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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 10486 

To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 

establish a grant program to help law enforcement agencies with civilian 

law enforcement tasks, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 18, 2024 

Mr. HARDER of California (for himself, Mr. FITZPATRICK, and Mr. 

SWALWELL) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 

Act of 1968 to establish a grant program to help law 

enforcement agencies with civilian law enforcement tasks, 

and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Retired Law Enforce5 ment Officers Continuing Service Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. RETIRED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS CON2 TINUING SERVICE. 

3 Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 

4 Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.) is amended 

5 by adding at the end the following: 

6 ‘‘PART PP—CIVIL LAW ENFORCEMENT TASK 

7 GRANTS 

8 ‘‘SEC. 3061. DEFINITIONS. 

9 ‘‘In this part: 

10 ‘‘(1) CIVILIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT TASK.—The 

11 term ‘civilian law enforcement task’— 

12 ‘‘(A) includes— 

13 ‘‘(i) assisting in homicide investiga14 tions; 

15 ‘‘(ii) assisting in carjacking investiga16 tions; 

17 ‘‘(iii) assisting in financial crimes in18 vestigations; 

19 ‘‘(iv) reviewing camera footage; 

20 ‘‘(v) crime scene analysis; 

21 ‘‘(vi) forensics analysis; and 

22 ‘‘(vii) providing expertise in com23 puters, computer networks, information 

24 technology, or the internet; and 

25 ‘‘(B) does not include any task that re26 quires sworn law enforcement authority. 


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1 ‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en2 tity’ means a State, local, Tribal, or territorial law 

3 enforcement agency that certifies that retired law 

4 enforcement personnel hired using amounts from a 

5 grant under this part— 

6 ‘‘(A) have appropriate and reasonably cur7 rent training and experience to effectively carry 

8 out the tasks described in section 3062(a); or 

9 ‘‘(B) will participate in appropriate con10 tinuing education programs to satisfy subpara11 graph (A). 

12 ‘‘SEC. 3062. GRANTS AUTHORIZED. 

13 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may 

14 award grants to eligible entities for the purpose of hiring 

15 retired personnel from law enforcement agencies to— 

16 ‘‘(1) train civilian employees of the eligible enti17 ty on civilian law enforcement tasks that can be per18 formed on behalf of a law enforcement agency; and 

19 ‘‘(2) perform civilian law enforcement tasks on 

20 behalf of the eligible entity. 

21 ‘‘(b) DISCIPLINARY RECORDS.—An eligible entity re22 ceiving a grant under subsection (a) shall make a good 

23 faith effort to determine whether a retired law enforce24 ment officer seeking to be hired by the eligible entity using 


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1 amounts from a grant under this part has a disciplinary 

2 record or an internal investigation record by— 

3 ‘‘(1) conducting a search of the National Decer4 tification Index and, if applicable, the National Law 

5 Enforcement Accountability Database of the Depart6 ment of Justice; or 

7 ‘‘(2) requesting the personnel record of the re8 tired law enforcement officer from each law enforce9 ment agency that employed the retired law enforce10 ment officer. 

11 ‘‘SEC. 3063. ACCOUNTABILITY PROVISIONS. 

12 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—A grant awarded under this part 

13 shall be subject to the accountability requirements of this 

14 section. 

15 ‘‘(b) AUDIT REQUIREMENT.— 

16 ‘‘(1) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 

17 ‘unresolved audit finding’ means a finding in a final 

18 audit report of the Inspector General of the Depart19 ment of Justice that an audited grantee has used 

20 grant funds for an unauthorized expenditure or oth21 erwise unallowable cost that is not closed or resolved 

22 within 12 months from the date when the final audit 

23 report is issued. 

24 ‘‘(2) AUDITS.—Beginning in the first fiscal 

25 year beginning after the date of enactment of the 


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1 Retired Law Enforcement Officers Continuing Serv2 ice Act, and in each fiscal year thereafter, the In3 spector General of the Department of Justice shall 

4 conduct audits of recipients of grants under this 

5 part to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of funds by 

6 grantees. The Inspector General of the Department 

7 of Justice shall determine the appropriate number of 

8 grantees to be audited each year. 

9 ‘‘(3) MANDATORY EXCLUSION.—A recipient of 

10 grant funds under this part that is found to have an 

11 unresolved audit finding shall not be eligible to re12 ceive grant funds under this part during the first 2 

13 fiscal years beginning after the end of the 12-month 

14 period described in paragraph (1). 

15 ‘‘(4) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this 

16 part, the Attorney General shall give priority to eli17 gible entities that did not have an unresolved audit 

18 finding during the 3 fiscal years before submitting 

19 an application for a grant under this part. 

20 ‘‘(c) ANNUAL CERTIFICATION.—Beginning in the fis21 cal year during which audits commence under subsection 

22 (b)(2), the Attorney General shall submit to the Com23 mittee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropria24 tions of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary 


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1 and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 

2 Representatives an annual certification— 

3 ‘‘(1) indicating whether— 

4 ‘‘(A) all audits issued by the Office of the 

5 Inspector General of the Department of Justice 

6 under subsection (b) have been completed and 

7 reviewed by the appropriate Assistant Attorney 

8 General or Director; and 

9 ‘‘(B) all mandatory exclusions required 

10 under subsection (b)(3) have been issued; and 

11 ‘‘(2) that includes a list of any grant recipients 

12 excluded under subsection (b)(3) from the previous 

13 year. 

14 ‘‘(d) PREVENTING DUPLICATIVE GRANTS.— 

15 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Before the Attorney Gen16 eral awards a grant to an eligible entity under this 

17 part, the Attorney General shall compare potential 

18 grant awards with other grants awarded by the At19 torney General to determine if grant awards are or 

20 have been awarded for a similar purpose. 

21 ‘‘(2) REPORT.—If the Attorney General awards 

22 grants to the same applicant for a similar purpose, 

23 the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee 

24 on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee 


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1 on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a 

2 report that includes— 

3 ‘‘(A) a list of all such grants awarded, in4 cluding the total dollar amount of any such 

5 grants awarded; and 

6 ‘‘(B) the reason the Attorney General 

7 awarded multiple grants to the same applicant 

8 for a similar purpose.’’. 

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