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114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6486 
To require, as a condition on the receipt of Federal funds, that States 
require law enforcement agencies to have in effect a policy regarding 
the use of body-worn cameras and dashboard cameras. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 8, 2016 
Mr. RUSH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To require, as a condition on the receipt of Federal funds, 
that States require law enforcement agencies to have 
in effect a policy regarding the use of body-worn cameras 
and dashboard cameras. 
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 ‘‘Laquan McDonald 
Camera Act of 2016’’. 
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SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO HAVE BODY-WORN CAMERAS 
AND DASHBOARD CAMERA POLICIES. 
To be in compliance with this section, a State shall 
require each law enforcement agency of that State and of 
a unit of a local government of that State to have in effect 
a policy requiring and prescribing the conditions for the 
use of body-worn cameras and dashboard cameras by law 
enforcement officers of that agency, and to establish pro-
cedures providing for the effective enforcement of that pol-
icy. 
SEC. 3. ELIGIBILITY FOR FEDERAL FUNDS. 
(a) COVERED PROGRAMS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this Act, a 
grant program is covered by this section if— 
(A) the program is carried out by or under 
the authority of the Attorney General; and 
(B) the program may provide amounts to 
States for law enforcement purposes. 
(2) LIST.—For each fiscal year, the Attorney 
General shall prepare a list identifying each program 
that meets the criteria of paragraph (1) and provide 
that list to each State. 
(b) COMPLIANCE.—For each fiscal year, any amount 
that a State would otherwise receive for that fiscal year 
under a grant program covered by this section shall be 
reduced by 10 percent, unless the State submits to the 
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Attorney General a certification that each law enforcement 
agency of the State, and of each unit of local government 
of the State, is in full compliance with the requirements 
of section 2. 
(c) CITIZEN SUITS.—In the case of a State that has 
submitted a certification under subsection (b), if that 
State has made any misrepresentation in that certification 
pertaining to full compliance with the requirements of sec-
tion 2, a private citizen who is a resident of that State 
may bring an action in a Federal district court to compel 
the Attorney General to take appropriate action under 
subsection (b). The court shall expedite consideration of 
such an action, and advance it on the docket to the max-
imum extent practicable. 
(d) REDISTRIBUTION OF AMOUNTS.—Amounts under 
a grant program not granted by reason of a reduction 
under subsection (b), shall be granted to one or more enti-
ties not subject to such reduction or such prohibition, sub-
ject to the other laws governing that program. 
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The first grants to which 
subsection (b) applies are grants for the fiscal year begin-
ning October 1, 2017. 
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