Legislation Supported by the FOP in the 119th Congress

U.S. House of Representatives

• PASSED HOUSE – H.R. 27 (Griffith, R-VA) the “Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act,” which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.
• H.R. 378 (Buchanan, R-FL) the “Thin Blue Line Act,” which would expand the list of aggravating factors in death penalty determinations for those who target, kill, or attempt to kill a law enforcement or other public safety officer;
• H.R. 405 (Fulcher, R-ID) the “Keep Every Extra Penny (KEEP) Act,” which would eliminate income tax on a public servant’s overtime pay;
• H.R. 621 (Joyce, R-OH), the “Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act,” which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP);
• H.R. 633 (Salazar, R-FL) the “Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act,” which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative “deepfake” technology;
• H.R. 993 (Correa, D-CA) the “Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies (DRONE) Act,” which would allow law enforcement agencies to use Edward R. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) funds to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems;
• H.R. 1046 (Bacon, R-NE) the “Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act,” which would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities;
• H.R. 1266 (Panetta, D-CA), the “Combating Illicit Xylazine Act,” which would appropriate steps to add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act;
• H.R. 1269 (Scanlon, D-PA) the “Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act,” which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits (PSOB) program.”
• TOP PRIORITY – H.R. 1505 (Stauber, D-MN) the “Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act,” which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions;
• PRIORITY – H.R. 1551 (Rutherford, R-FL) the “Protect and Serve Act,” which would impose Federal penalties on individuals who deliberately target local, State or Federal law enforcement officers with violence. 

United States Senate

• S. 122 (Banks, R-ID) the “Qualified Immunity Act,” which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades;
• S. 146 (Cruz, R-TX) the “Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act,” which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative “deepfake” technology;
• PRIORITY – S. 167 (Tillis, R-NC) the “Protect and Serve Act,” which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death;
• S. 180 (Grassley R-IA) the “Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act,” which would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP);
• S. 237 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the “Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act,” which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits (PSOB) program.
• S. 331 (Cassidy, R-LA) the “Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act,” which would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.
• S. 516 (Klobuchar, D-MN) the “Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act”, which would prohibit the distribution of Non-Consensually Distributed Intimate Images (NDII) that loopholes in select States have thus far prevented;
• TOP PRIORITY – S. 636 (Hickenlooper, D-CO) the “Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act,” which would guarantee public safety officers the right to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions;
• S. 666 (Gillibrand, D-NY) the “First Responders Wellness Act,” which would establish a national hotline for first responders through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS);
• S. 678 (Cortez Masto, D-NV) the “Invest to Protect Act,” which would establish a grant program, administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office within the U.S. Department of Justice, that would be used for the training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ fewer than 200 law enforcement officers;
• PRIORITY – S. 679 (Kennedy, R-LA) the “Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) Reform Act,” which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) exempting qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms.