S 954 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

POWER Act

Introduced Mar 28, 2019 Originated Senate Sponsor Sherrod Brown D-OH

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 28, 2019 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.

IntroducedMar 28, 2019
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Providing Officers With Electronic Resources Act or the POWER Act

This bill authorizes the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services within the Department of Justice to make grants to law enforcement agencies to purchase a chemical screening device and to train personnel to use, and interpret data collected by, such device.

Cosponsors 14

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 28, 2019 to May 6, 2019, with 11 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NY	Charles E. Schumer	Original	Mar 28, 2019
R-CO	Cory Gardner	Original	Mar 28, 2019
D-MA	Edward J. Markey	Original	Mar 28, 2019
D-MA	Elizabeth Warren	Original	Mar 28, 2019
I-WV	Joe Manchin III	Original	Mar 28, 2019
R-FL	Marco Rubio	Original	Mar 28, 2019
D-CO	Michael F. Bennet	Original	Mar 28, 2019
R-OH	Rob Portman	Original	Mar 28, 2019
D-IL	Tammy Duckworth	Original	Mar 28, 2019
R-NC	Thom Tillis	Original	Mar 28, 2019
R-AR	Tom Cotton	Original	Mar 28, 2019
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito		Apr 8, 2019
R-MS	Cindy Hyde-Smith		May 6, 2019
D-NH	Margaret Wood Hassan		May 6, 2019

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 28, 2019Introduced in Senate
Mar 28, 2019Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 2070	POWER Act	Related bill	May 15, 2019

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 28, 2019Introduced in Senate

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