(b) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible for a grant under 
this subsection, a State or Indian Tribe shall have in effect 
an independent investigation of law enforcement statute. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General 
$750,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2025 to carry 
out this subsection. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) 
BYRNE
GRANT
PROGRAM.—The 
term 
‘‘Byrne grant program’’ means any grant program 
under subpart 1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
U.S.C. 10151 et seq.), without regard to whether 
the funds are characterized as being made available 
under the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local 
Law Enforcement Assistance Programs, the Local 
Government Law Enforcement Block Grants Pro-
gram, the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assist-
ance Grant Program, or otherwise. 
(2) COPS GRANT PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘COPS 
grant program’’ means the grant program author-
ized under section 1701 of title I of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
U.S.C. 10381). 
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(3) INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION.—The term 
‘‘independent investigation’’ means a criminal inves-
tigation or prosecution of a law enforcement officer’s 
use of deadly force, including one or more of the fol-
lowing: 
(A) Using an agency or civilian review 
board that investigates and independently re-
views all allegations of use of deadly force made 
against law enforcement officers in the jurisdic-
tion. 
(B) Assigning of the attorney general of 
the State in which the alleged use of deadly 
force was committed to conduct the criminal in-
vestigation and prosecution. 
(C) Adopting a procedure under which an 
independent prosecutor is assigned to inves-
tigate and prosecute the case, including a pro-
cedure under which an automatic referral is 
made to an independent prosecutor appointed 
and overseen by the attorney general of the 
State in which the alleged use of deadly force 
was committed. 
(D) Adopting a procedure under which an 
independent prosecutor is assigned to inves-
tigate and prosecute the case. 
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(E) Having law enforcement agencies 
agree to and implement memoranda of under-
standing with other law enforcement agencies 
under which the other law enforcement agen-
cies— 
(i) shall conduct the criminal inves-
tigation into the alleged use of deadly 
force; and 
(ii) upon conclusion of the criminal in-
vestigation, shall file a report with the at-
torney general of the State containing a 
determination regarding whether— 
(I) the use of deadly force was 
appropriate; and 
(II) any action should be taken 
by the attorney general of the State. 
(F) Any substantially similar procedure to 
ensure impartiality in the investigation or pros-
ecution. 
(4) INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF LAW EN-
FORCEMENT STATUTE.—The term ‘‘independent in-
vestigation of law enforcement statute’’ means a 
statute requiring an independent investigation in a 
criminal matter in which— 
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(A) one or more of the possible defendants 
is a law enforcement officer; 
(B) one or more of the alleged offenses in-
volves the law enforcement officer’s use of dead-
ly force in the course of carrying out that offi-
cer’s duty; and 
(C) the non-Federal law enforcement offi-
cer’s use of deadly force resulted in a death or 
injury. 
(5) INDEPENDENT
PROSECUTOR.—The term 
‘‘independent prosecutor’’ means, with respect to a 
criminal investigation or prosecution of a law en-
forcement officer’s use of deadly force, a prosecutor 
who— 
(A) does not oversee or regularly rely on 
the law enforcement agency by which the law 
enforcement officer under investigation is em-
ployed; and 
(B) would not be involved in the prosecu-
tion in the ordinary course of that prosecutor’s 
duties. 
(6) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ has the mean-
ing given such term in section 901 of the Omnibus 
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Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
U.S.C. 10251). 
Æ 
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