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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5864 
To establish standards for trauma kits purchased using funds provided under 
the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 28, 2025 
Mr. VAN DREW introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To establish standards for trauma kits purchased using funds 
provided under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice As-
sistance Grant Program. 
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 ‘‘Improving Police Crit-
ical Aid for Responding to Emergencies Act’’ or the ‘‘Im-
proving Police CARE Act’’. 
SEC. 2. TRAUMA KIT STANDARDS. 
Section 521 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10202) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(d) TRAUMA KITS.— 
‘‘(1) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 
‘trauma kit’ means a first aid response kit, which in-
cludes a bleeding control kit that can be used for 
controlling a life-threatening hemorrhage. 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENT FOR TRAUMA KITS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, a grantee may only pur-
chase a trauma kit using funds made available 
under this part if the trauma kit meets the per-
formance standards established by the Director 
of the Bureau of Justice Assistance under para-
graph (3)(A). 
‘‘(B) AUTHORITY
TO
SEPARATELY
AC-
QUIRE.—Nothing in subparagraph (A) shall 
prohibit a grantee from separately acquiring the 
components of a trauma kit and assembling 
complete trauma kits that meet the perform-
ance standards. 
‘‘(3) PERFORMANCE
STANDARDS
AND
OP-
TIONAL AGENCY BEST PRACTICES.—Not later than 
180 days after the date of enactment of this sub-
section, the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assist-
ance, in consultation with organizations representing 
trauma surgeons, emergency medical response pro-
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fessionals, emergency physicians, other medical pro-
fessionals, relevant law enforcement agencies of 
States and units of local government, professional 
law enforcement organizations, local law enforcement 
labor or representative organizations, and law en-
forcement trade associations, shall— 
‘‘(A) develop and publish performance 
standards for trauma kits that are eligible for 
purchase using funds made available under this 
part that, at a minimum, require the compo-
nents described in paragraph (4) to be included 
in a trauma kit; and 
‘‘(B) develop and publish optional best 
practices for law enforcement agencies regard-
ing— 
‘‘(i) training law enforcement officers 
in the use of trauma kits; 
‘‘(ii) the deployment and maintenance 
of trauma kits in law enforcement vehicles; 
and 
‘‘(iii) the deployment, location, and 
maintenance of trauma kits in law enforce-
ment agency or other government facilities. 
‘‘(4) COMPONENTS.—The components of a 
trauma kit described in this paragraph are— 
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‘‘(A) a tourniquet recommended by the 
Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care; 
‘‘(B) a bleeding control bandage; 
‘‘(C) a pair of nonlatex protective gloves 
and a pen-type marker; 
‘‘(D) a pair of blunt-ended scissors; 
‘‘(E) instructional documents developed— 
‘‘(i) under the ‘Stop the Bleed’ na-
tional awareness campaign of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security, or any suc-
cessor thereto; 
‘‘(ii) by the American College of Sur-
geons Committee on Trauma; 
‘‘(iii) by the American Red Cross; or 
‘‘(iv) by any partner of the Depart-
ment of Defense; 
‘‘(F) a bag or other container adequately 
designed to hold the contents of the kit; and 
‘‘(G) any additional trauma kit supplies 
that— 
‘‘(i) are approved by a State, local, or 
Tribal law enforcement agency or first re-
sponders; 
‘‘(ii) can adequately treat a traumatic 
injury; and 
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