[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 91 (Thursday, May 14, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2465-S2466]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              LAW ENFORCEMENT SUICIDE DATA COLLECTION ACT

  Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Judiciary 
Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 2746 and the 
Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2746) to require the Director of the Federal 
     Bureau of Investigation to provide information on suicide 
     rates in law enforcement, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the 
Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. CORNYN. I further ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a 
third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered 
made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 2746) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows

                                S. 2746

       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

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     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.

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