Status of Policing Bill Review Requests
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Justice in Policing Act of 2020 (Chair Bass, Senators Booker and Harris, and
Chair Nadler)​—​introduction planned for June 8​th​;

TITLE I. Police Accountability
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Section 101 – Revising 18 U.S.C. 242 – Federal Criminal Police Misconduct Statute
The bill would:
Change “willful” to “knowingly or with reckless disregard”
Define a “death resulting” as any act that was a “substantial factor contributing to the
death”
Section 102 – Qualified Immunity Reform
The bill would:
Modify Section 1983 to enable individuals to recover damages when law enforcement
officers violate their constitutional rights
Section 103 – Pattern and Practice Investigations
The bill would:
Grant subpoena power to the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, to
conduct pattern and practice investigations
Provide grants to state attorneys’ general to conduct pattern and practice investigations
Section 104 – Independent Investigations
The bill would:
Create a grant program for state attorneys’ general to create an independent
investigation process for law enforcement misconduct or excessive use of force
Section 105 – Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act
The bill would:
Require the attorney general to create law enforcement accreditation standard
recommendations based on President Obama’s Taskforce on 21st Century policing
Create law enforcement development programs to develop policing best practices
Study the impact of any law, rule or procedure that allows a law enforcement officer to
delay for an unreasonable or arbitrary period of time the answer to questions posed by
investigators of law enforcement misconduct.
Enhances funding for pattern and practice discrimination described in section 210401
of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C.A. 14141);
and programs managed by the DOJ Community Relations Service.
Require the Attorney General to collect data on the following: A) Investigatory actions
and detentions by federal law enforcement agencies; B) The racial distribution of drug

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charges; C) The use of deadly force by and against law enforcement officers; D)
Traffic and pedestrian stops and detentions.
Establish a DOJ task force to coordinate the investigation, prosecution and
enforcement efforts of federal, state and local governments in cases related to law
enforcement misconduct.
TITLE II: Policing transparency Through Data
Subtitle A – Establishment of a National Police Misconduct Registry
The bill would:
Create a federal registry of all federal, state and local law enforcement officers that
compiles
Misconduct Complaints (Pending, Sustained and Exonerated)
Discipline records
Termination records
Records of certification
Mandates that law enforcement agencies ensure that all officers hired are certified
within the state
Subtitle B – Police Reporting Information Data and Evidence Act
The bill would:
Require States to report to the Justice Department any incident where use of force is
used against a civilian or against a law enforcement officer
The reports must include, for example, the following:
The national origin, sex, race, ethnicity, age, disability, English language proficiency,
and housing status of each civilian against whom a law enforcement officer used force
The reason force was used
Provide technical assistance grants to law enforcement agencies that employ less than
100 people to help comply with the requirements of the bill
TITLE III. Improving Police Training and Police
Subtitle A – End Racial and Religious Profiling Act
The bill would:
Prohibit federal, state, and local law enforcement from racial, religious and
discriminatory profiling and create a cause of action for declaratory or injunctive relief
Mandate law enforcement provide training on racial, religious, and discriminatory
profiling
Require law enforcement to collect data on all investigatory activities and submit
collected data to the Department of Justice using a standardized form
Condition federal funding to state and local law enforcement to adopt policies to
combat racial, religious, and discriminatory profiling
Condition federal funding to state and local law enforcement to establish best practices
to discourage profiling

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Require the Attorney General to provide reports on racial, religious, and discriminatory
profiling and ongoing efforts to combat profiling
Section 361 – Training on Racial Bias and Duty to Intervene
The bill would:
Establish a training program to cover racial bias, implicit bias, procedural justice, and
the duty to intervene
Mandate training at the federal level
Condition federal funding on establishing training at the state and local level
Section 362 – Ban on No-Knock Warrants in Drug Cases
The bill would:
Ban no-knock warrants in drug cases at the federal level
Condition law enforcement funding for state and local law enforcement agencies on
prohibiting the use of no-knock warrants in drug cases
Section 363 – Ban on Chokeholds and Carotid Holds
The bill would:
Ban the use of chokeholds and carotid holds
Condition law enforcement funding for state and local law enforcement agencies on
establishing a law to prohibit the use of chokeholds and carotid holds
Section 364 – Police Exercising Absolute Care with Everyone Act (“PEACE Act”)
The bill would:
Change the use of force standard for federal officers from reasonableness to only when
necessary to prevent death or serious bodily injury.
Require that deadly force be used only as a last resort, and require officers to employ
de-escalation techniques.
Condition grants on state and local law enforcement agencies’ establishing the same
use of force standard
Section 365 – Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act
The bill would:
Limit the transfer of military-grade equipment to state and local law enforcement
Subtitle C – Part I – Federal Police Camera and Accountability Act
The bill would:
Requires federal uniformed police officers to wear body cameras and marked federal
police vehicles to have dashboard cameras. This would also commission a GAO study
on federal police officer’s training, vehicle pursuits, and use of force interactions with
the public.
Subtitle C – Part II – Police Camera Act
The bill would:
Require state and local law enforcement to use existing federal funds to ensure the use
of police body cameras.

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TITLE IV. JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF LYNCHING ACT
The bill would make it a federal crime to conspire to violate existing hate crimes laws.
H.R.4408 - Eric Garner Excessive Use of Force Prevention Act of 2019 (Rep.
Jeffries)​;
Bill to Amend the Insurrection Action (Rep. Omar, Rep. Pocan, and Rep.
Jayapal)​;
The Andrew Kearse Accountability for Denial of Medical Care Act (Senator
Warren, Rep. Pressley)​, to hold federal law enforcement and corrections officers
criminally liable if they are caught denying medical care to a person in custody;
The Enhancing Oversight to End Discrimination in Policing Act (Senator
Warren, Rep. Pressley)​, to reverse the Sessions consent decree memo, triple funding
to DOJ Civil Rights to pursue pattern and practice investigations, and authorize state
AGs to pursue pattern and practice investigations of local police departments;
Police Accountability Database Introduction (Senator Merkley)​; could be
incorporated into the Justice in Policing bill.
National Police Brutality Investigation Board Act (Rep. Omar)​;