Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced
Summary
Reauthorizes and expands the Project Safe Neighborhoods grant program to fund analysts, overtime, technology, and multi-jurisdictional task forces. It would sharpen violent crime reduction by clarifying who grants can pay and by increasing reporting on how funds are used.
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- Communities: Would fund community engagement and prevention work and require annual Attorney General reports to congressional judiciary committees on expenditures, outreach, and counts and descriptions of violent crimes including murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
- Law enforcement and prosecutors: Grants could hire "crime analysts" and "law enforcement assistants", cover overtime for officers and prosecutors, and pay for technology that supports violent crime reduction.
- Task forces: Renames and strengthens task force support and explicitly authorizes support for multi-jurisdictional task forces.
- Funding: Extends the program's authorization through fiscal years 2026 to 2030 and keeps its nationwide scope and four core components: community engagement, prevention and intervention, focused enforcement, and accountability.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Extend Project Safe Neighborhoods funding
If enacted, the bill would change the statute to authorize Project Safe Neighborhoods grants for fiscal years 2026 through 2030. This update does not itself provide money but would permit Congress to appropriate funds for PSN in those years.
More grant uses for local police
If enacted, the bill would let local police and prosecutors use Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) grant money to hire crime analysts, pay overtime for staff who assist the program, buy technology for violent-crime reduction, and support multi-jurisdiction task forces. It would add definitions for "crime analyst" and "law enforcement assistant" so those jobs are clearly eligible. Overtime pay would be allowed only for officers, prosecutors, and assistants who work on the PSN program.
Annual Project Safe Neighborhoods report
If enacted, the bill would require the Attorney General to send a report at least once a year to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees for each area where PSN grants operate. The report must cover the prior year and list PSN expenditures, community outreach efforts, and the number and description of violent crimes, including murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Cornyn, John [R-TX]
TX • R
Cosponsors
Gary Peters
MI • D
Sponsored 4/3/2025
Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
IA • R
Sponsored 4/3/2025
Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
NC • R
Sponsored 4/3/2025
Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
NE • R
Sponsored 4/3/2025
Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]
MO • R
Sponsored 4/3/2025
Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA]
CA • D
Sponsored 4/3/2025
Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
TN • R
Sponsored 4/28/2025
Roll Call Votes
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