3.0.0 978 2023-01-11T13:42:13Z 2023-01-11T13:42:13Z House HRES 2018-06-28 115 hsju00 Judiciary Committee House Standing Referred to 2018-06-28T13:03:00Z 2018-06-28 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsju00 Judiciary Committee 2018-06-28 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2018-06-28 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress W000808 Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24] Frederica Wilson D FL S. 24 N Crime and Law Enforcement Correctional facilities and imprisonment Drug, alcohol, tobacco use Firearms and explosives Government studies and investigations Law enforcement administration and funding Minority education Poverty and welfare assistance Racial and ethnic relations State and local government operations Violent crime Crime and Law Enforcement 00 2018-06-28 Introduced in House 2018-09-06T14:44:53Z Condemns unfounded reliance on Stand Your Ground laws to protect actions that extend far beyond historical use of self-defense.

Urges state legislatures to reject or repeal Stand Your Ground legislation. Commits to developing incentives for states to find alternatives to such legislation, such as grants for community policing. Encourages states to create penalties for individuals found to have caused substantive harm through racial profiling.

Urges the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to seek to elevate the social status of black males by undertaking studies to understand and correct the underlying causes of higher rates of school expulsions and suspensions, homicides, incarceration, poverty, violence, and drug abuse, as well as income, health, and educational disparities.

]]> Honoring the life of Trayvon Martin, urging the repeal of Stand Your Ground laws, and calling on the United States Government to address the crisis of racial profiling. Display Title Honoring the life of Trayvon Martin, urging the repeal of Stand Your Ground laws, and calling on the United States Government to address the crisis of racial profiling. Official Title as Introduced Honoring the life of Trayvon Martin, urging the repeal of Stand Your Ground laws, and calling on the United States Government to address the crisis of racial profiling. Introduced in House IH Introduced in House 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115hres978ih/xml/BILLS-115hres978ih.xml 2018-06-28 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.