Communities Deserve Cops Act
This bill allows funds under the Community Oriented Policing Services grant program to be used to provide signing bonuses and retention bonuses for law enforcement officers.
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
              provide for law enforcement officer bonuses.

    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 ``Communities Deserve Cops Act''.

SEC. 2. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER BONUSES.

    Subsection (b) of section 1701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10381) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (22), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (23), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(24) to provide a signing bonus for a law enforcement 
        officer in an amount not to exceed $5,000; and
            ``(25) to provide a retention bonus for a law enforcement 
        officer in an amount not to exceed $5,000.''.
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Communities Deserve Cops Act
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for law enforcement officer bonuses.
Communities Deserve Cops Act
Rep. Rutherford, John H.