HR 378referred119th Congress

Thin Blue Line Act

Introduced Jan 14, 2025House billPolicy area: Crime and Law EnforcementLast action Jan 14, 2025Sponsor: Vern Buchanan(R-FL)

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What the bill does

Thin Blue Line Act This bill expands the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responder.

Latest official action

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$2.0M

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Jan 14, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Apr 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

Apr 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO

Apr 24, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE

Jul 30, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO

Aug 11, 2025lobbying

Official Congressional Actions

Jan 14, 2025IntroReferral

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Judiciary Committee

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Jan 14, 2025IntroReferral

Introduced in House

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Jan 14, 2025IntroReferral

Introduced in House

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Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO	AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO	$590.0K	Jul 30, 2025	2025Q2	CIVDEFDOC
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION	AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION	$560.0K	Apr 21, 2025	2025Q1	CIV
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.