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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1870 
To require that States receiving Byrne JAG funds to require sensitivity 
training for law enforcement officers of that State and to incentivize 
States to enact laws requiring the independent investigation and prosecu-
tion of the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 4, 2017 
Mr. COHEN (for himself, Mr. BROWN of Maryland, Ms. ADAMS, Ms. BASS, 
Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. BEYER, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. BRADY of Pennsyl-
vania, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Ms. 
CASTOR of Florida, Ms. JUDY CHU of California, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. 
CLARK of Massachusetts, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. CLAY, Mr. 
CLEAVER, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illi-
nois, Ms. DELAURO, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. ELLISON, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. FOS-
TER, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. GRI-
JALVA, Mr. GUTIE´RREZ, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Ms. EDDIE 
BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. KAPTUR, 
Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. LEWIS of Geor-
gia, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Ms. 
MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. MEEKS, Ms. MENG, Ms. MOORE, Mr. 
NADLER, Mr. NORCROSS, Ms. NORTON, Mr. O’ROURKE, Mr. PASCRELL, 
Mr. PAYNE, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. POCAN, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. RICHMOND, 
Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. RUSH, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Ms. 
SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. 
SERRANO, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Mr. SIRES, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. 
SMITH of Washington, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. TONKO, Mr. 
VEASEY, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California, Mrs. 
WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. EVANS, Ms. 
JAYAPAL, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. SOTO, Mr. 
KHANNA, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. POLIS, Mr. ENGEL, Ms. WILSON of Flor-
ida, Ms. LEE, Mr. JEFFRIES, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mrs. LAW-
RENCE, and Mr. SCHIFF) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary 
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A BILL 
To require that States receiving Byrne JAG funds to require 
sensitivity training for law enforcement officers of that 
State and to incentivize States to enact laws requiring 
the independent investigation and prosecution of the use 
of deadly force by law enforcement officers, 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 ‘‘Police Training and 
Independent Review Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. TRAINING ON DIVERSITY AND SENSITIVITY FOR 
LAW ENFORCEMENT. 
(a) TRAINING REQUIREMENT.—For each fiscal year 
after the expiration of the period specified in subsection 
(b)(1) in which a State receives funds for a program re-
ferred to in subsection (b)(2), the State shall require that 
all individuals enrolled in an academy of a law enforce-
ment agency of the State and all law enforcement officers 
of the State fulfill a training session on sensitivity each 
fiscal year, including training on ethnic and racial bias, 
cultural diversity, and police interaction with the disabled, 
mentally ill, and new immigrants. In the case of individ-
uals attending an academy, such training session shall be 
for 8 hours, and in the case of all other law enforcement 
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officers, the training session shall be for 4 hours. The 
State shall certify to the Attorney General of the United 
States that such training sessions have been completed. 
(b) COMPLIANCE AND INELIGIBILITY.— 
(1) COMPLIANCE DATE.—Each State shall have 
not more than 120 days, beginning on the date of 
enactment of this Act, to comply with subsection (a), 
except that— 
(A) the Attorney General may grant an ad-
ditional 120 days to a State that is making 
good faith efforts to comply with such sub-
section; and 
(B) the Attorney General shall waive the 
requirements of subsection (a) if compliance 
with such subsection by a State would be un-
constitutional under the constitution of such 
State. 
(2) INELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.—For any fiscal 
year after the expiration of the period specified in 
paragraph (1), a State that fails to comply with sub-
section (a), shall, at the discretion of the Attorney 
General, be subject to not more than a 20-percent 
reduction of the funds that would otherwise be allo-
cated for that fiscal year to the State under subpart 
1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
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