Sec. 6. GAO report
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In fiscal year 2029 and fiscal year 2034, the Comptroller General of the United States, after consultation with the Attorney General, shall submit to Congress and make publicly available a report that provides national averages and averages for department characteristic subgroups including at least size of police and sheriff departments and urban or rural designations by jurisdiction detailing— a measure of how representative the existing workforce of the average police and sheriff departments is to the community served based on demographics which include at least gender and race; the percentage of those employed by the average police and sheriff departments that live in the jurisdiction in which they are currently employed; a measure of average officer pay in police and sheriff departments compared to cost of living in the jurisdiction in which they are currently employed; and legislative and administrative recommendations for improving the percentage of officers that live in the jurisdiction in which they are employed and how representative the law enforcement agency is of the community it serves.