Legislation Supported by the FOP in the 119th Congress

U.S. House of Representatives

• 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. 309, (Nehls, R-TX) the “National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support and Community Outreach Act,” which would direct the U.S. Department of the Interior to award a grant of $6 million over the next seven fiscal years to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund;
• 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. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the “Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act,” which would eliminate income tax on a public servant’s overtime pay;
• 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);
• SIGNED INTO LAW – PL 119-12/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. 749 (Bice, R-OK) the “Stop Illegal Entry Act,” which would increase the penalties for illegal immigrants who are convicted of a felony, as well as increasing the penalties for illegally entering the U.S. after already being deported once. 
• 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. 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. 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) “Eric’s 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 servant’s salary based on the VA home loan program;
• H.R. 2096 (Garbarino, R-NY) the “Protecting Our Nation’s 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. 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. 2194 (Harder, D-CA) 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 in order to enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies;
• PASSED HOUSE – 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;
• PASSED HOUSE – 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;
• PASSED HOUSE – 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 DOJ’s 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;

• TOP PRIORITY – 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. 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. 3304 (Peters, D-CA) the “Providing Child Care for Police Officers Act,” would authorize the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to create a competitive grant program to establish childcare programs for law enforcement families;
• 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).

United States Senate

• 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;
• SIGNED INTO LAW – PL 119-12/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;
• CLEARED COMMITTEE – 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);
• CLEARED COMMITTEE – 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.
• PASSED SENATE – 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.
• CLEARED COMMITTEE – S. 419 (Hawley, R-MO) the “Reauthorizing Support and Treatment for Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act,” which would reauthorize programs for law enforcement family support services, suicide prevention programs, and mental health services for law enforcement officers;
• 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;
• CLEARED COMMITTEE – S. 539 (Cornyn, R-TX) the ““PROTECT Our Children Reauthorization Act,” which would update and reauthorize the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program that helps State and local law enforcement agencies combat online child exploitation and abuse;
• 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. 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)
• 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. 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. 767 (Kelly, D-AZ) the “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) 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. 768 (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;
• CLEARED COMMITTEE – S. 911 (Masto, D-NV) the “Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act,” which would amend the Public Officers’ Benefits (PSOB) program to include retired public safety officers who are injured or killed in a targeted attack;
• 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 servant’s salary based on the VA home loan program;
• PASSED SENATE – S. 1077 (Collins, R-ME) the “District of Columbia Local Funds Act,” which would restore the District of Columbia’s 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;
• CLEARED COMMITTEE – 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. 
• CLEARED COMMITTEE – S.1563 (Klobuchar, D-MN) “Retired Law Enforcement Officers Continuing Service Act,” which would establish a grant program to support State and local agencies in leveraging the expertise of retired officers for tasks like assisting with investigations, forensic analysis, and reviewing camera footage.
• CLEARED COMMITTEE – 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 Justice’s Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits;
• S. 1829 (Hawley, R-MO) the “Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act,” which would establish a supplemental grant program to provide additional funds to the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces in States that have child abuse reporting laws that apply to organizations that provide services to children.
• 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.