119-HR3894
SAFE Cities Act
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SenateCurrent status is Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3894
1. Short title2. Identification of anarchist jurisdictions1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the "Stop Anarchists From Endangering Cities Act" or the "SAFE Cities Act".
2. Identification of anarchist jurisdictions
(a) Publication - Not later than 14 days after the date of enactment of this Act, and updated not less than every 180 days thereafter, the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall publish on the Department of Justice website a list identifying each anarchist jurisdiction.
(b) Considerations - In identifying whether a State or unit of local government is an anarchist jurisdiction, the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall consider, as appropriate, whether a jurisdiction—
(1) - has a policy or practice that prevents or restricts a law enforcement agency from intervening to restore order amid widespread or sustained violence or destruction;
(2) - has prevented a law enforcement agency from policing a geographical area or structure that law enforcement officers are otherwise lawfully entitled to police, except in the case of a tactical decision to temporarily withhold law enforcement officers that is intended to resolve safely and expeditiously a specific and ongoing unlawful incident posing an imminent threat to the safety of individuals or law enforcement officers;
(3) - has disempowered or defunded a law enforcement agency; or
(4) - unreasonably refuses to accept offers of law enforcement assistance from the Federal Government.
(c) Guidance - Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall issue guidance to the heads of Federal agencies on restricting eligibility of, or otherwise disfavoring, to the maximum extent permitted by law, anarchist jurisdictions in the receipt of Federal grants that the agency has sufficient lawful discretion to restrict or otherwise disfavor anarchist jurisdictions from receiving.
(d) Anarchist jurisdiction defined - In this Act, the term anarchist jurisdiction means a State or unit of local government that has refused to take reasonable steps to stop acts of violence and destruction of property in that jurisdiction.