Bill Text: TX HCR34 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-11 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HCR34 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HCR34-Introduced.html
| 87R8454 JRI-D | ||
| By: Reynolds | H.C.R. No. 34 | |
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| WHEREAS, The passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing | ||
| Act is critical to holding police accountable, ending racial | ||
| profiling, and building trust between law enforcement and local | ||
| communities; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act will | ||
| establish national standards to combat the very preventable public | ||
| health and human rights crisis of police brutality; in addition to | ||
| prohibiting federal, state, and local law enforcement from racial, | ||
| religious, and discriminatory profiling, the measure will require | ||
| law enforcement to collect data on all investigatory activities; it | ||
| will establish federal deadly force standards and save lives by | ||
| limiting the use of military equipment by police and by banning | ||
| deadly and discriminatory practices such as chokeholds and no-knock | ||
| warrants in drug cases; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The act will also hold police accountable by making | ||
| it easier to prosecute police misconduct and allow individuals to | ||
| recover damages in civil court; the Department of Justice Civil | ||
| Rights Division will be given greater subpoena power to investigate | ||
| police misconduct, and a nationwide registry will be created to | ||
| prevent problematic officers who move jurisdictions to avoid | ||
| culpability; and | ||
| WHEREAS, All Americans deserve to live free from the threat | ||
| of wanton police violence and misconduct, and it is incumbent on the | ||
| federal government to pass comprehensive police reform; now, | ||
| therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 87th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby respectfully urge the U.S. Congress to pass the George Floyd | ||
| Justice in Policing Act; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
| the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
| Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
| members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
| this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
| memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. | ||
