[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4500 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4500

   To incentivize States to provide robust qualified immunity to law 
             enforcement officers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2021

Ms. Tenney (for herself, Ms. Stefanik, Ms. Malliotakis, Mr. Garbarino, 
  Mr. Steube, and Mr. Posey) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the 
Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To incentivize States to provide robust qualified immunity to 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 ``Local Law Enforcement Protection Act 
of 2021''.

SEC. 2. QUALIFIED IMMUNITY REQUIREMENT FOR RECEIPT OF CERTAIN GRANT 
              FUNDS.

    (a) Requirement.--Beginning in the first fiscal year that begins 
after the date of enactment of this Act, in order to be eligible to 
receive a grant under a covered grant program, a State or unit of local 
government certify, along with the application for each such grant, 
that the State or unit of local government does not have in place a law 
that provides less qualified immunity to law enforcement officers than 
is described in the holding in Saucier v. Katz (533 U.S. 194 (2001)).
    (b) Covered Grant Program.--In this section, the term ``covered 
grant program'' means each of the following:
            (1) The Community Development Bock Grant Program under 
        title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
        (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.).
            (2) Community facility direct and guaranteed loans under 
        paragraph (1) of section 306(a) of the Consolidated Farm and 
        Rural Development Act.
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