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116th Congress > Senate > Vote 554
Clerk session vote number: 126
Sponsor: SCOTT, Tim (R-SC)
Description: A bill to improve and reform policing practices, accountability, and transparency.
Bill summary:
Just and Unifying Solutions To Invigorate Communities Everywhere Act of 2020 or the JUSTICE Act
This bill addresses policies and issues regarding policing practices and law enforcement accountability. The bill funds state and local grants, incentivizes state and local reporting on the use of certain policing practices, creates new federal offenses for certain misconduct, establishes a commission to study the conditions affecting Black men and boys, and establishes
best practices and training requirements.
Bill titles: A bill to improve and reform policing practices, accountability, and transparency.; Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2020; Breonna Taylor Notification Act of 2020; George Floyd and Walter Scott Notification Act; Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys Act; National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2020
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