Congratulations - It's a BILL!

August 31, 2007

CWA Legislative Director Alfonso Pollard advises that he has just been informed by Representative Linda Sanchez's office after a year and a half of tireless work by CWA's National Coalition of Public Safety Officers (NCPSO), it's more than 23,000 officers and Legislative representatives in Arizona and California, NCPSO staff, each participant in our law enforcement coalition, and of course Representative Linda Sanchez and her staff led by Monica Fawzy, H.R. 3440, the Law Enforcement Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act of 2007 was introduced in House of Representatives, 110th CONGRESS, 1st Session on August 3, 2007.  The bi-partisan bill was introduced with 11 cosponsors.  They include:

Rep Abercrombie, Neil [D- HI 1] - 8/3/2007, Rep Berman, Howard L. [D-CA 28] - 8/3/2007, Rep Cardoza, Dennis A. [D-CA-18] - 8/3/2007, Rep Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX 25] - 8/3/2007, Rep Filner, Bob [D-CA 51] - 8/3/2007, Rep Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA 16] - 8/3/2007, Rep Napolitano, Grace F. [D- CA 38] - 8/3/2007 Rep Ortiz, Solomon P. [D-TX 27] - 8/3/2007, Rep Pastor, Ed [D-AZ 4] - 8/3/2007, Rep Poe, Ted [R-TX 2] - 8/3/2007, and Rep Wexler, Robert [D-FL 19] - 8/3/2007.

To view a copy of the bill, please go to http://thomas.loc.gov.  Enter the bill number in the engine search.  To see a Government Printing Office (GPO) version of the bill, click the link in identified on that page.

A formal release about this historic CWA legislation will be issued very soon.  Please email Congresswoman Sanchez through staff person Monica.Fawzy@mail.house.gov and thank the Congresswoman for her diligent work on this very important piece of legislation for CWA law enforcement and for law enforcement across the country.  More work needs to be done.  We expect your hard work and efforts to double.  Thanks again and...

Congratulations!