119th Congress Crime and Law Enforcement
S. 1563: Retired Law Enforcement Officers Continuing Service Act
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Summary
This bill authorizes the Department of Justice to award grants for state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies to hire retired law enforcement personnel to perform civilian law enforcement tasks on behalf of the agency and to train civilian employees in the performance of such tasks.
Under the bill, the term civilian law enforcement task includes assisting with certain investigations, reviewing camera footage, conducting crime scene analysis, and conducting forensic analysis.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
No roll call votes have been held on this bill.
Amendments
No amendments were offered to this bill.
Cosponsors
- Charles Grassley R-IAOriginal
- Richard Durbin D-IL
- Mazie Hirono D-HI
- Christopher Coons D-DE
- Jon Ossoff D-GA
- Jeff Merkley D-OR
Who scored on this bill
- 1Amy Klobuchar SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced, reported3 events+26
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History
- Introduced in the Senate by Amy Klobuchar.
Show the full action history (5 actions)
- Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 83.
- Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- Introduced in Senate
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.


