| 1 | 1 | | 88R9927 JRI-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Reynolds H.C.R. No. 49 |
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| 5 | 5 | | CONCURRENT RESOLUTION |
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| 6 | 6 | | WHEREAS, The passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing |
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| 7 | 7 | | Act is critical to holding police accountable, ending racial |
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| 8 | 8 | | profiling, and building trust between law enforcement and local |
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| 9 | 9 | | communities; and |
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| 10 | 10 | | WHEREAS, The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act will |
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| 11 | 11 | | establish national standards to combat the very preventable public |
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| 12 | 12 | | health and human rights crisis of police brutality; in addition to |
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| 13 | 13 | | prohibiting federal, state, and local law enforcement from racial, |
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| 14 | 14 | | religious, and discriminatory profiling, the measure will require |
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| 15 | 15 | | law enforcement to collect data on all investigatory activities; it |
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| 16 | 16 | | will establish federal deadly force standards and save lives by |
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| 17 | 17 | | limiting the use of military equipment by police and by banning |
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| 18 | 18 | | deadly and discriminatory practices such as choke holds and |
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| 19 | 19 | | no-knock warrants in drug cases; and |
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| 20 | 20 | | WHEREAS, The act will also hold police accountable by making |
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| 21 | 21 | | it easier to prosecute police misconduct and allow individuals to |
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| 22 | 22 | | recover damages in civil court; the Department of Justice Civil |
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| 23 | 23 | | Rights Division will be given greater subpoena power to investigate |
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| 24 | 24 | | police misconduct, and a nationwide registry will be created to |
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| 25 | 25 | | prevent problematic officers who move jurisdictions to avoid |
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| 26 | 26 | | culpability; and |
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| 27 | 27 | | WHEREAS, All Americans deserve to live free from the threat |
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| 28 | 28 | | of wanton police violence and misconduct, and it is incumbent on the |
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| 29 | 29 | | federal government to pass comprehensive police reform; now, |
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| 30 | 30 | | therefore, be it |
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| 31 | 31 | | RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas |
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| 32 | 32 | | hereby respectfully urge the U.S. Congress to pass the George Floyd |
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| 33 | 33 | | Justice in Policing Act; and, be it further |
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| 34 | 34 | | RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official |
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| 35 | 35 | | copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to |
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| 36 | 36 | | the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of |
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| 37 | 37 | | Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the |
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| 38 | 38 | | members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that |
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| 39 | 39 | | this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a |
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| 40 | 40 | | memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. |
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