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The bill channels federal support toward law-enforcement education and eliminates programs under Part U — boosting training and potential efficiency savings while risking program losses, transitional costs, funding trade-offs for other education fields, and concerns about federal influence on local policing.
Students in criminal-justice/law-enforcement programs and the colleges that serve them gain access to new federal grants for education, training, curriculum expansion, and recruitment, which can strengthen the pipeline into policing and public-safety careers.
Students and taxpayers avoid continuing funding for programs under Part U that Congress considers unnecessary or duplicative, potentially reducing wasteful spending.
Institutions and students lose programs, grants, or services that were authorized under Part U, reducing educational opportunities and support previously available to them.
Taxpayers could face increased federal spending if the new law-enforcement education grant program is funded through new appropriations rather than reallocated funds.
Prioritizing grants for law-enforcement education could divert limited higher-education funding away from other academic programs and fields, harming students and institutions in those areas.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Adds a Law Enforcement Education grant program to the Higher Education Act and repeals Part U of title VIII (20 U.S.C.1161u).
Introduced May 15, 2025 by Michelle Fischbach · Last progress May 15, 2025
Creates a new federal grant program for law enforcement education by adding a Law Enforcement Education grant program to the Higher Education Act and removes an existing statutory part in Title VIII of the Higher Education Act (Part U). The bill provides the authority to establish the new grant program in law but does not include the program’s definitions, eligibility rules, funding amounts, deadlines, or administrative details in the text provided. Because the substantive provisions of the new subpart are not supplied, the practical effects depend on the content and funding that would be added later (or provided through appropriations). The change will most directly affect law enforcement training programs, postsecondary institutions that offer related coursework, students in these programs, and the Department of Education or other agencies that would implement and oversee the new grant program; it also eliminates whatever authorities or requirements previously set out in the now-repealed Part U of title VIII.