S. 3490: Law Enforcement Resources and Community Safety Act of 2018
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S. 3490: Law Enforcement Resources and Community Safety Act of 2018
115th Congress · introduced 2018-09-25 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2018-09-25 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Law Enforcement Resources and Community Safety Act of 2018
Plain summary
Law Enforcement Resources and Community Safety Act of 2018 This bill establishes a new obstruction of justice criminal offense for conduct related to tampering with or retaliating against a witness in state or local proceedings. Additionally, it does the following: establishes competitive grants for state, local, and tribal witness protection programs; authorizes grants to support anti-gang task forces and to hire additional career law enforcement officers to combat organized crime, and allows an existing grant program to be used to purchase personal protective equipment and detection devices for first responders who encounter opioid overdoses.
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Official text
Law Enforcement Resources and Community Safety Act of 2018
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] · 0 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-115s3490.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/s>
Record fed-us-cong115-s3490 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115