PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United States · Bill · HR

H.R. 1325 (116th)

Protect and Serve Act of 2019

referredUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

22 February 2019

Last action

22 February 2019 · Introduced

Status

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Sponsors

Rep. Rutherford, John H. [R-FL-5], Val Demings, Pete Stauber, Tom O'Halleran, Brett Guthrie, Andy Barr, Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1], Michael Turner, Cathy Rodgers, Tom Cole, Jefferson Van Drew, JOHN SHIMKUS, Sen. Kim, Andy [D-NJ], Brian Mast, Steve Watkins, Darin LaHood, Steve Scalise, Michael Burgess, Troy Balderson, Bill Posey, Debbie Lesko, Rep. Garcia, Sylvia R. [D-TX-29], Bruce Westerman, Steve Womack, Christopher Smith, Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5], Rep. Kustoff, David [R-TN-8], Rep. Harris, Andy [R-MD-1], Ted Yoho, C. Ruppersberger, James Comer, W. Steube, Lloyd Smucker, Fred Keller, Richard Hudson, Roger Marshall, Max Rose, Jim Hagedorn, Bryan Steil, Steve King, Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10], STEVE CHABOT, David Joyce, Paul Cook, Denver Riggleman, Bob Gibbs, Michael Guest, Jared Golden

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

5 December 2025

Summary

Protect and Serve Act of 2019 This bill establishes a new criminal offense for knowingly assaulting a law enforcement officer causing serious bodily injury (or attempting to do so) in circumstances that affect interstate commerce. It imposes criminal penalties—a prison term of up to 10 years, a fine, or both—on a violator.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

  1. 22 February 2019

    Introduced

    Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

    Source: IntroReferral

  2. 22 February 2019

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

  3. 22 February 2019

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

Documents

3 official files

Introduced in House (text)

View fileDownload file

Sponsors

Showing 48 of 57 sponsors and actors.

Related records

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.