COPS Improvements Act of 2007
Latest action · Jun 20, 2007 Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-271.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 23, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
COPS Improvements Act of 2007 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the authority of the Attorney General to make grants for public safety and community policing programs (COPS ON THE BEAT or COPS program). Revises grant purposes to provide for: (1) the hiring or training of law enforcement officers for intelligence, antiterror, and homeland security duties; (2) the hiring of school resource officers; (3) school-based partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and local school systems to combat crime, gangs, drug activities, and other problems facing elementary and secondary schools; (4) innovative programs to reduce and prevent illegal drug (including methamphetamine) manufacturing, distribution, and use; and (5) enhanced community policing and crime prevention grants that meet emerging law enforcement needs.
Allows COPS program grants to be used to hire former members of the Armed Forces to serve as career law enforcement officers for community-oriented policing, particularly in communities adversely affected by a recent military base closing.
Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to: (1) assign community prosecutors to handle cases from specific geographic areas and address counterterrorism problems, specific violent crime problems, and localized violent and other crime problems; and (2) develop new technologies to assist state and local law enforcement agencies in crime prevention.
Grants the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services exclusive authority to perform functions and activities under the COPS program.
Requires grant recipients to retain additional law enforcement officers for a 12-month period after the end of the grant period.
Authorizes the Attorney General to renew COPS program grants if grant recipients can demonstrate significant progress in achieving the objectives of the initial grant application.
Increases: (1) the authorization of appropriation for the COPS program; and (2) the amount of funds available for technical assistance from 3 to 5%. Specifies amounts to be made available for hiring officers and prosecutors and for technology grants.
Cosponsors 44
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 23, 2007 to Sep 22, 2008; 21 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Barack Obama | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-CA | Barbara Boxer | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-CT | Christopher J. Dodd | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-MI | Debbie Stabenow | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| R-OR | Gordon H. Smith | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-NV | Harry Reid | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-WI | Herb Kohl | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-RI | Jack Reed | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| I-CT | Joseph I. Lieberman | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-CO | Ken Salazar | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-WA | Maria Cantwell | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-MT | Max Baucus | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-VT | Patrick J. Leahy | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-IA | Tom Harkin | Original | Jan 23, 2007 |
| D-WV | Robert C. Byrd | Jan 26, 2007 | |
| D-WV | John D. Rockefeller IV | Jan 29, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Jan 30, 2007 | |
| D-MO | Claire McCaskill | Feb 1, 2007 | |
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Feb 8, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Bill Nelson | Feb 8, 2007 | |
| D-LA | Mary L. Landrieu | Feb 8, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Feb 8, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Arlen Specter | Feb 15, 2007 | |
| D-MD | Benjamin L. Cardin | Mar 7, 2007 | |
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Mar 7, 2007 | |
| D-MI | Carl Levin | Mar 22, 2007 | |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Mar 28, 2007 | |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Apr 18, 2007 | |
| R-MN | Norm Coleman | May 16, 2007 | |
| D-NM | Jeff Bingaman | May 17, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Robert P. Casey Jr. | May 17, 2007 | |
| D-IN | Evan Bayh | Jul 23, 2007 | |
| D-AR | Mark L. Pryor | Sep 10, 2007 | |
| R-ME | Susan M. Collins | Oct 19, 2007 | |
| D-SD | Tim Johnson | Nov 6, 2007 | |
| R-AK | Lisa Murkowski | Jun 10, 2008 | |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Sep 22, 2008 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jan 23, 2007Markup Mar 15, 2007Reported May 24, 2007Hearings Jun 20, 2007 |
| Crime and Drugs Subcommittee | Hearings May 23, 2007 |
Actions 8
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 20, 2007Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-271.
- May 24, 2007Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. With written report No. 110-73.
- May 24, 2007Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 175.
- May 23, 2007Committee on the Judiciary Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs. Hearings held.
- Mar 15, 2007Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S922Text printed S922 | Joseph R. Biden Jr. D-DE (text) | Jan 23, 2007 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2
- Mar 21, 2007S. 368, COPS Improvements Act of 2007<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on March 15, 2007</p>
- Mar 21, 2007S. 368, COPS Improvements Act of 2007Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on March 15, 2007
CRS reports 2
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 2
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL34092 | Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: FY2008 Appropriations Archived | Report | Mar 17, 2008 |
| RL34309 | How Crime in the United States Is Measured Archived | Report | Jan 3, 2008 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 1700 | COPS Improvements Act of 2007 | Related bill | Aug 3, 2007 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to enhance the COPS ON THE BEAT grant program, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- COPS Improvements Act of 2007
- Short Titles as Reported to Senate
- COPS Improvements Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Authorization
- Community policing
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Crime prevention
- Department of Justice
- Drug abuse
- Drug law enforcement
- Drugs and youth
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Families
- Federal aid to law enforcement
- Gangs
- Government Operations and Politics
- Labor and Employment
- Methamphetamine
- Police
- Police communication systems
- Police training
- Prosecution
- Retired military personnel
- School security
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Technological innovations
- Terrorism
- Veterans' employment
- Violence
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 24, 2007Reported to Senate
- Jan 23, 2007Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
