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George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021
This bill addresses a wide range of policies and issues regarding policing practices and law enforcement accountability. It increases accountability for law enforcement misconduct, restricts the use of certain policing practices, enhances transparency and data collection, and establishes best practices and training requirements.
The bill enhances existing enforcement mechanisms to remedy violations by law enforcement. Among other things, it does the following:
lowers the criminal intent standard—from willful to knowing or reckless—to convict a law enforcement officer for misconduct in a federal prosecution,
It establishes a framework to prevent and remedy racial profiling by law enforcement at the federal, state, and local levels. It also limits the unnecessary use of force and restricts the use of no-knock warrants, chokeholds, and carotid holds.
The bill creates a national registry—the National Police Misconduct Registry—to compile data on complaints and records of police misconduct. It also establishes new reporting requirements, including on the use of force, officer misconduct, and routine policing practices (e.g., stops and searches).
Finally, it directs DOJ to create uniform accreditation standards for law enforcement agencies and requires law enforcement officers to complete training on racial profiling, implicit bias, and the duty to intervene when another officer uses excessive force.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 1280 as passed House on Mar 3, 2021. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Mar 3, 2021Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMar 3, 2021
House Mar 3, 2021 · the primary vote
George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021
Passed
220 Yea 212 Nay
Party-line vote 3 of 432 voting members broke with their own party: 2 Democrats, 1 Republican.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
432 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 1280 and vote against it. 190 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 1280 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
272 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-04. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.