The bill would reauthorize the public safety and community policing grant program.
Patrick Ryan will reauthorize the public safety and community policing grant program.
Occurrences
Evidence
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GovInfo lists H.R. 8750 as the COPS Reauthorization Act of 2026, with the full title 'To reauthorize the COPS ON THE BEAT grant program, and for other purposes.' Its listed action is introduction and referral to the House Judiciary Committee on May 12, 2026.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 196 on S. 546, the Recruit and Retain Act, as passed 370-18 on May 14, 2024; Patrick Ryan of New York is recorded as voting Yea.
Assessments
The promised outcome was to reauthorize the public safety/community policing grant program. The direct reauthorization vehicle, H.R. 8750, was introduced and referred to committee on May 12, 2026, with no passage or enactment found as of the September 2-4, 2026 lookback window, so the core promise was not fully delivered. Ryan did, however, vote yea on S. 546, the enacted Recruit and Retain Act, which amended COPS grant authority for recruitment uses. That is a meaningful COPS-related contribution in the same federal term, but it falls short of full program reauthorization.