Legislation Supported by the FOP in the 115th Congress
U.S. House of Representatives
- H.R. 35 (Burgess, R-TX), the “Health Savings Act” would expand the use of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) to make them more flexible for law enforcement officers;
- H.R. 62 (Jackson Lee, D-TX), the “Gun Violence Reduction Resources Act,” would authorize the hiring of an additional 200 agents and investigators for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the U.S. Department of Justice;
- H.R. 115 (Buchanan, R-FL), the “Thin Blue Line Act,” would increase the penalty for offenders who kill or attempt to kill law enforcement or other public safety officers;
- H.R. 173 (Courtney, D-CT), the “Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act,” would repeal a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that imposes a 40% “Cadillac tax” on health care plans most likely to be used by law enforcement and other public safety officers;
- H.R. 426 (Ratcliffe, R-TX), the “Protecting Lives Using Surplus (PLUS) Equipment Act,” would restore all Federal equipment assistance programs to State and local law enforcement which were restricted by Executive Order 13688;
- PASSED – H.R. 510/PL 115-50 (Sensenbrenner, R-WI), the “Rapid DNA Act,” would implement the use of Rapid DNA instruments to inform decisions about pretrial release or detention and their conditions, to solve and prevent violent crimes and other crimes, to exonerate the innocent, and prevent DNA analysis backlogs;
- H.R. 613 (McKinley, R-WV), the “Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Correctional Officer Self-Protection Act,” would direct the Bureau of Prisons to make secure firearms storage areas accessible to employees at all of its facilities;
- H.R. 664 (Joyce, R-OH), the “Stem the Tide of Overdose Prevalence from Opiate Drugs (STOP OD) Act,” would aim to reduce the curb the number of overdoses due to synthetic fentanyl and helps equip law enforcement officers with naloxone;
- PASSED – H.R. 695/PL 115-141 (Schiff, D-CA), the “Child Protection Improvements Act,” would allow organizations that serve children and the elderly to use the FBI database to conduct background checks on potential employees;
- H.R. 909 (Clark, D-MA), the “Pet and Women Safety (PAWS) Act,” would expand existing Federal protections to the pets of domestic abuse victims and establish a grant program to assist victims and their pets when they leave their abusers;
- PASSED – H.R. 949/PL 115-141 (Fitzpatrick, R-PA), the “Children of Fallen Heroes Scholarship Act,” would eliminate the Expected Family Contribution provision in the Pell Grant program for the children of public safety officers killed in the line of duty;
- TOP PRIORITY – H.R. 964 (King, R-NY), the “Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act,” would expand the definition of “law enforcement officer” for salary and retirement benefits to include all Federal law enforcement officers;
- H.R. 1039 (Reichert, R-WA), the “Probation Officer Protection Act,” would amend section 3606 of Title 18, United States Code, to grant probation officers authority to arrest hostile third parties who obstruct or impede a probation officer in the performance of official duties;
- H.R. 1057 (Tiberi, R-OH), the “Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act” would close the loophole and allow U.S. Border and Customs Protections to effectively enforce customs laws that will stop the flow of deadly synthetic drugs into our communities from China;
- TOP PRIORITY – H.R. 1205 (Davis, R-IL), the “Social Security Fairness Act,” would repeal both the “Windfall Elimination Provision” and the “Government Pension Offset” in current Social Security law. This legislation, simply put, is one of the top legislative priorities of the Fraternal Order of Police;
- PASSED – H.R. 1428/PL 115-37 (Hurd R-TX), the “American Law Enforcement Hero’s Act,” would prioritize the hiring of veterans and reservists through the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS);
- H.R. 1494 (Smith, R-TX), the “Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act” would provide criminal penalty for those who engage in “animal crushing,” as well as for those who create or distribute such films;
- PASSED – H.R. 1616/PL 115-76 (Ratcliffe, R-TX), the “Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act,” would authorize National Computer Forensics Institute to provide assistance and training to local and State law enforcement agencies investigating and prosecuting cybercrimes;
- H.R. 1636 (Larson, D-WA), the “School Safety Act,” would reauthorize and expand the Secure Our Schools program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS);
- H.R. 1732 (Dent, R-PA), the “Synthetic Drug Control Act,” would enhance the ability of law enforcement to combat synthesized drugs by amending the Controlled Substances Act to clarify how controlled substance analogues are to be regulated;
- H.R. 1761 (Johnson, R-LA), the “Protection Against Child Exploitation Act,” would close an existing loophole in current statute by clarifying certain definitions in child pornography law;
- PASSED – H.R. 1846/PL 115-82 (Wasserman Schultz, D-FL), the “Providing Resources, Officers, and Technology To Eradicate Cyber Threats to (PROTECT) Our Children Act,” would reauthorize the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces;
- PASSED – H.R. 1865/PL 115-64 (Wagner, R-MO), the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act,” would to update and clarify Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to ensure that charges can be brought against interactive computer service providers who engage in criminal behavior or with reckless disregard to criminal activity;
- H.R. 1886 (Deutch, D-FL), the “National Criminal Justice Commission Act,” would establish National Criminal Justice Commission to study the nation’s criminal justice systems;
- PASSED – H.R. 1892 (Larson, D-CT), the “Honoring Hometown Heroes Act,” would amend existing U.S. flag Code to allow governors to fly the American flag at half-staff in the event a law enforcement or other public safety officers falls in the line of duty;
- PASSED – H.R. 2142/PL 115-112 (Tsongas, D-MA), the “International Narcotics Trafficking Emergency Response by Detecting Incoming Contraband with Technology (INTERDICT) Act” would ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protections (CBP) will have additional portable chemical screening devices at ports of entry, mail and express consignment facilities, and more resources at the CBP labs;
- H.R. 2213 (McSally, R-AZ), the “Anti-Bordering Corruption Reauthorization Act,” would improve the ability of the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol to hire new officers;
- PASSED – H.R 2228/PL 115-113 (Brooks, R-IN), the “Law Enforcement Officers Mental Health and Wellness Act,” would direct the U.S. Attorney General to work with the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to identify and collect information on existing mental services provided to our nation’s veterans and Federal employees and seek to create model policies and best practices for local and State agencies to design their own mental health and wellness programs;
- H.R. 2437 (Poe, R-TX), the “Back the Blue Act,” which contains a number of amendments to Federal law expanding the death penalty for persons who kill law enforcement officers, restrictions on habeas corpus, limitation on recovery of damages incurred during an arrest as well as two amendments to the Law Enforcement Officers’ Safety Act (LEOSA) with respect to magazine capacity and the Guns Free School Zones Act;
- H.R. 2513 (Hartzler, R-MO), the “Police Officers Protecting Children Act,” would add qualified active and retired law enforcement officers, as defined by the Law Enforcement Officers’ Safety Act (LEOSA), to the list of exemptions to the Guns Free School Zones Act;
- H.R. 2561 (Hollingworth, R-IN), the “Protecting Police Officers of the Law in Civilian Establishments (POLICE) Act,” would clarify that existing Federal laws which prohibit the carriage of firearms onto Federal property like post offices, Social Security offices and Veterans Affairs offices do not apply to law enforcement officers in uniform;
- H.R. 2792 (Noem, R-SD), the “Control Unlawful Fugitive Felons (CUFF) Act,” would amend the Social Security Act to keep fugitives from collecting Social Security benefits while on the run;
- H.R. 2851 (Katko, R-NY), the “Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues (SITSA) Act,” would amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify how controlled substance analogues are to be regulated by allowing the Attorney General to add synthetic analogues either temporarily/permanently to Schedule A;
- H.R. 3032 (Katko, R-NY), the “Mental Health Access Improvements Act,” would expand Medicare to include marriage and family therapist services;
- H.R. 3089 (Maloney, D-NY), the “Corporate Transparency Act,” would require the Federal government to collect beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies unless the State already collects this information;
- PASSED H.R. 3249/PL 115-185 (Comstock, R-VA), the “Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act,” would reauthorize and fully fund the Project Safe Neighborhoods program;
- H.R. 3303 (Connolly, D-VA), the “Fair Return for Employees on Their Initial Retirement Earned (RETIRE) Act,” would allow Federal law enforcement officers, who were severely injured in the line of duty, to maintain their 6(c) early retirement if they take a civil service position after their injury;
- H.R. 3790 (Russell, R-OK), the “Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act,” would increase penalties on those who burglarize or rob a Federal Firearms Licensee;
- H.R. 4471 (Quigley, D-IL), the “NICS Denial Notification Act,” would require the U.S. Department of Justice to notify State and local law enforcement agencies if a prohibited person attempts to purchase a firearm in their jurisdiction;
- PASSED! – H.R. 4477/PL 115-141 (Culbertson, R-TX), the “Fix NICS Act,” would require all Federal agencies and States to produce NICS implementation plans focused on uploading accurate, required information to the background check system;
- H.R. 4768 (Kustoff, R-TN), the “National Strategy for Combating the Financing of Transnational Criminal Organizations Act,” would codify an existing Executive Order and direct the Federal government to develop a national strategy to combat transnational criminal organizations;
- TOP PRIORITY – H.R. 4846 (Kildee, D-MI), the “Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act,” would recognize the right of law enforcement and other public safety officers to bargain collectively with their employers;
- H.R. 4854 (Carter, R-TX), the “Justice Served Act,” will increase the capacity of prosecutors to address the backlog of violent crime cases involving suspects identified through DNA evidence;
- H.R. 5060 (Ruiz, D-CA), the “Heroes Lesley Zerebney and Gilbert Vega First Responders Survivors Support Act,” would increase the amount of the death benefit provide by the Public Safety Officers’ benefits (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB;
- H.R. 5219 (Davis, R-IL), the “Opioid Prescription Verification Act,” would require retail sellers of opioids to verify the identity of the purchaser;
- H.R. 5698 (Rutherford, R-FL), the “Protect and Serve Act,” would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in seriously bodily harm or death;
- H.R. 5788 (Bishop, R-MI), the “Securing the International Mail Against Opioids Act,” would close the loophole and allow U.S Custom and Border Protection to effectively enforce customs laws that will stop the flow of deadly synthetic drugs into our communities from China;
- H.R. 5860 (Norman, R-SC), the “Putting First Responders First Act,” would codify existing Internal Revenue Code regulations making service-connected disability compensation exempt from Federal income taxes;
- H.R. 5871 (Lamb, D-PA), the “Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act,” would would establishes a grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in order to provide State and local law enforcement agencies with portable chemical screening devices to detect dangerous synthetic opioids and other drugs;
- H.R. 5933 (Collins, R-GA), the “Substance Abuse Prevention Act,” would reauthorize the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the programs it administers;
- H.R. 6047 (Thornberry, R-TX), the “Synthetic Abuse and Labeling of Toxic Substances (SALTS) Act,” would amend the Controlled Substances Act to set forth factors that may be considered as evidence to determine whether a controlled substance analogue is intended for human consumption;
- H.R. 6691 (Handel, R-GA), the “Community Safety and Security Act,” would amend Title 18, United States Code, to clarify the definition of a “crime of violence”;
- H.J. Res 61 (Womack, R-AR), would amend the Constitution to give Congress the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States
United States Senate
- S. 29 (Tester, D-MT), the “Fair Return for Employees on Their Initial Retirement Earned (RETIRE) Act,” would allow Federal law enforcement officers, who were severely injured in the line of duty, to maintain their 6(c) early retirement if they take a civil service position after their injury;
- S. 40 (Heller, R-NV), the “Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act,” would repeal a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that imposes a 40% “Cadillac tax” on health care plans most likely to be used by law enforcement and other public safety officers;
- S. 58 (Heller, R-NV), the “Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act,” would repeal a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that imposes a 40% “Cadillac tax” on health care plans most likely to be used by law enforcement and other public safety officers;
- PASSED – S. 139/PL 115-130 (Hatch, R-UT), the “Rapid DNA Act,” would implement the use of Rapid DNA instruments to inform decisions about pretrial release or detention and their conditions, to solve and prevent violent crimes and other crimes, to exonerate the innocent, and prevent DNA analysis backlogs;
- S. 207 (Klobuchar, D-MN), the “Synthetic Abuse and Labeling of Toxic Substances (SALTS) Act,” would close the existing loophole for the manufacturers on analogue drug sales and distribution;
- S. 318 (Klobuchar, D-MN), the “COPS Improvement Act”, would reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and improve its existing hiring program;
- S. 322 (Peters, D-MI), the “Pet and Women Safety (PAWS) Act,” would expand existing Federal protections to the pets of domestic abuse victims and establish a grant program to assist victims and their pets when they leave their abusers;
- S. 367 (Hatch, R-UT), the “Probation Officer Protection Act,” would give probation officers authority to arrest hostile third parties who obstruct or impede a probation officer in the performance of official duties;
- S. 372 (Portman, R-OH), the “Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act” would close the loophole and allow U.S Custom and Border Protection to effectively enforce customs laws that will stop the flow of deadly synthetic drugs into our communities from China;
- PASSED – S. 419/PL 115-36 (Grassley, R-IA), the “Public Safety Officers’ Benefits (PSOB) Improvements Act,” would make key changes to the Public Safety Officers’ Benefit program to improve transparency and accountability as well as reduce the existing backlog of claims;
- TOP PRIORITY – S. 424 (Booker, D-NJ), the “Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act,” would expand the definition of “law enforcement officer” for salary and retirement benefits to include all Federal law enforcement officers;
- S. 573 (Peters, D- MI), the “National Criminal Justice Commission Act,” would establish National Criminal Justice Commission to study the nation’s criminal justices systems;
- PASSED – S. 583/PL 115-37 (Cornyn, R-TX), the “American Law Enforcement Heroes Act,” would prioritized the hiring of veterans and reservists through the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS);
- PASSED – S. 597/PL 115-141 (Casey, D-PA), the “Children of Fallen Heroes Scholarship Act,” would eliminate the Expected Family Contribution provision in the Pell Grant program for the children of public safety officers killed in the line of duty;
- S. 654 (Toomey, R-PA), the “Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act,” would provide criminal penalty for those who engage in “animal crushing”, as well as for those who create or distribute such films;
- PASSED – S. 705 (Hatch, R-UT), the “Child Protection Improvements Act,” would allow organizations that serve children and the elderly to use the FBI database to conduct background checks on potential employees;
- PASSED – S. 708/PL 115-112 (Markey, D-MA), the “International Narcotics Trafficking Emergency Response by Detecting Incoming Contraband with Technology (INTERDICT) Act” would ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protections (CBP) will have additional portable chemical screening devices at ports of entry, mail and express consignment facilities, and more resources at the CBP labs;
- S. 739 (Grassley, R-IA), the “Protecting Kids from Candy-Flavored Drugs Act,” would impose increased prison sentences on adults who manufacture, create, distribute, or possess with the intent to distribute a controlled substance that is appealing to kids, whether designed or flavored;
- PASSED – S. 782/PL 115-82 (Cornyn, R-TX), the “Providing Resources, Officers, and Technology To Eradicate Cyber Threats to (PROTECT) Our Children Act,” would reauthorize the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces;
- PASSED – S. 867/PL 115-113 (Donnelly, D-IN), the “Law Enforcement Officers Mental Health and Wellness Act,” would direct the U.S. Attorney General to work with the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to identify and collect information on existing mental services provided to our nation’s veterans and Federal employees and seek to create model policies and best practices for local and State agencies to design their own mental health and wellness programs;
- PASSED – S. 904/PL 115-76 (Grassley, R-IA), the “Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act,” would authorize National Computer Forensics Institute to provide assistance and training to local and State law enforcement agencies investigating and prosecuting cybercrimes;
- TOP PRIORITY – S. 915 (Brown, D-OH), the “Social Security Fairness Act,” would repeal both the “Windfall Elimination Provision” and the “Government Pension Offset” in current Social Security law;
- S. 1084 (Toomey, R-PA), the “Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Correctional Officer Self-Protection Act,” would direct the Bureau of Prisons to make secure firearms storage areas accessible to employees at all of its facilities;
- S. 1085 (Toomey, R-PA), the “Thin Blue Line Act,” would increase the penalty for offenders who kill or attempt to kill law enforcement or other public safety officers;
- S. 1087 (Toomey, R-PA), the “Lifesaving Gear for Police Act,” would restore all Federal equipment assistance programs to State and local law enforcement which were restricted by Executive Order 13688;
- PASSED – S. 1108/PL 115-123 (Tester, D-MT), the “Honoring Hometown Heroes Act,” would amend existing U.S. flag Code to allow governors to fly the American flag at half-staff in the event a law enforcement or other public safety officers falls in the line of duty;
- S. 1134 (Cornyn, R-TX), the “Back the Blue Act,” which contains a number of amendments to Federal law expanding the death penalty for persons who kill law enforcement officers, restrictions on habeas corpus, limitation on recovery of damages incurred during an arrest as well as two amendments to the Law Enforcement Officers’ Safety Act (LEOSA) with respect to magazine capacity and the Guns Free School Zones Act;
- S. 1185 (Leahy, D-VT), the “Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act,” would criminalize the practice of “straw purchasers”–individuals who are not prohibited from buying firearms only to transfer those weapons to persons who are unable to lawfully obtain guns;
- S. 1241 (Grassley, R-IA), the “Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act,” would update and strengthen Federal laws to combat money laundering and provide law enforcement with additional tools to restrict the ability of criminals to profit from their crimes;
- S. 1311 (Cornyn, R-TX), the “Abolish Human Trafficking Act,” reauthorizes parts of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and expand the authority of State and local agencies to obtain wiretap warrants for trafficking investigations;
- S. 1312 (Grassley, R-IA), the “Trafficking Victims Protection Act,” would help prevent human trafficking by promoting training for law enforcement and school resource officers through the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to better identify and respond to human trafficking victims;
- S. 1327 (Grassley, R-IA), the “Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues (SITSA) Act,” would amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify how controlled substance analogues are to be regulated by allowing the Attorney General to add synthetic analogues either temporarily/permanently to Schedule A;
- S. 1454 (Whitehouse, D-RI), the “True Incorporation Transparency for Law Enforcement (TITLE) Act,” would require States to collect beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies;
- S. 1666 (Blumenthal, D-CT), the “Helping Overcome Trauma for Children Alone in Rear Seats (HOTCARS) Act,” would direct the U.S. Department of transportation to implement a rule requiring vehicles to notify drivers if a child or other passenger has been inadvertently left behind;
- PASSED – S. 1693/PL 115-164 (Portman, R-OH), the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act,” would to update and clarify Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to ensure that charges can be brought against interactive computer service providers who engage in criminal behavior or with reckless disregard to criminal activity;
- S. 1717 (Wyden, D-OR), the “Corporate Transparency Act,” would require the Federal government to collect beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies unless the State already collects this information;
- S. 1781 (Cornyn, R-TX), the “National White Collar Crime Control Act,” would reauthorize grant programs to law enforcement to combat white collar crimes;
- S. 1854 (Graham, R-SC), the “Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act,” would increase penalties on those who burglarize or rob a Federal Firearms Licensee;
- S. 1879 (Barrasso, R-WY), the “Seniors Mental Health Access Improvements Act” would expand Medicare to include marriage and family therapist services;
- PASSED – S. 2135/PL 115-141 (Cornyn, R-TX), the “Fix NICS Act,” would require all Federal agencies and States to produce NICS implementation plans focused on uploading accurate, required information to the background check system;
- S. 2345 (Cornyn, R-TX), the “Justice Served Act” will increase the capacity of prosecutors to address the backlog of violent crime cases involving suspects identified through DNA evidence;
- S. 2389 (Toomey, R-PA), “Eric’s Law” would amend current law to allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of capital cases;
- S. 2492 (Toomey, R-PA), the “NICS Denial Notification Act” would require the U.S. Department of Justice to notify State and local law enforcement agencies if a prohibited person attempts to purchase a firearm in their jurisdiction;
- PASSED – S. 2495/PL 115-141 (Hatch, R-UT), the “Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Act,” would would reauthorize and expand the existing Secure Our Schools program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS);
- S. 2715 (Hatch, R-UT), the “Criminal Organizations’ Narcotics, Finance, Resources, Operations and Network Targeting (CONFRONT) Act” would codify an existing Executive Order and direct the Federal government to develop a national strategy to combat transnational criminal organizations;
- S. 2759 (Grassley, R-IA), the “EAGLES Act” would reauthorize the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security;
- S. 2763 (Brown, D-OH), the “Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act” would establish a grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in order to provide State and local law enforcement agencies with portable chemical screening devices to detect dangerous synthetic opioids and other drugs;
- S. 2774 (Klobuchar, D-MN), the “COPS Reauthorization Act” would reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) within the U.S. Department of Justice through 2023;
- S. 2789 (Cornyn, R-TX), the “Substance Abuse Prevention Act” would reauthorize the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the programs it administers;
- S. 2794 (Hatch, R-UT), the “Protect and Serve Act” would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in seriously bodily harm or death;
- TOP PRIORITY – S. 2845 (Baldwin, D-WI), the “Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act,” would recognize the right of law enforcement and other public safety officers to bargain collectively with their employers;
- S. 2860 (Daines, R-MT), the “Putting First Responders First Act” would codify existing Internal Revenue Code regulations making service-connected disability compensation exempt from Federal income taxes;
- S. 2961 (Blunt, R-MO), the “Victims of Child Abuse Act Reauthorization Act” would reauthorize and expand victims’ services program and extend liability protection to secondary reporters of child abuse;
- S. 2973 (Roberts, R-KS), the “Kelsey Smith Act” would require telephone companies and wireless carriers to disclose cell-site location data without a warrant in certain exigent circumstances;
- S. 3433 (Toomey, R-PA), the “Social Security Fairness for Firefighters and Police Officers Act” would repeal both the “Windfall Elimination Provision” and the “Government Pension Offset” for those serving as law enforcement officers or firefighters;
- Legislation to provide Federal law enforcement officers with a rebuttable presumption that a causal connection exists between their occupation and heart, lung, and hypertension disorders; and
- Legislation which would protect the personal information of law enforcement officers and their families from public access