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Creates a competitive grant program to pay for eligible law enforcement training for officers and recruits who agree to serve in the community that receives the grant. Grants cover training costs beginning in fiscal year 2025, require recipients to meet service and residency obligations or repay the grant (with limited exceptions), and require annual reporting to congressional judiciary committees on grant locations, planned trainees, and retention/return-to-duty counts.
Adds a new subsection titled “COPS Strong Communities Program” to Section 1701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10381).
Defines “eligible entity” as either (i) an institution of higher education (as defined in 20 U.S.C. 1001) that, in coordination or by agreement with a local law enforcement agency, offers a law enforcement training program; or (ii) a local law enforcement agency that offers a law enforcement training program.
Defines “local law enforcement agency” as an agency of a State, unit of local government, or Indian Tribe authorized to engage in or supervise prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of criminal law violations.
Authorizes the Attorney General to use amounts otherwise appropriated to carry out this section to make competitive grants to local law enforcement agencies for officers and recruits to attend law enforcement training programs at eligible entities.
Grants are available only if the officers and recruits receiving benefits agree to serve in law enforcement agencies in their communities.
Primary impacts: State and local law enforcement agencies and their communities gain financial help to send officers and recruits to training, potentially increasing skills and staffing if trainees meet service commitments. Individual officers and recruits benefit from paid training but take on service obligations and possible repayment risk if they do not fulfill the commitment. The Department of Justice (Attorney General) gains new administrative responsibilities for grant competition, rulemaking, and annual reporting to Congress. Local agencies will need to manage service agreements, residency verification, and tracking/recording of trainee retention, which creates modest administrative burdens. Budgetary impact: the program requires appropriations beginning in FY2025; actual cost depends on future funding levels. Communities could see improved staffing and training outcomes if recipients retain trained officers; conversely, if many trainees do not meet service obligations the program could result in repayments and weaker local retention results.
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced May 15, 2025 by Nathaniel Moran · Last progress May 15, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House