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HR 1659 106th Congress House

National Police Training Commission Act of 1999

Official title: To reinforce police training and reestablish police and community relations, and to create a commission to study and report on the policies and practices that … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To reinforce police training and reestablish police and community relations, and to create a commission to study and report on the policies and practices that govern the training, recruitment, and oversight of police officers, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 18, 1999 See on congress.gov
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 18, 1999
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 109.
Jun 18, 1999
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 106-190.
May 19, 1999
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
May 19, 1999
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
May 12, 1999
Committee Hearings Held.
May 4, 1999
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
May 4, 1999
Introduced in House
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 Latest action June 18, 1999

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 109.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
National Police Training Commission Act of 1999 - Establishes the National Police Training Commission to study and report to Congress on the effectiveness of training, recruiting, hiring, oversight, and funding policies and practices in law enforcement.

(Sec. 6) Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (VCCLEA) to authorize appropriations for training, recruitment, hiring, and oversight assistance to New York, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Los Angeles, California, Washington, D.C., Charlotte, North Carolina, and to one police department from each of the four geographical regions of the country, two of which have less than 100 police officers and two of which have less than 300 police officers. Authorizes the assistance to include funding for equipment, not to exceed ten percent of the amount of the grant made to each city. Directs that money appropriated for such assistance be distributed to those cities in proportion to the size of their police departments and upon receipt of written assurances from the police department that the department will provide access to its operations to the Commission.

(Sec. 7) Amends VCCLEA to require a State or States organized as multi-State compacts, to be eligible to receive a Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth-in-Sentencing Incentive Grant, to include in the application assurances that the State will follow the guidelines established by the Attorney General in reporting, on a quarterly basis, specified data on deaths of persons in custody.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1659: National Police Training Commission Act of 1999. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-1659/
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"H.R. 1659: National Police Training Commission Act of 1999." 106th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-1659/.
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H.R. 1659, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-1659/.
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