The mother and stepfather of Tyre Nichols — the 29-year-old Black man who died following an altercation with Memphis police officers during a traffic stop earlier this month — are set to attend the State of the Union address next month, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus said Sunday.

The announcement comes amid renewed calls for lawmakers to address police reform in the wake of the release of video showing Nichols’ fatal beating by police. The brutal video, released Friday, shows officers savagely beating Nichols for three minutes and screaming profanities at him as he called out for his mother. The officers were seen in the video propping Nichols against a police car and exchanging fist-bumps.

All five police officers involved been fired and charged with second-degree murder and other alleged crimes. Officials announced Monday that a sixth officer was also disciplined.

Nevada Rep. Steven Horsford, who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, told MSNBC on Sunday that they extended an invitation to Nichols’ mother and stepfather, RowVaughn Wells and Rodney Wells. 

Horsford, a Democrat said he spoke to Nichols’ family “to first extend our condolences to them, to let them know that we stand with them, to ask them what they want from us in this moment, to honor the legacy of their son, and to extend an invitation to them to be our guest at the State of the Union on Feb. 7 so that we can make sure that this issue of police culture, culture of policing, which, unfortunately in this country has now contributed to countless deaths.”

Per the CBC’s executive director, they accepted Horsford’s invitation.

President Joe Biden spoke to Nichols’ mother and stepfather on Friday ahead of the release of the video. The president called for lawmakers to do send police reform legislation to his desk in the wake of Nichols' killing.

“There are no words to describe the heartbreak and grief of losing a beloved child and young father,” Biden wrote in a statement. “Nothing can bring Mr. Nichols back to his family and the Memphis community. But Mr. and Mrs. Wells, Mr. Nichols’ son, and his whole family deserve a swift, full, and transparent investigation.”

“We must do everything in our power to ensure our criminal justice system lives up to the promise of fair and impartial justice, equal treatment, and dignity for all,” the president continued. “Real and lasting change will only come if we take action to prevent tragedies like this from ever happening again.”

Biden’s call for Congressional action was echoed by a number of prominent lawmakers over the weekend.

“This is a call for all of us to really be honest about the situation,” Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate and chair of the Judiciary Committee, said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. 

Durbin recalled the police reform negotiations that took place in the wake of George Floyd’s murder — involving Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and then-Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. — which fell apart in September 2021. 

“It had many elements in it that are important, banning chokeholds, dealing with no-warrant searches, dealing with accreditation of police departments,” Durbin said. “It’s necessary that we do all these things, but not sufficient. We need a national conversation.”

"We need a national conversation about policing in a responsible, constitutional and humane way," Durbin added. "These men and women with badges put them on each day and risk their lives for us. I know that. But we also see, from these videos, horrible conduct by city officers and unacceptable situations. We've got to change.”

In a statement, Booker said that in the “coming days,” he will “be renewing my legislative efforts to advance the reform we need and that Americans are demanding.” Separately, Scott wrote in a statement that “we cannot let the pain of the Nichols family be in vain.”

“Let us listen to their plea to make our voices heard peacefully and in a productive way that forwards the cause of justice and a more just America,” Scott continued. “Let it serve as a call to action for every lawmaker in our nation at every level. The only way to bring light from darkness is to be united.”

The House passed a police reform bill named for Floyd, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, nearly along party lines in 2021, but it languished in the evenly divided Senate. The measure would have created a national police misconduct registry, limited qualified immunity, lowered the standard to convict an officer for federal misconduct, limited the use of no-knock warrants and established a framework to prevent racial profiling.

President Biden called for lawmakers to send him a bill on the one-year anniversary of Floyd's death, May 25, 2021, but talks continued past that date before eventually falling apart. 

Though Democrats expanded their majority in the Senate after last year's midterms, it's unclear what legislation could pass the House, which is now under Republican control. Just one Republican crossed party lines to back the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act in 2021.

In a separate interview on Sunday, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, expressed skepticism that legislation could have had an impact on what happened to Nichols.

“I don’t know if there is anything you can do to stop the kind of evil that we saw in that video,” Jordan told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, adding: “What strikes me is just a lack of respect for human life, so I don’t know that any law, any training, any reform is going to change … you know, this man was handcuffed, they continued to beat him.”

But with outcry from prominent figures on both sides of the aisle, including former President Donald Trump, Democratic lawmakers and advocates are hopeful that something can get done.

"I would hope we could move something.," California Rep. Ro Khanna told Spectrum News. "Our Senate has not passed any police reform. We've not done anything as a country."

"Even if we can't get the whole thing passed, the George Floyd Policing Act, hopefully we could get some provisions of it passed," Khanna added. "We need to do what we can to make progress."

"When you have Donald Trump condemning what happened, you should know that the country is pretty outraged," the California Democrat said, adding: "It would be an indictment of the Republican majority if they do not put forward serious reform bills."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.