Wayne "Cotton" Morgan Bulletproof Vest Act

Wayne "Cotton" Morgan Bulletproof Vest Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to make a matching requirement inapplicable to a grant for the purchase of an armor vest for any officer who works in a high security risk area or for a correctional officer who transports prisoners.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4215 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4215

  To amend the matching grant program for bulletproof armor vests to 
        eliminate the matching requirement for certain officers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 2, 2005

  Mr. Strickland (for himself, Mr. Stupak, Mr. Ford, and Mr. Davis of 
  Tennessee) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the matching grant program for bulletproof armor vests to 
        eliminate the matching requirement for certain officers.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Wayne `Cotton' Morgan Bulletproof 
Vest Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM FOR BULLETPROOF ARMOR VESTS 
              TO ELIMINATE MATCHING REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN OFFICERS.

    Section 2501 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796ll) is amended in subsection (f) by adding at the 
end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) No matching requirement for certain officers.--
        Paragraph (1) does not apply to the extent the grant is for the 
        purchase of an armor vest for any officer who works in a high 
        security risk area or for a correctional officer who transports 
        prisoners.''.
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