Title: Police Accountability Act of 2020
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Police Accountability Act of 2020
This bill establishes a new criminal offense for conduct by certain state or local law enforcement officers in the line of duty that constitutes murder or manslaughter.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5777 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5777

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a penalty for assault 
    or homicide committed by certain State or local law enforcement 
                   officers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2020

Mr. Johnson of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Clay, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. 
   Hastings, Ms. Norton, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Wilson of 
 Florida, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Richmond, Mrs. Beatty, Ms. 
Pressley, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Rush, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Johnson of 
Texas, and Ms. Tlaib) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a penalty for assault 
    or homicide committed by certain State or local law enforcement 
                   officers, 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 ``Police Accountability Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. ASSAULT OR HOMICIDE BY CERTAIN STATE OR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 
              OFFICERS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 1 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 28. Assault or homicide by certain State or local law 
              enforcement officers
    ``(a) Offense.--Whoever, being a State or local law enforcement 
officer in a public agency which receives Federal funding under subpart 
1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.) engages in any conduct in the line 
of duty that, were the conduct to occur in the special maritime and 
territorial jurisdiction of the United States, would constitute an 
offense under section 1111 or 1112 shall be punished as is provided for 
that offense under such section.
    ``(b) Definition.--In this section--
            ``(1) the term `State or local law enforcement officer' 
        means an employee of a State or local government--
                    ``(A) who has statutory authority to make arrests 
                or apprehensions;
                    ``(B) who is authorized by the agency of the 
                employee to carry firearms; and
                    ``(C) whose duties are primarily--
                            ``(i) engagement in or supervision of the 
                        prevention, detection, investigation, or 
                        prosecution of, or the incarceration of any 
                        person for, any violation of law; or
                            ``(ii) the protection of Federal, State, 
                        local, or foreign government officials against 
                        threats to personal safety; and
            ``(2) the term `State or local government' means the 
        government--
                    ``(A) of a State, the District of Columbia, the 
                Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or 
                possession of the United States; or
                    ``(B) of a political subdivision of such a State, 
                District, Commonwealth, territory or possession.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 1 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new item:

``28. Assault or homicide by certain State or local law enforcement 
                            officers.''.
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