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Congress is preparing to take their summer
break.
In response to the Southern States Board of
Directors directive for the 110th Congress,
Governmental Affairs is monitoring bills of
initial interest to the PBA membership in this
Congress. Currently there are 92 such bills (64
House / 28 Senate). Of these, 90 remain active
and two were passed (HR 660: Fed LEO info
protection &
HR 2669: LEO education loan forgiveness).
The Due Process bills fall under the SS PBA
Agenda items approved for the 110th Congress.
Law Enforcement Due process
Bills remain inactive in their respective
Judiciary committees.
PBA cosponsors include:
HR 688: Davis (VA-1), Miller (NC-13), Myrick
(NC-9), Cohen (TN-9),
Butterfield (NC-1), Wamp (TN-3), Duncan (TN-2),
Jones (NC-3), Bishop (GA-2)
S 449: None
HR 3440 Davis (TN-4), Johnson (GA-4), Price
(NC-4)
The following bills are of particular interest
to PBA members.
Law enforcement collective bargaining
HR 980 The “Public Employee-Employer Cooperation
Act,” passed the House. State/Local Law Officer
Collective Bargaining Bill, after a floor
debate. remains stalled in the Senate.
Will keep you posted.
(see SSPBA web site - Gov. Affairs “Legislative
news” for House vote).
PBA House cosponsors included:
Bonner (AL-1), Chandler (KY-6), Davis (AL-7),
Davis (VA-11), Duncan (TN-2), Johnson (GA-4),
Melancon (LA-3), Price (NC-4), Ross (AR-4),
Scott (GA-13),
Yarmuth (KY-3), Shuler (NC-11), Watt (NC-12),
Davis (TN-4), Cohen (TN-9),
Lewis (KY-2), Moran (VA-8), Berry (AR-1), Barrow
(GA-12), Butterfield (NC-1), Bishop (GA-2),
Whitfield (KY-1), Snyder (AR-2), Thompson
(MS-2), Scott (VA-3), Cramer (AL-5).
The Senate “law enforcement collective
bargaining bill”
S 2123 Companion bill to HB 980
Sent to Health Education Labor & Pensions
Committee
PBA cosponsors: Pryor-AR, Lincoln-AR
Concealed carry bills
S 376, which reduces retired to 10 years of
service and sets firearm standards
On Calendar (#341).
PBA co-sponsor: Jeff Sessions (AL)
HR 2726 changes provisions for officers and
retired officers
In Judiciary Committee
Sponsor: Forbes (VA-4)
PBA co-sponsor: Boozman (AR-3), Drake (VA-2),
Etheridge (NC-2), Myrick (NC-9)
S 388 Interstate standards for public concealed
carry
Stalled in Judiciary committee.
PBA cosponsors: Burr & Dole (NC), Landrieu &
Vitter (LA), Lott (MS), Webb (VA), Graham (SC),
Wicker (MS), Chambliss (GA)
HR 226 Interstate standards for public concealed
carry
Stalled in Homeland Security committee
PBA cosponsors: Goode (VA-5), Rogers (AL-3)
HR 861 Interstate standards for public concealed
carry
Stalled in Judiciary committee.
PBA cosponsors include:
Alexander (LA-5), Boozman (AR-3), Boucher
(VA-9), Brown (SC-1), Cantor (VA-7), Davis
(TN-1), Davis (KY-4), Drake (VA-2), Forbes
(VA-4), Gingrey (GA-11),
Goode (VA-5), Gordon (TN-6), Hayes (NC-8), Lewis
(KY-2), Myrick (NC-9),
Rogers (AL-3), Wamp (TN-3), Westmoreland (GA-3),
Wicker (MS-1), Wilson (SC-2), Pickering (MS-3),
Bishop (GA-2), Rahall (WV-3), Aderholt (AL-4),
Goodlatte (VA-6), Foxx (NC-5), Broun (GA-10),
Gresham (SC-3), Jones (NC-3), Ross (AR-4),
Shuler (NC-11)
OSHA
HR 1517 Apply OSHA to state and local employees,
including law enforcement.
Sent to workforce subcommittee June 27.
No PBA cosponsors
FLSA
HR 1644 & S 969 requires National Labor
Relations Board to redefine “supervisor”
HR Reported out subcommittee favorably
PBA co-sponsors:
Moran (VA-8), Price (NC-4), Yarmuth (KY-3),
Scott (VA-3), Jefferson (LA-2),
Lewis (GA-5), Gordon (TN-6), Davis (AL-7),
Barrow (GA-12), Davis (TN-4),
Johnson (GA-4), Cohen (TN-9), Chandler (KY-6),
Scott (GA-13), Boucher (VA-9), Miller (NC-13),
Shuler (NC-11), Rahall (WV-3)
Senate Bill in subcommittee on Health Education
Labor & Pensions.
PBA co-sponsors: Rockefeller (WV), Webb (VA)
Rural Policing Institute
HR 1697 establishes a “Rural Policing Institute”
Sent to homeland security committee
Bill sponsor: Mike Rogers (AL-3)
PBA cosponsors include: Davis (TN-1), Jindal
(LA-1)
Health benefits
HR 2047 removes 18-month limit on COBRA coverage
Sent to Government reform committee
PBA co-sponsor: Price (GA-6)
HR 2391 available federal health benefits to
family of officers killed in line of duty
Sent to subcommittee on workforce May 24.
PBA cosponsors: Bachus (AL-6), Cramer (AL-5),
Goode (VA-5), Jones (NC-3)
Protect first responders from Health Hazards
S 2526 In Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
Committee
PBA cosponsors: none
Employer labor protection
HR 2670 to protect against employees obtaining
work just to disrupt from within
In Labor and Pensions committee
PBA co-sponsor: Barrett (SC-3), Westmoreland
(GA-3), Wicker (MS-1), Wilson (SC-2)
S 1570 companion to HR 2670
In Labor and Pensions committee
Sponsor: Jim DeMint (SC)
PBA co-sponsors: Vitter (LA), Wicker (MS)
In-custody Death report to Justice Department
HR 2908 all in custody deaths be reported to
Justice.
Held in Homeland Security sub-Committee
Sponsor: Robert Scott (VA-3)
HR 3971 all in custody deaths reported to
Justice. (similar to HB 2908)
Passed House, in Senate Judiciary
Sponsor: Scott (VA-3),
PBA cosponsors: Forbes (VA-4)
Overtime for Homeland security work
HR 2979 Allow for Homeland Security money to pay
overtime
In Homeland Security Committee
PBA co-sponsor: none
Require recording of all Federal interrogations
HR 3027 (as title states)
To homeland Security Subcommittee
PBA co-sponsor: none
Repeal of the “windfall elimination” provision
of Social Security
S 1647 & HR 2772 would eliminate a cut back and
result in more benefit payout
S In Finance Committee
PBA co-sponsor: none
HR In Ways and Means
PBA co-sponsor: none
Public Corruption
S 1946 amendments to public corruption laws
Calendared
PBA co-sponsor: Sessions (AL)
S 118 amendments to public corruption laws
In Judiciary
PBA co-sponsor: Pryor (AR)
HR 1872 amendments to public corruption laws
In Judiciary
Sponsor: Henry Johnson (GA-4)
PBA co-sponsor: Cohen (TN-9)
Local first responder agency grants
S 1955 provides grants to agencies with deployed
officers (for OT and others)
Sent to Homeland Security
PBA co-sponsor: Lincoln-AR
Immigration Enforcement
HR 842 provides funds to carry out State
Criminal Alien Assistance Program
In Homeland Security subcommittee
Sponsor: Charles Norwood (GA-10)
PBA co-sponsor: none
HR 3494 provides funds to carry out State
Criminal Alien Assistance Program
Sent to Judiciary
Sponsor: Marsha Blackburn (TN 7)
PBA co-sponsor:
Aderholt (AL 4), Alexander (LA 5), Bachus (AL
6), Baker (LA 6), Barrett (SC 3), Bonner (AL 1),
Boozman (AR 3), Boustany (LA 7), Broun (GA 10),
Brown (SC 1), Cantor (VA 7), Capito (WV 2),
Coble (NC 6), Cramer (AL 5),
Davis (TN 1), Davis (KY 4), Davis (VA 1), Davis
(TN 4), Deal (GA 9), Drake (VA 2), Duncan (TN
2), Everett (AL 2), Forbes (VA 4), Foxx (NC 5),
Gingrey (GA 11),
Goode (VA 5), Goodlatte (VA 6), Hayes (NC 8),
Jones (NC 3), Kingston (GA 1),
Lewis (KY 2), Linder (GA 7), McCrery (LA 4),
McHenry (NC 10), McIntyre (NC 7), Myrick (NC 9),
Price (GA 6), Rogers (AL 3), Shuler (NC 11),
Taylor (MS 4),
Wamp (TN 3), Westmoreland (GA 3), Whitfield (KY
1), Wicker (MS 1), Wilson (SC 2), Whittman
(VA-1)
HR 3549 Withdraws funds from local/state
governments interfere immigration law
Sent to Judiciary
PBA co-sponsor: none
S 2074 & HR 3980 provides for humane treatment
of immigration enforcement
Sent to Judiciary
PBA co-sponsor: none
Improved school safety and law enforcement
S 2084 provides provisions for school
enforcement improvements
On Senate Calendar
PBA co-sponsor: none
Vest funding
HR 3711 / S 2511: Eliminate matching fund
requirement for purchase of vests for correction
officers
House In Judiciary sub-Committee Terrorism
PBA cosponsors: Davis (TN-4), Davis (VA-11)
Senate on Calendar
PBA cosponsors: Shelby (AL), Landrieu (LA)
HR 6045 / S 3012: Vest Purchase funds extension
House in Judiciary
PBA House cosponsors:
Bishop (GA-2), Moran (VA-8), Etheridge (NC-2),
Price (NC-4), McIntyre (NC-7), Hayes (NC-8),
Rahall (WV-3), Butterfield (NC-1), Lewis (GA-5),
Snyder (AR-2),
Coble (NC-6), Berry (AR-1), Davis (TN-4), Scott
(VA-3), Barrow (GA-12),
Boucher (VA-9), Jefferson (LA-2),
Senate in Judiciary
PBA cosponsors: Shelby (AL)
Prohibit Racial Profiling
HR 4611 In Judiciary Committee
PBA cosponsors: Bishop (GA-2), Cohen (TN-9),
Jefferson (LA-2), Johnson (GA-4), Price (NC-4),
Scott (VA-3), Watt (NC-12), Rahall (WV-3)
S 2481 In Judiciary Committee
PBA cosponsors: none
The Governmental Affairs department looks
forward to continued work with the remainder of
the 110th Congress.
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