Primary affected parties:

• Grant recipients (most directly): state and local law enforcement agencies, tribal governments, local governments, and nonprofit organizations that receive Bureau of Justice Assistance or related Justice Department grant funds and that purchase medical response equipment. These recipients will only be able to use covered grant dollars to buy trauma kits that meet the BJA's published performance standards. They may need to update procurement specifications, purchase orders, and documentation practices to show compliance.

• First responders and EMS/fire personnel: police, firefighters, emergency medical services, and other on-scene first responders may benefit from more consistent, standards-based trauma kits being deployed at incidents supported by federal grants. The change can improve uniformity and potentially quality of on-scene care.

• Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA): charged with developing, publishing, and maintaining the mandatory performance standards and optional best practices within 180 days. That creates an administrative workload and will require technical input and coordination with clinical/medical subject-matter experts.

• Manufacturers and suppliers of trauma kits: firms that produce, label, or market trauma kits may need to revise product contents, packaging, testing, or documentation to align with the BJA standards in order to access sales funded by federal grants. This could lead to certification/test changes, product redesigns, or new labeling.

Implementation effects and costs:

• No direct new federal spending is authorized in the provision; it restricts how existing grant funds may be used. The primary near-term federal cost is administrative (BJA staff time to develop standards and guidance).

• Local procurement and compliance costs are possible (time to verify compliance, potential price differences for certified kits). These are not framed as new unfunded mandates because the requirement applies to how recipients may spend federal grant dollars rather than imposing state/local spending obligations outside the grant context.

• Operational benefit: standardized kit requirements can increase interoperability across jurisdictions and improve the likelihood that responders have consistent essential items on-scene, potentially improving trauma outcomes.

• Timing: BJA must publish standards and optional best practices within 180 days of the law taking effect; grant recipients should expect guidance and adjust procurement within that timeframe.