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This bill would create tougher federal penalties for people who assault or murder law enforcement officers. It would add a mandatory prison term of at least 20 years for certain assaults that seriously injure a federal, state, or local officer, and it would make the murder of a federal officer, or certain state or local officers, punishable like first-degree murder under federal law. The bill is aimed at increasing protection for police and other law enforcement officers and making the consequences much harsher when they are attacked.
For serious assaults against a federal law enforcement officer, the bill requires a prison sentence of at least 20 years.
The same assault penalty can also apply to state or local officers if the attack was planned or helped using interstate commerce tools, or if the weapon used had moved across state lines.
For murder, the bill says that killing a federal law enforcement officer would be punished under the federal first-degree murder law.
The murder penalty would also apply to certain state or local officers when the crime involved interstate commerce tools or a weapon that traveled across state lines.
The Attorney General would have to report to Congress within 3 years on prosecutions brought under these new rules.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[S. 166 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 166
To amend title 18, United States Code, to create or enhance penalties
for murder and assault committed against a law enforcement officer, and
for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 21, 2025
Mr. Tillis introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to create or enhance penalties
for murder and assault committed against a law enforcement officer, and
for other purposes.
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 ``Justice for Fallen Law Enforcement
Act''.
SEC. 2. CRIMES.
Part I of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in section 111, by adding at the end the following:
``(d) Commission Against a Law Enforcement Officer.--Whoever
commits any act described in subsection (a)(1) against a Federal law
enforcement officer, or against a State or local law enforcement
officer if the perpetrator plans or facilitates the act with an
instrument of interstate commerce or commits the act with a weapon that
has traveled in interstate commerce, resulting in serious injury to the
law enforcement officer, shall be imprisoned not less than 20 years.'';
and
(2) in chapter 51--
(A) by inserting after section 1122 the following:
``Sec. 1123. Protection of law enforcement officers
``Whoever commits the murder of a Federal law enforcement officer,
or a State or local law enforcement officer if the perpetrator plans or
facilitates the murder with an instrument of interstate commerce or
commits the murder with a weapon that has traveled in interstate
commerce, shall be sentenced as provided under section 1111 for murder
in the first degree.''; and
(B) in the table of sections, by adding at the end
the following:
``1123. Protection of law enforcement officers.''.
SEC. 3. REPORT REQUIRED.
Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the
Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the
Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of
Representatives a report on prosecutions conducted as the result of the
amendments made by this Act.
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