One Hundred Fourteenth Congress of the United States of America
2d Session
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the fourth day of January, two thousand and sixteen
S. 2840
AN ACT
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize COPS grantees to use grant funds for active shooter training, and for other purposes.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Protecting Our Lives by Initiating COPS Expansion Act of 2016
or the POLICE Act of 2016
.
Additional authorized use of COPS funds
Section 1701(b) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd(b)) is amended—
in paragraph (16), by striking and
at the end;
by redesignating paragraph (17) as paragraph (18);
by inserting after paragraph (16) the following:
to participate in nationally recognized active shooter training programs that offer scenario-based, integrated response courses designed to counter active shooter threats or acts of terrorism against individuals or facilities; and
; and
in paragraph (18), as redesignated, by striking (16)
and inserting (17)
.
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate