Requires police departments using Byrne Justice Assistance Grant funds to buy only trauma kits that meet federal performance standards.

• Directs the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to publish trauma kit performance standards within 180 days of enactment
• Limits grant-funded purchases to kits that meet those standards, but allows grantees to buy kit components separately and assemble compliant kits
• Requires minimum kit contents: a tourniquet, a bleeding control bandage, nonlatex gloves and a pen-type marker, blunt-ended scissors, instructional materials, a carrying container, and any additional supplies approved by a state, local, or Tribal law enforcement agency or first responders
• Authorizes optional best practices for training officers, deploying and maintaining kits in patrol vehicles, and placing and maintaining kits in agency and government facilities

• Judiciary Committee (Senate)

Crime and Law Enforcement