Title: Protecting Communities from Lost or Stolen Law Enforcement Weapons Act of 2017
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Protecting Communities from Lost or Stolen Law Enforcement Weapons Act of 2017
This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to modify requirements under the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program. Specifically, it authorizes the Department of Justice to give preference to a COPS program grant applicant from a state that requires law enforcement agencies to report officers' lost or stolen firearms to the National Tracing Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4786 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4786

To require State and local law enforcement agencies to promptly report 
 the loss or theft of any firearm to the National Tracing Center, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 12, 2018

 Mr. Meeks (for himself, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Schakowsky, 
 Mr. DeSaulnier, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Gutierrez, Mrs. Watson Coleman, 
   Mr. Himes, Mr. Ellison, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Quigley, Mr. 
    Suozzi, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Evans, Ms. Norton, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. 
 Blumenauer, and Ms. Kelly of Illinois) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To require State and local law enforcement agencies to promptly report 
 the loss or theft of any firearm to the National Tracing Center, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Communities from Lost or 
Stolen Law Enforcement Weapons Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO REPORT LOSS OR THEFT OF FIREARM.

    A law described in this section is a law of a State that requires a 
State or local law enforcement officer, if that State or local law 
enforcement officer carries a firearm in the performance of or 
otherwise has custody of a firearm in the course of his or her duties, 
and that State or local law enforcement officer determines that such 
firearm has been lost or stolen, to report the loss or theft 
immediately to that officer's supervising officer, and requires the 
State or local law enforcement agency that employs the officer to 
report such loss or theft, not later than 48 hours after the report of 
the officer, to the National Tracing Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco, and Firearms of the Department of Justice.

SEC. 3. PRIORITY FOR COPS GRANTS.

    Section 1701(c) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(C), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (3)(B), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) from an applicant in a State that has in effect a law 
        that is described in section 2 of the Protecting Communities 
        from Lost or Stolen Law Enforcement Weapons Act of 2017.''.
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