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;

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 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 (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,” 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;

H.R. 1105 (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;

PASSED HOUSE – H.R. 3091 (Fry, R-SC), the “Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act,” which allows 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.;

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 establishes 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. 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;

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 helps 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;

TOP PRIORITY – H.R. 3539 (Stauber, R-MN), 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. 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. 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. 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. 

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;

PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE – 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;

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;

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;

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;

PASSED SENATE – S. 546 (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 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;

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 provides 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. 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 establishes 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. 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 provides 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;

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 will 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. 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. 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;

S. 1507 (Brown, D-NJ), 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. 1514 (Brown, D-OH), 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;

S. 1530 (Graham, R-SC), 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 (Cornyn, R-TX), 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. 1585 (Cornyn, R-TX), the “Federal Law Enforcement Service Weapon Purchase Act,” which allows 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 will create an online dashboard that will allow the public to see Federal grant information related to mental health programs;

S. 2596 (Coons, D-DE), the “Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act,” would amend current law (18 U.SC. §3607) expunging an individual’s minor possession offense if the individual meets the law’s stringent requirements. This legislation amends this rule, eliminating the age requirement;

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;

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.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)”;