I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 838 
To provide grants to States in order to prevent racial profiling. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 26, 2013 
Ms. NORTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To provide grants to States in order to prevent racial 
profiling. 
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 ‘‘Racial Profiling Pre-
vention Act’’. 
SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM TO PROHIBIT RACIAL PROFILING. 
(a) GRANTS.—Subject to the requirements of this 
section, the Secretary shall make grants to a State that— 
(1)(A) has enacted and is enforcing a law that 
prohibits the use of racial profiling in the enforce-
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ment of State laws regulating the use of Federal-aid 
highways; and 
(B) is maintaining and allows public inspection 
of statistical information for each motor vehicle stop 
made by a law enforcement officer on a Federal-aid 
highway in the State regarding the race and eth-
nicity of the driver and any passengers; or 
(2) provides assurances satisfactory to the Sec-
retary that the State is undertaking activities to 
comply with the requirements of paragraph (1). 
(b) ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.—A grant received by a 
State under subsection (a) shall be used by the State— 
(1) in the case of a State eligible under sub-
section (a)(1), for costs of— 
(A) collecting and maintaining of data on 
traffic stops; 
(B) evaluating the results of the data; and 
(C) developing and implementing programs 
to reduce the occurrence of racial profiling, in-
cluding programs to train law enforcement offi-
cers; and 
(2) in the case of a State eligible under sub-
section (a)(2), for costs of— 
(A) activities to comply with the require-
ments of subsection (a)(1); and 
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(B) any eligible activity under paragraph 
(1). 
(c) RACIAL PROFILING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—To meet the requirement of 
subsection (a)(1), a State law shall prohibit, in the 
enforcement of State laws regulating the use of Fed-
eral-aid highways, a State or local law enforcement 
officer from using the race or ethnicity of the driver 
or passengers to any degree in making routine or 
spontaneous law enforcement decisions, such as ordi-
nary traffic stops on Federal-aid highways. 
(2) LIMITATION.—Nothing in this subsection 
shall alter the manner in which a State or local law 
enforcement officer considers race or ethnicity when-
ever there is trustworthy information, relevant to the 
locality or time frame, that links persons of a par-
ticular race or ethnicity to an identified criminal in-
cident, scheme, or organization. 
(d) LIMITATIONS.— 
(1) MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF GRANTS.—The total 
amount of grants made to a State under this section 
in a fiscal year may not exceed 5 percent of the 
amount made available to carry out this section in 
the fiscal year. 
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(2) ELIGIBILITY.—A State may not receive a 
grant under subsection (a)(2) in more than 2 fiscal 
years. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund (other 
than the Mass Transit Account) to carry out this 
section $7,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2013 
through 2017. 
(2) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—Funds authorized 
by this subsection shall be available for obligation in 
the same manner as if the funds were apportioned 
under chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, ex-
cept the Federal share of the cost of activities car-
ried out using such funds shall be 80 percent, and 
such funds shall remain available until expended and 
shall not be transferable. 
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