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106TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. R. 4999

To control crime by providing law enforcement block grants.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JULY 27, 2000

Mr. MCCOLLUM (for himself and Mr. FLETCHER) introduced the following

bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To control crime by providing law enforcement block grants.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Local Government Law

5 Enforcement Block Grants Act of 2000’’.

6 SEC. 2. BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM.

7 (a) PAYMENT AND USE.—

8 (1) PAYMENT.—The Director of the Bureau of

9 Justice Assistance shall pay to each unit of local

10 government which qualifies for a payment under this

11 Act an amount equal to the sum of any amounts al12 located to such unit under this Act for each payment
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1 period. The Director shall pay such amount from

2 amounts appropriated to carry out this Act.

3 (2) USE.—Amounts paid to a unit of local gov4 ernment under this section shall be used by the unit

5 for reducing crime and improving public safety, in6 cluding but not limited to, 1 or more of the following

7 purposes:

8 (A)(i) Hiring, training, and employing on a

9 continuing basis new, additional law enforce10 ment officers and necessary support personnel.

11 (ii) Paying overtime to presently employed

12 law enforcement officers and necessary support

13 personnel for the purpose of increasing the

14 number of hours worked by such personnel.

15 (iii) Procuring equipment, technology, and

16 other material directly related to basic law en17 forcement functions.

18 (B) Enhancing security measures—

19 (i) in and around schools; and

20 (ii) in and around any other facility or

21 location which is considered by the unit of

22 local government to have a special risk for

23 incidents of crime.

24 (C) Establishing crime prevention pro25 grams that may, though not exclusively, involve
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1 law enforcement officials and that are intended

2 to discourage, disrupt, or interfere with the

3 commission of criminal activity, including

4 neighborhood watch and citizen patrol pro5 grams, sexual assault and domestic violence

6 programs, and programs intended to prevent ju7 venile crime.

8 (D) Establishing or supporting drug

9 courts.

10 (E) Establishing early intervention and

11 prevention programs for juveniles to reduce or

12 eliminate crime.

13 (F) Enhancing the adjudication process of

14 cases involving violent offenders, including the

15 adjudication process of cases involving violent

16 juvenile offenders.

17 (G) Enhancing programs under subpart 1

18 of part E of the Omnibus Crime Control and

19 Safe Streets Act of 1968.

20 (H) Establishing cooperative task forces

21 between adjoining units of local government to

22 work cooperatively to prevent and combat crimi23 nal activity, particularly criminal activity that is

24 exacerbated by drug or gang-related involve25 ment.
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1 (I) Establishing a multijurisdictional task

2 force, particularly in rural areas, composed of

3 law enforcement officials representing units of

4 local government, that works with Federal law

5 enforcement officials to prevent and control

6 crime.

7 (3) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this

8 subsection—

9 (A) the term ‘‘violent offender’’ means a

10 person charged with committing a part I violent

11 crime; and

12 (B) the term ‘‘drug courts’’ means a pro13 gram that involves—

14 (i) continuing judicial supervision over

15 offenders with substance abuse problems

16 who are not violent offenders; and

17 (ii) the integrated administration of

18 other sanctions and services, which shall

19 include—

20 (I) mandatory periodic testing for

21 the use of controlled substances or

22 other addictive substances during any

23 period of supervised release or proba24 tion for each participant;
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1 (II) substance abuse treatment

2 for each participant;

3 (III) probation, or other super4 vised release involving the possibility

5 of prosecution, confinement, or incar6 ceration based on noncompliance with

7 program requirements or failure to

8 show satisfactory progress; and

9 (IV) programmatic, offender

10 management, and aftercare services

11 such as relapse prevention, vocational

12 job training, job placement, and hous13 ing placement.

14 (b) PROHIBITED USES.—Notwithstanding any other

15 provision of this Act, a unit of local government may not

16 expend any of the funds provided under this Act to pur17 chase, lease, rent, or otherwise acquire—

18 (1) tanks or armored personnel carriers;

19 (2) fixed wing aircraft;

20 (3) limousines;

21 (4) real estate;

22 (5) yachts;

23 (6) consultants; or

24 (7) vehicles not primarily used for law enforce25 ment;
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1 unless the Attorney General certifies that extraordinary

2 and exigent circumstances exist that make the use of

3 funds for such purposes essential to the maintenance of

4 public safety and good order in such unit of local govern5 ment.

6 (c) TIMING OF PAYMENTS.—The Director shall pay

7 each unit of local government that has submitted an appli8 cation under this Act not later than—

9 (1) 90 days after the date that the amount is

10 available, or

11 (2) the first day of the payment period if the

12 unit of local government has provided the Director

13 with the assurances required by section 4(c),

14 whichever is later.

15 (d) ADJUSTMENTS.—

16 (1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2),

17 the Director shall adjust a payment under this Act

18 to a unit of local government to the extent that a

19 prior payment to the unit of local government was

20 more or less than the amount required to be paid.

21 (2) CONSIDERATIONS.—The Director may in22 crease or decrease under this subsection a payment

23 to a unit of local government only if the Director de24 termines the need for the increase or decrease, or if

25 the unit requests the increase or decrease, not later
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1 than 1 year after the end of the payment period for

2 which a payment was made.

3 (e) RESERVATION FOR ADJUSTMENT.—The Director

4 may reserve a percentage of not more than 2 percent of

5 the amount under this section for a payment period for

6 all units of local government in a State if the Director

7 considers the reserve is necessary to ensure the availability

8 of sufficient amounts to pay adjustments after the final

9 allocation of amounts among the units of local government

10 in the State.

11 (f) REPAYMENT OF UNEXPENDED AMOUNTS.—

12 (1) REPAYMENT REQUIRED.—A unit of local

13 government shall repay to the Director, by not later

14 than 27 months after receipt of funds from the Di15 rector, any amount that is—

16 (A) paid to the unit from amounts appro17 priated under the authority of this section; and

18 (B) not expended by the unit within 2

19 years after receipt of such funds from the Di20 rector.

21 (2) PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO REPAY.—If the

22 amount required to be repaid is not repaid, the Di23 rector shall reduce payment in future payment peri24 ods accordingly.
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1 (3) DEPOSIT OF AMOUNTS REPAID.—Amounts

2 received by the Director as repayments under this

3 subsection shall be deposited in a designated fund

4 for future payments to units of local government.

5 Any amounts remaining in such designated fund

6 after 5 years following the enactment of the Local

7 Government Law Enforcement Block Grants Act of

8 2000 shall be applied to the Federal deficit or, if

9 there is no Federal deficit, to reducing the Federal

10 debt.

11 (g) NONSUPPLANTING REQUIREMENT.—Funds made

12 available under this Act to units of local government shall

13 not be used to supplant State or local funds, but shall

14 be used to increase the amount of funds that would, in

15 the absence of funds made available under this Act, be

16 made available from State or local sources.

17 (h) MATCHING FUNDS.—

18 (1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para19 graph (2), the Federal share of a grant received

20 under this Act may not exceed 90 percent of the

21 costs of a program or proposal funded under this

22 Act.

23 (2) EXCEPTION FOR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP.—

24 The Director may increase the Federal share under

25 paragraph (1) up to 100 percent for a unit of local
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1 government upon a showing of financial hardship by

2 such unit.

3 SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

4 (a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There

5 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act—

6 (1) $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2001;

7 (2) $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2002;

8 (3) $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2003;

9 (4) $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2004; and

10 (5) $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2005.

11 (b) OVERSIGHT ACCOUNTABILITY AND ADMINISTRA12 TION.—Not more than 3 percent of the amount authorized

13 to be appropriated under subsection (a) for each of the

14 fiscal years 2001 through 2005 shall be available to the

15 Attorney General for studying the overall effectiveness and

16 efficiency of the provisions of this Act, and assuring com17 pliance with the provisions of this Act and for administra18 tive costs to carry out the purposes of this Act. The Attor19 ney General shall establish and execute an oversight plan

20 for monitoring the activities of grant recipients. Such

21 sums are to remain available until expended.

22 (c) TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE.—The Attorney Gen23 eral shall reserve 1 percent in each of fiscal years 2001

24 through 2003 of the amount authorized to be appropriated

25 under subsection (a) for use by the National Institute of
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1 Justice in assisting local units to identify, select, develop,

2 modernize, and purchase new technologies for use by law

3 enforcement.

4 (d) AVAILABILITY.—The amounts authorized to be

5 appropriated under subsection (a) shall remain available

6 until expended.

7 SEC. 4. QUALIFICATION FOR PAYMENT.

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall issue regula9 tions establishing procedures under which a unit of local

10 government is required to provide notice to the Director

11 regarding the proposed use of funds made available under

12 this Act.

13 (b) PROGRAM REVIEW.—The Director shall establish

14 a process for the ongoing evaluation of projects developed

15 with funds made available under this Act.

16 (c) GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR QUALIFICA17 TION.—A unit of local government qualifies for a payment

18 under this Act for a payment period only if the unit of

19 local government submits an application to the Director

20 and establishes, to the satisfaction of the Director, that—

21 (1) the unit of local government has established

22 a local advisory board that—

23 (A) includes, but is not limited to, a rep24 resentative from—
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1 (i) the local police department or local

2 sheriff’s department;

3 (ii) the local prosecutor’s office;

4 (iii) the local court system;

5 (iv) the local public school system;

6 and

7 (v) a local nonprofit, educational, reli8 gious, or community group active in crime

9 prevention or drug use prevention or treat10 ment;

11 (B) has reviewed the application; and

12 (C) is designated to make nonbinding rec13 ommendations to the unit of local government

14 for the use of funds received under this Act;

15 (2) the chief executive officer of the State has

16 had not less than 20 days to review and comment

17 on the application prior to submission to the Direc18 tor;

19 (3)(A) the unit of local government will estab20 lish a trust fund in which the government will de21 posit all payments received under this Act; and

22 (B) the unit of local government will use

23 amounts in the trust fund (including interest) dur24 ing a period not to exceed 2 years from the date the
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1 first grant payment is made to the unit of local gov2 ernment;

3 (4) the unit of local government will expend the

4 payments received in accordance with the laws and

5 procedures that are applicable to the expenditure of

6 revenues of the unit of local government;

7 (5) the unit of local government will use ac8 counting, audit, and fiscal procedures that conform

9 to guidelines which shall be prescribed by the Direc10 tor after consultation with the Comptroller General

11 and as applicable, amounts received under this Act

12 shall be audited in compliance with the Single Audit

13 Act of 1984;

14 (6) after reasonable notice from the Director or

15 the Comptroller General to the unit of local govern16 ment, the unit of local government will make avail17 able to the Director and the Comptroller General,

18 with the right to inspect, records that the Director

19 reasonably requires to review compliance with this

20 Act or that the Comptroller General reasonably re21 quires to review compliance and operation;

22 (7) a designated official of the unit of local gov23 ernment shall make reports the Director reasonably

24 requires, in addition to the annual reports required

25 under this Act;
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1 (8) the unit of local government will spend the

2 funds made available under this Act only for the

3 purposes set forth in section 2(a)(2);

4 (9) the unit of local government will achieve a

5 net gain in the number of law enforcement officers

6 who perform nonadministrative public safety service

7 if such unit uses funds received under this Act to in8 crease the number of law enforcement officers as de9 scribed under subparagraph (A) of section 2(a)(2);

10 (10) the unit of local government—

11 (A) has an adequate process to assess the

12 impact of any enhancement of a school security

13 measure that is undertaken under subpara14 graph (B) of section 2(a)(2), or any crime pre15 vention programs that are established under

16 subparagraphs (C) and (E) of section 2(a)(2),

17 on the incidence of crime in the geographic area

18 where the enhancement is undertaken or the

19 program is established;

20 (B) will conduct such an assessment with

21 respect to each such enhancement or program;

22 and

23 (C) will submit an annual written assess24 ment report to the Director; and
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1 (11) the unit of local government has estab2 lished procedures to give members of the Armed

3 Forces who, on or after October 1, 1990, were or

4 are selected for involuntary separation (as described

5 in section 1141 of title 10, United States Code), ap6 proved for separation under section 1174a or 1175

7 of such title, or retired pursuant to the authority

8 provided under section 4403 of the Defense Conver9 sion, Reinvestment, and Transition Assistance Act of

10 1992 (division D of Public Law 102–484; 10 U.S.C.

11 1293 note), a suitable preference in the employment

12 of persons as additional law enforcement officers or

13 support personnel using funds made available under

14 this Act. The nature and extent of such employment

15 preference shall be jointly established by the Attor16 ney General and the Secretary of Defense. To the

17 extent practicable, the Director shall endeavor to in18 form members who were separated between October

19 1, 1990, and the date of the enactment of this sec20 tion of their eligibility for the employment pref21 erence;

22 (d) SANCTIONS FOR NONCOMPLIANCE.—

23 (1) IN GENERAL.—If the Director determines

24 that a unit of local government has not complied

25 substantially with the requirements or regulations
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1 prescribed under subsections (a) and (c), the Direc2 tor shall notify the unit of local government that if

3 the unit of local government does not take corrective

4 action within 60 days of such notice, the Director

5 will withhold additional payments to the unit of local

6 government for the current and future payment peri7 ods until the Director is satisfied that the unit of

8 local government—

9 (A) has taken the appropriate corrective

10 action; and

11 (B) will comply with the requirements and

12 regulations prescribed under subsections (a)

13 and (c).

14 (2) NOTICE.—Before giving notice under para15 graph (1), the Director shall give the chief executive

16 officer of the unit of local government reasonable no17 tice and an opportunity for comment.

18 (e) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT REQUIREMENT.—A

19 unit of local government qualifies for a payment under this

20 Act for a payment period only if the unit’s expenditures

21 on law enforcement services (as reported by the Bureau

22 of the Census) for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year

23 in which the payment period occurs were not less than

24 90 percent of the unit’s expenditures on such services for
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1 the second fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which

2 the payment period occurs.

3 SEC. 5. ALLOCATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS.

4 (a) STATE SET-ASIDE.—

5 (1) IN GENERAL.—Of the total amounts appro6 priated for this Act for each payment period, the Di7 rector shall allocate for units of local government in

8 each State an amount that bears the same ratio to

9 such total as the average annual number of part 1

10 violent crimes reported by such State to the Federal

11 Bureau of Investigation for the 3 most recent cal12 endar years for which such data is available, bears

13 to the number of part 1 violent crimes reported by

14 all States to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for

15 such years.

16 (2) MINIMUM REQUIREMENT.—Each State shall

17 receive not less than .25 percent of the total

18 amounts appropriated under section 3 under this

19 subsection for each payment period.

20 (3) PROPORTIONAL REDUCTION.—If amounts

21 available to carry out paragraph (2) for any pay22 ment period are insufficient to pay in full the total

23 payment that any State is otherwise eligible to re24 ceive under paragraph (1) for such period, then the

25 Director shall reduce payments under paragraph (1)
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1 for such payment period to the extent of such insuf2 ficiency. Reductions under the preceding sentence

3 shall be allocated among the States (other than

4 States whose payment is determined under para5 graph (2)) in the same proportions as amounts

6 would be allocated under paragraph (1) without re7 gard to paragraph (2).

8 (b) LOCAL DISTRIBUTION.—

9 (1) IN GENERAL.—From the amount reserved

10 for each State under subsection (a), the Director

11 shall allocate—

12 (A) among reporting units of local govern13 ment the reporting units’ share of such reserved

14 amount, and

15 (B) among nonreporting units of local gov16 ernment the nonreporting units’ share of the re17 served amount.

18 (2) AMOUNTS.—

19 (A) The reporting units’ share of the re20 served amount is the amount equal to the prod21 uct of such reserved amount multiplied by the

22 percentage which the population living in re23 porting units of local government in the State

24 bears to the population of all units of local gov25 ernment in the State.
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1 (B) The nonreporting units’ share of the

2 reserved amount is the reserved amount re3 duced by the reporting units’ share of the re4 served amount.

5 (3) ALLOCATION TO EACH REPORTING UNIT.—

6 From the reporting units’ share of the reserved

7 amount for each State under subsection (a), the Di8 rector shall allocate to each reporting unit of local

9 government an amount which bears the same ratio

10 to such share as the average annual number of part

11 1 violent crimes reported by such unit to the Federal

12 Bureau of Investigation for the 3 most recent cal13 endar years for which such data is available bears to

14 the number of part 1 violent crimes reported by all

15 units of local government in the State in which the

16 unit is located to the Federal Bureau of Investiga17 tion for such years.

18 (4) ALLOCATION TO EACH NONREPORTING

19 UNIT.—From the nonreporting units’ share of the

20 reserved amount for each State under subsection

21 (a), the Director shall allocate to each nonreporting

22 unit of local government an amount which bears the

23 same ratio to such share as the average number of

24 part 1 violent crimes of like governmental units in

25 the same population class as such unit bears to the
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1 average annual imputed number of part 1 violent

2 crimes of all nonreporting units in the State for the

3 3 most recent calendar years.

4 (5) LIMITATION ON ALLOCATIONS.—A unit of

5 local government shall not receive an allocation

6 which exceeds 100 percent of such unit’s expendi7 tures on law enforcement services as reported by the

8 Bureau of the Census for the most recent fiscal

9 year. Any amount in excess of 100 percent of such

10 unit’s expenditures on law enforcement services shall

11 be distributed proportionally among units of local

12 government whose allocation does not exceed 100

13 percent of expenditures on law enforcement services.

14 (6) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this

15 subsection—

16 (A) The term ‘reporting unit of local gov17 ernment’ means any unit of local government

18 that reported part 1 violent crimes to the Fed19 eral Bureau of Investigation for the 3 most re20 cent calendar years for which such data is avail21 able.

22 (B) The term ‘nonreporting unit of local

23 government’ means any unit of local govern24 ment which is not a reporting unit of local gov25 ernment.
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1 (C)(i) The term ‘like governmental units’

2 means any like unit of local government as de3 fined by the Secretary of Commerce for general

4 statistical purposes, and means—

5 (I) all counties are treated as like gov6 ernmental units;

7 (II) all cities are treated as like gov8 ernmental units;

9 (III) all townships are treated as like

10 governmental units.

11 (ii) Similar rules shall apply to other types

12 of governmental units.

13 (D) The term ‘same population class’

14 means a like unit within the same population

15 category as another like unit with the categories

16 determined as follows:

17 (i) 0 through 9,999.

18 (ii) 10,000 through 49,999.

19 (iii) 50,000 through 149,999.

20 (iv) 150,000 through 299,999.

21 (v) 300,000 or more.

22 (7) LOCAL GOVERNMENTS WITH ALLOCATIONS

23 OF LESS THAN $10,000.—If under paragraph (3) or

24 (4) a unit of local government is allotted less than

25 $10,000 for the payment period, the amount allotted
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1 shall be transferred to the chief executive officer of

2 the State who shall distribute such funds among

3 State police departments that provide law enforce4 ment services to units of local government and units

5 of local government whose allotment is less than

6 such amount in a manner which reduces crime and

7 improves public safety.

8 (8) SPECIAL RULES.—

9 (A) If a unit of local government in a

10 State that has been incorporated since the date

11 of the collection of the data used by the Direc12 tor in making allocations pursuant to this sec13 tion, such unit shall be treated as a nonre14 porting unit of local government for purposes of

15 this subsection.

16 (B) If a unit of local government in the

17 State has been annexed since the date of the

18 collection of the data used by the Director in

19 making allocations pursuant to this section, the

20 Director shall pay the amount that would have

21 been allocated to such unit of local government

22 to the unit of local government that annexed it.

23 (9) RESOLUTION OF DISPARATE ALLOCA24 TIONS.—(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of

25 this Act, if—
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1 (i) the attorney general of a State certifies

2 that a unit of local government under the juris3 diction of the State bears more than 50 percent

4 of the costs of prosecution or incarceration that

5 arise with respect to part 1 violent crimes re6 ported by a specified geographically constituent

7 unit of local government, and

8 (ii) but for this paragraph, the amount of

9 funds allocated under this section to—

10 (I) any one such specified geographi11 cally constituent unit of local government

12 exceeds 200 percent of the amount allo13 cated to the unit of local government cer14 tified pursuant to clause (i), or

15 (II) more than one such specified geo16 graphically constituent unit of local gov17 ernment (excluding units of local govern18 ment referred to subclause I and in para19 graph (7)), exceeds 400 percent of the

20 amount allocated to the unit of local gov21 ernment certified pursuant to clause (i)

22 and the attorney general of the State de23 termines that such allocation is likely to

24 threaten the efficient administration of jus25 tice,
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1 then in order to qualify for payment under this Act,

2 the unit of local government certified pursuant to

3 clause (i), together with any such specified geo4 graphically constituent units of local government de5 scribed in clause (ii), shall submit to the Director a

6 joint application for the aggregate of funds allocated

7 to such units of local government. Such application

8 shall specify the amount of such funds that are to

9 be distributed to each of the units of local govern10 ment and the purposes for which such funds are to

11 be used. The units of local government involved may

12 establish a joint local advisory board for the pur13 poses of carrying out this paragraph.

14 (B) In this paragraph, the term ‘‘geographically

15 constituent unit of local government’’ means a unit

16 of local government that has jurisdiction over areas

17 located within the boundaries of an area over which

18 a unit of local government certified pursuant to

19 clause (i) has jurisdiction.

20 (c) UNAVAILABILITY AND INACCURACY OF INFORMA21 TION.—

22 (1) DATA FOR STATES.—For purposes of this

23 section, if data regarding part 1 violent crimes in

24 any State for the 3 most recent calendar years is

25 unavailable or substantially inaccurate, the Director
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1 shall utilize the best available comparable data re2 garding the number of violent crimes for such years

3 for such State for the purposes of allocation of any

4 funds under this Act.

5 (2) POSSIBLE INACCURACY OF DATA FOR UNITS

6 OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.—In addition to the provi7 sions of paragraph (1), if the Director believes that

8 the reported rate of part 1 violent crimes for a unit

9 of local government is inaccurate, the Director

10 shall—

11 (A) investigate the methodology used by

12 such unit to determine the accuracy of the sub13 mitted data; and

14 (B) when necessary, use the best available

15 comparable data regarding the number of vio16 lent crimes for such years for such unit of local

17 government.

18 SEC. 6. UTILIZATION OF PRIVATE SECTOR.

19 Funds or a portion of funds allocated under this Act

20 may be utilized to contract with private, nonprofit entities

21 or community-based organizations to carry out the pur22 poses specified under section 2(a)(2).

23 SEC. 7. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.

24 (a) IN GENERAL.—A unit of local government ex25 pending payments under this Act shall hold not less than
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1 1 public hearing on the proposed use of the payment from

2 the Director in relation to its entire budget.

3 (b) VIEWS.—At the hearing, persons shall be given

4 an opportunity to provide written and oral views to the

5 unit of local government authority responsible for enacting

6 the budget and to ask questions about the entire budget

7 and the relation of the payment from the Director to the

8 entire budget.

9 (c) TIME AND PLACE.—The unit of local government

10 shall hold the hearing at a time and place that allows and

11 encourages public attendance and participation.

12 SEC. 8. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.

13 The administrative provisions of part H of the Omni14 bus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, shall

15 apply to this Act and for purposes of this section any ref16 erence in such provisions to title I of the Omnibus Crime

17 Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 shall be deemed to

18 be a reference to this Act.

19 SEC. 9. DEFINITIONS.

20 For the purposes of this Act:

21 (1) The term ‘‘unit of local government’’

22 means—

23 (A) a county, township, city, or political

24 subdivision of a county, township, or city, that

25 is a unit of local government as determined by
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1 the Secretary of Commerce for general statis2 tical purposes; and

3 (B) the District of Columbia and the rec4 ognized governing body of an Indian tribe or

5 Alaskan Native village that carries out substan6 tial governmental duties and powers.

7 (2) The term ‘‘payment period’’ means each 1-

8 year period beginning on October 1 of any year in

9 which a grant under this Act is awarded.

10 (3) The term ‘‘State’’ means any State of the

11 United States, the District of Columbia, the Com12 monwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Amer13 ican Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Is14 lands, except that American Samoa. Guam, and the

15 Northern Mariana Islands shall be considered as 1

16 State and that, for purposes of section 5(a), 33 per17 cent of the amounts allocated shall be allocated to

18 American Samoa, 50 percent to Guam, and 17 per19 cent to the Northern Mariana Islands.

20 (4) The term ‘‘juvenile’’ means an individual

21 who is 17 years of age or younger.

22 (5) The term ‘‘part 1 violent crimes’’ means

23 murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible

24 rape, robbery, and aggravated assault as reported to
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1 the Federal Bureau of Investigation for purposes of

2 the Uniform Crime Reports.

3 (6) The term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of

4 the Bureau of Justice Assistance.

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