About the bill
The Racial Profiling Prevention Act would provide funding to states to enforce laws prohibiting racial profiling in traffic stops on federal highways. Funding would be in the form of grants given to states that have sufficiently demonstrated such enforcement. These grants must then be used for the collection of traffic data and implementation of programs to reduce racial profiling. Rep. Eleanor Norton (D-DC), the bill’s sponsor, said in a press release that the bill is a response to recent events in Baltimore and Ferguson. The bill was introduced in ...
Sponsor and status
- Introduced:
May 15, 2015
114th Congress, 2015–2017- Status:
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Died in a previous Congress
This bill was introduced on May 15, 2015, in a previous session of Congress, but was not enacted.
History
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Apr 18, 2012
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Earlier Version —
Introduced
This activity took place on a related bill, H.R. 4398 (112th). |
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Feb 26, 2013
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Earlier Version —
Introduced
This activity took place on a related bill, H.R. 838 (113th). |
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May 15, 2015
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Introduced
Bills and resolutions are referred to committees which debate the bill before possibly sending it on to the whole chamber. |
H.R. 2381 (114th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.
This bill was introduced in the 114th Congress, which met from Jan 6, 2015 to Jan 3, 2017. Legislation not enacted by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
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