H.R. 5361

George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2025

Sponsor: Glenn Ivey

136 cosponsors
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Official summary

Written by the Congressional Research Service.

George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2025

This bill addresses a wide range of policies and issues regarding policing practices and law enforcement accountability. It increases accountability for law enforcement misconduct, restricts the use of certain policing practices, enhances transparency and data collection, and establishes best practices and training requirements.

The bill enhances existing enforcement mechanisms to remedy violations by law enforcement. Among other things, it does the following:

  • lowers the criminal intent standard—from willful to knowing or reckless—to convict a law enforcement officer for misconduct in a federal prosecution,
  • limits qualified immunity as a defense to liability in a private civil action against a law enforcement officer, and
  • grants administrative subpoena power to the Department of Justice (DOJ) in pattern-or-practice investigations.

It establishes a framework to prevent and remedy racial profiling by law enforcement at the federal, state, and local levels. It also limits the unnecessary use of force and restricts the use of no-knock warrants, chokeholds, and carotid holds.

The bill creates a national registry—the National Police Misconduct Registry—to compile data on complaints and records of police misconduct. It also establishes new reporting requirements, including on the use of force, officer misconduct, and routine policing practices (e.g., stops and searches).

Finally, it directs DOJ to create uniform accreditation standards for law enforcement agencies and requires law enforcement officers to complete training on racial profiling, implicit bias, and the duty to intervene when another officer uses excessive force.

Text of the bill

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I Police Accountability

A Holding Police Accountable in the Courts

B Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act

Sec. 118. Federal data collection on law enforcement practices

(a) Agencies To report. Each Federal, State, Tribal, and local law enforcement agency shall report data of the practices enumerated in subsection (c) of that agency to the Attorney General.

(b) Breakdown of information by race, ethnicity, and gender. For each practice enumerated in subsection (c), the reporting law enforcement agency shall provide a breakdown of the numbers of incidents of that practice by race, ethnicity, age, and gender of the officers of the agency and of members of the public involved in the practice.

(c) Practices To be reported on. The practices to be reported on are the following:

(1) Traffic violation stops.

(2) Pedestrian stops.

(3) Frisk and body searches.

(4) Instances where law enforcement officers used deadly force, including—

(A) a description of when and where deadly force was used, and whether it resulted in death;

(B) a description of deadly force directed against an officer and whether it resulted in injury or death; and

(C) the law enforcement agency’s justification for use of deadly force, if the agency determines it was justified.

(d) Retention of data. Each law enforcement agency required to report data under this section shall maintain records relating to any matter reported for not less than 4 years after those records are created.

(e) Penalty for States failing To report as required

(1) In general. For any fiscal year, a State shall not receive any amount that would otherwise be allocated to that State under section 505(a) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10156(a)), or any amount from any other law enforcement assistance program of the Department of Justice, unless the State has ensured, to the satisfaction of the Attorney General, that the State and each local law enforcement agency of the State is in substantial compliance with the requirements of this section.

(2) Reallocation. Amounts not allocated by reason of this subsection shall be reallocated to States not disqualified by failure to comply with this section.

(f) Regulations. The Attorney General shall prescribe regulations to carry out this section.

II Policing Transparency Through Data

A National Police Misconduct Registry

B PRIDE Act

III Improving Police Training and Policies

A End Racial and Religious Profiling Act

I Prohibition of Racial Profiling

II Programs To Eliminate Racial Profiling By Federal Law Enforcement Agencies

III Programs To Eliminate Racial Profiling By State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies

IV Data Collection

V Department of Justice Regulations and Reports on Racial Profiling in the United States

B Additional Reforms

C Law Enforcement Body Cameras

1 Federal Police Camera and Accountability Act

2 Police CAMERA Act

IV Closing the Law Enforcement Consent Loophole

V Miscellaneous Provisions