Protect the Capitol Act of 2021
This bill places additional restrictions on deployments and other activities of the Capitol Police outside of the areas established by law for its jurisdiction.
Current law allows the Capitol Police to deploy officers outside of its jurisdiction subject to prior notification and approval requirements. This bill restricts such a deployment to a defined, limited duration of no more than 30 days.
Current law also provides exceptions to the prior notification and approval requirements if the purpose of a deployment is to respond to an imminent threat or emergency, provide protective services, or gather intelligence. This bill applies the 30-day limit to excepted deployments and requires that intelligence gathering deployments must be in response to a specific, identified threat to qualify for an exception.
Additionally, the Capitol Police shall not establish or maintain a permanent office outside of the District of Columbia.
To limit the deployment of the Capitol Police outside of the 
      jurisdiction of the Capitol Police, 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 ``Protect the Capitol Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. CAPITOL POLICE DEPLOYMENT OUTSIDE OF JURISDICTION.

    (a) Deployment Outside of Jurisdiction.--Section 1007 of the 
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2005 (2 U.S.C. 1978) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``; and'' and 
        inserting a semicolon;
            (2) in subsection (a)(2), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and'';
            (3) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) The deployment is for a defined, limited duration of 
        no more than 30 days.'';
            (4) in subsection (b) in the matter preceding paragraph 
        (1), by striking ``officer'' and inserting ``officer for a 
        period of no more than 30 days''; and
            (5) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``gathering'' and 
        inserting ``gathering in response to a specific, identified 
        threat''.
    (b) Prohibiting Regional Field Offices Outside of the District of 
Columbia.--Section 1007 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 
2005 (2 U.S.C. 1978) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Regional Field Offices Prohibited.--The Chief of the Capitol 
Police shall not establish or maintain a permanent office outside of 
the District of Columbia.''.
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Protect the Capitol Act of 2021
To limit the deployment of the Capitol Police outside of the jurisdiction of the Capitol Police, and for other purposes.
Protect the Capitol Act of 2021
Rep. Steube, W. Gregory