ensure the fairness, effectiveness, and independence 
of the administrative complaint procedures and inde-
pendent auditor programs. 
(b) NONCOMPLIANCE.—If the Attorney General de-
termines that the recipient of a grant from any covered 
program is not in compliance with the requirements of sec-
tion 331 or the regulations issued under subsection (a), 
the Attorney General shall withhold, in whole or in part 
(at the discretion of the Attorney General), funds for one 
or more grants to the recipient under the covered pro-
gram, until the recipient establishes compliance. 
(c) PRIVATE PARTIES.—The Attorney General shall 
provide notice and an opportunity for private parties to 
present evidence to the Attorney General that a recipient 
of a grant from any covered program is not in compliance 
with the requirements of this part. 
SEC. 333. DATA COLLECTION DEMONSTRATION PROJECT. 
(a) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS
FOR DATA 
COLLECTION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may, 
through competitive grants or contracts, carry out a 
2-year demonstration project for the purpose of de-
veloping and implementing data collection programs 
on the hit rates for stops and searches by law en-
forcement agencies. The data collected shall be 
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disaggregated by race, ethnicity, national origin, 
gender, and religion. 
(2) NUMBER OF GRANTS.—The Attorney Gen-
eral shall provide not more than 5 grants or con-
tracts under this section. 
(3) ELIGIBLE GRANTEES.—Grants or contracts 
under this section shall be awarded to law enforce-
ment agencies that serve communities where there is 
a significant concentration of racial or ethnic minori-
ties and that are not already collecting data volun-
tarily. 
(b) REQUIRED ACTIVITIES.—Activities carried out 
with a grant under this section shall include— 
(1) developing a data collection tool and report-
ing the compiled data to the Attorney General; and 
(2) training of law enforcement personnel on 
data collection, particularly for data collection on hit 
rates for stops and searches. 
(c) EVALUATION.—Not later than 3 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall 
enter into a contract with an institution of higher edu-
cation (as defined in section 101 of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001)) to analyze the data col-
lected by each of the grantees funded under this section. 
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(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out activities 
under this section— 
(1) $5,000,000, over a 2-year period, to carry 
out the demonstration program under subsection 
(a); and 
(2) $500,000 to carry out the evaluation under 
subsection (c). 
SEC. 334. DEVELOPMENT OF BEST PRACTICES. 
(a) USE OF FUNDS REQUIREMENTS.—Section 502(a) 
of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10153(a)), as amended by sections 
113 and 114, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(9) An assurance that, for each fiscal year 
covered by an application, the applicant will use not 
less than 10 percent of the total amount of the 
grant award for the fiscal year to develop and imple-
ment best practice devices and systems to eliminate 
racial profiling in accordance with section 334 of the 
End Racial and Religious Profiling Act of 2025.’’. 
(b) DEVELOPMENT
OF BEST PRACTICES.—Grant 
amounts described in paragraph (9) of section 502(a) of 
title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10153(a)), as added by subsection (a) 
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of this section, shall be for programs that include the fol-
lowing: 
(1) The development and implementation of 
training to prevent racial profiling and to encourage 
more respectful interaction with the public. 
(2) The acquisition and use of technology to fa-
cilitate the accurate collection and analysis of data. 
(3) The development and acquisition of feed-
back systems and technologies that identify law en-
forcement agents or units of agents engaged in, or 
at risk of engaging in, racial profiling or other mis-
conduct. 
(4) The establishment and maintenance of an 
administrative complaint procedure or independent 
auditor program. 
SEC. 335. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Attor-
ney General such sums as are necessary to carry out this 
part. 
PART IV—DATA COLLECTION 
SEC. 341. ATTORNEY GENERAL TO ISSUE REGULATIONS. 
(a) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 6 months after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, 
in consultation with stakeholders, including Federal, 
State, and local law enforcement agencies and community, 
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professional, research, and civil rights organizations, shall 
issue regulations for the collection and compilation of data 
under sections 321 and 331. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The regulations issued under 
subsection (a) shall— 
(1) provide for the collection of data on all rou-
tine and spontaneous investigatory activities; 
(2) provide that the data collected shall— 
(A) be disaggregated by race, ethnicity, na-
tional origin, gender, disability, and religion; 
(B) include the date, time, and location of 
such investigatory activities; 
(C) include detail sufficient to permit an 
analysis of whether a law enforcement agency is 
engaging in racial profiling; and 
(D) not include personally identifiable in-
formation; 
(3) provide that a standardized form shall be 
made available to law enforcement agencies for the 
submission of collected data to the Department of 
Justice; 
(4) provide that law enforcement agencies shall 
compile data on the standardized form made avail-
able under paragraph (3), and submit the form to 
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the Civil Rights Division and the Department of 
Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics; 
(5) provide that law enforcement agencies shall 
maintain all data collected under this subtitle for not 
less than 4 years; 
(6) include guidelines for setting comparative 
benchmarks, consistent with best practices, against 
which collected data shall be measured; 
(7) provide that the Department of Justice Bu-
reau of Justice Statistics shall— 
(A) analyze the data for any statistically 
significant disparities, including— 
(i) disparities in the percentage of 
drivers or pedestrians stopped relative to 
the proportion of the population passing 
through the neighborhood; 
(ii) disparities in the hit rate; and 
(iii) disparities in the frequency of 
searches performed on racial or ethnic mi-
nority drivers and the frequency of 
searches performed on nonminority drivers; 
and 
(B) not later than 3 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, and annually there-
after— 
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(i) prepare a report regarding the 
findings of the analysis conducted under 
subparagraph (A); 
(ii) provide such report to Congress; 
and 
(iii) make such report available to the 
public, including on a website of the De-
partment of Justice, and in accordance 
with accessibility standards under the 
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 
(42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.); and 
(8) protect the privacy of individuals whose 
data is collected by— 
(A) limiting the use of the data collected 
under this subtitle to the purposes set forth in 
this subtitle; 
(B) except as otherwise provided in this 
subtitle, limiting access to the data collected 
under this subtitle to those Federal, State, or 
local employees or agents who require such ac-
cess in order to fulfill the purposes for the data 
set forth in this subtitle; 
(C) requiring contractors or other non-
governmental agents who are permitted access 
to the data collected under this subtitle to sign 
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use agreements incorporating the use and dis-
closure restrictions set forth in subparagraph 
(A); and 
(D) requiring the maintenance of adequate 
security measures to prevent unauthorized ac-
cess to the data collected under this subtitle. 
SEC. 342. PUBLICATION OF DATA. 
The Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics of 
the Department of Justice shall provide to Congress and 
make available to the public, together with each annual 
report described in section 341, the data collected pursu-
ant to this subtitle, excluding any personally identifiable 
information described in section 343. 
SEC. 343. LIMITATIONS ON PUBLICATION OF DATA. 
The name or identifying information of a law enforce-
ment agent, complainant, or any other individual involved 
in any activity for which data is collected and compiled 
under this subtitle shall not be— 
(1) released to the public; 
(2) disclosed to any person, except for— 
(A) such disclosures as are necessary to 
comply with this subtitle; 
(B) disclosures of information regarding a 
particular person to that person; or 
(C) disclosures pursuant to litigation; or 
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(3) subject to disclosure under section 552 of 
title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the 
Freedom of Information Act), except for disclosures 
of information regarding a particular person to that 
person. 
PART V—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REGULA-
TIONS AND REPORTS ON RACIAL PROFILING 
IN THE UNITED STATES 
SEC. 351. ATTORNEY GENERAL TO ISSUE REGULATIONS 
AND REPORTS. 
(a) REGULATIONS.—In addition to the regulations re-
quired under sections 333 and 341, the Attorney General 
shall issue such other regulations as the Attorney General 
determines are necessary to implement this subtitle. 
(b) REPORTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after 
the date of enactment of this Act, and annually 
thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit to 
Congress a report on racial profiling by law enforce-
ment agencies. 
(2) SCOPE.—Each report submitted under 
paragraph (1) shall include— 
(A) a summary of data collected under sec-
tions 321(b)(3) and 331(b)(3) and from any 
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other reliable source of information regarding 
racial profiling in the United States; 
(B) a discussion of the findings in the 
most recent report prepared by the Department 
of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics under 
section 341(b)(7); 
(C) the status of the adoption and imple-
mentation of policies and procedures by Federal 
law enforcement agencies under section 321 
and by the State and local law enforcement 
agencies under sections 331 and 332; and 
(D) a description of any other policies and 
procedures that the Attorney General believes 
would facilitate the elimination of racial 
profiling. 
Subtitle B—Additional Reforms 
SEC. 361. TRAINING ON RACIAL BIAS AND DUTY TO INTER-
VENE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall estab-
lish— 
(1) a training program for law enforcement of-
ficers to cover racial profiling, implicit bias, and pro-
cedural justice; and 
(2) a clear duty for Federal law enforcement of-
ficers to intervene in cases where another law en-
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forcement officer is using excessive force against a 
civilian, and establish a training program that covers 
the duty to intervene. 
(b) MANDATORY TRAINING FOR FEDERAL LAW EN-
FORCEMENT OFFICERS.—The head of each Federal law 
enforcement agency shall require each Federal law en-
forcement officer employed by the agency to complete the 
training programs established under subsection (a). 
(c) LIMITATION ON ELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.—Be-
ginning in the first fiscal year that begins after the date 
that is one year after the date of enactment of this Act, 
a State or unit of local government may not receive funds 
under the Byrne grant program for a fiscal year if, on 
the day before the first day of the fiscal year, the State 
or unit of local government does not require each law en-
forcement officer in the State or unit of local government 
to complete the training programs established under sub-
section (a). 
(d) GRANTS TO TRAIN LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFI-
CERS ON USE OF FORCE.—Section 501(a)(1) of title I of 
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 
(34 U.S.C. 10152(a)(1)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
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‘‘(I) Training programs for law enforce-
ment officers, including training programs on 
use of force and a duty to intervene.’’. 
SEC. 362. BAN ON NO-KNOCK WARRANTS IN DRUG CASES. 
(a) BAN ON FEDERAL WARRANTS IN DRUG CASES.— 
Section 509 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
879) is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘A 
search warrant authorized under this section shall require 
that a law enforcement officer execute the search warrant 
only after providing notice of his or her authority and pur-
pose.’’. 
(b) LIMITATION ON ELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.—Be-
ginning in the first fiscal year that begins after the date 
that is one year after the date of enactment of this Act, 
a State or unit of local government may not receive funds 
under the COPS grant program for a fiscal year if, on 
the day before the first day of the fiscal year, the State 
or unit of local government does not have in effect a law 
that prohibits the issuance of a no-knock warrant in a 
drug case. 
(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘no- 
knock warrant’’ means a warrant that allows a law en-
forcement officer to enter a property without requiring the 
law enforcement officer to announce the presence of the 
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law enforcement officer or the intention of the law enforce-
ment officer to enter the property. 
SEC. 363. INCENTIVIZING BANNING OF CHOKEHOLDS AND 
CAROTID HOLDS. 
(a) 
DEFINITION.—In 
this 
section, 
the 
term 
‘‘chokehold or carotid hold’’ means the application of any 
pressure to the throat or windpipe, the use of maneuvers 
that restrict blood or oxygen flow to the brain, or carotid 
artery restraints that prevent or hinder breathing or re-
duce intake of air of an individual. 
(b) LIMITATION ON ELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.—Be-
ginning in the first fiscal year that begins after the date 
that is one year after the date of enactment of this Act, 
a State or unit of local government may not receive funds 
under the Byrne grant program or the COPS grant pro-
gram for a fiscal year if, on the day before the first day 
of the fiscal year, the State or unit of local government 
does not have in effect a law that prohibits law enforce-
ment officers in the State or unit of local government from 
using a chokehold or carotid hold. 
(c) CHOKEHOLDS AS CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.— 
(1) SHORT
TITLE.—This subsection may be 
cited as the ‘‘Eric Garner Excessive Use of Force 
Prevention Act’’. 
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(2) CHOKEHOLDS
AS
CIVIL
RIGHTS
VIOLA-
TIONS.—Section 242 of title 18, United States Code, 
as amended by section 101, is amended by adding 
at the end the following: ‘‘For the purposes of this 
section, the application of any pressure to the throat 
or windpipe, use of maneuvers that restrict blood or 
oxygen flow to the brain, or carotid artery restraints 
which prevent or hinder breathing or reduce intake 
of air is a punishment, pain, or penalty.’’. 
SEC. 364. PEACE ACT. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the 
‘‘Police Exercising Absolute Care With Everyone Act of 
2025’’ or the ‘‘PEACE Act of 2025’’. 
(b) USE OF FORCE BY FEDERAL LAW ENFORCE-
MENT OFFICERS.— 
(1) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
(A) DEESCALATION
TACTICS
AND
TECH-
NIQUES.—The term ‘‘deescalation tactics and 
techniques’’ means proactive actions and ap-
proaches used by a Federal law enforcement of-
ficer to stabilize the situation so that more 
time, options, and resources are available to 
gain a person’s voluntary compliance and re-
duce or eliminate the need to use force, includ-
ing verbal persuasion, warnings, tactical tech-
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niques, slowing down the pace of an incident, 
waiting out a subject, creating distance between 
the officer and the threat, and requesting addi-
tional resources to resolve the incident. 
(B) NECESSARY.—The term ‘‘necessary’’ 
means that another reasonable Federal law en-
forcement officer would objectively conclude, 
under the totality of the circumstances, that 
there was no reasonable alternative to the use 
of force. 
(C) REASONABLE ALTERNATIVES.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘reason-
able alternatives’’ means tactics and meth-
ods used by a Federal law enforcement of-
ficer to effectuate an arrest that do not 
unreasonably increase the risk posed to the 
law enforcement officer or another person, 
including verbal communication, distance, 
warnings, deescalation tactics and tech-
niques, tactical repositioning, and other 
tactics and techniques intended to stabilize 
the situation and reduce the immediacy of 
the risk so that more time, options, and re-
sources can be called upon to resolve the 
situation without the use of force. 
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(ii) DEADLY FORCE.—With respect to 
the use of deadly force, the term ‘‘reason-
able alternatives’’ includes the use of less 
lethal force. 
(D) TOTALITY OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES.— 
The term ‘‘totality of the circumstances’’ means 
all credible facts known to the Federal law en-
forcement officer leading up to and at the time 
of the use of force, including the actions of the 
person against whom the Federal law enforce-
ment officer uses such force and the actions of 
the Federal law enforcement officer. 
(2) PROHIBITION ON LESS LETHAL FORCE.—A 
Federal law enforcement officer may not use any 
less lethal force unless— 
(A) the form of less lethal force used is 
necessary and proportional in order to effec-
tuate an arrest of a person who the officer has 
probable cause to believe has committed a 
criminal offense; and 
(B) reasonable alternatives to the use of 
the form of less lethal force have been ex-
hausted. 
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(3) PROHIBITION ON DEADLY USE OF FORCE.— 
A Federal law enforcement officer may not use 
deadly force against a person unless— 
(A) the form of deadly force used is nec-
essary, as a last resort, to prevent imminent 
and serious bodily injury or death to the officer 
or another person; 
(B) the use of the form of deadly force cre-
ates no substantial risk of injury to a third per-
son; and 
(C) reasonable alternatives to the use of 
the form of deadly force have been exhausted. 
(4) REQUIREMENT
TO
GIVE
VERBAL
WARN-
ING.—When feasible, prior to using force against a 
person, a Federal law enforcement officer shall iden-
tify himself or herself as a Federal law enforcement 
officer, and issue a verbal warning to the person 
that the Federal law enforcement officer seeks to ap-
prehend, which shall— 
(A) include a request that the person sur-
render to the law enforcement officer; and 
(B) notify the person that the law enforce-
ment officer will use force against the person if 
the person resists arrest or flees. 
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(5) GUIDANCE ON USE OF FORCE.—Not later 
than 120 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Attorney General, in consultation with im-
pacted persons, communities, and organizations, in-
cluding representatives of civil and human rights or-
ganizations, victims of police use of force, and rep-
resentatives of law enforcement associations, shall 
provide guidance to Federal law enforcement agen-
cies on— 
(A) the types of less lethal force and dead-
ly force that are prohibited under paragraphs 
(2) and (3); and 
(B) how a Federal law enforcement officer 
can— 
(i) assess whether the use of force is 
appropriate and necessary; and 
(ii) use the least amount of force 
when interacting with— 
(I) pregnant individuals; 
(II) children and youth under 21 
years of age; 
(III) elderly persons; 
(IV) persons with mental, behav-
ioral, or physical disabilities or im-
pairments; 
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(V) persons experiencing percep-
tual or cognitive impairments due to 
use 
of 
alcohol, 
narcotics, 
hallucinogens, or other drugs; 
(VI) persons suffering from a se-
rious medical condition; and 
(VII) 
persons 
with 
limited 
English proficiency. 
(6) TRAINING.—The Attorney General shall 
provide training to Federal law enforcement officers 
on interacting people described in subclauses (I) 
through (VII) of paragraph (5)(B)(ii). 
(7) 
LIMITATION
ON
JUSTIFICATION
DE-
FENSE.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 51 of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘§ 1123. Limitation on justification defense for Fed-
eral law enforcement officers 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—It is not a defense to an offense 
under section 1111 or 1112 that the use of less lethal 
force or deadly force by a Federal law enforcement officer 
was justified if— 
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‘‘(1) that officer’s use of such force was incon-
sistent with section 364(b) of the George Floyd Jus-
tice in Policing Act of 2025; or 
‘‘(2) that officer’s gross negligence, leading up 
to and at the time of the use of force, contributed 
to the necessity of the use of such force. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
‘‘(1) the terms ‘deadly force’ and ‘less lethal 
force’ have the meanings given such terms in section 
2 and section 364 of the George Floyd Justice in 
Policing Act of 2025; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘Federal law enforcement officer’ 
has the meaning given such term in section 115.’’. 
(B) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of 
sections for chapter 51 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after the 
item relating to section 1122 the following: 
‘‘1123. Limitation on justification defense for Federal law enforcement offi-
cers.’’. 
(c) LIMITATION ON THE RECEIPT OF FUNDS UNDER 
THE EDWARD BYRNE MEMORIAL JUSTICE ASSISTANCE 
GRANT PROGRAM.— 
(1) LIMITATION.—A State or unit of local gov-
ernment, other than an Indian Tribe, may not re-
ceive funds that the State or unit of local govern-
ment would otherwise receive under a Byrne grant 
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program for a fiscal year if, on the day before the 
first day of the fiscal year, the State or unit of local 
government does not have in effect a law that is con-
sistent with subsection (b) of this section and section 
1123 of title 18, United States Code, as determined 
by the Attorney General. 
(2) SUBSEQUENT ENACTMENT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—If funds described in 
paragraph (1) are withheld from a State or unit 
of local government pursuant to paragraph (1) 
for 1 or more fiscal years, and the State or unit 
of local government enacts or puts in place a 
law described in paragraph (1), and dem-
onstrates substantial efforts to enforce such 
law, subject to subparagraph (B), the State or 
unit of local government shall be eligible, in the 
fiscal year after the fiscal year during which the 
State or unit of local government demonstrates 
such substantial efforts, to receive the total 
amount that the State or unit of local govern-
ment would have received during each fiscal 
year for which funds were withheld. 
(B) LIMIT
ON
AMOUNT
OF
PRIOR
YEAR 
FUNDS.—A State or unit of local government 
may not receive funds under subparagraph (A) 
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in an amount that is more than the amount 
withheld from the State or unit of local govern-
ment during the 5-fiscal-year period before the 
fiscal year during which funds are received 
under subparagraph (A). 
(3) GUIDANCE.—Not later than 120 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney Gen-
eral, in consultation with impacted persons, commu-
nities, and organizations, including representatives 
of civil and human rights organizations, individuals 
against whom a law enforcement officer used force, 
and representatives of law enforcement associations, 
shall make guidance available to States and units of 
local government on the criteria that the Attorney 
General will use in determining whether the State or 
unit of local government has in place a law described 
in paragraph (1). 
(4) APPLICATION.—This subsection shall apply 
to the first fiscal year that begins after the date that 
is 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
and each fiscal year thereafter. 
SEC. 365. STOP MILITARIZING LAW ENFORCEMENT ACT. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings: 
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(1) Under section 2576a of title 10, United 
States Code, the Department of Defense is author-
ized to provide excess property to local law enforce-
ment agencies. The Defense Logistics Agency ad-
ministers such section by operating the Law En-
forcement Support Office program. 
(2) New and used material, including mine-re-
sistant ambush-protected vehicles and weapons de-
termined by the Department of Defense to be ‘‘mili-
tary grade’’ are transferred to Federal, Tribal, 
State, and local law enforcement agencies through 
the program. 
(3) As a result local law enforcement agencies, 
including police and sheriff’s departments, are ac-
quiring this material for use in their normal oper-
ations. 
(4) As a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghani-
stan, military equipment purchased for, and used in, 
those wars has become excess property and has been 
made available for transfer to local and Federal law 
enforcement agencies. 
(5) In fiscal year 2017, $504,000,000 worth of 
property was transferred to law enforcement agen-
cies. 
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(6) More than $6,800,000,000 worth of weap-
ons and equipment have been transferred to police 
organizations in all 50 States and four territories 
through the program. 
(7) In May 2012, the Defense Logistics Agency 
instituted a moratorium on weapons transfers 
through the program after reports of missing equip-
ment and inappropriate weapons transfers. 
(8) Though the moratorium was widely pub-
licized, it was lifted in October 2013 without ade-
quate safeguards. 
(9) On January 16, 2015, President Barack 
Obama issued Executive Order 13688 to better co-
ordinate and regulate the Federal transfer of mili-
tary weapons and equipment to State, local, and 
Tribal law enforcement agencies. 
(10) In July 2017, the Government Account-
ability Office reported that the program’s internal 
controls were inadequate to prevent fraudulent appli-
cants’ access to the program. 
(11) On August, 28, 2017, President Donald 
Trump rescinded Executive Order 13688 despite a 
July 2017 Government Accountability Office report 
finding deficiencies with the administration of the 
1033 program. 
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(12) As a result, Federal, State, and local law 
enforcement departments across the country are eli-
gible again to acquire free ‘‘military-grade’’ weapons 
and equipment that could be used inappropriately 
during policing efforts in which people and taxpayers 
could be harmed. 
(13) The Department of Defense categorizes 
equipment eligible for transfer under the 1033 pro-
gram as ‘‘controlled’’ and ‘‘uncontrolled’’ equipment. 
‘‘Controlled equipment’’ includes weapons, explosives 
such as flash-bang grenades, mine-resistant ambush- 
protected vehicles, long-range acoustic devices, air-
craft capable of being modified to carry armament 
that are combat-coded, and silencers, among other 
military grade items. 
(b) LIMITATION
ON DEPARTMENT
OF DEFENSE 
TRANSFER OF PERSONAL PROPERTY TO LOCAL LAW EN-
FORCEMENT AGENCIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 2576a of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking 
‘‘counterdrug, counterterrorism, disaster- 
related emergency preparedness, and bor-
der security activities’’ and inserting 
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‘‘counterterrorism 
and 
disaster-related 
emergency preparedness’’; and 
(ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘, 
the Director of National Drug Control Pol-
icy,’’; 
(B) in subsection (b)— 
(i) in paragraph (5), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(ii) in paragraph (6), by striking the 
period and inserting a semicolon; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new paragraphs: 
‘‘(7) the recipient submits to the Department of 
Defense a description of how the recipient expects to 
use the property; 
‘‘(8) the recipient certifies to the Department of 
Defense that if the recipient determines that the 
property is surplus to the needs of the recipient, the 
recipient will return the property to the Department 
of Defense; 
‘‘(9) with respect to a recipient that is not a 
Federal agency, the recipient certifies to the Depart-
ment of Defense that the recipient notified the local 
community of the request for personal property 
under this section by— 
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‘‘(A) publishing a notice of such request on 
a publicly accessible internet website; 
‘‘(B) posting such notice at several promi-
nent locations in the jurisdiction of the recipi-
ent; and 
‘‘(C) ensuring that such notices were avail-
able to the local community for a period of not 
less than 30 days; and 
‘‘(10) the recipient has received the approval of 
the city council or other local governing body to ac-
quire the personal property sought under this sec-
tion.’’; 
(C) by striking subsection (d); 
(D) by redesignating subsections (e) and 
(f) as subsections (o) and (p), respectively; and 
(E) by inserting after subsection (c) the 
following new subsections: 
‘‘(d) ANNUAL
CERTIFICATION
ACCOUNTING
FOR 
TRANSFERRED PROPERTY.—(1) For each fiscal year, the 
Secretary shall submit to Congress certification in writing 
that each Federal or State agency to which the Secretary 
has transferred property under this section— 
‘‘(A) has provided to the Secretary documenta-
tion accounting for all controlled property, including 
arms and ammunition, that the Secretary has trans-
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ferred to the agency, including any item described in 
subsection (f) so transferred before the date of the 
enactment of the George Floyd Justice in Policing 
Act of 2025; and 
‘‘(B) with respect to a non-Federal agency, car-
ried out each of paragraphs (5) through (8) of sub-
section (b). 
‘‘(2) If the Secretary does not provide a certification 
under paragraph (1) for a Federal or State agency, the 
Secretary may not transfer additional property to that 
agency under this section. 
‘‘(e) ANNUAL REPORT ON EXCESS PROPERTY.—Be-
fore making any property available for transfer under this 
section, the Secretary shall annually submit to Congress 
a description of the property to be transferred together 
with a certification that the transfer of the property would 
not violate this section or any other provision of law. 
‘‘(f) LIMITATIONS ON TRANSFERS.—(1) The Sec-
retary may not transfer to Federal, Tribal, State, or local 
law enforcement agencies the following under this section: 
‘‘(A) Firearms, ammunition, bayonets, grenade 
launchers, grenades (including stun and flash-bang), 
and explosives. 
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‘‘(B) Vehicles, except for passenger automobiles 
(as such term is defined in section 32901(a)(18) of 
title 49, United States Code) and bucket trucks. 
‘‘(C) Drones. 
‘‘(D) Controlled aircraft that— 
‘‘(i) are combat-configured or combat- 
coded; or 
‘‘(ii) have no established commercial flight 
application. 
‘‘(E) Silencers. 
‘‘(F) Long-range acoustic devices. 
‘‘(G) Items in the Federal Supply Class of 
banned items. 
‘‘(2) The Secretary may not require, as a condition 
of a transfer under this section, that a Federal or State 
agency demonstrate the use of any small arms or ammuni-
tion. 
‘‘(3) The limitations under this subsection shall also 
apply with respect to the transfer of previously transferred 
property of the Department of Defense from one Federal 
or State agency to another such agency. 
‘‘(4)(A) The Secretary may waive the applicability of 
paragraph (1) to a vehicle described in subparagraph (B) 
of such paragraph (other than a mine-resistant ambush- 
protected vehicle), if the Secretary determines that such 
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a waiver is necessary for disaster or rescue purposes or 
for another purpose where life and public safety are at 
risk, as demonstrated by the proposed recipient of the ve-
hicle. 
‘‘(B) If the Secretary issues a waiver under subpara-
graph (A), the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(i) submit to Congress notice of the waiver, 
and post such notice on a public internet website of 
the Department, by not later than 30 days after the 
date on which the waiver is issued; and 
‘‘(ii) require, as a condition of the waiver, that 
the recipient of the vehicle for which the waiver is 
issued provides public notice of the waiver and the 
transfer, including the type of vehicle and the pur-
pose for which it is transferred, in the jurisdiction 
where the recipient is located by not later than 30 
days after the date on which the waiver is issued. 
‘‘(5) The Secretary may provide for an exemption to 
the limitation under subparagraph (D) of paragraph (1) 
in the case of parts for aircraft described in such subpara-
graph that are transferred as part of regular maintenance 
of aircraft in an existing fleet. 
‘‘(6) The Secretary shall require, as a condition of 
any transfer of property under this section, that the Fed-
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eral or State agency that receives the property shall return 
the property to the Secretary if the agency— 
‘‘(A) is investigated by the Department of Jus-
tice for any violation of civil liberties; or 
‘‘(B) is otherwise found to have engaged in 
widespread abuses of civil liberties. 
‘‘(g) CONDITIONS FOR EXTENSION OF PROGRAM.— 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts au-
thorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available 
for any fiscal year may not be obligated or expended to 
carry out this section unless the Secretary submits to Con-
gress certification that for the preceding fiscal year that— 
‘‘(1) each Federal or State agency that has re-
ceived controlled property transferred under this sec-
tion has— 
‘‘(A) demonstrated 100 percent account-
ability for all such property, in accordance with 
paragraph (2) or (3), as applicable; or 
‘‘(B) been suspended from the program 
pursuant to paragraph (4); 
‘‘(2) with respect to each non-Federal agency 
that has received controlled property under this sec-
tion, the State coordinator responsible for each such 
agency has verified that the coordinator or an agent 
of the coordinator has conducted an in-person inven-
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tory of the property transferred to the agency and 
that 100 percent of such property was accounted for 
during the inventory or that the agency has been 
suspended from the program pursuant to paragraph 
(4); 
‘‘(3) with respect to each Federal agency that 
has received controlled property under this section, 
the Secretary of Defense or an agent of the Sec-
retary has conducted an in-person inventory of the 
property transferred to the agency and that 100 per-
cent of such property was accounted for during the 
inventory or that the agency has been suspended 
from the program pursuant to paragraph (4); 
‘‘(4) the eligibility of any agency that has re-
ceived controlled property under this section for 
which 100 percent of the property was not ac-
counted for during an inventory described in para-
graph (1) or (2), as applicable, to receive any prop-
erty transferred under this section has been sus-
pended; and 
‘‘(5) each State coordinator has certified, for 
each non-Federal agency located in the State for 
which the State coordinator is responsible that— 
‘‘(A) the agency has complied with all re-
quirements under this section; or 
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‘‘(B) the eligibility of the agency to receive 
property transferred under this section has been 
suspended; and 
‘‘(6) the Secretary of Defense has certified, for 
each Federal agency that has received property 
under this section that— 
‘‘(A) the agency has complied with all re-
quirements under this section; or 
‘‘(B) the eligibility of the agency to receive 
property transferred under this section has been 
suspended. 
‘‘(h) PROHIBITION ON OWNERSHIP OF CONTROLLED 
PROPERTY.—A Federal or State agency that receives con-
trolled property under this section may not take ownership 
of the property. 
‘‘(i) NOTICE TO CONGRESS OF PROPERTY DOWN-
GRADES.—Not later than 30 days before downgrading the 
classification of any item of personal property from con-
trolled or Federal Supply Class, the Secretary shall submit 
to Congress notice of the proposed downgrade. 
‘‘(j) NOTICE TO CONGRESS OF PROPERTY CANNIBAL-
IZATION.—Before the Defense Logistics Agency author-
izes the recipient of property transferred under this sec-
tion to cannibalize the property, the Secretary shall submit 
to Congress notice of such authorization, including the 
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name of the recipient requesting the authorization, the 
purpose of the proposed cannibalization, and the type of 
property proposed to be cannibalized. 
‘‘(k) QUARTERLY REPORTS ON USE OF CONTROLLED 
EQUIPMENT.—Not later than 30 days after the last day 
of a fiscal quarter, the Secretary shall submit to Congress 
a report on any uses of controlled property transferred 
under this section during that fiscal quarter. 
‘‘(l) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 30 
days after the last day of a fiscal year, the Secretary shall 
submit to Congress a report on the following for the pre-
ceding fiscal year: 
‘‘(1) The percentage of equipment lost by re-
cipients of property transferred under this section, 
including specific information about the type of 
property lost, the monetary value of such property, 
and the recipient that lost the property. 
‘‘(2) The transfer of any new (condition code 
A) property transferred under this section, including 
specific information about the type of property, the 
recipient of the property, the monetary value of each 
item of the property, and the total monetary value 
of all such property transferred during the fiscal 
year.’’. 
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