Nearly a year after he was killed in custody by ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act faces a divided Senate after it passed in the House of Representatives this past March.

President Joe Biden (D) has urged Congress to pass a police reform bill this month, and this piece of legislation enhances existing enforcement mechanisms to remedy violations by law enforcement, such as lowering the criminal intent standard from willful to knowing or reckless, to convict a law enforcement officer for misconduct in a federal prosecution. Congresswoman for Iowa’s 2nd District Mariannette Miller-Meeks tells KCII that the U.S. needs bipartisan police reform, and she explains her vote of nay against the bill, “The Justice in Policing Act would eliminate qualified immunity which would make recruitment and retention difficult and increase retirement. I know this because prior to my vote on this I actually called to both sheriff’s departments and police, and division of special investigations. So I actually called to speak with members and people in Iowa about the bill prior to voting on it and how it would affect them.”

The bill also limits the unnecessary use of force and restricts the use of no-knock warrants, chokeholds, and carotid holds. It would also create a national registry to compile data on complaints and records of police misconduct, establish new reporting requirements including on use of force, and directs the Department of Justice to create uniform accreditation standards for law enforcement agencies and requires officers to complete training on racial profiling, implicit bias, and the duty to intervene when another officer uses excessive force.