The record

LegislationLegislation· Dec 2024
S 465

Sponsored by Catherine Cortez Masto (D)

BADGES for Native Communities Act

Would have required federal agencies to improve responses to missing and murdered Native people.

Tradeoff

Would have created new grants and reviews to track missing and murdered Native people. Would have authorized up to $1 million a year for those grants from 2025 through 2029.

What's in it

See official bill text

No direct spending or revenue effects; CBO has not estimated the bill's effects on spending, so no dollar figure is given.

The bill creates new DOJ grant programs and background checks for BIA law enforcement hires, but CBO has not put a dollar figure on the these would require, so the true size of the cost is unknown from this document.

S. 465, BADGES for Native Communities Act · Nov 2024

Passed the Senate by on December 16, 2024. The House never voted on it before the Congress ended, so the bill expired.

  1. Senate

    Introduced

    (Feb 16, 2023)

  2. Senate

    Committee on Indian Affairs(Feb 16, 2023)

  3. Senate

    The Committee on Indian Affairs voted to send it to the floor

    Reported(Sep 25, 2024)

    Committee report S. Rept. 118-244.

  4. Senate

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Dec 16, 2024)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  5. House

    Received from the Senate

    Received(Dec 17, 2024)