Title: Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act
This bill directs the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to establish a new program—the Law Enforcement Officers Suicide Data Collection Program—to prevent and understand law enforcement suicides.
Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies may submit to the FBI, and the FBI must report on, data about suicides and attempted suicides of current and former officers.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3735 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3735

   To require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to 
provide information on suicide rates in law enforcement, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 12, 2019

  Mr. Quigley (for himself, Ms. Dean, and Mr. Steube) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to 
provide information on suicide rates in law enforcement, 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 ``Law Enforcement Suicide Data 
Collection Act''.

SEC. 2. INFORMATION ON SUICIDE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT.

    (a) Establishment.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, acting through the 
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall establish, for 
the purpose of preventing future law enforcement suicides and promoting 
understanding of suicide in law enforcement, the Law Enforcement 
Officers Suicide Data Collection Program, under which law enforcement 
agencies may submit to the Director information on suicides and 
attempted suicides within such law enforcement agencies, including 
information on--
            (1) the circumstances and events that occurred before each 
        suicide or attempted suicide;
            (2) the location of each suicide or attempted suicide;
            (3) the demographic information of each law enforcement 
        officer who commits or attempts suicide; and
            (4) the method used in each suicide or attempted suicide.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of 
this Act, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General, acting through 
the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall submit to 
Congress and publish on the website of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation a report containing the information submitted to the 
Director pursuant to subsection (a).
    (c) Confidentiality.--Neither the information submitted under 
subsection (a) nor the report described under subsection (b) may 
include any personally identifiable information of a law enforcement 
officer who commits or attempts suicide, including the name or 
residential address of the officer.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``law enforcement agency'' means a Federal, 
        State, or local agency engaged in the prevention, detection, or 
        investigation, prosecution, or adjudication of any violation of 
        the criminal laws of the United States, a State, or a political 
        subdivision of a State;
            (2) the term ``law enforcement officer'' means any current 
        or former officer (including a correctional officer), agent, or 
        employee of the United States, a State, or a political 
        subdivision of a State authorized by law to engage in or 
        supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or 
        prosecution of any violation of the criminal laws of the United 
        States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State; and
            (3) the term ``State'' means each of the several States, 
        the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or 
        possession of the United States.
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