It has been one year since the devastating death of George Floyd swept the nation and awakened millions to the discriminatory policing that exists in our country today. And while the criminal conviction of the officers involved in Floyd’s death provides some accountability, our current system has done little to overhaul policing and address the racial injustice that took the life of George Floyd and many others.

In March, the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation aimed at addressing police misconduct, titled the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. The legislation would establish national policing standards that would ban racial and religious profiling by law enforcement at federal, state, and local levels. Furthermore, the bill would ban chokeholds, no-knock warrants, and overhaul qualified immunity for law enforcement by establishing a national registry of police misconduct to stop officers from evading consequences for their actions by moving to another jurisdiction.

Though passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act is now pending in the Senate, with a heavy emphasis on bipartisanship in order to progress. We must continue to push for police reform as we memorialize George Floyd on the one year anniversary of his avoidable, unfortunate death.