U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff’s office reports that he is working to ensure women in law enforcement have properly fitting body armor.

“Sen. Ossoff is co-sponsoring bipartisan legislation to provide female law enforcement officers within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with improved ballistic body armor,” a press release from his office said last week.

“The bipartisan DHS Better Ballistic Body Armor Act, which Sen. Ossoff cosponsored alongside Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Katie Britt (R-AL), and Mike Rounds (R-SD), passed the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee with bipartisan support and now heads to the full Senate for consideration,” the release said.

According to the Criminal Justice Technology Testing and Evaluation Center, more than 60 percent of female law enforcement officers reported their body armor does not fit properly, and report that it causes pain, abrasions, and other discomforts.

“Ill fitting body armor threatens the health and safety of law enforcement agents. I continue leading my effort to ensure female military servicemembers have well fitting body armor, and I am now working to equip female law enforcement officers with the same,” Ossoff said.

It seems self-evident that the people who stand in harm’s way to protect us — both law enforcement and military — should have the equipment they need to do their job properly, and that includes body armor. That equipment should be appropriate for its user.

But why does it take a literal act of Congress to get law enforcement officers the proper equipment? Sitting here in South Georgia, that looks like a routine procurement purchase: An agency needs X number of bulletproof vests, and some of them need to be for women, in proportion to how many women work in the agency; put in the order and wait for the truck to arrive.

Beyond that, the bill the senator is co-sponsoring will affect only the Department of Homeland Security. That would include the Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection and the Secret Service, among others.

It would not include the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration or U.S. Marshals Service, all of which fall under the Department of Justice. Maybe women in those agencies are already entitled to proper-fitting body armor. Or maybe that’s Ossoff’s goal for next year.

Either way, it seems like a problem that could have been fixed well before it reached the halls of Congress. This micromanagement — and worse, the perceived need for this micromanagement — distracts the members of Congress from the big-picture issues we’ve elected them to address.