Law Enforcement Tribute Act - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to States, local governments, and Indian tribes to carry out programs to honor, through permanent tributes, men and women of the United States who were killed or disabled while serving as law enforcement or public safety officers.
Limits: (1) grants to $150,000 to any single recipient; and (2) the Federal portion to 50 percent of the total costs of such a program, with an exception for law enforcement or public safety functions on Indian lands.
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May 16, 2002
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 375.
May 16, 2002
Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
May 16, 2002
Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Apr 17, 2002
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.