I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1498 
To eliminate racial profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 10, 2017 
Mr. CONYERS (for himself, Ms. BASS, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. BEYER, Mr. BISHOP 
of Georgia, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. CART-
WRIGHT, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. CLARK of Massa-
chusetts, Mr. COHEN, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. 
DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. 
DEUTCH, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. EVANS, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. GRI-
JALVA, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. JEFFRIES, 
Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. 
KELLY of Illinois, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. KILMER, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Ms. 
LEE, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. MEEKS, Ms. MOORE, 
Mr. NADLER, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. NORTON, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. PETERS, 
Mr. RASKIN, Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. RUSH, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. SCOTT of 
Virginia, Mr. SERRANO, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. 
SMITH of Washington, Mr. SWALWELL of California, Mr. THOMPSON of 
Mississippi, Mr. VEASEY, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. 
MAXINE WATERS of California, and Ms. CLARKE of New York) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary 
A BILL 
To eliminate racial profiling by law enforcement, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘End Racial Profiling Act of 2017’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—PROHIBITION OF RACIAL PROFILING 
Sec. 101. Prohibition. 
Sec. 102. Enforcement. 
TITLE II—PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE RACIAL PROFILING BY 
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES 
Sec. 201. Policies to eliminate racial profiling. 
TITLE III—PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE RACIAL PROFILING BY 
STATE, LOCAL, AND INDIAN TRIBAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 
AGENCIES 
Sec. 301. Policies required for grants. 
Sec. 302. Involvement of Attorney General. 
Sec. 303. Data collection demonstration project. 
Sec. 304. Best practices development grants. 
Sec. 305. Authorization of appropriations. 
TITLE IV—DATA COLLECTION 
Sec. 401. Attorney General to issue regulations. 
Sec. 402. Publication of data. 
Sec. 403. Limitations on publication of data. 
TITLE V—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REGULATIONS AND 
REPORTS ON RACIAL PROFILING IN THE UNITED STATES 
Sec. 501. Attorney General to issue regulations and reports. 
TITLE VI—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
Sec. 601. Severability. 
Sec. 602. Savings clause. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
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(1) COVERED
PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘covered 
program’’ means any program or activity funded in 
whole or in part with funds made available under— 
(A) the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice 
Assistance Grant Program under part E of title 
I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.); 
and 
(B) the ‘‘Cops on the Beat’’ program 
under part Q of title I of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 
U.S.C. 3796dd et seq.), except that no pro-
gram, project, or other activity specified in sec-
tion 1701(b)(13) of such part shall be a covered 
program under this paragraph. 
(2) GOVERNMENTAL BODY.—The term ‘‘govern-
mental body’’ means any department, agency, special 
purpose district, or other instrumentality of Federal, 
State, local, or Indian tribal government. 
(3) HIT RATE.—The term ‘‘hit rate’’ means the 
percentage of stops and searches in which a law en-
forcement officer finds drugs, a gun, or other con-
traband that leads to an arrest. The hit rate is cal-
culated by dividing the total number of searches by 
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the number of searches that yield contraband. The 
hit rate is complementary to the rate of false stops. 
(4) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Indian tribe’’ 
has the meaning given the term in section 102 of the 
Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 
(25 U.S.C. 479a). 
(5) LAW
ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY.—The term 
‘‘law enforcement agency’’ means any Federal, 
State, local, or Indian tribal public agency engaged 
in the prevention, detection, or investigation of viola-
tions of criminal, immigration, or customs laws. 
(6) LAW
ENFORCEMENT
AGENT.—The term 
‘‘law enforcement agent’’ means any Federal, State, 
local, or Indian tribal official responsible for enforc-
ing criminal, immigration, or customs laws, includ-
ing police officers and other agents of a law enforce-
ment agency. 
(7) RACIAL
PROFILING.—The term ‘‘racial 
profiling’’ means the practice of a law enforcement 
agent or agency relying, to any degree, on actual or 
perceived race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, 
gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation in se-
lecting which individual to subject to routine or 
spontaneous investigatory activities or in deciding 
upon the scope and substance of law enforcement ac-
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tivity following the initial investigatory procedure, 
except when there is trustworthy information, rel-
evant to the locality and timeframe, that links a per-
son with a particular characteristic described in this 
paragraph to an identified criminal incident or 
scheme. 
(8) ROUTINE OR SPONTANEOUS INVESTIGATORY 
ACTIVITIES.—The term ‘‘routine or spontaneous in-
vestigatory activities’’ means the following activities 
by a law enforcement agent: 
(A) Interviews. 
(B) Traffic stops. 
(C) Pedestrian stops. 
(D) Frisks and other types of body 
searches. 
(E) Consensual or nonconsensual searches 
of the persons, property, or possessions (includ-
ing vehicles) of individuals using any form of 
public or private transportation, including mo-
torists and pedestrians. 
(F) Data collection and analysis, assess-
ments, and predicated investigations. 
(G) Inspections and interviews of entrants 
into the United States that are more extensive 
than those customarily carried out. 
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