firearm from a Federal Firearms Licensee.
Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2025
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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.
Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
HELPER Act of 2025
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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.
HELPER Act of 2025
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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.
HELPER Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
HELPER Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
HELPER Act of 2025
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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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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.
Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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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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.
Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act
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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.
To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Ending Drug Trafficking in Our Communities Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Ending Drug Trafficking in Our Communities Act
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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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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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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.
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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.
Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act
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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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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.
Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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.
Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act
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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.
LEOSA Reform Act
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TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons;
LEOSA Reform Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons; 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; S.4671 (Graham, R-SC) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would enhance penalties for those convicted of stealing a firearm from a Federal Firearms Licensee.
LEOSA Reform Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons; S.4671 (Graham, R-SC) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would enhance penalties for those convicted of stealing a firearm from a Federal Firearms Licensee.
LEOSA Reform Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons; S.4671 (Graham, R-SC) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would enhance penalties for those convicted of stealing a firearm from a Federal Firearms Licensee.
LEOSA Reform Act
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons;
Federal Law Enforcement Officer Service Weapon Purchase Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons; 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; S.4671 (Graham, R-SC) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would enhance penalties for those convicted of stealing a firearm from a Federal Firearms Licensee.
Federal Law Enforcement Officer Service Weapon Purchase Act of 2025
Client: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE · Firm: NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons; S.4671 (Graham, R-SC) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would enhance penalties for those convicted of stealing a firearm from a Federal Firearms Licensee.
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.
H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 3327 (Bacon, R-NE) the Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; H.R. 6147 (Landsman, D-OH) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50; S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); S. 3221 (Gallego, D-AZ) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50;
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;
H.R. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act, which would eliminate income tax on a public servants overtime pay; H.R. 7210 (Fitzpatrick, R-PA) the Fuel the Force Act, which amends both the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide $100,000 in annual Federal income tax exclusion to full-time law enforcement officers with at least five years of service; H.R. 7361 (Gooden, R-TX) the No Tax on Restored Benefits Act, which would exclude lump-sum payments originating from the Social Security Fairness Act from Federal taxes.
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
H.R.7386 (Dunn), the "First Responder Network Authority Reauthorization Act," which would reauthorize FirstNet.
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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.
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
H.R. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act, which would eliminate income tax on a public servants overtime pay; H.R. 7210 (Fitzpatrick, R-PA) the Fuel the Force Act, which amends both the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide $100,000 in annual Federal income tax exclusion to full-time law enforcement officers with at least five years of service; H.R. 7361 (Gooden, R-TX) the No Tax on Restored Benefits Act, which would exclude lump-sum payments originating from the Social Security Fairness Act from Federal taxes.
H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 3327 (Bacon, R-NE) the Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; H.R. 6147 (Landsman, D-OH) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50; S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); S. 3221 (Gallego, D-AZ) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50;
H.R.7386 (Dunn), the "First Responder Network Authority Reauthorization Act," which would reauthorize FirstNet.
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;
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons; S.4671 (Graham, R-SC) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would enhance penalties for those convicted of stealing a firearm from a Federal Firearms Licensee.
H.R. 3226 (Garbarino, R-NY), the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, which would expand the definition of law enforcement officer as it applies to salary and retirement benefits so that all Federal law enforcement officers will have access to them.
Filing targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office
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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;
H.R. 3226 (Garbarino, R-NY), the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, which would expand the definition of law enforcement officer as it applies to salary and retirement benefits so that all Federal law enforcement officers will have access to them.
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons;
H.R. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act, which would eliminate income tax on a public servants overtime pay; H.R. 7210 (Fitzpatrick, R-PA) the Fuel the Force Act, which amends both the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide $100,000 in annual Federal income tax exclusion to full-time law enforcement officers with at least five years of service; H.R. 7361 (Gooden, R-TX) the No Tax on Restored Benefits Act, which would exclude lump-sum payments originating from the Social Security Fairness Act from Federal taxes.
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.
H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 3327 (Bacon, R-NE) the Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; H.R. 6147 (Landsman, D-OH) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50; S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); S. 3221 (Gallego, D-AZ) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50;
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office
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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.
H.R.7386 (Dunn), the "First Responder Network Authority Reauthorization Act," which would reauthorize FirstNet.
H.R. 3226 (Garbarino, R-NY), the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, which would expand the definition of law enforcement officer as it applies to salary and retirement benefits so that all Federal law enforcement officers will have access to them.
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
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;
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons; S.4671 (Graham, R-SC) the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would enhance penalties for those convicted of stealing a firearm from a Federal Firearms Licensee.
H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 3327 (Bacon, R-NE) the Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; H.R. 6147 (Landsman, D-OH) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50; S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); S. 3221 (Gallego, D-AZ) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50;
H.R. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act, which would eliminate income tax on a public servants overtime pay; H.R. 7210 (Fitzpatrick, R-PA) the Fuel the Force Act, which amends both the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide $100,000 in annual Federal income tax exclusion to full-time law enforcement officers with at least five years of service; H.R. 7361 (Gooden, R-TX) the No Tax on Restored Benefits Act, which would exclude lump-sum payments originating from the Social Security Fairness Act from Federal taxes.
Filing targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office
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H.R. 3226 (Garbarino, R-NY), the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, which would expand the definition of law enforcement officer as it applies to salary and retirement benefits so that all Federal law enforcement officers will have access to them.
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;
H.R. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act, which would eliminate income tax on a public servants overtime pay; H.R. 7210 (Fitzpatrick, R-PA) the Fuel the Force Act, which amends both the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide $100,000 in annual Federal income tax exclusion to full-time law enforcement officers with at least five years of service; H.R. 7361 (Gooden, R-TX) the No Tax on Restored Benefits Act, which would exclude lump-sum payments originating from the Social Security Fairness Act from Federal taxes.
H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 3327 (Bacon, R-NE) the Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; H.R. 6147 (Landsman, D-OH) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50; S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); S. 3221 (Gallego, D-AZ) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50;
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
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.
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons;
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office
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2025 · fourth_quarter · 4A
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.
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2025 · third_quarter · 3A
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.
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2025 · second_quarter · 2A
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;
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2025 · first_quarter · 1A
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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2025 · fourth_quarter · Q4
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.
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2025 · third_quarter · Q3
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.
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2025 · second_quarter · Q2
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;
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2025 · first_quarter · Q1
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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S.738, the Tax Fairness for Workers Act, which would establish an above-the-line deduction for law enforcement and other public safety officers for certain employee-related expenses, including union dues;
H.R. 1294/S. 569, the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which would appropriate over $2 billion in additional funding and make a number of technical corrections to the way the program is administered; H.R. 2548, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would direct the CDC to expand their data collection efforts, publicly release their findings, and suggest protocols to prevent instances of Traumatic Brain Injuries for Law Enforcement; H.R. 6030, the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which gives law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50; S. 2226, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024" S. 2444, the Achieving Through Transparency and Accessibility for Information Navigation on (ATTAIN) Mental Health Act, which will create an online dashboard that will allow the public to see Federal grant information related to mental health programs; S. 3740, the Supporting Treatment and Recovery Over Narcotics for Growth, Empowerment, and Rehabilitation (STRONGER) Act, which reauthorizes the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners (RSAT) grant program through FY 2026 at $40 million annually and would make substantial improvements to the program;
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2024 · third_quarter · Q3
H.R. 130/S. 459, the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responders; H.R. 233, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court; H.R. 304, the Stop Enabling Repeat Violence and Endangering (SERVE) Our Communities Act, which would establish an annual grant program for State and local governments to fund programs like transitional services, mentoring, and job training for young offenders; H.R. 355, the Back the Blue Act, which would improve protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, impose time and other limits on Federal courts review of habeas corpus, amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), and provide new grants; H.R. 472/S. 645, the Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act, which directs the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a state-of-the-art treatment program for public safety officers experiencing acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or similar conditions; H.R. 743, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 795/S. 261, the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 898/S. 546, the Recruit and Retain Act, which would authorize COPS grantees to use grant funds for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R. 1005, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize and expand the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; H.R. 1105, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; H.R. 1649, the Establishing Accreditation Grants for Law Enforcement (EAGLE) Act, which would establish a grant program that would pay the certification or re-certification fees for small to mid-size agencies that have fewer than 350 employees; H.R. 1719, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; H.R. 1839/S. 993, the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act, listing it as a Schedule III drug for illicit use; H.R. 2548, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would direct the CDC to expand their data collection efforts, publicly release their findings, and suggest protocols to prevent instances of Traumatic Brain Injuries for Law Enforcement; H.R. 2601, the National Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act, which would require the full cooperation of any grant recipient that contracts with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to operate the National Human Trafficking Hotline, sharing information and assisting efforts by State and local law enforcement to combat human trafficking; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act," which would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; H.R. 2722/S.3554, the Providing Child Care to Police Officers Act, which would establish a grant pilot program to provide child care services for the minor children of law enforcement officers to accommodate the shift work and abnormal work hours of such officers, and to enhance recruitment and retention of such officers; H.R. 2949, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; H.R. 3005/S.3356, the Postal Police Reform Act," which would reverse a 2020 directive from the United States Postal Service (USPS) that bans postal police from performing their patrol duties outside of real estate owned or leased by the postal service. Prior to this directive, the postal police additionally had jurisdiction over all postal service property and were authorized to protect mail carriers, collection boxes, and vehicles; H.R. 3150, the Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets (OPIOIDS) Act., which would empower the Attorney General to award grants to local law enforcement departments and forensic laboratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses; H.R. 3170/S. 1514, the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which creates a home loan benefits program for first responders and educators based on the successful U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs home loan program available to our nations veterans; H.R. 3269/S. 4255, the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would create a new definition for a less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal firearms law; H.R. 3333/S.1271, the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, which would direct the resources of the U.S. government to target the fentanyl supply chain; H.R. 3449, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; H.R. 4384, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; H.R. 4639, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would impose a probable cause standard for certain types of information; H.R. 5029, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 5182, the Child Online Safety Modernization Act, which would strengthen the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children CyberTipline by modernizing and improving the reporting process, extending the required preservation period for individual reports to one year, and replacing the term, child pornography, with child sexual abuse materials throughout all Federal statutes; H.R. 5266, the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would empower the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; H.R. 5538, the Border Patrol Pay Fix Act, which would allow the majority of Border Patrol agents to receive a special overtime pay rate; H.R. 5798, the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act, which would undue certain provisions of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) passed by the Washington D.C. City Council; H.R. 6246, the Eliminate Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, the nations centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children; H.R. 6688, the Cold Case Modernization Act, which will extend DOJ grant funding for forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) testing to cover the identification process of all unidentified human remains, without regard to the manner of their death; H.R. 7185, the HIDTA Reauthorization Act., which would reauthorize the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program; H.R. 7456, the "First Responders Emergency Assistance Act.", which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.R. 7487, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act., which would allocate $400 million to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program under the Office of National Drug Control Policy. H.R. 7720(Kean, R-NJ), which would allow grant funds from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) to be used for the purchase of fentanyl testing kits and opioid reversal agents; H.R. 7730 (Spanberger, D-VA), directing the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable such online sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combatting online sales of fentanyl; H.R. 7456 (Duarte, R-CA) the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act., which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.R. 8989 (Salazar, R-FL) the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 9390 (Johnson, R-SD) the Supporting Opportunities to Build Everyday Responsibility (SOBER) Act, which would expand a grant program for 24/7 sobriety programs; H.R. 9641/S. 5060 (Schultz, D-FL) the Providing Resources, Officers, and Technology to Eradicate Cyber Threats (PROTECT) Our Children Act, which would reauthorize the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force program for three years; H.R. 9576 (Phillips, D-MN), the Pathways to Policing Act, which would provide $50 million a year to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to operate a nationwide marketing and recruitment campaign; H.R. 9660 (Neguse, D-CO) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protection Act (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in Good Samaritan laws by ensuring that people cannot be prosecuted for drug possession when they seek medical assistance after witnessing or experiencing an overdose; H.R. 9871 (Larsen, D-WA) the End Fentanyl Trafficking with Local Task Forces Act, which would invest and expand in multiple anti-drug task forces in the U.S. Department of Justice to improve cooperation and collaboration between departments to combat the fentanyl epidemic; H.R. 9910 (Spanberger, D-VA) the Supporting Federal Employees in the National Guard & Reserves Act, which would increase the paid leave available for Federal law enforcement and correctional officers in the National Guard from 15 to 36 days per fiscal year; H.R. 9928 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would restructure the service timeline for Park Police officers by reducing the number and time between pay grade steps; H.R. 9929 (Miller-Meeks, R-IA) the Corrections Officer Blake Schwarz Suicide Prevention Act, which would establish a grant program that would provide funding to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, States, and localities to carry out mental health screenings and provide referrals, where applicable, to mental healthcare providers for those corrections officers who are struggling with their mental health; H.J. Res. 42/S.J. Res. 26, a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) by the Washington, D.C. City Council; H. Res. 285, a resolution calling on Congress to respect the rights of law enforcement officers and establish a Bill of Rights for them; S. 474, the Revising Existing Procedures on Reporting via Technology (REPORT) Act, which would provide the CyberTipline, a critical tool for law enforcement run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the necessary resources and infrastructure needed to protect children from digital exploitation; S. 499, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; S. 529, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; S.894, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would help law enforcement agencies establish concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI) protocols; S. 930, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; S. 972/H.R. 8420, the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which provides a one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); S. 994, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 8918/S. 1080, the Cooper Davis Act, which would require social media providers to report all suspected illicit drug activity occurring on their platforms to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); S. 1170, Project Safe Childhood, which updates and expands provisions included in the original Project Safe Childhood initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act, which provides special privacy protections to certain child victims and witnesses in criminal prosecutions; S. 1207, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, which would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention in an effort to combat the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; S. 1306, the COPS Reauthorization Act, which will reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and all the programs it administers through 2029; S. 1331, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; S. 1387, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; S. 1447, the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act, which would authorize the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to select existing violence prevention or intervention programs, administered by State and local trauma centers, to receive Federal grants to expand existing programs, study the effectiveness of those programs, and examine their impacts on reincarceration and re-admittance rates; S. 1507, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which establishes a grant program within the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to aid State and local law enforcement in obtaining portable chemical screening devices to identify the substances they encounter daily; S. 1530, the COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act, which allows underserved and rural communities greater flexibility to use COPS grants to raise law enforcement salaries to help retain good officers and improve recruitment efforts; S. 1569, the Back the Blue Act. which improves protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, judges, and other public safety officers; S. 1857, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act, which would reauthorize, and increase funding for, Operation Stonegarden; S. 2313, the Driving for Opportunity Act, which would create a grant program for States to reinstate drivers licenses that were suspended for unpaid fines and fees; S. 2567, the Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act, which would reauthorize the programs in the Computer Crime Enforcement Act; S. 2569, the "Fentanyl Safe Testing and Overdose Prevention Act". which would amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify that the possession, sale, purchase, importation, exportation, or transportation of drug testing equipment that tests for the presence of fentanyl or xylazine is not unlawful; S. 2596, the Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, would amend current law (18 U.SC. 3607) expunging an individuals minor possession offense if the individual meets the laws stringent requirements. This legislation amends this rule, eliminating the age requirement; S. 2637/H.R. 8871, the Law Enforcement Scenario-Based Training for Safety and De-Escalation Act, which would direct the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to authorize grants to State, and local law enforcement agencies to provide law enforcement personnel access to an immersive, real-life, scenario-based training curriculum which will improve community-police relations, as well as officer safety and resilience; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act, would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.3522, the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would require the Attorney General to develop reports relating to violent attacks against law enforcement officers, and for other purposes; S. 3643, the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act, which would update current law concerning hawala and other informal value transfer systems like those used by international terrorists and trafficking organizations, additionally, purposes to double the penalties for those who violate bulk-cash smuggling laws; S. 3763, the Violent Incident Clearance and Technological Investigative Methods (VICTIM) Act, which would establish a grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to help State, Tribal, and local law enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes; S. 4450 (Kelly D-AZ), the Educational and Career Opportunities for Public Safety Act, which would offer officers financial assistance for higher education for those who have served for a period of eight years with the same agency and who are willing to commit to serving at least an additional four. S. 4569 (Cantwel,l D-WA), the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; S. 4970 (Ossoff, D-GA), the Female Officers Ballistic Protection Act, which would ensure that women in law enforcement have improved ballistic body armor; S. 5056 (Grassley, R-IA), the Stop the Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, which will add a Schedule A to the existing five schedules of the Controlled Substances Act, allowing synthetic analogues to be prohibited; S. 5062 (Blackburn, R-TN), the Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act, which would require the OIG to conduct reviews and analysis into cases of sexual harassment and assault, report those findings to Congress, and subsequently have corrective rules promulgated by the U.S. Attorney General; S. 5128 (Casey, D-PA), the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would authorize the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; S. 5270 (Kelly-AZ), the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies;
H.R. 3226 (Garbarino, R-NY), the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, which would expand the definition of law enforcement officer as it applies to salary and retirement benefits so that all Federal law enforcement officers will have access to them.
H.R. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act, which would eliminate income tax on a public servants overtime pay; H.R. 7210 (Fitzpatrick, R-PA) the Fuel the Force Act, which amends both the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide $100,000 in annual Federal income tax exclusion to full-time law enforcement officers with at least five years of service.
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons;
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
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;
H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 3327 (Bacon, R-NE) the Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; H.R. 6147 (Landsman, D-OH) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50; S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); S. 3221 (Gallego, D-AZ) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50;
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office
H.R. 3226 (Garbarino, R-NY), the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, which would expand the definition of law enforcement officer as it applies to salary and retirement benefits so that all Federal law enforcement officers will have access to them.
H.R. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act, which would eliminate income tax on a public servants overtime pay;
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons;
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
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;
H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 3327 (Bacon, R-NE) the Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP);
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office
H.R. 3226 (Garbarino, R-NY), the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, which would expand the definition of law enforcement officer as it applies to salary and retirement benefits so that all Federal law enforcement officers will have access to them.
H.R. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act, which would eliminate income tax on a public servants overtime pay;
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons;
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
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;
H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP);
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office
The "Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act"
H.R. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act, which would eliminate income tax on a public servants overtime pay;
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons;
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
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;
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office
H.R. 3226 (Garbarino, R-NY), the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, which would expand the definition of law enforcement officer as it applies to salary and retirement benefits so that all Federal law enforcement officers will have access to them.
H.R. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act, which would eliminate income tax on a public servants overtime pay; H.R. 7210 (Fitzpatrick, R-PA) the Fuel the Force Act, which amends both the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide $100,000 in annual Federal income tax exclusion to full-time law enforcement officers with at least five years of service.
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons;
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
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;
H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 3327 (Bacon, R-NE) the Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; H.R. 6147 (Landsman, D-OH) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50; S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); S. 3221 (Gallego, D-AZ) the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which would give law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50;
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office
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;
H.R. 3226 (Garbarino, R-NY), the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, which would expand the definition of law enforcement officer as it applies to salary and retirement benefits so that all Federal law enforcement officers will have access to them.
H.R. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act, which would eliminate income tax on a public servants overtime pay;
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons;
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 3327 (Bacon, R-NE) the Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP);
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office
H.R. 3226 (Garbarino, R-NY), the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, which would expand the definition of law enforcement officer as it applies to salary and retirement benefits so that all Federal law enforcement officers will have access to them.
H.R. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act, which would eliminate income tax on a public servants overtime pay;
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons;
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
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;
H.R. 1410 (Garbarino, R-NY) the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); S. 739 (Gillibrand, D-NY), the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which addresses the impending funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP);
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office
The "Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act"
H.R. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act, which would eliminate income tax on a public servants overtime pay;
TOP PRIORITY - H.R. 2243 (Bacon, R-NE) 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; H.R. 2255 (Fry, R-SC) the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons;
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; TOP PRIORITY - S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) 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;
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;
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office
H.R. 354/S/ 1462, the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), which exempts qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms, to ensure that these officers are able to carry in the same venues as civilian concealed carry permit holders in areas like schools and national parks, as well as use public transportation and extends the exemption to magazine capacity and would allow active and retired law enforcement officers to access services at U.S. post offices, Social Security Administration offices or Veterans Affairs facilities; H.R. 2620/S.1907, the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would make Federal Firearms Licensee thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison; H.R. 3091/S. 1585, the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which allows Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons; H.R. 3269, the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would create a new definition for a less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal firearms law; H.R. 7040, which would extend the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 for 10 years; S.3677, which would permanently authorize the Undetectable Firearms Act.
H.R. 3539, the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which guarantees public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; H.R. 7398, the Public Safety Free Speech Act. clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates their first amendment;
H.R. 4278, the Restore VA Accountability Act, which would reinforce the continued use of the substantial evidence standard in disciplinary review and prevent the United States Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) or any arbitrator to mitigate any punishment they consider excessive
H.R. 82/S.597, the Social Security Fairness Act, which would repeal both the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset in current Social Security law; H.R. 957, the Public Safety Health Care Retirees Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; H.R. 1322/S. 1658, the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, which would expand the definition of law enforcement officer as it applies to salary and retirement benefits so that all Federal law enforcement officers will have access to them; S. 311, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Retirement Corrections Act, which would recognize the officers impacted by a detrimental retirement mix-up at the hands of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and award them the retirement benefits they paid for and were initially guaranteed;
H.R. 130/S. 459, the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responders; H.R. 233, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court; H.R. 304, the Stop Enabling Repeat Violence and Endangering (SERVE) Our Communities Act, which would establish an annual grant program for State and local governments to fund programs like transitional services, mentoring, and job training for young offenders; H.R. 355, the Back the Blue Act, which would improve protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, impose time and other limits on Federal courts review of habeas corpus, amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), and provide new grants; H.R. 472/S. 645, the Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act, which directs the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a state-of-the-art treatment program for public safety officers experiencing acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or similar conditions; H.R. 743, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 795/S. 261, the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 898/S. 546, the Recruit and Retain Act, which would authorize COPS grantees to use grant funds for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R. 1005, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize and expand the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; H.R. 1105, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; H.R. 1649, the Establishing Accreditation Grants for Law Enforcement (EAGLE) Act, which would establish a grant program that would pay the certification or re-certification fees for small to mid-size agencies that have fewer than 350 employees; H.R. 1719, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; H.R. 1839/S. 993, the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act, listing it as a Schedule III drug for illicit use; H.R. 2548, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would direct the CDC to expand their data collection efforts, publicly release their findings, and suggest protocols to prevent instances of Traumatic Brain Injuries for Law Enforcement; H.R. 2601, the National Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act, which would require the full cooperation of any grant recipient that contracts with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to operate the National Human Trafficking Hotline, sharing information and assisting efforts by State and local law enforcement to combat human trafficking; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act," which would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; H.R. 2722/S.3554, the Providing Child Care to Police Officers Act, which would establish a grant pilot program to provide child care services for the minor children of law enforcement officers to accommodate the shift work and abnormal work hours of such officers, and to enhance recruitment and retention of such officers; H.R. 2949, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; H.R. 3005/S.3356, the Postal Police Reform Act," which would reverse a 2020 directive from the United States Postal Service (USPS) that bans postal police from performing their patrol duties outside of real estate owned or leased by the postal service. Prior to this directive, the postal police additionally had jurisdiction over all postal service property and were authorized to protect mail carriers, collection boxes, and vehicles; H.R. 3150, the Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets (OPIOIDS) Act., which would empower the Attorney General to award grants to local law enforcement departments and forensic laboratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses; H.R. 3170/S. 1514, the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which creates a home loan benefits program for first responders and educators based on the successful U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs home loan program available to our nations veterans; H.R. 3269/S. 4255, the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would create a new definition for a less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal firearms law; H.R. 3333/S.1271, the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, which would direct the resources of the U.S. government to target the fentanyl supply chain; H.R. 3449, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; H.R. 4384, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; H.R. 4639, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would impose a probable cause standard for certain types of information; H.R. 5029, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 5182, the Child Online Safety Modernization Act, which would strengthen the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children CyberTipline by modernizing and improving the reporting process, extending the required preservation period for individual reports to one year, and replacing the term, child pornography, with child sexual abuse materials throughout all Federal statutes; H.R. 5266, the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would empower the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; H.R. 5538, the Border Patrol Pay Fix Act, which would allow the majority of Border Patrol agents to receive a special overtime pay rate; H.R. 5798, the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act, which would undue certain provisions of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) passed by the Washington D.C. City Council; H.R. 6246, the Eliminate Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, the nations centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children; H.R. 6688, the Cold Case Modernization Act, which will extend DOJ grant funding for forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) testing to cover the identification process of all unidentified human remains, without regard to the manner of their death; H.R. 7185, the HIDTA Reauthorization Act., which would reauthorize the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program; H.R. 7456, the "First Responders Emergency Assistance Act.", which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.R. 7487, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act., which would allocate $400 million to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program under the Office of National Drug Control Policy. H.R. 7720(Kean, R-NJ), which would allow grant funds from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) to be used for the purchase of fentanyl testing kits and opioid reversal agents; H.R. 7730 (Spanberger, D-VA), directing the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable such online sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combatting online sales of fentanyl; H.R. 7456 (Duarte, R-CA) the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act., which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.R. 8989 (Salazar, R-FL) the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 9390 (Johnson, R-SD) the Supporting Opportunities to Build Everyday Responsibility (SOBER) Act, which would expand a grant program for 24/7 sobriety programs; H.R. 9641/S. 5060 (Schultz, D-FL) the Providing Resources, Officers, and Technology to Eradicate Cyber Threats (PROTECT) Our Children Act, which would reauthorize the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force program for three years; H.R. 9576 (Phillips, D-MN), the Pathways to Policing Act, which would provide $50 million a year to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to operate a nationwide marketing and recruitment campaign; H.R. 9660 (Neguse, D-CO) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protection Act (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in Good Samaritan laws by ensuring that people cannot be prosecuted for drug possession when they seek medical assistance after witnessing or experiencing an overdose; H.R. 9871 (Larsen, D-WA) the End Fentanyl Trafficking with Local Task Forces Act, which would invest and expand in multiple anti-drug task forces in the U.S. Department of Justice to improve cooperation and collaboration between departments to combat the fentanyl epidemic; H.R. 9910 (Spanberger, D-VA) the Supporting Federal Employees in the National Guard & Reserves Act, which would increase the paid leave available for Federal law enforcement and correctional officers in the National Guard from 15 to 36 days per fiscal year; H.R. 9928 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would restructure the service timeline for Park Police officers by reducing the number and time between pay grade steps; H.R. 9929 (Miller-Meeks, R-IA) the Corrections Officer Blake Schwarz Suicide Prevention Act, which would establish a grant program that would provide funding to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, States, and localities to carry out mental health screenings and provide referrals, where applicable, to mental healthcare providers for those corrections officers who are struggling with their mental health; H.J. Res. 42/S.J. Res. 26, a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) by the Washington, D.C. City Council; H. Res. 285, a resolution calling on Congress to respect the rights of law enforcement officers and establish a Bill of Rights for them; S. 474, the Revising Existing Procedures on Reporting via Technology (REPORT) Act, which would provide the CyberTipline, a critical tool for law enforcement run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the necessary resources and infrastructure needed to protect children from digital exploitation; S. 499, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; S. 529, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; S.894, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would help law enforcement agencies establish concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI) protocols; S. 930, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; S. 972/H.R. 8420, the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which provides a one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); S. 994, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 8918/S. 1080, the Cooper Davis Act, which would require social media providers to report all suspected illicit drug activity occurring on their platforms to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); S. 1170, Project Safe Childhood, which updates and expands provisions included in the original Project Safe Childhood initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act, which provides special privacy protections to certain child victims and witnesses in criminal prosecutions; S. 1207, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, which would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention in an effort to combat the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; S. 1306, the COPS Reauthorization Act, which will reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and all the programs it administers through 2029; S. 1331, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; S. 1387, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; S. 1447, the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act, which would authorize the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to select existing violence prevention or intervention programs, administered by State and local trauma centers, to receive Federal grants to expand existing programs, study the effectiveness of those programs, and examine their impacts on reincarceration and re-admittance rates; S. 1507, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which establishes a grant program within the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to aid State and local law enforcement in obtaining portable chemical screening devices to identify the substances they encounter daily; S. 1530, the COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act, which allows underserved and rural communities greater flexibility to use COPS grants to raise law enforcement salaries to help retain good officers and improve recruitment efforts; S. 1569, the Back the Blue Act. which improves protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, judges, and other public safety officers; S. 1857, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act, which would reauthorize, and increase funding for, Operation Stonegarden; S. 2313, the Driving for Opportunity Act, which would create a grant program for States to reinstate drivers licenses that were suspended for unpaid fines and fees; S. 2567, the Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act, which would reauthorize the programs in the Computer Crime Enforcement Act; S. 2569, the "Fentanyl Safe Testing and Overdose Prevention Act". which would amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify that the possession, sale, purchase, importation, exportation, or transportation of drug testing equipment that tests for the presence of fentanyl or xylazine is not unlawful; S. 2596, the Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, would amend current law (18 U.SC. 3607) expunging an individuals minor possession offense if the individual meets the laws stringent requirements. This legislation amends this rule, eliminating the age requirement; S. 2637/H.R. 8871, the Law Enforcement Scenario-Based Training for Safety and De-Escalation Act, which would direct the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to authorize grants to State, and local law enforcement agencies to provide law enforcement personnel access to an immersive, real-life, scenario-based training curriculum which will improve community-police relations, as well as officer safety and resilience; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act, would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.3522, the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would require the Attorney General to develop reports relating to violent attacks against law enforcement officers, and for other purposes; S. 3643, the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act, which would update current law concerning hawala and other informal value transfer systems like those used by international terrorists and trafficking organizations, additionally, purposes to double the penalties for those who violate bulk-cash smuggling laws; S. 3763, the Violent Incident Clearance and Technological Investigative Methods (VICTIM) Act, which would establish a grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to help State, Tribal, and local law enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes; S. 4450 (Kelly D-AZ), the Educational and Career Opportunities for Public Safety Act, which would offer officers financial assistance for higher education for those who have served for a period of eight years with the same agency and who are willing to commit to serving at least an additional four. S. 4569 (Cantwel,l D-WA), the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; S. 4970 (Ossoff, D-GA), the Female Officers Ballistic Protection Act, which would ensure that women in law enforcement have improved ballistic body armor; S. 5056 (Grassley, R-IA), the Stop the Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, which will add a Schedule A to the existing five schedules of the Controlled Substances Act, allowing synthetic analogues to be prohibited; S. 5062 (Blackburn, R-TN), the Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act, which would require the OIG to conduct reviews and analysis into cases of sexual harassment and assault, report those findings to Congress, and subsequently have corrective rules promulgated by the U.S. Attorney General; S. 5128 (Casey, D-PA), the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would authorize the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; S. 5270 (Kelly-AZ), the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies;
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
H.R. 3539, the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which guarantees public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions; H.R. 7398, the Public Safety Free Speech Act. clarify and protect the speech of a public safety employee by allowing them to take legal action against an employer who violates their first amendment;
H.R. 1294/S. 569, the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act, which would appropriate over $2 billion in additional funding and make a number of technical corrections to the way the program is administered; H.R. 2548, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would direct the CDC to expand their data collection efforts, publicly release their findings, and suggest protocols to prevent instances of Traumatic Brain Injuries for Law Enforcement; H.R. 6030, the Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act, which gives law enforcement and other public safety professionals the option to buy into Medicare at the age of 50; S. 2226, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024" S. 2444, the Achieving Through Transparency and Accessibility for Information Navigation on (ATTAIN) Mental Health Act, which will create an online dashboard that will allow the public to see Federal grant information related to mental health programs; S. 3740, the Supporting Treatment and Recovery Over Narcotics for Growth, Empowerment, and Rehabilitation (STRONGER) Act, which reauthorizes the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners (RSAT) grant program through FY 2026 at $40 million annually and would make substantial improvements to the program;
S.738, the Tax Fairness for Workers Act, which would establish an above-the-line deduction for law enforcement and other public safety officers for certain employee-related expenses, including union dues;
H.R. 354/S/ 1462, the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), which exempts qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms, to ensure that these officers are able to carry in the same venues as civilian concealed carry permit holders in areas like schools and national parks, as well as use public transportation and extends the exemption to magazine capacity and would allow active and retired law enforcement officers to access services at U.S. post offices, Social Security Administration offices or Veterans Affairs facilities; H.R. 2620/S.1907, the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act, which would make Federal Firearms Licensee thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison; H.R. 3091/S. 1585, the Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act, which allows Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons; H.R. 3269, the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would create a new definition for a less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal firearms law; H.R. 7040, which would extend the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 for 10 years; S.3677, which would permanently authorize the Undetectable Firearms Act.
H.R. 4278, the Restore VA Accountability Act, which would reinforce the continued use of the substantial evidence standard in disciplinary review and prevent the United States Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) or any arbitrator to mitigate any punishment they consider excessive
H.R. 82/S.597, the Social Security Fairness Act, which would repeal both the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset in current Social Security law; H.R. 957, the Public Safety Health Care Retirees Act, which would update the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act in current Federal law; H.R. 1322/S. 1658, the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, which would expand the definition of law enforcement officer as it applies to salary and retirement benefits so that all Federal law enforcement officers will have access to them; S. 311, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Retirement Corrections Act, which would recognize the officers impacted by a detrimental retirement mix-up at the hands of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and award them the retirement benefits they paid for and were initially guaranteed;
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office