Law Enforcement Resources and Community Safety Act of 2018
Latest action · Sep 25, 2018 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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.
- IntroducedSep 25, 2018
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Law Enforcement Resources and Community Safety Act of 2018
This bill establishes a new obstruction of justice criminal offense for conduct related to tampering with or retaliating against a witness in state or local proceedings.
Additionally, it does the following:
- establishes competitive grants for state, local, and tribal witness protection programs;
- authorizes grants to support anti-gang task forces and to hire additional career law enforcement officers to combat organized crime, and
- allows an existing grant program to be used to purchase personal protective equipment and detection devices for first responders who encounter opioid overdoses.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 25, 2018Introduced in Senate
- Sep 25, 2018Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Assault and harassment offenses
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Criminal procedure and sentencing
- Drug trafficking and controlled substances
- Employee hiring
- Employment and training programs
- Evidence and witnesses
- First responders and emergency personnel
- Government information and archives
- Judicial procedure and administration
- Juvenile crime and gang violence
- Law enforcement administration and funding
- Law enforcement officers
- Organized crime
- U.S. Sentencing Commission
- Violent crime
- Worker safety and health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 25, 2018Introduced in Senate
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