OMNIBUS CRIME CONTROL AND SAFE STREETS ACT

Bills and resolutions

ATF: establish incentives for law enforcement agencies to report all recovered crime guns to the National Tracing Center (see H.R. 4946), H5723 [24JN]

Dept. of Justice: allow use of public safety and community policing grants to be used to hire veterans and other individuals as employees of law enforcement agencies for positions not requiring sworn authority (see H.R. 5015), H5823 [30JN]

——— authorize grant funds to be used for Troops-to-Cops Program (see H.R. 4769), H5022 [29MY]

——— enhance the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program (see S. 2254), S2379 [10AP]

——— improve Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) Program to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system (see H.R. 3908), H1241 [16JA]

——— provide death benefits for police officers serving private institutions of higher education and rail carriers (see S. 2441), S3474 [5JN]

——— provide grants to States and local governments for video recording of custodial interrogations (see H.R. 5535), H7882 [18SE]

——— reauthorize public safety and community policing grant program (see H.R. 5643), H7886 [18SE]

——— reduce Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) Program funding to local governments that fund certain percentage of operating budget from traffic violation fines and fees (see H.R. 5550), H7882 [18SE] (see H.R. 5858), H9302 [11DE]

Public safety officers: change the date of retroactive application of the provision of certain benefits to injured rescue squad or ambulance crew members (see H.R. 4514), H3291 [29AP]

Transportation Security Administration: provide for the eligibility of employees to receive public safety officers’ death benefits (see H.R. 4026), H1718 [10FE]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Justice: authorize veterans’ treatment courts and encourage services for veterans through drug courts (H.R. 2187), H3064 [9AP]

——— Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program youth violence prevention funding, H4950, H4951 [29MY]

——— Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program funding through reductions in Office of Justice Programs, Research, Evaluation, and Statistics funding, H4946 [29MY]

——— enhance use of Juvenile Accountability Block Grants for programs to prevent and address occurrences of bullying and reauthorize the Juvenile Accountability Block Grants program (H.R. 2585), H128 [9JA], H3968, H4008 [8MY]

——— reduce Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) Program funding to local governments that fund certain percentage of operating budget from traffic violation fines and fees (H.R. 5550), H8203 [1DE], H8279 [3DE]

——— Second Chance Act grant funding, H4904, H4905 [28MY]

Second Chance Act: reauthorize (H.R. 3465), H128 [9JA]

Transportation Security Administration: provide for the eligibility of employees to receive public safety officers’ death benefits (H.R. 4026), H6608 [22JY]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of Justice: extend authorization of Bulletproof Vest Partnership (S. 933), S747 [4FE], S940 [12FE], S1301 [5MR], S2691, S2692 [6MY], S2753–S2755 [7MY], S2995, S3015 [14MY], S5845 [18SE]

——— extend authorization of Bulletproof Vest Partnership (S. 933), unanimous-consent request, S2691 [6MY], S2995 [14MY]

——— provide death benefits for police officers serving private institutions of higher education and rail carriers (S. 2441), S3477 [5JN]

Reports filed

Second Chance Act Reauthorization: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 1690), S5918 [12NO]