Enhancing COPS Hiring Program Grants for Local Law Enforcement Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5403 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5403

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
 authorize law enforcement agencies to use COPS grants to recruit and 
                    retain law enforcement officers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 16, 2025

  Mr. Landsman (for himself, Mr. Carey, Mrs. Sykes, and Mr. Miller of 
    Ohio) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
 authorize law enforcement agencies to use COPS grants to recruit and 
                    retain law enforcement 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 ``Enhancing COPS Hiring Program Grants 
for Local Law Enforcement Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND COMMUNITY POLICING GRANTS.

    (a) Uses of Grants.--Section 1701(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10381(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (23), by striking ``; and'' and inserting 
        the semicolon at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (24), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(25) to provide bonuses for the recruitment and retention 
        of law enforcement officers or career law enforcement officers 
        employed by a law enforcement agency experiencing a decline in 
        recruitment of officers or a high rate of retirements or 
        resignations.''.
    (b) Definitions.--Section 1709 of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10389) is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
            ``(8) `law enforcement officer' shall have the meaning 
        given such term in section 1204(9).''.
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