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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2711
To establish a grant program to provide assistance to local law enforcement
agencies, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL8, 2025
Mr. G
OTTHEIMER(for himself, Mr. RUTHERFORD, Mr. HORSFORD, Mr.
S
ORENSEN, Ms. GILLEN, Mr. COSTA, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. MAGAZINER,
Ms. S
CHOLTEN, Mr. GARBARINO, Mr. VASQUEZ, Mr. RYAN, Mr. CASTEN,
Mr. P
ALLONE, Ms. CRAIG, Mr. DELUZIO, Mr. HARDERof California, Mr.
C
ARBAJAL, Ms. LEEof Nevada, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. GOLDENof Maine, Mr.
K
ENNEDYof New York, Ms. BUDZINSKI, Mr. CORREA, and Ms. PEREZ)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary
A BILL
To establish a grant program to provide assistance to local
law enforcement agencies, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Invest to Protect Act 4
of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM. 6
(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this Act: 7
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(1) DE-ESCALATION TRAINING.—The term ‘‘de- 1
escalation training’’ means training relating to tak-2
ing action or communicating verbally or non-verbally 3
during a potential force encounter in an attempt to 4
stabilize the situation and reduce the immediacy of 5
the threat so that more time, options, and resources 6
can be called upon to resolve the situation without 7
the use of force or with a reduction in the force nec-8
essary. 9
(2) D
IRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 10
the Director of the Office. 11
(3) E
LIGIBLE LOCAL GOVERNMENT .—The term 12
‘‘eligible local government’’ means— 13
(A) a county, municipality, town, township, 14
village, parish, borough, or other unit of general 15
government below the State level that employs 16
fewer than 175 law enforcement officers; and 17
(B) a Tribal government that employs 18
fewer than 175 law enforcement officers. 19
(4) L
AW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER .—The term 20
‘‘law enforcement officer’’ has the meaning given the 21
term ‘‘career law enforcement officer’’ in section 22
1709 of title I the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 23
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10389). 24
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(5) OFFICE.—The term ‘‘Office’’ means the Of-1
fice of Community Oriented Policing Services of the 2
Department of Justice. 3
(b) E
STABLISHMENT.—There is established within 4
the Office a grant program to— 5
(1) provide training and access to mental health 6
resources to local law enforcement officers; and 7
(2) improve the recruitment and retention of 8
local law enforcement officers. 9
(c) A
UTHORITY.—Not later than 120 days after the 10
date of enactment of this Act, the Director shall award 11
grants to eligible local governments as a part of the grant 12
program established under subsection (b). 13
(d) A
PPLICATIONS.— 14
(1) B
ARRIERS.—The Attorney General shall de-15
termine what barriers exist to establishing a stream-16
lined application process for grants under this sec-17
tion. 18
(2) R
EPORT.— 19
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days 20
after the date of enactment of this Act, the At-21
torney General shall submit to Congress a re-22
port that includes a plan to execute a stream-23
lined application process for grants under this 24
section under which an eligible local government 25
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seeking a grant under this section can reason-1
ably complete the application in not more than 2
2 hours. 3
(B) C
ONTENTS OF PLAN .—The plan re-4
quired under subparagraph (A) may include a 5
plan for— 6
(i) proactively providing eligible local 7
governments seeking a grant under this 8
section with information on the data eligi-9
ble local governments will need to prepare 10
before beginning the grant application; and 11
(ii) ensuring technical assistance is 12
available for eligible local governments 13
seeking a grant under this section before 14
and during the grant application process, 15
including through dedicated liaisons within 16
the Office. 17
(3) A
PPLICATIONS.—In selecting eligible local 18
governments to receive grants under this section, the 19
Director shall use the streamlined application proc-20
ess described in paragraph (2)(A). 21
(e) E
LIGIBLEACTIVITIES.—An eligible local govern-22
ment that receives a grant under this section may use 23
amounts from the grant only for— 24
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(1) de-escalation training for law enforcement 1
officers; 2
(2) victim-centered training for law enforcement 3
officers in handling situations of domestic violence; 4
(3) evidence-based law enforcement safety 5
training for— 6
(A) active shooter situations; 7
(B) the safe handling of illicit drugs and 8
precursor chemicals; 9
(C) rescue situations; 10
(D) recognizing and countering ambush at-11
tacks; or 12
(E) response to calls for service involv-13
ing— 14
(i) persons with mental health needs; 15
(ii) persons with substance use dis-16
orders; 17
(iii) veterans; 18
(iv) persons with disabilities; 19
(v) vulnerable youth; 20
(vi) persons who are victims of domes-21
tic violence, sexual assault, or trafficking; 22
or 23
(vii) persons experiencing homeless-24
ness or living in poverty; 25
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(4) the offsetting of overtime costs associated 1
with scheduling issues relating to the participation 2
of a law enforcement officer in the training de-3
scribed in paragraphs (1) through (3), (9), and (10); 4
(5) a signing bonus for a law enforcement offi-5
cer in an amount determined by the eligible local 6
government; 7
(6) a retention bonus for a law enforcement of-8
ficer— 9
(A) in an amount determined by the eligi-10
ble local government that does not exceed 20 11
percent of the salary of the law enforcement of-12
ficer; and 13
(B) who— 14
(i) has been employed at the law en-15
forcement agency for not fewer than 5 16
years; 17
(ii) has not been found by an internal 18
investigation to have engaged in serious 19
misconduct; and 20
(iii) commits to remain employed by 21
the law enforcement agency for not less 22
than 3 years after the date of receipt of 23
the bonus; 24
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(7) a stipend for the graduate education of law 1
enforcement officers in the area of mental health, 2
public health, or social work, which shall not exceed 3
the lesser of— 4
(A) $10,000; or 5
(B) the amount the law enforcement offi-6
cer pays towards such graduate education; 7
(8) providing access to patient-centered behav-8
ioral health services for law enforcement officers, 9
which may include resources for risk assessments, 10
evidence-based, trauma-informed care to treat post- 11
traumatic stress disorder or acute stress disorder, 12
peer support and counselor services and family sup-13
ports, and the promotion of improved access to high 14
quality mental health care through telehealth; 15
(9) the implementation of evidence-based best 16
practices and training on the use of lethal and non-17
lethal force; 18
(10) the implementation of evidence-based best 19
practices and training on the duty of care and the 20
duty to intervene; and 21
(11) data collection for police practices relating 22
to officer and community safety. 23
(f) R
EPORTINGREQUIREMENTS FOR GRANTRECIPI-24
ENTS.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall establish 1
reasonable reporting requirements specifically relat-2
ing to a grant awarded under this section for eligible 3
local governments that receive such a grant in order 4
to assist with the evaluation by the Office of the pro-5
gram established under this section. 6
(2) C
ONSIDERATIONS.—In establishing require-7
ments under paragraph (1), the Director shall con-8
sider the capacity of law enforcement agencies with 9
fewer than 175 officers to collect and report infor-10
mation. 11
(g) D
ISCLOSURE OFOFFICERRECRUITMENT AND 12
R
ETENTIONBONUSES.— 13
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after 14
the date on which an eligible local government that 15
receives a grant under this section awards a signing 16
or retention bonus described in paragraph (5) or (6) 17
of subsection (e), the eligible local government shall 18
disclose to the Director and make publicly available 19
on a website of the eligible local government the 20
amount of the bonus. 21
(2) R
EPORT.—The Attorney General shall sub-22
mit to the appropriate congressional committees an 23
annual report that includes each signing or retention 24
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bonus disclosed under paragraph (1) during the pre-1
ceding year. 2
(h) G
RANTACCOUNTABILITY.— 3
(1) I
N GENERAL.—All grants awarded by the 4
Director under this section shall be subject to the 5
accountability provisions described in this sub-6
section. 7
(2) A
UDIT REQUIREMENT.— 8
(A) D
EFINITION.—In this paragraph, the 9
term ‘‘unresolved audit finding’’ means a find-10
ing in the final audit report of the Inspector 11
General of the Department of Justice that the 12
audited grantee has used grant funds for an 13
unauthorized expenditure or otherwise unallow-14
able cost that is not closed or resolved within 15
12 months from the date when the final audit 16
report is issued. 17
(B) A
UDITS.—Beginning in the first fiscal 18
year beginning after the date of enactment of 19
this subsection, and in each fiscal year there-20
after, the Inspector General of the Department 21
of Justice shall conduct audits of recipients of 22
grants under this section to prevent waste, 23
fraud, and abuse of funds by grantees. The In-24
spector General of the Department of Justice 25
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shall determine the appropriate number of 1
grantees to be audited each year. 2
(C) M
ANDATORY EXCLUSION .—A recipient 3
of grant funds under this section that is found 4
to have an unresolved audit finding shall not be 5
eligible to receive grant funds under this section 6
during the first 3 fiscal years beginning after 7
the end of the 12-month period described in 8
subparagraph (A). 9
(D) R
EIMBURSEMENT.—If an eligible local 10
government is awarded grant funds under this 11
section during the 3-fiscal-year period during 12
which the eligible local government is barred 13
from receiving grants under subparagraph (C), 14
the Attorney General shall— 15
(i) deposit an amount equal to the 16
amount of the grant funds that were im-17
properly awarded to the grantee into the 18
General Fund of the Treasury; and 19
(ii) seek to recoup the costs of the re-20
payment to the fund from the grant recipi-21
ent that was erroneously awarded grant 22
funds. 23
(3) A
NNUAL CERTIFICATION.—Beginning in the 24
fiscal year during which audits commence under 25
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paragraph (2)(B), the Attorney General shall submit 1
to the Committee on the Judiciary and the Com-2
mittee on Appropriations of the Senate and the 3
Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on 4
Appropriations of the House of Representatives an 5
annual certification— 6
(A) indicating whether— 7
(i) all audits issued by the Office of 8
the Inspector General of the Department 9
of Justice under paragraph (2) have been 10
completed and reviewed by the appropriate 11
Assistant Attorney General or Director; 12
(ii) all mandatory exclusions required 13
under paragraph (2)(C) have been issued; 14
and 15
(iii) all reimbursements required 16
under paragraph (2)(D) have been made; 17
and 18
(B) that includes a list of any grant recipi-19
ents excluded under paragraph (2) from the 20
previous year. 21
(i) P
ROGRAMEVALUATION.—Not less frequently 22
than annually, the Attorney General shall analyze the in-23
formation provided by eligible local governments pursuant 24
to the reporting requirements established under subsection 25
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(f)(1) to evaluate the efficacy of programs funded by the 1
grant program under this section. 2
(j) P
REVENTINGDUPLICATIVEGRANTS.— 3
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Before the Director awards 4
a grant to an eligible local government under this 5
section, the Attorney General shall compare poten-6
tial grant awards with other grants awarded by the 7
Attorney General to determine if grant awards are 8
or have been awarded for a similar purpose. 9
(2) R
EPORT.—If the Attorney General awards 10
grants to the same applicant for a similar purpose, 11
whether through the grant program under this sec-12
tion or another grant program administered by the 13
Department of Justice, the Attorney General shall 14
submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the 15
Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 16
House of Representatives a report that includes— 17
(A) a list of all such grants awarded, in-18
cluding the total dollar amount of any such 19
grants awarded; and 20
(B) the reason the Attorney General 21
awarded multiple grants to the same applicant 22
for a similar purpose. 23
(k) A
UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 24
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 25
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not more than $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2027 1
through 2031. 2
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