[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5264 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5264

   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

                            August 22, 2023

  Ms. Tenney (for herself and Mr. Garbarino) 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''.

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 must 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 Block 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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