HRES 1252 — Congress 119
Resolution memorializing law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/1252
Congress.gov subjects: Congressional tributes; Law enforcement officers; Crime and Law Enforcement
Issues impacted: Gun Policy (congress_subject, high), Criminal Justice & Public Safety (ai, high)
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87 HRES 1252 IH: Resolution memorializing law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. U.S. House of Representatives 2026-05-04 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. IV 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 1252 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 4, 2026 Mr. Guest (for himself, Ms. Letlow , Mr. Pappas , Mr. Moore of Alabama , Mr. Ciscomani , Mr. Evans of Colorado , Mr. Patronis , Mr. Bean of Florida , Mr. Rutherford , Mr. Webster of Florida , Mr. Buchanan , Ms. Salazar , Mr. Carter of Georgia , Mr. Moylan , Mrs. Miller-Meeks , Mr. Shreve , Mr. Messmer , Mr. Mann , Mr. Schmidt , Mr. Rogers of Kentucky , Mr. Barr , Mr. Moolenaar , Mr. Stauber , Mr. Kelly of Mississippi , Mr. Ezell , Mr. Smith of Nebraska , Mr. Bacon , Mr. Rouzer , Mr. McDowell , Mr. Knott , Mr. Moore of North Carolina , Mrs. Fedorchak , Mr. Lawler , Ms. Tenney , Mr. Rulli , Mr. Balderson , Mrs. Bice , Mr. Fitzpatrick , Mr. Bresnahan , Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania , Mr. Fry , Mr. Jackson of Texas , Mr. Weber of Texas , Ms. De La Cruz , Ms. Van Duyne , Mr. Babin , Mr. Hunt , Mr. Moore of West Virginia , Mr. Carey , Mr. Mast , Mr. Newhouse , Mr. Garbarino , Mr. Bilirakis , Ms. Malliotakis , Mr. Finstad , Mr. Langworthy , Mr. McGuire , and Mrs. Hinson ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary RESOLUTION Resolution memorializing law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. Whereas Federal, State, local, and Tribal police officers, sheriffs, and other law enforcement officers across the United States serve with valor, dignity, and integrity; Whereas law enforcement officers are charged with— (1) pursuing justice for all individuals; and (2) performing the duties of a law enforcement officer with fidelity to the constitutional and civil rights of the public the officers serve; Whereas law enforcement officers swear an oath to uphold the public trust even though, through the performance of the duties of a law enforcement officer, the officers may become targets for senseless acts of violence; Whereas, in 1962, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy signed Public Law 87–726 ( 36 U.S.C. 136 ) (referred to in this preamble as the Joint Resolution ), which authorizes the President to proclaim May 15 of every year as Peace Officers Memorial Day in honor of the Federal, State, and local officers who have been killed, disabled, or otherwise injured in the line of duty; Whereas the Joint Resolution also authorizes the President to designate the week in which Peace Officers Memorial Day falls as National Police Week ; Whereas the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, dedicated on October 15, 1991, is the national monument to honor those law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty; and Whereas Peace Officers Memorial Day, 2026, honors the 363 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty and whose stories were recovered during 2025, including— (1) Shawn Nixon; (2) Joe Keith; (3) Mark A Meadows; (4) James Phillips; (5) Gabriel M Facio; (6) Shawn A Braaten; (7) Alec J Sanders; (8) Samuel S Riveros; (9) Joshua L Byrd; (10) Terry D Long; (11) Lauren A Craven; (12) Charles Crow; (13) Shiou L Deng; (14) Osmar E Rodarte-Paez; (15) Dennis Haley; (16) Joshua R Kelley-Eklund; (17) Victor M Lemus; (18) William C Osborn; (19) Noah H Rader; (20) Timothy B Corlew; (21) Hector A Cuevas Jr; (22) Andrew Nunez; (23) Frank T Linehan; (24) Dennis F Kelly; (25) Matthew T Snook; (26) Andres J Lahera; (27) Jeremy H Cassady; (28) Craig A Gaines; (29) Terri J Sweeting-Mashkow; (30) David A Cajuso; (31) Devin M Jaramillo; (32) Alton D Berrian; (33) Alan I Reffsin; (34) William P T May; (35) Luther T Howard; (36) Charles A Vick; (37) Brandon R Sikes; (38) David R Rose; (39) Patrick J Lappin; (40) Jeremy R Labonte; (41) Earnest L Hall; (42) Helio A Garcia III; (43) James A Carter; (44) Suzanne O; (45) John F Abt; (46) Kazmer Andrushis; (47) Walter Bermingham; (48) Charles C Bishop; (49) James P Clarke; (50) William Clifford; (51) Cornelius Cominskey; (52) Daniel Coughlin; (53) William E Eimstad; (54) Benjamin F Devlin; (55) John J Fetscher; (56) Henry E Gorman; (57) Oscar Hallen; (58) Timothy L Haynes; (59) Clarence Hofheinz; (60) Alex Johnson; (61) Lars M Larson; (62) Edward J Madden; (63) Thomas A Mahoney; (64) John Malone; (65) Michael J Mooney; (66) James Wilson; (67) Patrick Forde; (68) George A Gall; (69) Frank Tatousek; (70) Maurice F Kain; (71) Jaroslav J Janecek; (72) Jeremiah O’dwyer; (73) Krystal Rivera; (74) Charles G Schuler; (75) John H Singleman; (76) Andrew Sullivan; (77) Richard Thompson; (78) Rudolph Tuerk; (79) John Joseph Walsh; (80) Glenn T Whallon; (81) Timothy M Jones; (82) George Fries; (83) Charles Chandler; (84) William Otis Peebles; (85) Roy James Tipton; (86) Blake A Reynolds; (87) John C Stahl III; (88) Charles Lodine; (89) Augustus C Becker; (90) Reuben Fenstermaker; (91) Robert W Coulter; (92) Samuel S Cronk; (93) Samuel H Hamilton; (94) James W Busby; (95) Elmer J Lennon; (96) John Kerr Myers; (97) Charles Loucks; (98) Scott W Heimann; (99) Hunter L Simoncic; (100) Frank L Stone; (101) Brandon P Gaede; (102) Elijah L Ming; (103) George Ramirez; (104) Frank Beard Bell; (105) James Duncan Stevens; (106) Millard Brock; (107) Fred Cole; (108) Caleb M Eisworth; (109) Charles W Riley; (110) Joseph J Lyons; (111) Allen J Credeur Jr; (112) Grant J Candies; (113) Marc T Brock; (114) Brenda J Lowery; (115) Edward E Ivey Jr; (116) Joshua T Kingsley; (117) Kelvin O Patrick; (118) Rhonda E Morris; (119) Shannon A Wright; (120) John Craig; (121) Richard E Legler; (122) Felicia D Reilly; (123) Martin L Shields Jr; (124) Bryan A Pippin; (125) Joshua A Brashears; (126) Eddie A Mays; (127) Horry M Fish; (128) Henry J R Franklin; (129) Robert George Fitzpatrick; (130) James Arthur Meeks; (131) James Harvey Ray; (132) Kyle J McAacy; (133) Jason P Roscow; (134) Augustus B Farmer; (135) Allen Palmer; (136) Thomas J Ennis; (137) Andrew Carlson; (138) Joseph H Riedl; (139) Joseph Peto; (140) Lee E Hendrickson; (141) Steven C Tiboni; (142) Peter F Bruncati; (143) William A Casey; (144) Joseph A Azcona; (145) John P Patrick; (146) Timothy S Ontiveros; (147) Cipriano Bustamante; (148) Antonio D Aleman; (149) John Jones; (150) Patrick W Franzone; (151) Kathleen M Radziunas; (152) William G Krupa; (153) Kevin D Nuckel; (154) Abraham Cruz III; (155) Albert Morabito; (156) Alfredo Varela; (157) Annmarie Smith; (158) Clarence E Word III; (159) David Portalatin; (160) David E LaJoie; (161) David P Miller Jr; (162) Denise A Jones; (163) Dennis Vitelli; (164) Dennis P Gallagher; (165) Didarul Islam; (166) Ercan Aydin; (167) Frank J Debenedetto; (168) Gerard Connors; (169) James G Becker; (170) James J Motto Sr; (171) James R Vanacore; (172) Jeffrey I Montenegro; (173) Joseph J Esposito; (174) Joseph J Panarese; (175) Kevin G Hanley; (176) Marc F Lotter; (177) Maruja Clark; (178) Michael A Pisano; (179) Michael O McEntee; (180) Norman J Kunze; (181) Philip A Cammarata; (182) Raymond R Newcomb; (183) Richard Teemsma; (184) Richard T Handibode Jr; (185) Robert A Nobile; (186) Robert G Porfert; (187) Robert S Fawcett; (188) Robert T Ranno; (189) Sandro J Rizzotti; (190) Steven Ringe; (191) Timothy J Keane; (192) Vincent J Caruana; (193) Vincent N Carney; (194) William T McCabe; (195) Bret W Martin; (196) Frederick W Scheidt Jr; (197) Mark A Ondus; (198) Michael E Snell; (199) Steven W Greene; (200) Thomas K Herrick; (201) Joseph F Murray Jr; (202) Arthur D Ramsey; (203) Frank J Hagan; (204) Francisco P Flattes II; (205) Mark D Laskowski; (206) Roger L Smith; (207) John W Fogwell; (208) Larry R Henderson Jr; (209) Phillip C Wagner; (210) D Weston Sherrer; (211) John C Wagner; (212) Thomas H Bayless; (213) Peter D Andre; (214) Lon W Boring; (215) William J Minyoung; (216) Lorin B James; (217) Grover C Sanderson; (218) Nicholas P Cayton; (219) Thomas A Duran; (220) Clint D Lawrence; (221) Meagan Rose Burke; (222) Kenneth W Stump; (223) Ronald K Jackson; (224) Steven D Rozell; (225) David Claude Hines; (226) Arthur S Hubbard; (227) Domenico A Natale; (228) George Krouch; (229) Isaiah D Emenheiser; (230) Mark E Baker; (231) Cody M Becker; (232) Benjamin Kauffman; (233) Benjamin Kine; (234) Charles Barnes; (235) Charles H Kelley; (236) Charles R Weber; (237) Dorland Midgett; (238) Edward Donnelly; (239) Edward J McCaffrey; (240) Francis J Robinson; (241) Frederick Hofmann Jr; (242) Frederick Winters; (243) George E Garnett; (244) George M Storey; (245) Harry H Morton Sr; (246) Herman J Spreng; (247) Howard H Jolly; (248) James Orr; (249) John McManus; (250) John E B Robinson; (251) Mary Cannon; (252) Michael E Shortall; (253) Michael J Coleman; (254) Patrick J Whalen; (255) Robert H Elliott; (256) Robert John Bell; (257) Thomas McAnally; (258) Thomas Wiley; (259) Thomas J Ferguson; (260) William Culbertson; (261) William E Lacy; (262) William F McMenamin; (263) Alexander R McCloskey; (264) Charles B Morrison; (265) James A Dorsey; (266) James Ambrose McCormick; (267) John D Richey; (268) John Henry Schneider; (269) Ralph T Harper; (270) Robert Sinclair; (271) Thomas F McVerry; (272) Andrew J Hedrick; (273) Charles R Shipe; (274) Edward S Mauger; (275) Edwin Mondeau; (276) Elmer P Anthony; (277) George Albert; (278) George S Anderson; (279) Harry F Bierer; (280) James Corcoran; (281) John H Harenski; (282) John P Weitzel; (283) Martin R Pluter; (284) Moses Leininger; (285) Peter B Hoarty; (286) Robert W Mason Jr; (287) Samuel Norman; (288) Walter H Gant; (289) William A O Cratty; (290) Andrew W Duarte; (291) Richard Carchia; (292) F Devin Mason; (293) Nathaniel M Ansay; (294) Will G Durant; (295) Michael Charles Wood; (296) Dennis D Ricks Jr; (297) Mark S Reynolds; (298) Justin B Mowery; (299) James F Hood; (300) Hugh W Carlen; (301) Jonathan D White Jr; (302) Jesus Vargas; (303) Ruben Garcia; (304) Jessie R Perez; (305) John C Hamm; (306) Alex D Roberts; (307) Gary L Crawford; (308) Mark A Butler; (309) Jerry W Adamick Jr; (310) Melissa L Pollard; (311) Charles W Mair; (312) Eric Estrada; (313) Lee D Sorensen; (314) Donald R Gotthardt Jr; (315) Raymond Shacklock; (316) Cameron R Girvin; (317) Christopher M L Reese; (318) Jeremy L Hall; (319) Charles F Headley; (320) John F Shank; (321) C Ed Ray; (322) Lewis H Jacobs; (323) Kenneth B Salas; (324) Tara-Marysa M Guting; (325) Kendall I Corder; (326) Joshua A LaForge; (327) Daniel C Hansen; (328) Sarah D Beckstrom; (329) Dennis M Wagner Jr; (330) Donald R Kleber; (331) Marvin Risen; (332) Todd L Spiker; (333) Marc A Fischer; (334) Eric Cespedes; (335) David C Maland; (336) Jonathan J Campos; (337) Lavalle F Van Etten; (338) Almon P Frederick; (339) Michael Rice; (340) Chastity M Budwig; (341) Jerome A Ciereszewski; (342) Frederick G Smith; (343) William F Urban; (344) Jesse A Branch; (345) Edward H Fay; (346) Alex Lang; (347) Frank McCaskey; (348) John F Burke; (349) William P Price; (350) John P Constantine; (351) Anthony Hampel; (352) Benjamin J Koles; (353) Frank M Bolen; (354) Jacob J Kucera; (355) Jess Anderson; (356) John B Merz; (357) Louis E Baum; (358) Richard Kelley; (359) Victor C Benner; (360) William U Sprous; (361) James W Brown; (362) Roy Hoyle; and (363) Thomas C Logan: Now, therefore, be it That the House of Representatives— (1) acknowledges that police officers and other law enforcement personnel, especially those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, should be remembered and honored; (2) expresses unwavering support for law enforcement officers across the United States in the pursuit of preserving safe and secure communities; (3) recognizes the need to ensure that law enforcement officers have the equipment, training, and resources that are necessary in order to protect the health and safety of the officers while the officers protect the public; (4) recognizes the law enforcement community for continual unseen acts of sacrifice and heroism; and (5) expresses condolences and solemn appreciation to the loved ones of each law enforcement officer who has made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.
Plain-English summary
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This is a House resolution that honors police and other law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. It’s a formal tribute, not a bill that rewrites criminal law or spends money.
It points back to Peace Officers Memorial Day (May 15) and National Police Week, and to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. For 2026 it calls out 363 officers whose line-of-duty deaths were recorded or recovered in the prior year, and it lists many of them by name.
In plain terms, the House would say fallen officers should be remembered, back the people still on the job, note that they need gear, training, and resources to stay safe while protecting the public, and offer condolences to the families of those who died.
Everyday people won’t see a new program or tax change from this. It’s Congress putting support and remembrance on the record. House resolutions like this express the chamber’s view; they don’t become statute the way a regular bill can.
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| Issue | Yea advances | Nay advances | Note |
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| Criminal Justice & Public Safety | Tougher penalties and enforcement | Status quo / reject this change | Honorific / facility naming (Resolution memorializing law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.). Yea advances the naming; Nay prefers the prior designation. |