Bill Text: TX HCR7 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-23 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HCR7 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HCR7-Introduced.html
87S20768 CW-D | ||
By: Reynolds | H.C.R. No. 7 |
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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 choke holds 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 from avoiding accountability by | ||
moving jurisdictions; 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, | ||
2nd Called Session, 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. |