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[S. 2746 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.2746

                     One Hundred Sixteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and twenty


                                 An Act


 
   To require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to 
 provide information on suicide rates in law enforcement, 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 ``Law Enforcement Suicide Data 
Collection Act''.
SEC. 2. INFORMATION ON SUICIDE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT.
    (a) Establishment.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, acting through the 
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall establish, for 
the purpose of preventing future law enforcement suicides and promoting 
understanding of suicide in law enforcement, the Law Enforcement 
Officers Suicide Data Collection Program, under which law enforcement 
agencies may submit to the Director information on suicides and 
attempted suicides within such law enforcement agencies, including 
information on--
        (1) the circumstances and events that occurred before each 
    suicide or attempted suicide;
        (2) the general location of each suicide or attempted suicide;
        (3) the demographic information of each law enforcement officer 
    who commits or attempts suicide;
        (4) the occupational category, including criminal investigator, 
    corrections officer, line of duty officer, 911 dispatch operator, 
    of each law enforcement officer who commits or attempts suicide; 
    and
        (5) the method used in each suicide or attempted suicide.
    (b) Policies.--The Federal Bureau of Investigation shall work with 
the Confidentiality and Data Access Committee of the Federal Committee 
on Statistical Methodology to develop publication policies to manage 
the risk of identity disclosure based upon the best practices 
identified by other Federal statistical programs.
    (c) Report.--Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of 
this Act, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General, acting through 
the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall submit to 
Congress and publish on the website of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation a report containing the information submitted to the 
Director pursuant to subsection (a).
    (d) Confidentiality.--The report described under subsection (c) may 
not include any personally identifiable information of a law 
enforcement officer who commits or attempts suicide.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section--
        (1) the term ``law enforcement agency'' means a Federal, State, 
    Tribal, or local agency engaged in the prevention, detection, or 
    investigation, prosecution, or adjudication of any violation of the 
    criminal laws of the United States, a State, Tribal, or a political 
    subdivision of a State;
        (2) the term ``law enforcement officer'' means any current or 
    former officer (including a correctional officer), agent, or 
    employee of the United States, a State, Indian Tribe, or a 
    political subdivision of a State authorized by law to engage in or 
    supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution 
    of any violation of the criminal laws of the United States, a 
    State, Indian Tribe, or a political subdivision of a State; and
        (3) the term ``State'' means each of the several States, the 
    District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or 
    possession of the United States.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.