[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 15, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S4002]
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SA 4705. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 2578, making appropriations for the Departments of
Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes; which was ordered to
lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
Sec. ___. (a) The Department of Justice shall condition the
receipt of funds made available to State and local law
enforcement agencies on the agency adopting a policy
prohibiting the use of race, color, religion, national
origin, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity as a
factor in its law enforcement activities, except with respect
to suspect-specific information that includes a racial,
ethnic, religious or other protected category identifier.
(b) The State and local law enforcement policies described
in subsection (a) shall be consistent with the memorandum
issued by the Department of Justice on December 2014 entitled
``Guidance for Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Regarding the
Use of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, National Origin, Religion,
Sexual Orientation, or Gender Identity''.
(c) The Department of Justice shall have the authority to
engage in compliance reviews of State and local law
enforcement agencies in terms of implementation of the
guidance described in subsection (b).
(d) The Department of Justice shall submit to Congress a
report on its efforts to systematically train State and local
law enforcement agencies to comply with the guidance
described in subsection (b), including providing model
policies and model training manuals.
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