Title: Police Protection Act of 2019
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Police Protection Act of 2019
This bill requires federal law enforcement officers to report information about the injury or death of an individual occurring while in an officer's custody, control, or course of duty to the Department of Justice within 24 hours. Officers who either fail to submit such a report or submit a report containing false or misleading information are subject to criminal penalties.
The bill also reduces certain federal grants to state and local governments that do not require similar reporting by nonfederal law enforcement officers.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4798 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4798

 To require the submission of reports when an individual is injured or 
  killed by a law enforcement officer in the course of the officer's 
                  employment, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 22, 2019

  Mr. Veasey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the submission of reports when an individual is injured or 
  killed by a law enforcement officer in the course of the officer's 
                  employment, 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 Protection Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING REPORTS BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN THE EVENT OF 
              AN INJURY OR FATALITY.

    (a) In General.--Beginning in fiscal year 2021 and each fiscal year 
thereafter, the Attorney General shall reduce by 10 percent the amount 
that a State or unit of local government would otherwise receive under 
a grant program described in subsection (b), if the State or unit of 
local government does not have in place a law requiring the submission 
of reports by State and local law enforcement officers that is 
substantially similar to the reporting requirement under section 3.
    (b) Grant Programs Described.--The grant programs described in this 
subsection are the following:
            (1) The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant 
        Program under subpart 1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus 
        Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10151 et 
        seq.).
            (2) The ``Cops on the Beat'' grant program under part Q of 
        title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
        1968 (34 U.S.C. 10381 et seq.).
    (c) Reallocation.--Amounts not allocated under a program described 
in subsection (b) to a State or unit of local government for failure to 
comply with this section shall be reallocated under that program to 
States and units of local government that are in compliance with this 
section.

SEC. 3. REPORTING REQUIREMENT FOR FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.

    (a) Requirement.--In the case that an individual is injured or 
killed by a Federal law enforcement officer while in the custody or 
control of the officer, or otherwise in the course of the law 
enforcement officer's employment--
            (1) not later than 24 hours after such injury or death 
        occurs, such law enforcement officer shall submit to the 
        Attorney General a report, which describes, in detail, the 
        facts and circumstances surrounding such injury or death;
            (2) any Federal law enforcement officer who is present at 
        the time of the injury or death, or is involved during the 12-
        hour period following the injury or death in the transportation 
        or care of the individual, or any administrative procedures 
        relating to the individual, shall, not later than 24 hours 
        after the conclusion of such involvement, submit to the 
        Attorney General a report, which describes, in detail, the 
        facts and circumstances surrounding such involvement; and
            (3) the Inspector General of the Department of Justice 
        shall investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding such 
        injury or death, and submit a report to the Attorney General 
        not later than 60 days after such injury or death.
    (b) Criminal Penalty.--Whoever, being a Federal law enforcement 
officer required to submit a report under subsection (a), knowingly--
            (1) fails to submit such a report; or
            (2) submits a report containing false or misleading 
        information,
shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, imprisoned not more 
than 5 years, or both.
    (c) Definition.--In this Act, the term ``Federal law enforcement 
officer'' has the meaning given the term in section 115 of title 18, 
United States Code.
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