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Passed Both

5

Signed into Law

Failed — Did not pass vote

Sponsor

Michael Guest

Republican · MS · Representative

Votes with party: 97.8% (597 recorded votes)

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Cosponsors (126)

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Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

2026-05-13

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Committee Activity

Currently in

House Committee on the JudiciaryReferred To · 2026-05-04

Previously

Judiciary CommitteeReferred To · 2026-05-04

Plain-English Summary

This resolution expresses support for police officers and other law enforcement personnel. The resolution further recognizes law enforcement officers across the United States in the pursuit of preserving safe and secure communities; the need to ensure that such officers have the equipment, training, and resources necessary to protect their health and safety while they are protecting the public; and the law enforcement community for acts of sacrifice and heroism. The resolution expresses condolences and appreciation to the loved ones of each law enforcement officer who has made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

Subjects

Crime and Law Enforcement

Full Bill Text

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H. Res. 1252 Engrossed in House (EH)] <DOC> H. Res. 1252 In the House of Representatives, U. S., May 13, 2026. Whereas Federal, State, local, and Tribal police officers, sheriffs, and other law enforcement officers across the United States serve with valor, dignity, and integrity; Whereas law enforcement officers are charged with-- (1) pursuing justice for all individuals; and (2) performing the duties of a law enforcement officer with fidelity to the constitutional and civil rights of the public the officers serve; Whereas law enforcement officers swear an oath to uphold the public trust even though, through the performance of the duties of a law enforcement officer, the officers may become targets for senseless acts of violence; Whereas, in 1962, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy signed Public Law 87-726 (36 U.S.C. 136) (referred to in this preamble as the ``Joint Resolution''), which authorizes the President to proclaim May 15 of every year as ``Peace Officers Memorial Day'' in honor of the Federal, State, and local officers who have been killed, disabled, or otherwise injured in the line of duty; Whereas the Joint Resolution also authorizes the President to designate the week in which Peace Officers Memorial Day falls as ``National Police Week''; Whereas the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, dedicated on October 15, 1991, is the national monument to honor those law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty; and Whereas Peace Officers Memorial Day, 2026, honors the 363 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty and whose stories were recovered during 2025, including-- (1) Shawn Nixon; (2) Joe Keith; (3) Mark A Meadows; (4) James Phillips; (5) Gabriel M Facio; (6) Shawn A Braaten; (7) Alec J Sanders; (8) Samuel S Riveros; (9) Joshua L Byrd; (10) Terry D Long; (11) Lauren A Craven; (12) Charles Crow; (13) Shiou L Deng; (14) Osmar E Rodarte-Paez; (15) Dennis Haley; (16) Joshua R Kelley-Eklund; (17) Victor M Lemus; (18) William C Osborn; (19) Noah H Rader; (20) Timothy B Corlew; (21) Hector A Cuevas Jr; (22) Andrew Nunez; (23) Frank T Linehan; (24) Dennis F Kelly; (25) Matthew T Snook; (26) Andres J Lahera; (27) Jeremy H Cassady; (28) Craig A Gaines; (29) Terri J Sweeting-Mashkow; (30) David A Cajuso; (31) Devin M Jaramillo; (32) Alton D Berrian; (33) Alan I Reffsin; (34) William P T May; (35) Luther T Howard; (36) Charles A Vick; (37) Brandon R Sikes; (38) David R Rose; (39) Patrick J Lappin; (40) Jeremy R Labonte; (41) Earnest L Hall; (42) Helio A Garcia III; (43) James A Carter; (44) Suzanne O; (45) John F Abt; (46) Kazmer Andrushis; (47) Walter Bermingham; (48) Charles C Bishop; (49) James P Clarke; (50) William Clifford; (51) Cornelius Cominskey; (52) Daniel Coughlin; (53) William E Eimstad; (54) Benjamin F Devlin; (55) John J Fetscher; (56) Henry E Gorman; (57) Oscar Hallen; (58) Timothy L Haynes; (59) Clarence Hofheinz; (60) Alex Johnson; (61) Lars M Larson; (62) Edward J Madden; (63) Thomas A Mahoney; (64) John Malone; (65) Michael J Mooney; (66) James Wilson; (67) Patrick Forde; (68) George A Gall; (69) Frank Tatousek; (70) Maurice F Kain; (71) Jaroslav J Janecek; (72) Jeremiah O'dwyer; (73) Krystal Rivera; (74) Charles G Schuler; (75) John H Singleman; (76) Andrew Sullivan; (77) Richard Thompson; (78) Rudolph Tuerk; (79) John Joseph Walsh; (80) Glenn T Whallon; (81) Timothy M Jones; (82) George Fries; (83) Charles Chandler; (84) William Otis Peebles; (85) Roy James Tipton; (86) Blake A Reynolds; (87) John C Stahl III; (88) Charles Lodine; (89) Augustus C…

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Becker; (90) Reuben Fenstermaker; (91) Robert W Coulter; (92) Samuel S Cronk; (93) Samuel H Hamilton; (94) James W Busby; (95) Elmer J Lennon; (96) John Kerr Myers; (97) Charles Loucks; (98) Scott W Heimann; (99) Hunter L Simoncic; (100) Frank L Stone; (101) Brandon P Gaede; (102) Elijah L Ming; (103) George Ramirez; (104) Frank Beard Bell; (105) James Duncan Stevens; (106) Millard Brock; (107) Fred Cole; (108) Caleb M Eisworth; (109) Charles W Riley; (110) Joseph J Lyons; (111) Allen J Credeur Jr; (112) Grant J Candies; (113) Marc T Brock; (114) Brenda J Lowery; (115) Edward E Ivey Jr; (116) Joshua T Kingsley; (117) Kelvin O Patrick; (118) Rhonda E Morris; (119) Shannon A Wright; (120) John Craig; (121) Richard E Legler; (122) Felicia D Reilly; (123) Martin L Shields Jr; (124) Bryan A Pippin; (125) Joshua A Brashears; (126) Eddie A Mays; (127) Horry M Fish; (128) Henry J R Franklin; (129) Robert George Fitzpatrick; (130) James Arthur Meeks; (131) James Harvey Ray; (132) Kyle J McAacy; (133) Jason P Roscow; (134) Augustus B Farmer; (135) Allen Palmer; (136) Thomas J Ennis; (137) Andrew Carlson; (138) Joseph H Riedl; (139) Joseph Peto; (140) Lee E Hendrickson; (141) Steven C Tiboni; (142) Peter F Bruncati; (143) William A Casey; (144) Joseph A Azcona; (145) John P Patrick; (146) Timothy S Ontiveros; (147) Cipriano Bustamante; (148) Antonio D Aleman; (149) John Jones; (150) Patrick W Franzone; (151) Kathleen M Radziunas; (152) William G Krupa; (153) Kevin D Nuckel; (154) Abraham Cruz III; (155) Albert Morabito; (156) Alfredo Varela; (157) Annmarie Smith; (158) Clarence E Word III; (159) David Portalatin; (160) David E LaJoie; (161) David P Miller Jr; (162) Denise A Jones; (163) Dennis Vitelli; (164) Dennis P Gallagher; (165) Didarul Islam; (166) Ercan Aydin; (167) Frank J Debenedetto; (168) Gerard Connors; (169) James G Becker; (170) James J Motto Sr; (171) James R Vanacore; (172) Jeffrey I Montenegro; (173) Joseph J Esposito; (174) Joseph J Panarese; (175) Kevin G Hanley; (176) Marc F Lotter; (177) Maruja Clark; (178) Michael A Pisano; (179) Michael O McEntee; (180) Norman J Kunze; (181) Philip A Cammarata; (182) Raymond R Newcomb; (183) Richard Teemsma; (184) Richard T Handibode Jr; (185) Robert A Nobile; (186) Robert G Porfert; (187) Robert S Fawcett; (188) Robert T Ranno; (189) Sandro J Rizzotti; (190) Steven Ringe; (191) Timothy J Keane; (192) Vincent J Caruana; (193) Vincent N Carney; (194) William T McCabe; (195) Bret W Martin; (196) Frederick W Scheidt Jr; (197) Mark A Ondus; (198) Michael E Snell; (199) Steven W Greene; (200) Thomas K Herrick; (201) Joseph F Murray Jr; (202) Arthur D Ramsey; (203) Frank J Hagan; (204) Francisco P Flattes II; (205) Mark D Laskowski; (206) Roger L Smith; (207) John W Fogwell; (208) Larry R Henderson Jr; (209) Phillip C Wagner; (210) D Weston Sherrer; (211) John C Wagner; (212) Thomas H Bayless; (213) Peter D Andre; (214) Lon W Boring; (215) William J Minyoung; (216) Lorin B James; (217) Grover C Sanderson; (218) Nicholas P Cayton; (219) Thomas A Duran; (220) Clint D Lawrence; (221) Meagan Rose Burke; (222) Kenneth W Stump; (223) Ronald K Jackson; (224) Steven D Rozell; (225) David Claude Hines; (226) Arthur S Hubbard; (227) Domenico A Natale; (228) George Krouch; (229) Isaiah D Emenheiser; (230) Mark E Baker; (231) Cody M Becker; (232) Benjamin Kauffman; (233) Benjamin Kine; (234) Charles Barnes; (235) Charles H Kelley; (236) Charles R Weber; (237) Dorland Midgett; (238) Edward Donnelly; (239) Edward J McCaffrey; (240) Francis J Robinson; (241) Frederick Hofmann Jr; (242) Frederick Winters; (243) George E Garnett; (244) George M Storey; (245) Harry H Morton Sr; (246) Herman J Spreng; (247) Howard H Jolly; (248) James Orr; (249) John McManus; (250) John E B Robinson; (251) Mary Cannon; (252) Michael E Shortall; (253) Michael J Coleman; (254) Patrick J Whalen; (255) Robert H Elliott; (256) Robert John Bell; (257) Thomas McAnally; (258) Thomas Wiley; (259) Thomas J Ferguson; (260) William Culbertson; (261) William E Lacy; (262) William F McMenamin; (263) Alexander R McCloskey; (264) Charles B Morrison; (265) James A Dorsey; (266) James Ambrose McCormick; (267) John D Richey; (268) John Henry Schneider; (269) Ralph T Harper; (270) Robert Sinclair; (271) Thomas F McVerry; (272) Andrew J Hedrick; (273) Charles R Shipe; (274) Edward S Mauger; (275) Edwin Mondeau; (276) Elmer P Anthony; (277) George Albert; (278) George S Anderson; (279) Harry F Bierer; (280) James Corcoran; (281) John H Harenski; (282) John P Weitzel; (283) Martin R Pluter; (284) Moses Leininger; (285) Peter B Hoarty; (286) Robert W Mason Jr; (287) Samuel Norman; (288) Walter H Gant; (289) William A O Cratty; (290) Andrew W Duarte; (291) Richard Carchia; (292) F Devin Mason; (293) Nathaniel M Ansay; (294) Will G Durant; (295) Michael Charles Wood; (296) Dennis D Ricks Jr; (297) Mark S Reynolds; (298) Justin B Mowery; (299) James F Hood; (300) Hugh W Carlen; (301) Jonathan D White Jr; (302) Jesus Vargas; (303) Ruben Garcia; (304) Jessie R Perez; (305) John C Hamm; (306) Alex D Roberts; (307) Gary L Crawford; (308) Mark A Butler; (309) Jerry W Adamick Jr; (310) Melissa L Pollard; (311) Charles W Mair; (312) Eric Estrada; (313) Lee D Sorensen; (314) Donald R Gotthardt Jr; (315) Raymond Shacklock; (316) Cameron R Girvin; (317) Christopher M L Reese; (318) Jeremy L Hall; (319) Charles F Headley; (320) John F Shank; (321) C Ed Ray; (322) Lewis H Jacobs; (323) Kenneth B Salas; (324) Tara-Marysa M Guting; (325) Kendall I Corder; (326) Joshua A LaForge; (327) Daniel C Hansen; (328) Sarah D Beckstrom; (329) Dennis M Wagner Jr; (330) Donald R Kleber; (331) Marvin Risen; (332) Todd L Spiker; (333) Marc A Fischer; (334) Eric Cespedes; (335) David C Maland; (336) Jonathan J Campos; (337) Lavalle F Van Etten; (338) Almon P Frederick; (339) Michael Rice; (340) Chastity M Budwig; (341) Jerome A Ciereszewski; (342) Frederick G Smith; (343) William F Urban; (344) Jesse A Branch; (345) Edward H Fay; (346) Alex Lang; (347) Frank McCaskey; (348) John F Burke; (349) William P Price; (350) John P Constantine; (351) Anthony Hampel; (352) Benjamin J Koles; (353) Frank M Bolen; (354) Jacob J Kucera; (355) Jess Anderson; (356) John B Merz; (357) Louis E Baum; (358) Richard Kelley; (359) Victor C Benner; (360) William U Sprous; (361) James W Brown; (362) Roy Hoyle; and (363) Thomas C Logan: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives-- (1) acknowledges that police officers and other law enforcement personnel, especially those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, should be remembered and honored; (2) expresses unwavering support for law enforcement officers across the United States in the pursuit of preserving safe and secure communities; (3) recognizes the need to ensure that law enforcement officers have the equipment, training, and resources that are necessary in order to protect the health and safety of the officers while the officers protect the public; (4) recognizes the law enforcement community for continual unseen acts of sacrifice and heroism; and (5) expresses condolences and solemn appreciation to the loved ones of each law enforcement officer who has made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. Attest: Clerk.

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