Sponsored by Catherine Cortez Masto (D)
Invest to Protect Act of 2023
Would have given grants to small local police departments for training, recruitment, and officer retention.
Tradeoff
Would have authorized up to $50 million a year for 2025 through 2029 for these grants. Would have let departments use the money for bonuses, training, and officer overtime.
What's in it
Passed the Senate by on December 17, 2024. The House never voted on it before the 118th Congress ended, so the bill expired.
Senate
Introduced
(Mar 30, 2023)
Senate
Committee on the Judiciary(Mar 30, 2023)
Senate · Amended
Senator Cortez Masto's
Agreed to by (S.Amdt. 3342 · Dec 17, 2024)
Adds lethal-force and duty-to-intervene training to permitted grant uses and extends the audit-finding grant ban to three years.
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Passage of the bill
Passed by (Dec 17, 2024)
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Taken away from the Committee on the Judiciary
Discharged(Dec 17, 2024)
House
Received from the Senate
Received(Dec 18, 2024)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Susan M. Collins (R-ME)
- Jon Tester (D-MT)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Todd Young (R-IN)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
- Ted Cruz (R-TX)
- Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)