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, local, and tribal 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]
[S. 2746 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2746

   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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 30, 2019

 Ms. Cortez Masto (for herself, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Coons, Mr. Blunt, Mr. 
Durbin, and Mr. Grassley) introduced the following bill; which was read 
          twice and 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 general location of each suicide or attempted 
        suicide;
            (3) the demographic information of each law enforcement 
        officer who commits or attempts suicide;
            (4) the occupational category, including criminal 
        investigator, corrections officer, line of duty officer, 911 
        dispatch operator, of each law enforcement officer who commits 
        or attempts suicide; and
            (5) the method used in each suicide or attempted suicide.
    (b) Policies.--The Federal Bureau of Investigation shall work with 
the Confidentiality and Data Access Committee of the Federal Committee 
on Statistical Methodology to develop publication policies to manage 
the risk of identity disclosure based upon the best practices 
identified by other Federal statistical programs.
    (c) 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).
    (d) Confidentiality.--The report described under subsection (c) may 
not include any personally identifiable information of a law 
enforcement officer who commits or attempts suicide.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``law enforcement agency'' means a Federal, 
        State, Tribal, 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, Tribal, 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, Indian Tribe, 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, Indian Tribe, 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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