[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5831 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5831

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a penalty for violent 
  crimes by certain State or local law enforcement officers, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 10, 2014

   Mr. Johnson of Georgia (for himself and Mr. Clay) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a penalty for violent 
  crimes by certain State or local law enforcement officers, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Police Accountability Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. VIOLENT CRIMES BY CERTAIN STATE OR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 
              OFFICERS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 1 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 28. Violent crimes by certain State or local law enforcement 
              officers
    ``(a) Offense.--Whoever, being a State or local law enforcement 
officer in a public agency which receives Federal justice assistance 
engages in any conduct that, were the conduct to occur in the special 
maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, would 
constitute a Federal crime of violence, shall be punished as is 
provided for that offense under Federal law.
    ``(b) Definition.--In this section--
            ``(1) the term `State or local law enforcement officer' 
        means an employee of a State or local government--
                    ``(A) who has statutory authority to make arrests 
                or apprehensions;
                    ``(B) who is authorized by the agency of the 
                employee to carry firearms; and
                    ``(C) whose duties are primarily--
                            ``(i) engagement in or supervision of the 
                        prevention, detection, investigation, or 
                        prosecution of, or the incarceration of any 
                        person for, any violation of law; or
                            ``(ii) the protection of Federal, State, 
                        local, or foreign government officials against 
                        threats to personal safety; and
            ``(2) the term `State or local government' means the 
        government--
                    ``(A) of a State, the District of Columbia, the 
                Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or 
                possession of the United States; or
                    ``(B) of a political subdivision of such a State, 
                District, Commonwealth, territory or possession.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 1 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new item:

``28. Violent crimes by certain State or local law enforcement 
                            officers.''.
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