S 4394
Passed a chamber
Requires the Attorney General to develop or identify leadership training curricula for police command-level personnel and to certify training courses that use them.
Official title: Promoting Police Leadership Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Received
15-JUN-2026
Senate
Introduced
27-APR-2026
Referred
27-APR-2026
Approved by committee
14-MAY-2026
Reported
19-MAY-2026
On the calendar
19-MAY-2026
Passed
10-JUN-2026
- Directs the Attorney General to develop or identify training curricula for command-level police personnel within 180 days of enactment, covering topics such as leadership, critical incident response, officer wellness, and building community trust.
- Requires the curricula to include mostly in-person instruction, peer-to-peer learning, a practical problem-solving project, and pre-course and post-course assessments.
- Sets up a process to certify courses that use the curricula and publishes a list of agencies whose officers have completed them, showing totals for each agency.
- Requires Attorney General reports to Congress each year for three years and a Government Accountability Office review within three years, while preserving state and local authority over police certification and training standards.
Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Passed Senate, 10-JUN-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Judiciary Committee (Senate)
Crime and Law Enforcement
■ 9 D■ 5 R
9 Democrats
5 Republicans