LEOSA Reform Act

This bill expands where current and retired law enforcement officers who qualify under the Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act may carry a concealed firearm. It adds those officers to the list of people exempt from the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act, so they may carry in school zones. It lets them carry in units of the National Park System by overriding federal law and Interior Department regulations that would otherwise bar it. It narrows the state and local law carve-out so those officers may carry on common and contract carrier property and on property open to the public even where state or local law restricts it. It extends the law's protection to cover magazines, not just the firearm and ammunition. It permits these officers to carry in federal facilities rated Facility Security Level I or II that are open to the public. It loosens the firearms qualification rules for retired officers by allowing the qualification to be up to 36 months old at a state's option and by letting the former agency, the state, any state law enforcement agency, or any certified firearms instructor set and certify the standard.

At least 15 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 83 quarterly reports filed by 4 lobbying firms and by 10 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

8 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its Senate companion, S 679, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: Louisiana Sheriffs' Association; National Association of Police Organizations, Inc.; Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence; National Troopers Coalition; Sergeants Benevolent Association of New York City. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 10 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.