Federal money for law enforcement museum with free admission rules
H.R. 309 — National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support, and Community Outreach Act · Filed by Troy Nehls (R-TX) · 124 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 9, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill gives $6 million per year for seven years. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund gets this money. It pays for the museum's work, public education, and safety programs. The museum must let active and retired police in free. Families of dead police get free entry too. The museum must have free public hours at least weekly. The museum must report to the federal government each year.
Who it affects
People who visit the museum get free public hours. Active and retired police and families of dead police get free entry. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund gets the money.
One thing to notice
Congress must vote to give the actual money. The bill says the grants happen only if money is set aside for them.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
124 cosponsors: 75 Republicans, 49 Democrats.
- Jan 9, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 9, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources”
- Sep 18, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Jul 22, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jul 22, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent”
- Sep 14, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote”
- Sep 14, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 4 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $130,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 23 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Troy Nehls, who sponsored the bill, received $203,300 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Peace Officers Research Association of California — $100,000 in 2 reports
- National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund — $30,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- grants — money the federal government gives to a group for a specific purpose
- federal — belonging to the national government, not a state or city
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (6,381 characters) on Aug 20, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,778 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 19, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-01.
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