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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · H.R. 4346 (Referred in Senate) — Making appropriations for Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, and for other purposes. · Sec. 216

Sec. 216. Plaque to Honor Law Enforcement Agencies Responding to Attack on Capitol

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It is the sense of the Congress that the United States owes its deepest gratitude to those United States Capitol Police and Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department officers, as well as officers from multiple Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies, who valiantly protected the United States Capitol, Members of Congress, and staff on January 6, 2021. The Architect of the Capitol shall obtain an honorific plaque that commends the examples of bravery and service-above-self demonstrated by officers of the United States Capitol Police, the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, and the multiple Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies and protective entities on the list compiled under subsection
(c)that joined alongside of them during the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol, and shall place the plaque at a permanent location on the western front of the United States Capitol. The Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate shall jointly compile a list of Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies and protective entities whose names should be included on the plaque under subsection (b). The list compiled under paragraph
(1)shall include each of the following Federal law enforcement agencies and protective entities: The United States Capitol Police. The National Guard Bureau, Department of Defense. The Department of Homeland Security. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Pentagon Force Protection Agency, Department of Defense. The United States Secret Service. The United States Park Police. The United States Marshals Service. The Department of Health and Human Services. The list compiled under paragraph
(1)shall include each of the following State and local law enforcement agencies: Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Metro Transit Police Department, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Virginia State Police. Fairfax County, Virginia, Police Department. Prince William County, Virginia, Police Department. Arlington County, Virginia, Police Department. Maryland Department of State Police. Prince George’s County, Maryland, Police Department. Montgomery County, Maryland, Department of Police. New Jersey State Police. The Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate shall work with the agencies and entities described in paragraphs
(2)and
(3)to confirm the accuracy of the list compiled under this section. For each of the law enforcement agencies and protective entities whose name is included on the plaque under subsection (b), the Architect of the Capitol shall obtain and present a plaque which matches the plaque under subsection (b).
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