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The bill provides law enforcement with evidence-based guidance and confidential mental-health resources and creates a near-term congressional roadmap, but its non-binding recommendations risk uneven, delayed adoption and impose modest planning costs on federal agencies.
Law enforcement officers will gain clearer, evidence-based strategies and better-protected confidential mental-health resources (peer counseling, crisis lines, EAPs), encouraging help-seeking and reducing stigma.
Congress will receive a 270-day oversight roadmap to guide timely implementation of reforms supporting officer wellbeing, enabling more coordinated federal oversight and accountability.
Officers and communities may experience delayed or uneven benefits because the report's recommendations are non-binding and depend on state and local adoption.
DOJ and partner federal agencies will incur planning and reporting costs to produce the required roadmap, which could divert staff time from other operations.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the Attorney General to report within 270 days on best practices and recommendations to reduce stigma and expand confidential mental-health screening and peer support for law enforcement.
Official title: To require a report by the Attorney General on effective strategies and best practices to reduce stigma related to mental health among law enforcement officers.
Introduced May 13, 2026 by Laura Gillen · Last progress May 13, 2026
Requires the Attorney General, working with COPS, the FBI, and NIJ, to produce a report within 270 days that identifies effective strategies and best practices to reduce mental-health stigma among law enforcement officers and increase use of screening, peer counseling, and confidential support services, and to provide recommendations to implement those strategies. The report must consult Federal, State, Tribal, and local law enforcement agencies and specified stakeholder organizations and defines "law enforcement officer" broadly to include police, corrections, probation, parole, and judicial officers.