Back the Blue Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 4310 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4310 To protect law enforcement officers, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 10, 2025 Mr. Bacon (for himself and Mr. Golden of Maine) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To protect law enforcement officers, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Back the Blue Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. (a) Killing of Law Enforcement Officers.-- (1) Offense.--Chapter 51 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: ``Sec. 1123. Killing of law enforcement officers ``(a) Definitions.--In this section-- ``(1) the terms `Federal law enforcement officer' and `United States judge' have the meanings given those terms in section 115; ``(2) the term `federally funded public safety officer' means a public safety officer or judicial officer for a public agency that-- ``(A) receives Federal financial assistance; and ``(B) is an agency of an entity that is a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or any territory or possession of the United States, an Indian tribe, or a unit of local government of that entity; ``(3) the term `firefighter' includes an individual serving as an official recognized or designated member of a legally organized volunteer fire department and an officially recognized or designated public employee member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew; `