Investing in Safer Traffic Stops Act of 2023

Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:  <p><b>Investing in Safer Traffic Stops Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill directs the Department of Justice to establish a grant program for state, local, or tribal government entities to ensure that the enforcement of traffic violations is carried out by a civilian or traffic monitoring technology instead of a law enforcement officer.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 852 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 852

    To direct the Attorney General to establish a grant program for 
                civilian traffic violation enforcement.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2023

    Mr. Torres of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the 
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To direct the Attorney General to establish a grant program for 
                civilian traffic violation enforcement.

    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 ``Investing in Safer Traffic Stops Act 
of 2023''.

SEC. 2. GRANT FOR CIVILIAN TRAFFIC VIOLATION ENFORCEMENT.

    (a) Establishment.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall establish a civilian 
traffic violation enforcement grant program (in this Act referred to as 
the ``Program'') to provide funding to local, State, or Tribal 
government entities to ensure that the enforcement of traffic 
violations is carried out by a civilian or traffic monitoring 
technology, instead of a law enforcement officer.
    (b) Eligible Recipient.--The Attorney General shall make grants 
under the Program to local, State, or Tribal government entities.
    (c) Eligible Activities.--Amounts from a grant awarded under the 
Program may only be used for the purposes of ensuring that the 
enforcement of traffic violations is carried out by a civilian or 
traffic monitoring technology, including for the purchasing of such 
technology and the hiring of civilians.
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated $100,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2024 through 
2029 to carry out the Program.
    (e) Civilian Defined.--In this Act, the term ``civilian'' means an 
individual employed by a local, State, or Tribal government entity to 
enforce traffic laws, who is not a law enforcement officer.
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