87S20768 CW-D
By: Reynolds H.C.R. No. 7
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing
Act is critical to holding police accountable, ending racial
profiling, and building trust between law enforcement and local
communities; and
WHEREAS, The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act will
establish national standards to combat the very preventable public
health and human rights crisis of police brutality; in addition to
prohibiting federal, state, and local law enforcement from racial,
religious, and discriminatory profiling, the measure will require
law enforcement to collect data on all investigatory activities; it
will establish federal deadly force standards and save lives by
limiting the use of military equipment by police and by banning
deadly and discriminatory practices such as choke holds and
no-knock warrants in drug cases; and
WHEREAS, The act will also hold police accountable by making
it easier to prosecute police misconduct and allow individuals to
recover damages in civil court; the Department of Justice Civil
Rights Division will be given greater subpoena power to investigate
police misconduct, and a nationwide registry will be created to
prevent problematic officers from avoiding accountability by
moving jurisdictions; and
WHEREAS, All Americans deserve to live free from the threat
of wanton police violence and misconduct, and it is incumbent on the
federal government to pass comprehensive police reform; now,
therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the 87th Legislature of the State of Texas,
2nd Called Session, hereby respectfully urge the U.S. Congress to
pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of
Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the
members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that
this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.