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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 1563
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to
establish a grant program to help law enforcement agencies with civilian
law enforcement tasks, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MAY1, 2025
Ms. K
LOBUCHAR(for herself and Mr. GRASSLEY) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act of 1968 to establish a grant program to help law
enforcement agencies with civilian law enforcement tasks,
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 ‘‘Retired Law Enforce-4
ment Officers Continuing Service Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM. 1
Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 2
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.) is amended 3
by adding at the end the following: 4
‘‘PART PP—CIVIL LAW ENFORCEMENT TASK 5
GRANTS 6
‘‘SEC. 3061. DEFINITIONS. 7
‘‘In this part: 8
‘‘(1) C
IVILIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT TASK .—The 9
term ‘civilian law enforcement task’ includes— 10
‘‘(A) assisting in homicide investigations; 11
‘‘(B) assisting in carjacking investigations; 12
‘‘(C) assisting in financial crimes investiga-13
tions; 14
‘‘(D) reviewing camera footage; 15
‘‘(E) crime scene analysis; 16
‘‘(F) forensics analysis; and 17
‘‘(G) providing expertise in computers, 18
computer networks, information technology, or 19
the internet. 20
‘‘(2) E
LIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en-21
tity’ means a State, local, Tribal, or territorial law 22
enforcement agency. 23
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‘‘SEC. 3062. GRANTS AUTHORIZED. 1
‘‘The Attorney General may award grants to eligible 2
entities for the purpose of hiring retired personnel from 3
law enforcement agencies to— 4
‘‘(1) train civilian employees of the eligible enti-5
ty on civilian law enforcement tasks that can be per-6
formed on behalf of a law enforcement agency; and 7
‘‘(2) perform civilian law enforcement tasks on 8
behalf of the eligible entity. 9
‘‘SEC. 3063. ACCOUNTABILITY PROVISIONS. 10
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—A grant awarded under this part 11
shall be subject to the accountability requirements of this 12
section. 13
‘‘(b) A
UDITREQUIREMENT.— 14
‘‘(1) D
EFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 15
‘unresolved audit finding’ means a finding in a final 16
audit report of the Inspector General of the Depart-17
ment of Justice that an audited grantee has used 18
grant funds for an unauthorized expenditure or oth-19
erwise unallowable cost that is not closed or resolved 20
within 12 months from the date when the final audit 21
report is issued. 22
‘‘(2) A
UDITS.—Beginning in the first fiscal 23
year beginning after the date of enactment of the 24
Retired Law Enforcement Officers Continuing Serv-25
ice Act, and in each fiscal year thereafter, the In-26
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spector General of the Department of Justice shall 1
conduct audits of recipients of grants under this 2
part to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of funds by 3
grantees. The Inspector General of the Department 4
of Justice shall determine the appropriate number of 5
grantees to be audited each year. 6
‘‘(3) M
ANDATORY EXCLUSION .—A recipient of 7
grant funds under this part that is found to have an 8
unresolved audit finding shall not be eligible to re-9
ceive grant funds under this part during the first 2 10
fiscal years beginning after the end of the 12-month 11
period described in paragraph (1). 12
‘‘(4) P
RIORITY.—In awarding grants under this 13
part, the Attorney General shall give priority to eli-14
gible entities that did not have an unresolved audit 15
finding during the 3 fiscal years before submitting 16
an application for a grant under this part. 17
‘‘(c) A
NNUALCERTIFICATION.—Beginning in the fis-18
cal year during which audits commence under subsection 19
(b)(2), the Attorney General shall submit to the Com-20
mittee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropria-21
tions of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary 22
and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 23
Representatives an annual certification— 24
‘‘(1) indicating whether— 25
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‘‘(A) all audits issued by the Office of the 1
Inspector General of the Department of Justice 2
under subsection (b) have been completed and 3
reviewed by the appropriate Assistant Attorney 4
General or Director; and 5
‘‘(B) all mandatory exclusions required 6
under subsection (b)(3) have been issued; and 7
‘‘(2) that includes a list of any grant recipients 8
excluded under subsection (b)(3) from the previous 9
year. 10
‘‘(d) P
REVENTINGDUPLICATIVEGRANTS.— 11
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—Before the Attorney Gen-12
eral awards a grant to an eligible entity under this 13
part, the Attorney General shall compare potential 14
grant awards with other grants awarded by the At-15
torney General to determine if grant awards are or 16
have been awarded for a similar purpose. 17
‘‘(2) R
EPORT.—If the Attorney General awards 18
grants to the same applicant for a similar purpose, 19
the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee 20
on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee 21
on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a 22
report that includes— 23
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‘‘(A) a list of all such grants awarded, in-1
cluding the total dollar amount of any such 2
grants awarded; and 3
‘‘(B) the reason the Attorney General 4
awarded multiple grants to the same applicant 5
for a similar purpose.’’. 6
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