Back the Blue Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to protect law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Back the Blue Act of 2025
This bill establishes new criminal offenses for violent conduct against judicial officers and law enforcement officers and makes related changes. The bill also broadens the authority of certain law enforcement officers to carry firearms.
Specifically, the bill prohibits killing, attempting to kill, or conspiring to kill a federal judge, a federal law enforcement officer, or a public safety or judicial officer for a state, local, or tribal agency that receives federal funding. The bill also prohibits fleeing to avoid prosecution, custody, or confinement for an offense.
Additionally, the bill prohibits killing former federal judges, former federal law enforcement officers, or former public safety or judicial officers for state, local, or tribal agencies that receive federal funding.
The bill also prohibits certain assaults on state or local law enforcement officers for state (or District of Columbia) agencies that receive federal funding.
The bill limits federal court review of challenges to state court convictions for killing a public safety officer or judge. The bill also limits the recoverability of damages and attorney's fees in a proceeding to enforce a civil rights violation during or relating to conduct by the injured person that constitutes a felony or crime of violence.
The bill allows federal, state, and local law enforcement officers to carry firearms if authorized by law. The bill also allows qualified law enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms and ammunition (including magazines) in school zones and in certain federal facilities that are open to the public.
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Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- White House Office
- President of the U.S.
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3366: Back the Blue Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3366/
"S. 3366: Back the Blue Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3366/.
S. 3366, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3366/.
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