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Legislative Priorities for the

115th Congress

National Association of Police Organizations

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Position Bill Date Sponsor Title Summary Status

SUPPORT S. 30 1/4/2017 Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)

Extending Justice for Victims of Crime

Act of 2017

A bill to extend the civil statute of limitations for victims of Federal sex

offenses.

1/4/2017 Referred to the Senate Judiciary

Committee.

12 cosponsors

House Companion Bill: H.R. 1035

SUPPORT S. 52 1/5/2017 Chuck Grassley (R-IA)

A bill to make aliens associated with a criminal gang inadmissible,

deportable, and ineligible for various forms of relief.


Committee.

5 cosponsors

SUPPORT S. 58 1/9/2017 Dean Heller (R-NV)

Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal

Act of 2017

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax

on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage.

1/9/2014 Referred to the Senate Finance

Committee.

14 cosponsors


SUPPORT S. 87 1/10/2017 Pat Toomey (R-PA)

Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act

of 2017

A bill to ensure that State and local law enforcement may cooperate with

Federal officials to protect our communities from violent criminals

and suspected terrorists who are illegally present in the United States.


Committee.

25 cosponsors



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SUPPORT S. 139 1/12/2017 Orrin Hatch (R-UT)

Rapid DNA Act of 2017

A bill to 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 to prevent DNA analysis

backlogs.

5/16/2017 Passed by the Senate by unanimous

consent.

12 cosponsors


SUPPORT S. 207 1/24/2017 Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

SALTS Act A bill to amend the Controlled Substances Act relating to controlled

substance analogues.

1/24/2017 Referred to Senate Judiciary

Committee.

13 cosponsors

MONITOR S. 318 2/6/2017 Amy Klubochar (D-MN)

COPS Improvements Act of 2017

A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968

to enhance and reauthorize the COPS ON THE BEAT grant program.


Committee.

1 cosponsor

SUPPORT S. 403 2/15/2017 Orrin Hatch (R-UT)

Health Savings Act A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify rules relating

to health savings accounts.


Committee.

1 cosponsor


MONITOR S. 411 2/16/2017 Ben Cardin (D-MD)

End Racial and Religious Profiling

Act of 2017

A bill to eliminate racial, religious, and other discriminatory profiling by

law enforcement.


Committee.

27 cosponsors






SUPPORT S. 419 2/16/2017 Charles Grassley (R-IA)

Public Safety Officers’ Benefits

(PSOB) Improvement Act of

2017

A bill to require adequate reporting on the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits

program, and for other purposes.

6/2/2017 Became Public Law No. 115-36.

16 cosponsors

SUPPORT S. 424 2/16/2017 Cory Booker (D-NJ)

Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act

A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to include certain Federal

positions within the definition of law enforcement officer for retirement

purposes.

2/16/2017 Referred to the Senate Homeland

Security and Governmental Affairs

Committee.

3 cosponsors

OPPOSE S. 545 3/7/2017 Rand Paul (R-KY)

National Right-to-Work Act

A bill to preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to

form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such

activities.

3/7/2017 Referred to the Senate Health, Education,

Labor and Pensions Committee.

23 cosponsors

SUPPORT

S. 573

3/8/2017

Gary Peters (D-MI)

National Criminal Justice Commission

Act of 2017

A bill to establish the National Criminal Justice Commission.


Committee.

28 cosponsors


SUPPORT S. 583 3/8/2017 John Cornyn (R-TX)

American Law Enforcement Heroes

Act of 2017

A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize COPS grantees to use

grant funds to hire veterans as career law enforcement officers.

6/2/2017 Became Public Law No. 115-37.

23 cosponsors







SUPPORT S. 597 3/9/2017 Robert Casey (D-PA)

Children of Fallen Heroes Scholarship

Act

A bill to increase Federal Pell Grants for the children of fallen public safety

officers.

3/9/2017 Referred to the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

5 cosponsors

SUPPORT S. 782 3/30/2017 John Cornyn PROTECT Our Children Act

A bill to reauthorize the National Internet Crimes Against Children

Task Force Program

6/20/2017 Referred to the House Committee on

the Judiciary.

14 cosponsors


SUPPORT S. 867 4/6/2017 Joe Donnelly (D-IN)

Law Enforcement Mental Health and

Wellness Act

A bill to provide support for law enforcement agency efforts to protect the mental health and well-being of

law enforcement officers

5/16/2017 Passed by the Senate by unanimous

consent.

14 cosponsors


SUPPORT

S. 915

4/24/2017

Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

Social Security Fairness Act of 2017

A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the

Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions.


Committee.

8 cosponsors

House Companion Bill:






H.R. 1205

SUPPORT S. 1084 5/10/2017 Patrick Toomey (R-PA)

Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati

Correctional Officer Self-Protection Act

of 2017

A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to require that the Director of

the Bureau of Prisons ensure that each chief executive officer of a Federal penal or correctional

institution provides a secure storage area located outside of the secure perimeter of the Federal penal or

correctional institution for firearms carried by certain employees of the

Bureau of Prisons.


Committee.

2 cosponsors


Thin Blue Line Act A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide additional aggravating factors for the

imposition of the death penalty based on the status of the victim.


Committee.

20 cosponsors


Lifesaving Gear for Police Act

A bill to ensure America's law enforcement officers have access to

lifesaving equipment needed to defend themselves and civilians from attacks

by terrorists and violent criminals.

5/10/2017 Referred to the Senate Homeland

Security and Governmental Affairs

Committee.

1 cosponsor

SUPPORT S. 1108 5/11/2017 Jon Tester (D-MT)

Honoring Hometown Heroes

Act

A bill to amend title 4, United States Code, to provide for the flying of the flag at half-staff in the event of the

death of a first responder in the line of duty


Committee.

6 cosponsors






SUPPORT S. 1134

5/16/2017 John Cornyn (R-TX)

Back the Blue Act A bill to protect law enforcement officers.


Committee.

15 cosponsors



Abolish Human Trafficking Act

A bill to provide assistance in abolishing human trafficking in the

United States.

6/29/2017 Reported favorably by the Senate

Judiciary Committee

31 cosponsors


SUPPORT S. 1693 8/1/2017 Rob Portman (R-OH)

Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act

A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to clarify that section 230

of that Act does not prohibit the enforcement against providers and

users of interactive computer services of Federal and State criminal and

civil law relating to sex trafficking.

8/1/2017 Referred to Senate Commerce, Science

and Transportation Committee.

27 cosponsors


Building America’s Trust Act

A bill to strengthen border security, increase resources for enforcement of

immigration laws.

8/3/2017 Introduced in the Senate.

6 cosponsors






SUPPORT H.R. 35 1/3/2017 Michael Burgess (R-TX)

Health Savings Act of 2017

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify rules relating

to health savings accounts.

1/12/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee pm

Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust

Law.

4 cosponsors

SUPPORT H.R. 115 1/3/2017 Vern Buchanan (R-FL)

Thin Blue Line Act A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide additional aggravating factors for the

imposition of the death penalty based on the status of the victim.

5/18/2017 Passed by the House by a vote of 271-

143.

21 cosponsors

Senate companion bill: S. 1085

MONITOR H.R. 124 1/3/2017 Al Green (D-TX) CAM TIP Act of 2017 A bill to establish a grant program providing for the acquisition,

operation, and maintenance of body-worn cameras for law enforcement

officers.

2/21/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on

Readiness.

0 cosponsors

OPPOSE H.R. 158 1/3/2017 Alcee Hastings (D-FL)

Cory Jones Act A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968

to impose certain additional requirements on applicants for COPS

grants.

1/13/2017 Referred to the House Subcommittee

on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and

investigations.

4 cosponsors






SUPPORT H.R. 173 1/3/2017 Mike Kelly (R-PA)

Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal

Act of 2017

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax

on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage.


on Health.

129 cosponsors

Senate Companion Bills: S. 58

OPPOSE H.R. 387 1/9/2017 Kevin Yoder R-KS)

Email Privacy Act A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to update the privacy protections for electronic

communications information that is stored by third-party service providers in order to protect

consumer privacy interests while meeting law enforcement needs.

2/6/2017 Passed by the House by voice vote.

138 cosponsors

SUPPORT H.R. 426 1/10/2017 John Ratcliffe (R-TX)

Protecting Lives Using Surplus

(PLUS) Equipment Act

A bill to prohibit any regulation, rule, guidance, recommendation, or policy issued after May 15, 2015, that limits

the sale or donation of excess property of the Federal Government to State and local agencies for law

enforcement activities.


Readiness.

31 cosponsors

SUPPORT H.R. 449 1/11/2017 Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)

Synthetic Drug Awareness Act of

2017

A bill to require the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to submit to Congress a report on the effects on public health of the increased rate of

use of synthetic drugs.


Health.

36 cosponsors






SUPPORT H.R. 510 1/12/2017 James F. Sensenbrenner

(R-WI)

Rapid DNA Act of 2017

A bill to 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 to prevent DNA analysis

backlogs.

8/7/2017 Presented to the President for

signature.

24 cosponsors

Senate Companion Bill: S. 139

OPPOSE H.R. 630 1/24/2017 Steve Cohen (D-TN)

National Statistics on Deadly Force

Transparency Act of 2017

A bill to require the Attorney General to issue rules pertaining to the

collection and compilation of data on the use of deadly force by law

enforcement officers.



Investigations.

25 cosponsors

OPPOSE

H.R. 785

2/1/2017

Steve King (R-IA)

National Right-to-Work Act

A bill to preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to

form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such

activities.

2/1/2017 Referred to the House Education and the

Workforce Committee.

53 cosponsors


SUPPORT H.R. 883 2/6/2017 Ron DeSantis (R-FL)

Targeting Child Predators Act

A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a certification

process for the issuance of nondisclosure requirements

accompanying certain administrative subpoenas, to provide for judicial

review of such nondisclosure requirements

5/23/2017 Received in the Senate and Referred to the Senate Judiciary

Committee.

8 cosponsors






SUPPORT H.R. 949 2/7/2017 Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)

Children of Fallen Heroes Scholarship

Act

A bill to increase Federal Pell Grants for the children of fallen public safety

officers.

3/9/2017 Referred to the House Subcommittee on

Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and

Investigations.

30 cosponsors

SUPPORT H.R. 964 2/7/2017 Peter King (R-NY)

Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act

A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to include certain Federal

positions within the definition of law enforcement officer for retirement

purposes.

2/7/2017 Referred to the House Oversight and Government Reform

Committee.

21 cosponsors

Senate Companion Bill: S.424

SUPPORT

H.R. 1039

2/14/2017

Dave Reichert (R-WA)

Probation Officer Protection Act

A bill to 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.

5/19/2017 Passed by the House by a vote of 229-

177.

2 cosponsors

SUPPORT H.R. 1188 2/16/2017 Jim Sensenbrenner

(R-WI)

Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act

of 2017

A bill to reauthorize certain programs established by the Adam

Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.


8 cosponsors






SUPPORT H.R. 1205 2/21/2017 Rodney Davis (R-IL)

Social Security Fairness Act of 2017

A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the

Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions.

3/6/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Social

Security

148 cosponsors


SUPPORT H.R. 1428 3/8/2017 Will Hurd (R-TX)

American Law Enforcement Heroes

Act of 2017

A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize COPS grantees to use

grant funds to hire veterans as career law enforcement officers.


2 cosponsors

Senate companion bill: S. 583, which was signed into law by the President

on 6/2/2017

MONITOR H.R. 1498 3/10/2017 John Conyers (D-MI)

End Racial Profiling Act

A bill to eliminate racial profiling by law enforcement.

3/10/2017 Referred to the House Judiciary

Committee.

73 cosponsors

OPPOSE H.R. 1556 3/16/2017 Hank Johnson, Jr. (D-GA)

Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement

Act

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of

Defense to make certain limitations on the transfer of personal property

to Federal and State agencies.


on Readiness.

22 cosponsors






SUPPORT H.R. 1761 3/28/2017 Mike Johnson (R-LA)

Protecting Against Child Exploitation

Act

A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to criminalize the knowing

consent of the visual depiction, or live transmission, of a minor engaged in

sexually explicit conduct

5/25/2017 Passed by the House by a vote of 368-51.

6 cosponsors

SUPPORT H.R. 1865 4/3/2017 Ann Wagner (R-MO)

Allow States and Victims to Fight

Online Sex Trafficking Act

A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to clarify that section 230

of such Act does not prohibit the enforcement against providers and

users of interactive computer services of Federal and State criminal and

civil law relating to sexual exploitation of children or sex

trafficking



Investigations.

111 cosponsors

OPPOSE H.R. 1870 4/4/2017 Steve Cohen (D-TN)

Police Training and Independent Review

Act

A bill to require that States receiving Byrne JAG funds to require sensitivity training for law enforcement officers of that State and to incentivize States

to enact laws requiring the independent investigation and

prosecution of the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers.


Committee

97 cosponsors






SUPPORT H.R. 1886 4/4/2017 Ted Deutch (D-FL)

National Criminal Justice Commission

Act

A bill to establish the National Criminal Justice Commission.



Investigations.

10 cosponsors


SUPPORT H.R. 1892 4/4/2017 John Larson (D-CT)

Honoring Hometown Heroes

Act

A bill to amend title 4, United States Code, to provide for the flying of the flag at half-staff in the event of the

death of a first responder in the line of duty


16 cosponsors

Senate companion bill:

S. 1108

SUPPORT H.R. 2152 4/26/2017 Ted Poe (R-TX) Citizens’ Right to Know Act

A bill to require States and units of local government receiving funds

under grant programs operated by the Department of Justice, which use

such funds for pretrial services programs, to submit to the Attorney

General a report relating to such program



Investigations.

12 cosponsors






SUPPORT H.R. 2228 4/28/2017 Susan Brooks (R-IN)

Law Enforcement Mental Health and

Wellness Act

A bill to provide support for law enforcement agency efforts to protect the mental health and well-being of

law enforcement officers



Investigations.

23 cosponsors


SUPPORT H.R. 2437 5/16/2017 Ted Poe (R-TX) Back the Blue Act A bill to protect law enforcement officers



Investigations.

7 cosponsors


SUPPORT H.R. 2561 5/19/2017 Trey Hollingsworth

(R-IL)

Protecting Officers of the Law in

Civilian Establishments (POLICE) Act of

2017

A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to permit uniformed law

enforcement officers to carry agency-issued firearms in certain Federal

facilities.



Investigations.

3 cosponsors






OPPOSE H.R. 2676 5/25/2017 Joaquin Castro (D-TX)

Police Reporting Information, Data,

and Evidence (PRIDE) Act of 2017

A bill to require States to report to the Attorney General certain

information regarding use of force incidents involving law enforcement

officers and civilians.


Committee

3 cosponsors

SUPPORT H.R. 2803 6/7/2017 Ted Poe (R-TX) Abolish Human Trafficking Act

A bill to provide assistance in abolishing human trafficking in the

United States.

6/7/2017 Referred to the Committees on the

Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, Energy and Commerce, and Homeland Security

5 cosponsors

Senate Companion Bill:

S. 1311

MONITOR H.R. 2825 6/8/2017 Michael McCaul (R-TX)

Department of Homeland Security Reauthorization Act

A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to make certain

improvements in the laws administered by the Secretary of

Homeland Security.


11 cosponsors

OPPOSE H.R. 3060 6/26/2017 Gwen Moore (D-WI)

Preventing Tragedies Between

Police and Communities Act of

2017

A bill to require that States and localities receiving grants under the

Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program require

law enforcement officers to undergo training on and thereafter employ de-

escalation techniques to assist in reducing the need for the use of force

by such officers.


Committee

24 cosponsors



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