Legislation Supported by the FOP in the 118th Congress

U.S. House of Representatives

• TOP PRIORITY – H.R. 82 (Graves, R-LA), 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. 130 (Buchanan, R-FL), 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 (Banks, R-IN), which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court;
• H.R. 304 (Stefanik, R-NY), 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;
• PASSED HOUSE – H.R. 354 (Bacon, R-NE), 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. 355 (Bacon, R -NE), 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 (Joyce, R-OH), the “Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act,” which would direct 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;
• PRIORITY – H.R. 743 (Rutherford, R-FL), 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 (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. 898 (Carter, R-TX), 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. 957 (Spanberger, D-VA), 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. 1005 (Díaz-Balart, R-FL), the “EAGLES Act,” which would reauthorize and expand the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security;
• SIGNED INTO LAW – H.R. 1105/PL 118-72 (Wagner, R-MO), the “Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act,” which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding;
• H.R. 1294 (Garbarino, R-NY), 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;
• TOP PRIORITY – H.R. 1322 (Pascrell, D-NJ), 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. 1649 (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 to mid-size agencies that have fewer than 350 employees;
• H.R. 1719 (Pascrell, D-NJ), 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 (Panetta, D-CA), 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 (Crenshaw, R-TX), 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 (Lee, R-FL), 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;
• H.R. 2620 (Rutherford, R-FL), 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. 2722 (Peters, D-CA), 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. 2770 (Levin, D-CA), the “Prevent Family Fire Act,” which would encourage proper firearm storage by offering a tax credit to retailers for the sale of safe storage devices such as safes, trigger locks, and lock boxes;
• H.R. 2949 (Houlahan, D-PA), the “Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act,” which would aid our nation’s 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 (Garbarino, R-NY), 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;
• PASSED HOUSE – H.R. 3091 (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. 3150 (Gottheimer, D-NJ), 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.;
• PRIORITY – H.R. 3170 (Rutherford, R-FL), 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 nation’s veterans;
• H.R. 3184 (Gottheimer, D-NJ), 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;
• H.R. 3199 (Weber, R-TX), the “Pay Our Correctional Officers Fairly Act,” which would amend title 4 of the United States Code to provide increased locality pay rates to certain Bureau of Prisons employees;
• H.R. 3269 (Stanton, D-AZ), 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;
• SIGNED INTO LAW – H.R. 3325 (Hunt, R-TX), the “Recruit and Retain Act,” which would expand the scope of the Hiring Program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to allow these funds to be used to reduce application fees and other similar costs for job applicants and establish the Pipeline Partnership Program, to provide grants to law enforcement agencies that partner with colleges and universities;
• SIGNED INTO LAW – H.R. 3333 (McCaul, R-TX), 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. 3376 (Landsman, D-OH), the “Enhancing COPS Hiring Program Grants for Local Law Enforcement Act,” which would help address the recruitment and retention crisis by expanding the scope of the Hiring Program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to allow these funds to be used to provide bonuses for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers;
• H.R. 3449 (Thompson, R-PA), “Eric’s 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. 3501 (Landsman, D-OH), the “Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act,” which would provide law enforcement training so that they can better recognize and respond appropriately to behavioral health crises caused by mental illness and substance abuse;
• TOP PRIORITY – H.R. 3539 (Stauber, R-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;
• H.R. 3658 (Vasquez, D-NM), the “Joint Task Force to Combat Opioid Trafficking Act,” which would combat opioid trafficking by authorizing the creation of a joint task force under section 708 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to improve the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) border security operations in assisting the prevention, interdiction, and disruption, of opioids, such as fentanyl and xylazine, from entering the United States;
• H.R. 4384 (Neguse, D-CO), 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. 4911 (Harder, D-CA), the “Supporting the Health and Safety of Law Enforcement Act,” which would fund a pilot program that would place social workers within law enforcement agencies;
• H.R. 5029 (Ross, D-NC), 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 (Wagner R-MO), 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 (Bacon, R-NE), 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 (Gonzales, R-TX), 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 (Garbarino, R-NY), the “Protecting Our Nation’s 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. 6030 (Phillips, D-MN), 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. 6246 (McBath, D-GA) the “Eliminate Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act,” which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, the nation’s centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children;
• H.R. 6688 (Reschenthaler, R-PA), the “Cold Case Modernization Act,” which would 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. 7040 (Lawler, R-NY), which would extend the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 for 10 years;
• H.R. 7185 (Duarte, R-CA), the “HIDTA Reauthorization Act.”, which would reauthorize the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program;
• H.R. 7398 (Van Drew R-NJ), 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; 
• PASSED HOUSE H.R. 7581 (Bishop R-NC) 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;
• 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), the “Targeting Online Sales of Fentanyl Act, which would direct 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 (Gallego, D-AZ) 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 (Caraveo, D-CO), 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. 8420 (Carbajal, D-CA), the “Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act,” which would provide a one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).
• H.R. 8871 (Sykes, D-OH), the “Law Enforcement Scenario-Based Training for Safety and De-Escalation Act”, which would require the U.S. Department of Justice, specifically through the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), to create real-life, scenario-based training curriculum for law enforcement personnel based on the wide range of issues they encounter while serving our communities;
• H.R. 8918 (Craig, D-MN) the “Cooper Davis and Devin Norring Act,” which would require social media providers to report all suspected illicit drug activity occurring on their platforms to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); 
• 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 (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;
• SIGNED INTO LAW – H.J. Res. 26/PL 118-1 (Clyde, R-GA), a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Revised Criminal Code Act (RCCA) of 2022 by the Washington, D.C. City Council;
• VETOED BY PRESIDENT – H.J. Res. 42 (Clyde, R-GA), 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 (D’Esposito, R-NY), a resolution calling on Congress to respect the rights of law enforcement officers and establish a Bill of Rights for them;
• H. Res. 1213 (Stauber, R-MN), A resolution regarding violence against law enforcement officers.

United States Senate

• S. 261 (Brown, D-OH), 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);
• S. 311 (Peters, D-MI), 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;
• S. 459 (Braun, R-IN), 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;
• SIGNED INTO LAW- S. 474 (Blackburn, R-TX), 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;
• PASSED SENATE – S. 499 (Cornyn, R-TX), the “Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act,” which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding;
• S. 529 (Cruz, R-TX), “Eric’s 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;
• SIGNED INTO LAW – S. 546/PL 118-59 (Fischer, R-NE), the “Recruit and Retain Act,” which would expand the scope of the Hiring Program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to allow funds to be used to reduce application fees and other similar costs for job applicants;
• S. 569 (Gillibrand, D-NY), 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;
• TOP PRIORITY – S. 597 (Brown, D-OH), the “Social Security Fairness Act,” which would repeal both the “Windfall Elimination Provision” and the “Government Pension Offset” in current Social Security law;
• PASSED SENATE – S. 645 (Grassley, R-IA), the “Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act,” which would direct 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;
• S.738 (Casey, D-PA), 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;
• S.894 (Cornyn, R-TX), 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 (Klobuchar, D-MN), 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 (Ossoff, D-GA), the “Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act,” which would provide a one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS);
• S. 993 (Cortez Masto, D-NV), the “Combating Illicit Xylazine Act,” which would add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act, listing it as a Schedule III drug for illicit use;
• PASSED SENATE – S. 994 (Peters, D-MI), 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;
• S. 1034 (Lummis, R-WY), the “Truck Parking Safety Improvements Act,” which would authorize $755 million over three years to fund a competitive grant program to expand commercial truck parking capacity across the United States and improve existing facilities;
• S. 1080 (Marshall, R-KS), 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. 1144 (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;
• PASSED SENATE – S. 1170 (Cornyn, R-TX), “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. 1175 (Klobuchar, D-MN), the “Combatting Online Fentanyl Trafficking Act,” which would authorize incentive pay for U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) employees with significant cyber skills that assist in the detection, prevention, or prosecution of fentanyl trafficking;
• S. 1199 (Durbin, D-IL), “Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act,” which would provide special privacy protections to certain child victims and witnesses in criminal prosecutions;
• S. 1207(Graham, R-SC), 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;
• SIGNED INTO LAW – S. 1271(Scott, R-SC), 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;
• S. 1306 (Klobuchar, D-MN), the “COPS Reauthorization Act,” which would reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and all the programs it administers through 2029;
• S. 1331 (Menendez, D-NJ), the “Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act,” which would aid our nation’s 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;
• PASSED SENATE – S. 1387 (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. 1447 (Cardin, D-MD), 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;
• PRIORITY – S. 1462 (Kennedy, R-LA), 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;
• S. 1507 (Brown, D-NJ), the “Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act,” which would establish 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;
• PRIORITY – S. 1514 (Rubio, R-FL), the “Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act,” which would create 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 nation’s veterans;
• S. 1530 (Graham, R-SC), the “COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act,” which would allow 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 (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. 1585 (Cornyn, R-TX), the “Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act,” which would allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons;
• TOP PRIORITY – S. 1658 (Booker, D-NJ), the “Law Enforcement Officers’ Parity 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. 1857 (Tester, D-MT), the “Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act,” which would reauthorize, and increase funding for, Operation Stonegarden;
• S. 1907 (Graham, R-SC), the “Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act,” which would make Federal Firearms Licensee thefts a Federal offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison;
• S. 2313 (Coons, D-DE), the “Driving for Opportunity Act,” which would create a grant program for States to reinstate driver’s licenses that were suspended for unpaid fines and fees;
• S. 2444 (Fischer, R-NE), the “Achieving Through Transparency and Accessibility for Information Navigation on (ATTAIN) Mental Health Act,” which would create an online dashboard that will allow the public to see Federal grant information related to mental health programs;
• S. 2567 (Cornyn, R-TX), the “Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act,” which would reauthorize the programs in the Computer Crime Enforcement Act;
• S. 2569 (Cornyn, R-TX), 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 (Coons, D-DE), the “Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act,” which would eliminate the age requirement for expunging an individual’s minor possession conviction;
• S. 2637 (Brown, 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 which will improve community-police relations, as well as officer safety and resilience;
• PASSED SENATE – S. 2644 (Cornyn, R-TX), 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;
• S.2982, (Booker-NJ), the “Targeting Online Sales of Fentanyl Act,” which would direct 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;
• S. 3113 (Brown, 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. 3335 (Klobuchar, D-MN), the “Retired Federal Law Enforcement Officers Continuing Service Act,” which would establish a grant program to allow for the hiring of retired law enforcement officers to train and perform civilian law enforcement duties; 
• S. 3356 (Durbin, D-IL), 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;
• SIGNED INTO LAW – S.3427 (Graham, R-SC), the Overtime Pay for Protective Services Act of 2023″, which extends through 2028 and modifies the authority to provide premium pay for protective services employees of the U.S. Secret Service that exceeds certain statutory limits on premium pay;
• S.3522 (Grassley, R-IA), 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. 3591 (Casey, D-PA), the “Stop Fentanyl at the Border Act,” which would provide over $5 billion in funding to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to support border operations and drug interdiction efforts;
• S. 3643 (Grassley, R-IA), 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.3677 (Reed, D-RI), which would permanently authorize the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988;
• S. 3740 (Cornyn, R-TX), 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. 3763 (Booker, D-NJ), 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. 3771 (Cassidy, R-LA), the “Pay Our Correctional Officers Fairly Act,” which would amend title 4 of the United States Code to provide increased locality pay rates to certain Bureau of Prisons employees;
• S. 4235 (Hawley, R-MO), the “Reauthorizing Support and Treatment for Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act,” which would reauthorize the STOIC act that provides law enforcement with mental health and support services; 
• S. 4255 (Sinema I-AZ), the ““Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act,” which would clarify that a device which expels a projectile by the action of the explosive should not be regulated or taxed as a firearm if it passes a two-pronged test.
• 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. 5060 (Cornyn, R-TX), 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;
• 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 program’s 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.J. Res. 12 (Haggerty, R-TN), a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Revised Criminal Code Act (RCCA) of 2022 by the Washington, D.C. City Council;
• S.J. Res. 26 (Vance, R-OH), a resolution disapproving of the D.C. City Council passed, “Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA).”