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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
LAW ENFORCEMENT SUICIDE DATA COLLECTION ACT
Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Judiciary
Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 2746 and the
Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
A bill (S. 2746) to require the Director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation to provide information on suicide
rates in law enforcement, and for other purposes.
There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the
Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
Mr. CORNYN. I further ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a
third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered
made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The bill (S. 2746) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading,
was read the third time, and passed, as follows
S. 2746
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Law Enforcement Suicide Data
Collection Act''.
SEC. 2. INFORMATION ON SUICIDE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT.
(a) Establishment.--Not later than 1 year after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, acting through
the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall
establish, for the purpose of preventing future law
enforcement suicides and promoting understanding of suicide
in law enforcement, the Law Enforcement Officers Suicide Data
Collection Program, under which law enforcement agencies may
submit to the Director information on suicides and attempted
suicides within such law enforcement agencies, including
information on--
(1) the circumstances and events that occurred before each
suicide or attempted suicide;
(2) the general location of each suicide or attempted
suicide;
(3) the demographic information of each law enforcement
officer who commits or attempts suicide;
(4) the occupational category, including criminal
investigator, corrections officer, line of duty officer, 911
dispatch operator, of each law enforcement officer who
commits or attempts suicide; and
(5) the method used in each suicide or attempted suicide.
(b) Policies.--The Federal Bureau of Investigation shall
work with the Confidentiality and Data Access Committee of
the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology to develop
publication policies to manage the risk of identity
disclosure based upon the
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best practices identified by other Federal statistical
programs.
(c) Report.--Not later than 2 years after the date of
enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Attorney
General, acting through the Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, shall submit to Congress and publish on the
website of the Federal Bureau of Investigation a report
containing the information submitted to the Director pursuant
to subsection (a).
(d) Confidentiality.--The report described under subsection
(c) may not include any personally identifiable information
of a law enforcement officer who commits or attempts suicide.
(e) Definitions.--In this section--
(1) the term ``law enforcement agency'' means a Federal,
State, Tribal, or local agency engaged in the prevention,
detection, or investigation, prosecution, or adjudication of
any violation of the criminal laws of the United States, a
State, Tribal, or a political subdivision of a State;
(2) the term ``law enforcement officer'' means any current
or former officer (including a correctional officer), agent,
or employee of the United States, a State, Indian Tribe, or a
political subdivision of a State authorized by law to engage
in or supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or
prosecution of any violation of the criminal laws of the
United States, a State, Indian Tribe, or a political
subdivision of a State; and
(3) the term ``State'' means each of the several States,
the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or
possession of the United States.
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