I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3131 
To subsidize the salaries of State and local law enforcement officers and 
promote officer hiring and retention, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 12, 2021 
Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois (for himself, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. VAN DREW, 
Mr. ALLEN, Mr. GRAVES of Louisiana, Mr. GOOD of Virginia, Mr. BILI-
RAKIS, Mr. HICE of Georgia, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. BOST, 
Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, Mrs. MCCLAIN, Mr. GONZALEZ of Ohio, Mr. 
STAUBER, Mr. JOYCE of Ohio, Mr. GIMENEZ, and Mr. MANN) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To subsidize the salaries of State and local law enforcement 
officers and promote officer hiring and retention, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘David Dorn Back the 
Blue Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FUNDING REFORM. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—Part W of title I of the Omni-
bus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
U.S.C. 10491 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 2301 (34 U.S.C. 10491)— 
(A) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(B) in paragraph (6), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7) provide programs to support the hiring 
and retention of law enforcement personnel and aug-
ment the salaries of law enforcement personnel em-
ployed by cooperating State and local law enforce-
ment agencies or organizations.’’; 
(2) in section 2302 (34 U.S.C. 10492), by in-
serting before the period at the end the following: ‘‘, 
or in the case of State and local law enforcement 
agencies, to support the hiring and retention of law 
enforcement personnel and augment wages paid to 
law enforcement personnel’’; 
(3) in section 2303 (34 U.S.C. 10493)— 
(A) in subsection (a), by inserting before 
the period at the end the following: ‘‘, or to 
support the hiring and retention of law enforce-
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ment personnel and to augment wages paid to 
law enforcement personnel’’; 
(B) in subsection (b), in the matter pre-
ceding paragraph (1), by inserting before the 
colon the following: ‘‘, unless supporting the 
hiring and retention of law enforcement per-
sonnel or augmenting wages in accordance with 
subsection (d)’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) HIRING AND RETENTION OF LAW ENFORCE-
MENT PERSONNEL.—A law enforcement agency or organi-
zation that receives funds under this part may use the 
funds for activities and programs to hire and pay addi-
tional law enforcement personnel or to retain existing per-
sonnel. 
‘‘(e) AUGMENTATION OF WAGES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A law enforcement agency 
or organization that receives funds under this part 
may use the funds to augment the salaries of law 
enforcement personnel, up to an amount equal to 
110 percent of the State real median household in-
come of the preceding year, as estimated by the 
United States Census Bureau. 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENT.—A law enforcement agen-
cy or organization shall not be eligible to receive 
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