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The bill could expand federal grant opportunities for local policing but does so by repealing an existing statute and inserting an unspecified new grant part, trading potential new funding for legal and implementation uncertainty for agencies and current recipients.
Local police departments and community policing programs could gain access to new or expanded federal grant funding if the added statutory part authorizes grants.
Law enforcement agencies, nonprofits, and local governments could lose or face changes to an existing entitlement if 34 U.S.C. §10381(m) is repealed, creating funding uncertainty for current grant recipients.
The unspecified text of the new statutory part could cause implementation delays and uncertainty for the Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, and potential grant recipients about eligibility, allowable uses, and oversight rules.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Adds an unspecified new grant part to the Omnibus Crime Control Act to support local fentanyl task forces and repeals 34 U.S.C. 10381(m).
Creates a new grant authority under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act to support efforts to stop fentanyl trafficking through local task forces and related activities, and removes an existing subsection of the public safety and community policing grant law. The bill inserts a new part at the end of Title I to authorize additional grants but does not include the text of that new part in the provided summary, so the specific programs, eligibility rules, and funding levels are unspecified. Because it also repeals an existing subsection of the current grant statute (34 U.S.C. 10381(m)), the bill changes the legal framework for public safety/community policing grants by removing whatever provision that subsection previously contained. The practical effect depends on the content of the new part and the removed subsection, neither of which is detailed here.
Official title: To establish grants to combat opioid trafficking.
Introduced May 14, 2026 by Richard Ray Larsen · Last progress May 14, 2026