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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3652 
To establish the National Police Misuse of Force Investigation Board, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 29, 2025 
Ms. OMAR (for herself, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. NORTON, and Mr. 
MCGOVERN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Transpor-
tation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To establish the National Police Misuse of Force 
Investigation Board, 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 ‘‘National Police Misuse 
of Force Investigation Board Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. GENERAL ORGANIZATION. 
(a) ORGANIZATION.—The National Police Misuse of 
Force Investigation Board (hereinafter in this Act referred 
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to as the ‘‘Board’’) is an independent establishment of the 
United States Government. 
(b) APPOINTMENT
OF MEMBERS.—The Board is 
composed of 8 members appointed by the President, by 
and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Not more 
than 4 members may be appointed from the same political 
party. At least 4 members shall be appointed on the basis 
of technical qualification, professional standing, and dem-
onstrated knowledge in civil rights law, psychology, racial 
inequality social theory, socioeconomics, or violent conflict 
mitigation. 
(c) TERMS OF OFFICE AND REMOVAL.—The term of 
office of each member is 6 years. An individual appointed 
to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration of the 
term for which the predecessor of that individual was ap-
pointed, is appointed for the remainder of that term. 
When the term of office of a member ends, the member 
may continue to serve until a successor is appointed and 
qualified. The President may remove a member for ineffi-
ciency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office. 
(d) CHAIRMAN AND VICE CHAIRMAN.—The Presi-
dent shall designate, by and with the advice and consent 
of the Senate, a Chairman of the Board. The President 
also shall designate a Vice Chairman of the Board. The 
terms of office of both the Chairman and Vice Chairman 
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are 2 years. When the Chairman is absent or unable to 
serve or when the position of Chairman is vacant, the Vice 
Chairman acts as Chairman. 
(e) DUTIES
AND
POWERS
OF
CHAIRMAN.—The 
Chairman is the chief executive and administrative officer 
of the Board. Subject to the general policies and decisions 
of the Board, the Chairman shall— 
(1) appoint and supervise officers and employ-
ees, other than regular and full-time employees in 
the immediate offices of another member, necessary 
to carry out this Act; 
(2) fix the pay of officers and employees nec-
essary to carry out this Act; 
(3) distribute business among the officers, em-
ployees, and administrative units of the Board; and 
(4) supervise the expenditures of the Board. 
(f) QUORUM.—Five members of the Board are a 
quorum in carrying out duties and powers of the Board. 
(g) OFFICES, BUREAUS, 
AND
DIVISIONS.—The 
Board shall establish offices necessary to carry out this 
Act, including an office to investigate and report on police 
brutality. The Board shall establish distinct and appro-
priately staffed bureaus, divisions, or offices to investigate 
and report on incidents involving each of the following: 
(1) Deaths occurring in police custody. 
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(2) Officer-involved shootings. 
(3) Uses of force that result in severe bodily in-
jury in police custody. 
(h) CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.—The Chairman 
shall designate an officer or employee of the Board as the 
Chief Financial Officer. The Chief Financial Officer 
shall— 
(1) report directly to the Chairman on financial 
management and budget execution; 
(2) direct, manage, and provide policy guidance 
and oversight on financial management and property 
and inventory control; and 
(3) review the fees, rents, and other charges im-
posed by the Board for services and things of value 
it provides, and suggest appropriate revisions to 
those charges to reflect costs incurred by the Board 
in providing those services and things of value. 
(i) BOARD MEMBER STAFF.—Each member of the 
Board shall select and supervise regular and full-time em-
ployees in his or her immediate office as long as any such 
employee has been approved for employment by the des-
ignated agency ethics official under the same guidelines 
that apply to all employees of the Board. Except for the 
Chairman, the appointment authority provided by this 
subsection is limited to the number of full-time equivalent 
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positions, in addition to 1 senior professional staff at a 
level not to exceed the GS–15 level and 1 administrative 
staff, allocated to each member through the Board’s an-
nual budget and allocation process. 
(j) SEAL.—The Board shall have a seal that shall be 
judicially recognized. 
(k) CONTENT OF REPORTS.—A report under sub-
section (g) shall include the following information: 
(1) The demographic data of the individual 
killed or injured by police. 
(2) The demographics of the officers involved. 
(3) The circumstances (such as date, time, loca-
tion). 
(4) The reason for the stop or the initial con-
tact with the subject, the events leading up to the 
shooting or use of force (such as search or pursuit). 
(5) The outcome (such as the types of force 
used, charges filed, death injury). 
SEC. 3. SPECIAL BOARDS OF INQUIRY ON POLICE BRU-
TALITY. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—If an incident involves a sub-
stantial question history of excessive force use, the influ-
ence of historical racial injustice, or civil rights infringe-
ment within the community, the Board may establish a 
special board of inquiry composed of— 
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(1) one member of the Board acting as chair-
man; and 
(2) 2 members representing the public, ap-
pointed by the President on notification of the estab-
lishment of the special board of inquiry. 
(b) QUALIFICATIONS
AND CONFLICTS
OF INTER-
EST.—The public members of a special board of inquiry 
must be qualified by training and experience to participate 
in the inquiry and may not have a pecuniary interest in 
an aviation enterprise involved in the incident to be inves-
tigated. 
(c) AUTHORITY.—A special board of inquiry has the 
same authority that the Board has under this Act. 
SEC. 4. ADMINISTRATIVE. 
(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.— 
(1) The Board, and when authorized by it, a 
member of the Board, an administrative law judge 
employed by or assigned to the Board, or an officer 
or employee designated by the Chairman of the 
Board, may conduct hearings to carry out this Act, 
administer oaths, and require, by subpoena or other-
wise, necessary witnesses and evidence. 
(2) A witness or evidence in a hearing under 
paragraph (1) of this subsection may be summoned 
or required to be produced from any place in the 
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United States to the designated place of the hearing. 
A witness summoned under this subsection is enti-
tled to the same fee and mileage the witness would 
have been paid in a court of the United States. 
(3) A subpoena shall be issued under the signa-
ture of the Chairman or the Chairman’s delegate but 
may be served by any person designated by the 
Chairman. 
(4) If a person disobeys a subpoena, order, or 
inspection notice of the Board, the Board may bring 
a civil action in a district court of the United States 
to enforce the subpoena, order, or notice. An action 
under this paragraph may be brought in the judicial 
district in which the person against whom the action 
is brought resides, is found, or does business. The 
court may punish a failure to obey an order of the 
court to comply with the subpoena, order, or notice 
as a contempt of court. 
(b) ADDITIONAL POWERS.— 
(1) The Board may— 
(A) procure the temporary or intermittent 
services of experts or consultants under section 
3109 of title 5, United States Code; 
(B) make agreements and other trans-
actions necessary to carry out this Act without 
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regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes 
(41 U.S.C. 5); 
(C) use, when appropriate, available serv-
ices, equipment, personnel, and facilities of a 
department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States Government on a reimbursable or 
other basis; 
(D) confer with employees and use serv-
ices, records, and facilities of State and local 
governmental authorities; 
(E) appoint advisory committees composed 
of qualified private citizens and officials of the 
Government and State and local governments 
as appropriate; 
(F) accept voluntary and uncompensated 
services notwithstanding another law; 
(G) accept gifts of money and other prop-
erty; 
(H) make contracts with nonprofit entities 
to carry out studies related to duties and pow-
ers of the Board; and 
(I) negotiate and enter into agreements 
with individuals and private entities and depart-
ments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the 
government, State and local governments, and 
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governments of foreign countries for the provi-
sion of facilities, incident-related and technical 
services or training in police misuse of force in-
vestigation theory and techniques, and require 
that such entities provide appropriate consider-
ation for the reasonable costs of any facilities, 
goods, services, or training provided by the 
Board. 
(2) The Board shall deposit in the Treasury 
amounts received under paragraph (1)(I) of this 
subsection to be credited as offsetting collections to 
the appropriation of the Board. The Board shall 
maintain an annual record of collections received 
under paragraph (1)(I) of this subsection. 
(c) SUBMISSION
OF CERTAIN COPIES
TO CON-
GRESS.—When the Board submits to the President or the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget a budg-
et estimate, budget request, supplemental budget esti-
mate, other budget information, a legislative recommenda-
tion, prepared testimony for congressional hearings, or 
comments on legislation, the Board must submit a copy 
to Congress at the same time. An officer, department, 
agency, or instrumentality of the government may not re-
quire the Board to submit the estimate, request, informa-
tion, recommendation, testimony, or comments to another 
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officer, department, agency, or instrumentality of the gov-
ernment for approval, comment, or review before being 
submitted to Congress. The Board shall develop and ap-
prove a process for the Board’s review and comment or 
approval of documents submitted to the President, Direc-
tor of the Office of Management and Budget, or Congress 
under this subsection. 
(d) LIAISON COMMITTEES.—The Chairman may de-
termine the number of committees that are appropriate 
to maintain effective liaison with other departments, agen-
cies, and instrumentalities of the Government, State and 
local governmental authorities, and independent standard- 
setting authorities that carry out programs and activities 
related to misuse of force by law enforcement officers. The 
Board may designate representatives to serve on or assist 
those committees. 
(e) INQUIRIES.—The Board, or an officer or em-
ployee of the Board designated by the Chairman, may con-
duct an inquiry to obtain information related to police mis-
use of force after publishing notice of the inquiry in the 
Federal Register. The Board or designated officer or em-
ployee may require by order a department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the government, a State or local govern-
mental authority, or a person transporting individuals or 
property in commerce to submit to the Board a written 
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report and answers to requests and questions related to 
a duty or power of the Board. The Board may prescribe 
the time within which the report and answers must be 
given to the Board or to the designated officer or em-
ployee. Copies of the report and answers shall be made 
available for public inspection. 
(f) REGULATIONS.—The Board may prescribe regula-
tions to carry out this Act. 
(g) OVERTIME PAY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the requirements 
of this section and notwithstanding paragraphs (1) 
and (2) of section 5542(a) of title 5, for an employee 
of the Board whose basic pay is at a rate which 
equals or exceeds the minimum rate of basic pay for 
GS–10 of the General Schedule, the Board may es-
tablish an overtime hourly rate of pay for the em-
ployee with respect to work performed at the scene 
of an incident (including travel to or from the scene) 
and other work that is critical to an incident inves-
tigation in an amount equal to one and one-half 
times the hourly rate of basic pay of the employee. 
All of such amount shall be considered to be pre-
mium pay. 
(2) LIMITATION ON OVERTIME PAY TO AN EM-
PLOYEE.—An employee of the Board may not re-
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ceive overtime pay under paragraph (1), for work 
performed in a calendar year, in an amount that ex-
ceeds 15 percent of the annual rate of basic pay of 
the employee for such calendar year. 
(3) LIMITATION ON TOTAL AMOUNT OF OVER-
TIME PAY.—The Board may not make overtime pay-
ments under paragraph (1) for work performed in 
any fiscal year in a total amount that exceeds 1.5 
percent of the amount appropriated to carry out this 
Act for that fiscal year. 
(4) BASIC PAY DEFINED.—In this subsection, 
the term ‘‘basic pay’’ includes any applicable local-
ity-based comparability payment under section 5304 
of title 5 (or similar provision of law) and any spe-
cial rate of pay under section 5305 of title 5 (or 
similar provision of law). 
(5) ANNUAL
REPORT.—Not later than Sep-
tember 30, 2026, the Board shall submit to the 
House Committees on the Judiciary and Oversight 
and Government Reform and Senate Committees on 
the Judiciary and Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs a report identifying the total amount 
of overtime payments made under this subsection in 
the preceding fiscal year, and the number of employ-
ees whose overtime pay under this subsection was 
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