Posted by: jgomori Posted date: December 20, 2022

Early this morning, Congress released the text of the Fiscal 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which will fund the federal government and all its departments, agencies, and programs through the rest of this fiscal year. The House and Senate will consider and are expected to pass the measure this week. In a significant victory for NAPO and our members, our priority retirement provisions were included: the Putting First Responders First Act, the Police and Fire Healthcare Protection Act, and the Protecting Public Safety Employees’ Timely Retirement Act; The massive Fiscal Year 2023 consolidated appropriations package released today includes a temporary extension of the Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) temporary class-wide scheduling of all fentanyl-related substances as Schedule 1 drugs under the Controlled Substances Act – making them illegal – through Dec. 31, 2024; NAPO’s priority grant programs are sufficiently funded in the FY 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act and the various requirements the House tried to place on those programs to force its police reform policies on state and local law enforcement were largely rejected in the final bill. NAPO pushed hard to ensure those police reform provisions were not included in the final bill; and NAPO was surprised and disappointed that the FY 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act did not include much-needed additional funding for the 9/11 World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP).

For complete details, click on the Dec. 20, 2022 Washington Report below.