Biden will sign the order on Wednesday while joined by civil rights leaders and police officials, as well as the families of Floyd and Breonna Taylor. The executive order demands national standards for the accreditation of police departments, The Washington Post reports. Biden is also calling for a national database of federal officers who have a troubling history. Additionally, the president is urging federal law enforcement agencies to update their use-of-force policies, particularly requiring them to emphasize de-escalation, according to a release shared with Blavity.

In 2021, Congress failed to pass a sweeping policing overhaul bill named after Floyd, the 46-year-old Black man who died in 2020 when Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes.

“If you had asked me six months ago, I would have said it’s not time for an executive order yet because we should be focused on federal legislation, the George Floyd bill in particular,” Damon Hewitt, the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, told the Post. “But once that effort was sabotaged, the administration has stepped up as much as it could via executive action.”

According to the executive order, the Justice Department will be authorized to use federal grant funding to urge local police to tighten restrictions on the use of chokeholds and no-knock warrants. White House officials said the order also implements new restrictions on the transfer of military equipment to local law enforcement agencies. Federal agents, according to the order, have a duty to intervene if they see other law enforcement officials using excessive force.

Jim Pasco, executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police, was involved in working with the White House to construct the executive order.

“We feel that this executive order should lay the groundwork for moving forward in a manner which will standardize training and procedures and hopefully standardize police across the country,” Pasco told the Post. “And we hope it will be an element in healing the rifts that exist in some places between police officers and the communities they serve.”