119-hr3366

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3366 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 3366

To direct the Attorney General to establish a grant program to provide 
 for the qualified accreditation and re-certification of local law 
 enforcement agencies, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 May 13, 2025

Mr. Pappas (for himself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Obernolte, Ms. 
 Craig, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Ms. Sherrill, Mr. Kean, Mr. 
 Gottheimer, and Mr. Lawler) introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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 A BILL

To direct the Attorney General to establish a grant program to provide 
 for the qualified accreditation and re-certification of local law 
 enforcement agencies, 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 ``Establishing Accreditation Grants 
for Law Enforcement Act of 2025'' or the ``EAGLE Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM FOR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY ACCREDITATION.

    (a) Establishment.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall establish a grant 
program (in this Act referred to as the ``Program'') to provide for the 
qualified accreditation or re-certification of a local law enforcement 
agency.

    (b) Grant Authority.--In carrying out the Program, the Attorney 
General shall award a grant to an eligible recipient under subsection
            (c) .
            (c) Eligible Recipient.--The Attorney General shall award a grant 
under the Program to a local law enforcement agency that submits an 
application pursuant to subsection
            (d) .
            (d) Application.--To be eligible under the Program, a local law 
enforcement agency shall submit to the Attorney General an application 
that--

    (1) demonstrates the financial need of the local law 
 enforcement agency; and

    (2) specifies the amount requested by the local law 
 enforcement agency, including the amount to be spent on--
        (A) accreditation or re-certification fees;
        (B) on-site assessment charges; and
            (C) extension fees.

    (e) Eligible Projects.--Grant funds awarded under the Program may 
only be used to assist in the qualified accreditation or re-
certification of a local law enforcement agency.

    (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out the Program $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2025.

    (g) Period of Availability.--Funds made available to carry out the 
Program shall remain available until expended.

    (h) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this Act:

    (1) Qualified accreditation or re-certification.--The term 
 ``qualified accreditation or re-certification'' means 
 accreditation or re-certification of a local law enforcement 
 agency by a professional law enforcement organization involved 
 in the development of standards of accreditation for law 
 enforcement agencies at the national, State, regional, or 
 Tribal level, such as the Commission on Accreditation for Law 
 Enforcement Agencies

    (CALEA) .

    (2) Local law enforcement agency.--The term ``local law 
 enforcement agency'' means an agency of a unit of local 
 government that is authorized by law to supervise the 
 prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of any 
 violation of criminal law and that has less than 350 employees.
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