Improving Police CARE Act

Sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) · 7 active : 3 Republicans, 4 Democrats

Latest action: Held at the desk.

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Where it standsBefore the Senate

Passed Senate

Senate: passedJul 29, 2025
House: next
President: not yet

7 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Summary on Congress.gov

Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies Act or the Improving Police CARE Act

This bill requires the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) within the Department of Justice to develop and publish performance standards for trauma kits that are eligible to be purchased using funds under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program.

Additionally, the BJA must develop and publish best practices for the use, deployment, and maintenance of trauma kits by law enforcement agencies.

How the projections held up

Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.

Senate

Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.

Committees and subjects

Committees

Senate Committee on the Judiciary · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to

Subjects

Emergency medical services and trauma care
Law enforcement administration and funding

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the House breaks down

45Swing 70–100
206Middle 30–70
180Entrenched 0–30
2Insufficient data not ranked

Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.

Key players in the House

Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional

: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.

Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.

Similar past votes, House

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 26.0 (needs 5.0).

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PassedShared subjects×1.0
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PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.Con.Res. 40 · May 18, 2023 · Roll call 226On Agreeing to the ResolutionExpressing support for local law enforcement officers and condemning efforts to defund or dismantle local law enforcement agencies
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.Con.Res. 40 · May 18, 2023 · Roll call 225On Agreeing to the Amendment
Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.Con.Res. 96 · May 13, 2026 · Roll call 525On Agreeing to the ResolutionExpressing support for law enforcement officers
PassedSame policy area×0.5

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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 3492 · Dec 17, 2025 · Roll call 350On PassageProtect Children’s Innocence Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 4371 · Dec 16, 2025 · Roll call 339On PassageKayla Hamilton Act
Passed

Cosponsors

7 active

Show all 7 cosponsors

How the swing score works

Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.

Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.

Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.

Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.

Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.

Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.