All Roll Calls
Yes: 49 • No: 51
Sponsored By: Senator Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
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Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
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All Roll Calls
Yes: 49 • No: 51
senate vote • 5/11/2022
On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed S. 4132
Yes: 49 • No: 51
117-s-1511, Protecting America’s First Responders Act of 2021
Changes how death and permanent disability payments are calculated and paid. It restructures benefit math, expands who counts as injured or eligible, and gives the Bureau and Justice Department more tools to decide and speed claims. - Officers and survivors: Rewrites the benefit formula to pay the greater of amounts with a new base of $6,000 adjusted for inflation. It also creates a rule that claims pending more than 365 days use the amount that would apply on the final determination. - Families and dependents: Strengthens educational assistance by requiring payment to eligible dependents unless prospective assistance has already been provided. - Eligibility and claims process: Broadens definitions for catastrophic injury, candidate officer, action outside jurisdiction, and emergency activities. It authorizes stronger investigative tools and subpoenas, appoints hearing examiners as special government employees with Attorney General involvement, bars abandoning claims before information is gathered, and extends a related first-responders program until the earlier of the COVID emergency end or Dec 31, 2023.
117-s-937, COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
Expedited federal review of COVID-19-era hate crimes is the central goal. The law strengthens reporting, data collection, public education, and support systems for bias-motivated violence linked to the pandemic. - Communities and victims get expanded reporting and support. The law funds state hotlines with grants that can run up to 5 years and requires privacy protections and language and disability access. - State, local, and Tribal law enforcement must follow new guidance on online reporting and standardized data collection. The Attorney General must issue guidance, fund National Incident-Based Reporting System implementation and training, and the Department of Justice must designate an officer within 7 days to oversee expedited reviews during the defined applicable period. - Courts gain a new sentencing option for bias-motivated offenses. Judges can require education classes or community service directly related to the harmed community as a condition of supervised release.
117-s-3580, Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022
This law tightens oversight of ocean shipping to protect shippers and expand transparency across the supply chain. It centers on stronger protections and transparency in ocean shipping by giving the Federal Maritime Commission new powers to stop unfair charges, require data reporting, and register shipping exchanges. - Shippers and businesses: Carriers and terminal operators are barred from retaliating or discriminating against shippers. A new charge complaint process lets the Commission order refunds for improper demurrage or detention invoices and removes a shipper’s payment obligation if required invoice information is missing. - Carriers and platforms: Carriers must provide quarterly import and export tonnage and TEU data. Digital and other shipping exchanges that match shippers and carriers must register with the FMC and face public posting of penalties and findings. - Ports, consumers, and the Commission: The law requires public dwell‑time statistics for the top 25 ports, gives the FMC limited emergency authority to address congestion, expands a consumer office with mediation services, and boosts FMC investigative staffing including at least seven new positions and a chassis‑pool study capped at $500,000. Net effect: increases federal spending by authorizing FMC funding of about $32.9 million in FY2022, rising to $49.2 million in FY2025, and adds operational costs for new staffing and offices.
117-s-5230, Billy's Law
NamUs is established as a national information clearinghouse for missing and unidentified persons and is funded and managed through the Department of Justice and the National Institute of Justice to speed identifications and support families. - Families of missing people get free forensic services and direct technical assistance, plus access to NamUs experts and Missing Person Day support to help resolve cases faster. - Investigators and forensic providers gain a unified online database, investigative support, free forensic analyses (DNA, odontology, fingerprints, anthropology), training, and a secure critical incident response tool for faster case work. - State, local, and Tribal agencies must share missing child reports with NamUs, and can receive funding for staff, new data-entry technology, contracting, and training to improve reporting and coordination.
117-s-4003, Law Enforcement De-Escalation Training Act of 2022
Creates a federal framework to certify and fund law enforcement de-escalation, crisis-intervention, and mental-health response training. It builds curricula, a national certification and regional training system, grant rules, reporting, and evaluations under the COPS and Byrne/JAG programs. - Law enforcement agencies and officers: Provides grants and regional training to deliver certified courses on de-escalation, alternatives to force, and crisis response. States must track who is trained and share that data. - Covered mental health professionals and crisis teams: Requires training for mental health staff who work with police and backs coordinated crisis intervention teams that connect people to services, housing supports, and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. - States and small agencies: Funds flow to states by officer count and can pay overtime for agencies with fewer than 50 employees. States must allocate remaining funds to local units and report on barriers and training plans. Authorizes roughly $124 million in appropriations for FY2023–FY2026, increasing federal spending by that amount.
117-s-2629, Better Cybercrime Metrics Act
Standardized federal cybercrime taxonomy to classify and measure cybercrime across agencies and improve data and victim reporting. It directs the Attorney General to work with the National Academy of Sciences to build the taxonomy and align new categories with law enforcement reporting and victim surveys. - Creates a dedicated cybercrime category in the National Incident-Based Reporting System within 2 years so federal, state, and local agencies report consistently. - Adds cybercrime questions to the National Crime Victimization Survey within 540 days and authorizes $2.0 million to carry out that survey work. - Directs the National Academy of Sciences to submit a taxonomy report within 1 year and authorizes $1.0 million for that effort. The Government Accountability Office must assess reporting effectiveness and data gaps. Authorizes about $3.0 million in appropriations, increasing federal spending authority by roughly $3.0 million.
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