Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act

Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act

The bill provides additional funding for grants for the hiring and rehiring of additional career law enforcement officers under the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program.

The bill also requires law enforcement agencies that use the funds to hire or rehire a law enforcement officer to (1) perform a background check on the law enforcement officer, and (2) ensure that the law enforcement officer undergoes a psychological evaluation.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4024 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4024

    Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the hiring and 
 rehiring of additional career law enforcement officers for the fiscal 
        year ending September 30, 2025, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 17, 2025

Mr. Carbajal (for himself and Mr. Bacon) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition 
    to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the hiring and 
 rehiring of additional career law enforcement officers for the fiscal 
        year ending September 30, 2025, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Filling Public Safety Vacancies 
Act''.

SEC. 2. APPROPRIATION.

    (a) In General.--There is appropriated, out of amounts in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2025, to remain available until expended, $162,000,000 
for additional amounts for grants for the hiring and rehiring of 
additional career law enforcement officers under section 1701 of title 
I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 
10381).
    (b) Background Checks and Psychological Evaluations.--A law 
enforcement agency using amounts appropriated under subsection (a) to 
hire or rehire a law enforcement officer--
            (1) shall--
                    (A) perform a background check on the law 
                enforcement officer; and
                    (B) ensure that the law enforcement officer 
                undergoes a psychological evaluation; and
            (2) shall use amounts appropriated under subsection (a) or 
        other funds of the law enforcement agency to cover the cost of 
        carrying out the requirements under paragraph (1).

SEC. 3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.

    The amounts provided by this Act are designated as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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