S. 954: POWER Act
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S. 954: POWER Act
116th Congress · introduced 2019-03-28 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2019-03-28 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] · 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
POWER Act
Plain summary
Providing Officers With Electronic Resources Act or the POWER Act This bill authorizes the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services within the Department of Justice to make grants to law enforcement agencies to purchase a chemical screening device and to train personnel to use, and interpret data collected by, such device.
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] · 14 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Tom Cotton (R-AR), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Michael F. Bennet (D-CO), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116s954.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/s>
Record fed-us-cong116-s954 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116