National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support, and Community Outreach Act.
Sponsored By: Senator Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
Introduced
Summary
Authorizes federal funding for the National Law Enforcement Museum to support education, community outreach, memorialization, and officer safety and wellness programs. It would authorize $6.0 million per year for the first seven fiscal years to fund grants to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
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- Law enforcement officers and families: The museum would provide free admission to active and retired officers and family members of fallen officers and offer dedicated free public hours at least once a week.
- Educators and researchers: Grants would fund development and dissemination of curricula, teacher trainings, scholarly research, collection digitization, and traveling exhibitions to expand access to law enforcement history and safety training.
- Communities and the public: Funding would support community outreach, increased online and in-person engagement about community policing, and programs to develop and evaluate officer wellness and museum innovations.
*If appropriated, the bill authorizes $6.0 million per year for seven years, totaling $42.0 million in authorized federal spending.*
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Federal grants for law enforcement museum
If enacted, the bill would authorize $6,000,000 to be appropriated to the Interior Department for each of the first seven fiscal years after enactment. The Secretary of the Interior would award grants to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund to support the National Law Enforcement Museum’s outreach, education, historical preservation, scholarship, and officer safety and wellness programs. Grant funds would cover activities like memorialization and compilation of line-of-duty statistics, exhibits and digital resources, collection acquisition and digitization, teacher trainings, and evidence-based program development. The grants would require free admission for active and retired law enforcement officers and family members of fallen officers, and at least one weekly free public admission hour for the general public. Each year the Memorial Fund would have to send a progress report and a formal accounting of federal funds to the Secretary, and the Secretary would transmit those reports to Congress and post them on the Department of the Interior website. The Secretary would also be allowed to use the funds to continue any activity described in the bill that the Museum is already doing on the date of enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
NC • R
Cosponsors
Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
CT • D
Sponsored 1/28/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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