Title: Eric Garner Excessive Use of Force Prevention Act of 2021
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Eric Garner Excessive Use of Force Prevention Act of 2021
This bill modifies the criminal civil rights statute that prohibits the deprivation of rights under color of law.
Currently, the second prong of the prohibition bars the application of different punishments, pains, or penalties based on an individual's alien status, color, or race. This bill specifies that the application of any pressure to a person's throat or windpipe, the use of maneuvers that restrict blood or oxygen flow to the brain, or carotid artery restraints that prevent or hinder breathing or reduce intake of air (e.g., a chokehold) constitute a punishment, pain, or penalty.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1347 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1347

To amend section 242 of title 18, United States Code, to forbid the use 
of chokeholds by persons subject to that provision's prohibitions, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 2021

 Mr. Jeffries (for himself, Ms. Barragan, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Beyer, Mr. 
Bishop of Georgia, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. Carson, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. 
 Clark of Massachusetts, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Danny K. Davis of 
 Illinois, Ms. DeGette, Mrs. Demings, Ms. Escobar, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. 
 Horsford, Ms. Jayapal, Ms. Johnson of Texas, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, 
   Mr. Keating, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Sean Patrick 
 Maloney of New York, Mr. Meeks, Ms. Meng, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Ms. 
 Norton, Mr. Pocan, Miss Rice of New York, Mr. Rush, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. 
  Scanlon, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Sewell, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Swalwell, Mr. 
Trone, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Welch, Mr. Kim of New Jersey, Mr. Lieu, 
Mr. Neguse, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Crow, Mr. Jones, Mr. Schneider, Mrs. Trahan, 
Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Deutch, Ms. Lee of 
   California, Mr. Lynch, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Ms. Wasserman 
    Schultz, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Aguilar, Mr. Michael F. Doyle of 
 Pennsylvania, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Thompson 
 of Mississippi, Mr. Brown, Mr. Casten, Mr. McNerney, Mr. Raskin, Ms. 
   Bass, Mr. Smith of Washington, Ms. Newman, Mrs. McBath, Ms. Lois 
Frankel of Florida, Mr. Soto, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mrs. Carolyn B. 
Maloney of New York, Mr. Courtney, Mrs. Hayes, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Ms. 
 Bourdeaux, Mr. Quigley, and Mr. Mrvan) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 242 of title 18, United States Code, to forbid the use 
of chokeholds by persons subject to that provision's prohibitions, 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 ``Eric Garner Excessive Use of Force 
Prevention Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. CHOKEHOLDS AS CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.

    Section 242 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following: ``For the purposes of this section, the 
application of any pressure to the throat or windpipe, use of maneuvers 
that restrict blood or oxygen flow to the brain, or carotid artery 
restraints which prevent or hinder breathing or reduce intake of air is 
a punishment, pain, or penalty.''.
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