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

II Policing Transparency Through Data

A National Police Misconduct Registry

B PRIDE Act

Sec. 224. Use of force data reporting

(a) Technical assistance grants authorized. The Attorney General may make grants to eligible law enforcement agencies to be used for the activities described in subsection (c).

(b) Eligibility. In order to be eligible to receive a grant under this section a law enforcement agency shall—

(1) be a tribal law enforcement agency or be located in a State that receives funds under a Byrne grant program;

(2) employ not more that 100 local or tribal law enforcement officers;

(3) demonstrate that the use of force policy for local law enforcement officers or tribal law enforcement officers employed by the law enforcement agency is publicly available; and

(4) establish and maintain a complaint system that—

(A) may be used by members of the public to report incidents of use of force to the law enforcement agency;

(B) makes all information collected publicly searchable and available; and

(C) provides information on the status of an investigation related to a use of force complaint.

(c) Activities described. A grant made under this section may be used by a law enforcement agency for—

(1) the cost of assisting the State or Indian Tribe in which the law enforcement agency is located in complying with the reporting requirements described in section 223;

(2) the cost of establishing necessary systems required to investigate and report incidents as required under subsection (b)(4);

(3) public awareness campaigns designed to gain information from the public on use of force by or against local and tribal law enforcement officers, including shootings, which may include tip lines, hotlines, and public service announcements; and

(4) use-of-force training for law enforcement agencies and personnel, including training on deescalation, implicit bias, crisis intervention techniques, and adolescent development.

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