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H.R. 1550: Federal Law Enforcement Personnel and Resources Allocation Improvement Act of 2012

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H.R. 1550: Federal Law Enforcement Personnel and Resources Allocation Improvement Act of 2012

112th Congress · introduced 2011-04-14 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2011-04-14 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Federal Law Enforcement Personnel and Resources Allocation Improvement Act of 2012

Plain summary

Federal Law Enforcement Personnel and Resources Allocation Improvement Act of 2012 - Directs the Attorney General, in allocating federal law enforcement personnel and resources, to give priority to placing and retaining those personnel and resources in states and local jurisdictions that have a high incidence of homicide or other violent crime, based on federal records of crime, including the National Uniform Crime Reports, or on the best and most current information otherwise available to the Attorney General. Requires the Attorney General to designate an existing official within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to: (1) develop practices and procedures to carry out such requirement, and (2) monitor compliance with those practices and procedures by DOJ. Directs the Attorney General to report annually on the implementation of such requirement. Requires such report to: (1) specify which states and local jurisdictions have a high incidence of homicide or other violent crime; (2) identify the specific steps taken by the Attorney General to implement such requirement with respect to each of those states and local jurisdictions; and (3) provide a description of the methodology used to determine the total number of authorized federal law enforcement positions, to allocate those authorized positions among states and local jurisdictions, and to assign personnel to fill those positions.

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Official text

Federal Law Enforcement Personnel and Resources Allocation Improvement Act of 2012

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House amended)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large] · 17 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)

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Authorization
A law that creates or continues a government program and says what it may do, often with a suggested spending ceiling. An authorization alone does not provide money; a separate appropriation does.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong112-hr1550 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112