119-s166

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 166 Introduced in Senate

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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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