Veterans Involved in Police Services Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4769
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2014-05-29
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Law enforcement administration and funding

Law enforcement officers

Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Violent crime
Latest action: action_date: 2014-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-05-29
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Veterans Involved in Police Services Act of 2014 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow public safety and community policing grants to be used, during the three-year period beginning on the date of this Act's enactment, to hire former honorably-discharged members of the Armed Forces to serve as career law enforcement officers for community-oriented policing, particularly in jurisdictions in which the violent crime rate is higher than the national violent crime rate, according to the uniform crime report compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4769 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 29, 2014 Mr. McNerney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend part Q of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize grant funds to be used for the Troops-to-Cops Program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Veterans Involved in Police Services Act of 2014 . 2. Authorization of Troops-to-Cops program Section 1701(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 42 U.S.C. 3796dd(b) ) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (17) as subparagraphs (A) through (Q), respectively, and by moving the margins of such subparagraphs (as so redesignated) two ems to the right; (2) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) (as so redesignated by paragraph (1) of this section), by striking The purposes for which and inserting (1) In general.— The purposes for which ; (3) in subparagraph (Q) (as so redesignated by paragraph (1) of this section), by striking paragraphs (1) through (16) and inserting subparagraphs (A) through (P) ; and (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (2) Troops-to-Cops Program (A) In general For grants made during the 3-year period beginning on the date of enactment of the Veterans Involved in Police Services Act of 2014 , in addition to the purposes described in paragraph (1), grants made under subsection (a) may be used to hire former members of the Armed Forces (and to pay the full salary of such former members) to serve as career law enforcement officers for deployment in community-oriented policing, particularly in jurisdictions in which the violent crime rate is higher than the national violent crime rate, according to the uniform crime report compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (B) Definition In this paragraph, former member of the Armed Forces means a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who has been honorably discharged from the Armed Forces of the United States. .