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106TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. R. 4999

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

SEPTEMBER 20, 2000

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

AN ACT

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,
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

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

3 Enforcement Block Grants Act of 2000’’.

4 SEC. 2. BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM.

5 (a) PAYMENT AND USE.—

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

7 Justice Assistance shall pay to each unit of local

8 government which qualifies for a payment under this

9 Act an amount equal to the sum of any amounts al10 located to such unit under this Act for each payment

11 period. The Director shall pay such amount from

12 amounts appropriated to carry out this Act.

13 (2) USE.—Amounts paid to a unit of local gov14 ernment under this section shall be used by the unit

15 for reducing crime and improving public safety, in16 cluding but not limited to, one or more of the fol17 lowing purposes:

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

19 continuing basis new, additional law enforce20 ment officers and necessary support personnel.

21 (ii) Paying overtime to presently employed

22 law enforcement officers and necessary support

23 personnel for the purpose of increasing the

24 number of hours worked by such personnel.
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1 (iii) Procuring equipment, technology, and

2 other material directly related to basic law en3 forcement functions.

4 (B) Enhancing security measures—

5 (i) in and around schools; and

6 (ii) in and around any other facility or

7 location which is considered by the unit of

8 local government to have a special risk for

9 incidents of crime.

10 (C) Establishing crime prevention pro11 grams that may, though not exclusively, involve

12 law enforcement officials and that are intended

13 to discourage, disrupt, or interfere with the

14 commission of criminal activity, including

15 neighborhood watch and citizen patrol pro16 grams, sexual assault and domestic violence

17 programs, and programs intended to prevent ju18 venile crime.

19 (D) Establishing or supporting drug

20 courts.

21 (E) Establishing early intervention and

22 prevention programs for juveniles to reduce or

23 eliminate crime.

24 (F) Enhancing the adjudication process of

25 cases involving violent offenders, including the
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1 adjudication process of cases involving violent

2 juvenile offenders.

3 (G) Enhancing programs under subpart 1

4 of part E of the Omnibus Crime Control and

5 Safe Streets Act of 1968.

6 (H) Establishing cooperative task forces

7 between adjoining units of local government to

8 work cooperatively to prevent and combat crimi9 nal activity, particularly criminal activity that is

10 exacerbated by drug or gang-related involve11 ment.

12 (I) Establishing a multijurisdictional task

13 force, particularly in rural areas, composed of

14 law enforcement officials representing units of

15 local government, that works with Federal law

16 enforcement officials to prevent and control

17 crime.

18 (3) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this

19 subsection—

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

21 person charged with committing a part I violent

22 crime; and

23 (B) the term ‘‘drug courts’’ means a pro24 gram that involves—
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1 (i) continuing judicial supervision over

2 offenders with substance abuse problems

3 who are not violent offenders; and

4 (ii) the integrated administration of

5 other sanctions and services, which shall

6 include—

7 (I) mandatory periodic testing for

8 the use of controlled substances or

9 other addictive substances during any

10 period of supervised release or proba11 tion for each participant;

12 (II) substance abuse treatment

13 for each participant;

14 (III) probation, or other super15 vised release involving the possibility

16 of prosecution, confinement, or incar17 ceration based on noncompliance with

18 program requirements or failure to

19 show satisfactory progress; and

20 (IV) programmatic, offender

21 management, and aftercare services

22 such as relapse prevention, vocational

23 job training, job placement, and hous24 ing placement.
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1 (b) PROHIBITED USES.—Notwithstanding any other

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

3 expend any of the funds provided under this Act to pur4 chase, lease, rent, or otherwise acquire—

5 (1) tanks or armored personnel carriers;

6 (2) fixed wing aircraft;

7 (3) limousines;

8 (4) real estate;

9 (5) yachts;

10 (6) consultants; or

11 (7) vehicles not primarily used for law enforce12 ment,

13 unless the Attorney General certifies that extraordinary

14 and exigent circumstances exist that make the use of

15 funds for such purposes essential to the maintenance of

16 public safety and good order in such unit of local govern17 ment.

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

19 each unit of local government that has submitted an appli20 cation under this Act not later than—

21 (1) 90 days after the date that the amount is

22 available; or

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

24 unit of local government has provided the Director

25 with the assurances required by section 4(c),
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1 whichever is later.

2 (d) ADJUSTMENTS.—

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

4 the Director shall adjust a payment under this Act

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

6 prior payment to the unit of local government was

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

8 (2) CONSIDERATIONS.—The Director may in9 crease or decrease under this subsection a payment

10 to a unit of local government only if the Director de11 termines the need for the increase or decrease, or if

12 the unit requests the increase or decrease, not later

13 than 1 year after the end of the payment period for

14 which a payment was made.

15 (e) RESERVATION FOR ADJUSTMENT.—The Director

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

17 the amount under this section for a payment period for

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

19 considers the reserve is necessary to ensure the availability

20 of sufficient amounts to pay adjustments after the final

21 allocation of amounts among the units of local government

22 in the State.

23 (f) REPAYMENT OF UNEXPENDED AMOUNTS.—

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

25 government shall repay to the Director, by not later
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1 than 27 months after receipt of funds from the Di2 rector, any amount that is—

3 (A) paid to the unit from amounts appro4 priated under the authority of this section; and

5 (B) not expended by the unit within 2

6 years after receipt of such funds from the Di7 rector.

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

9 amount required to be repaid is not repaid, the Di10 rector shall reduce payment in future payment peri11 ods accordingly.

12 (3) DEPOSIT OF AMOUNTS REPAID.—Amounts

13 received by the Director as repayments under this

14 subsection shall be deposited in a designated fund

15 for future payments to units of local government.

16 Any amounts remaining in such designated fund

17 after 5 years following the enactment of the Local

18 Government Law Enforcement Block Grants Act of

19 2000 shall be applied to the Federal deficit or, if

20 there is no Federal deficit, to reducing the Federal

21 debt.

22 (g) NONSUPPLANTING REQUIREMENT.—Funds made

23 available under this Act to units of local government shall

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

25 be used to increase the amount of funds that would, in
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1 the absence of funds made available under this Act, be

2 made available from State or local sources.

3 (h) MATCHING FUNDS.—

4 (1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para5 graph (2), the Federal share of a grant received

6 under this Act may not exceed 90 percent of the

7 costs of a program or proposal funded under this

8 Act.

9 (2) EXCEPTION FOR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP.—

10 The Director may increase the Federal share under

11 paragraph (1) up to 100 percent for a unit of local

12 government upon a showing of financial hardship by

13 such unit.

14 SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

15 (a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There

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

17 (1) $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2001;

18 (2) $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2002;

19 (3) $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2003;

20 (4) $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2004; and

21 (5) $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2005.

22 (b) OVERSIGHT ACCOUNTABILITY AND ADMINISTRA23 TION.—Not more than 3 percent of the amount authorized

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

25 fiscal years 2001 through 2005 shall be available to the
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1 Attorney General for studying the overall effectiveness and

2 efficiency of the provisions of this Act, and assuring com3 pliance with the provisions of this Act and for administra4 tive costs to carry out the purposes of this Act. The Attor5 ney General shall establish and execute an oversight plan

6 for monitoring the activities of grant recipients. Such

7 sums are to remain available until expended.

8 (c) TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE.—The Attorney Gen9 eral shall reserve 1 percent in each of fiscal years 2001

10 through 2003 of the amount authorized to be appropriated

11 under subsection (a) for use by the National Institute of

12 Justice in assisting local units to identify, select, develop,

13 modernize, and purchase new technologies for use by law

14 enforcement.

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

16 appropriated under subsection (a) shall remain available

17 until expended.

18 SEC. 4. QUALIFICATION FOR PAYMENT.

19 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall issue regula20 tions establishing procedures under which a unit of local

21 government is required to provide notice to the Director

22 regarding the proposed use of funds made available under

23 this Act.
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1 (b) PROGRAM REVIEW.—The Director shall establish

2 a process for the ongoing evaluation of projects developed

3 with funds made available under this Act.

4 (c) GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR QUALIFICA5 TION.—A unit of local government qualifies for a payment

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

7 local government submits an application to the Director

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

9 (1) the unit of local government has established

10 a local advisory board that—

11 (A) includes, but is not limited to, a rep12 resentative from—

13 (i) the local police department or local

14 sheriff’s department;

15 (ii) the local prosecutor’s office;

16 (iii) the local court system;

17 (iv) the local public school system;

18 and

19 (v) a local nonprofit, educational, reli20 gious, or community group active in crime

21 prevention or drug use prevention or treat22 ment;

23 (B) has reviewed the application; and
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1 (C) is designated to make nonbinding rec2 ommendations to the unit of local government

3 for the use of funds received under this Act;

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

5 had not less than 20 days to review and comment

6 on the application prior to submission to the Direc7 tor;

8 (3)(A) the unit of local government will estab9 lish a trust fund in which the government will de10 posit all payments received under this Act; and

11 (B) the unit of local government will use

12 amounts in the trust fund (including interest) dur13 ing a period not to exceed 2 years from the date the

14 first grant payment is made to the unit of local gov15 ernment;

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

17 payments received in accordance with the laws and

18 procedures that are applicable to the expenditure of

19 revenues of the unit of local government;

20 (5) the unit of local government will use ac21 counting, audit, and fiscal procedures that conform

22 to guidelines which shall be prescribed by the Direc23 tor after consultation with the Comptroller General

24 and as applicable, amounts received under this Act
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1 shall be audited in compliance with the Single Audit

2 Act of 1984;

3 (6) after reasonable notice from the Director or

4 the Comptroller General to the unit of local govern5 ment, the unit of local government will make avail6 able to the Director and the Comptroller General,

7 with the right to inspect, records that the Director

8 reasonably requires to review compliance with this

9 Act or that the Comptroller General reasonably re10 quires to review compliance and operation;

11 (7) a designated official of the unit of local gov12 ernment shall make reports the Director reasonably

13 requires, in addition to the annual reports required

14 under this Act;

15 (8) the unit of local government will spend the

16 funds made available under this Act only for the

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

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

19 net gain in the number of law enforcement officers

20 who perform nonadministrative public safety service

21 if such unit uses funds received under this Act to in22 crease the number of law enforcement officers as de23 scribed under subparagraph (A) of section 2(a)(2);

24 (10) the unit of local government—
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1 (A) has an adequate process to assess the

2 impact of any enhancement of a school security

3 measure that is undertaken under subpara4 graph (B) of section 2(a)(2), or any crime pre5 vention programs that are established under

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

7 on the incidence of crime in the geographic area

8 where the enhancement is undertaken or the

9 program is established;

10 (B) will conduct such an assessment with

11 respect to each such enhancement or program;

12 and

13 (C) will submit an annual written assess14 ment report to the Director; and

15 (11) the unit of local government has estab16 lished procedures to give members of the Armed

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

18 are selected for involuntary separation (as described

19 in section 1141 of title 10, United States Code), ap20 proved for separation under section 1174a or 1175

21 of such title, or retired pursuant to the authority

22 provided under section 4403 of the Defense Conver23 sion, Reinvestment, and Transition Assistance Act of

24 1992 (division D of Public Law 102–484; 10 U.S.C.

25 1293 note), a suitable preference in the employment
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1 of persons as additional law enforcement officers or

2 support personnel using funds made available under

3 this Act. The nature and extent of such employment

4 preference shall be jointly established by the Attor5 ney General and the Secretary of Defense. To the

6 extent practicable, the Director shall endeavor to in7 form members who were separated between October

8 1, 1990, and the date of the enactment of this sec9 tion of their eligibility for the employment pref10 erence;

11 (d) SANCTIONS FOR NONCOMPLIANCE.—

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

13 that a unit of local government has not complied

14 substantially with the requirements or regulations

15 prescribed under subsections (a) and (c), the Direc16 tor shall notify the unit of local government that if

17 the unit of local government does not take corrective

18 action within 60 days of such notice, the Director

19 will withhold additional payments to the unit of local

20 government for the current and future payment peri21 ods until the Director is satisfied that the unit of

22 local government—

23 (A) has taken the appropriate corrective

24 action; and
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1 (B) will comply with the requirements and

2 regulations prescribed under subsections (a)

3 and (c).

4 (2) NOTICE.—Before giving notice under para5 graph (1), the Director shall give the chief executive

6 officer of the unit of local government reasonable no7 tice and an opportunity for comment.

8 (e) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT REQUIREMENT.—A

9 unit of local government qualifies for a payment under this

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

11 on law enforcement services (as reported by the Bureau

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

13 in which the payment period occurs were not less than

14 90 percent of the unit’s expenditures on such services for

15 the second fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which

16 the payment period occurs.

17 SEC. 5. ALLOCATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS.

18 (a) STATE SET-ASIDE.—

19 (1) IN GENERAL.—Of the total amounts appro20 priated for this Act for each payment period, the Di21 rector shall allocate for units of local government in

22 each State an amount that bears the same ratio to

23 such total as the average annual number of part 1

24 violent crimes reported by such State to the Federal

25 Bureau of Investigation for the 3 most recent cal-
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1 endar years for which such data is available, bears

2 to the number of part 1 violent crimes reported by

3 all States to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for

4 such years.

5 (2) MINIMUM REQUIREMENT.—Each State shall

6 receive not less than .25 percent of the total

7 amounts appropriated under section 3 under this

8 subsection for each payment period.

9 (3) PROPORTIONAL REDUCTION.—If amounts

10 available to carry out paragraph (2) for any pay11 ment period are insufficient to pay in full the total

12 payment that any State is otherwise eligible to re13 ceive under paragraph (1) for such period, then the

14 Director shall reduce payments under paragraph (1)

15 for such payment period to the extent of such insuf16 ficiency. Reductions under the preceding sentence

17 shall be allocated among the States (other than

18 States whose payment is determined under para19 graph (2)) in the same proportions as amounts

20 would be allocated under paragraph (1) without re21 gard to paragraph (2).

22 (b) LOCAL DISTRIBUTION.—

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

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

25 shall allocate—
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1 (A) among reporting units of local govern2 ment the reporting units’ share of such reserved

3 amount; and

4 (B) among nonreporting units of local gov5 ernment the nonreporting units’ share of the re6 served amount.

7 (2) AMOUNTS.—

8 (A) The reporting units’ share of the re9 served amount is the amount equal to the prod10 uct of such reserved amount multiplied by the

11 percentage which the population living in re12 porting units of local government in the State

13 bears to the population of all units of local gov14 ernment in the State.

15 (B) The nonreporting units’ share of the

16 reserved amount is the reserved amount re17 duced by the reporting units’ share of the re18 served amount.

19 (3) ALLOCATION TO EACH REPORTING UNIT.—

20 From the reporting units’ share of the reserved

21 amount for each State under subsection (a), the Di22 rector shall allocate to each reporting unit of local

23 government an amount which bears the same ratio

24 to such share as the average annual number of part

25 1 violent crimes reported by such unit to the Federal
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1 Bureau of Investigation for the 3 most recent cal2 endar years for which such data is available bears to

3 the number of part 1 violent crimes reported by all

4 units of local government in the State in which the

5 unit is located to the Federal Bureau of Investiga6 tion for such years.

7 (4) ALLOCATION TO EACH NONREPORTING

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

9 reserved amount for each State under subsection

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

11 unit of local government an amount which bears the

12 same ratio to such share as the average number of

13 part 1 violent crimes of like governmental units in

14 the same population class as such unit bears to the

15 average annual imputed number of part 1 violent

16 crimes of all nonreporting units in the State for the

17 3 most recent calendar years.

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

19 local government shall not receive an allocation

20 which exceeds 100 percent of such unit’s expendi21 tures on law enforcement services as reported by the

22 Bureau of the Census for the most recent fiscal

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

24 unit’s expenditures on law enforcement services shall

25 be distributed proportionally among units of local
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1 government whose allocation does not exceed 100

2 percent of expenditures on law enforcement services.

3 (6) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this

4 subsection—

5 (A) The term ‘‘reporting unit of local gov6 ernment’’ means any unit of local government

7 that reported part 1 violent crimes to the Fed8 eral Bureau of Investigation for the 3 most re9 cent calendar years for which such data is avail10 able.

11 (B) The term ‘‘nonreporting unit of local

12 government’’ means any unit of local govern13 ment which is not a reporting unit of local gov14 ernment.

15 (C)(i) The term ‘‘like governmental units’’

16 means any like unit of local government as de17 fined by the Secretary of Commerce for general

18 statistical purposes, and means—

19 (I) all counties are treated as like gov20 ernmental units;

21 (II) all cities are treated as like gov22 ernmental units;

23 (III) all townships are treated as like

24 governmental units.
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1 (ii) Similar rules shall apply to other types

2 of governmental units.

3 (D) The term ‘‘same population class’’

4 means a like unit within the same population

5 category as another like unit with the categories

6 determined as follows:

7 (i) 0 through 9,999.

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

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

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

11 (v) 300,000 or more.

12 (7) LOCAL GOVERNMENTS WITH ALLOCATIONS

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

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

15 $10,000 for the payment period, the amount allotted

16 shall be transferred to the chief executive officer of

17 the State who shall distribute such funds among

18 State police departments that provide law enforce19 ment services to units of local government and units

20 of local government whose allotment is less than

21 such amount in a manner which reduces crime and

22 improves public safety.

23 (8) SPECIAL RULES.—

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

25 State that has been incorporated since the date
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1 of the collection of the data used by the Direc2 tor in making allocations pursuant to this sec3 tion, such unit shall be treated as a nonre4 porting unit of local government for purposes of

5 this subsection.

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

7 State has been annexed since the date of the

8 collection of the data used by the Director in

9 making allocations pursuant to this section, the

10 Director shall pay the amount that would have

11 been allocated to such unit of local government

12 to the unit of local government that annexed it.

13 (9) RESOLUTION OF DISPARATE ALLOCA14 TIONS.—(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of

15 this Act, if—

16 (i) the attorney general of a State certifies

17 that a unit of local government under the juris18 diction of the State bears more than 50 percent

19 of the costs of prosecution or incarceration that

20 arise with respect to part 1 violent crimes re21 ported by a specified geographically constituent

22 unit of local government; and

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

24 funds allocated under this section to—
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1 (I) any one such specified geographi2 cally constituent unit of local government

3 exceeds 200 percent of the amount allo4 cated to the unit of local government cer5 tified pursuant to clause (i); or

6 (II) more than one such specified geo7 graphically constituent unit of local gov8 ernment (excluding units of local govern9 ment referred to subclause I and in para10 graph (7)), exceeds 400 percent of the

11 amount allocated to the unit of local gov12 ernment certified pursuant to clause (i)

13 and the attorney general of the State de14 termines that such allocation is likely to

15 threaten the efficient administration of jus16 tice,

17 then in order to qualify for payment under this Act,

18 the unit of local government certified pursuant to

19 clause (i), together with any such specified geo20 graphically constituent units of local government de21 scribed in clause (ii), shall submit to the Director a

22 joint application for the aggregate of funds allocated

23 to such units of local government. Such application

24 shall specify the amount of such funds that are to

25 be distributed to each of the units of local govern-
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1 ment and the purposes for which such funds are to

2 be used. The units of local government involved may

3 establish a joint local advisory board for the pur4 poses of carrying out this paragraph.

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

6 constituent unit of local government’’ means a unit

7 of local government that has jurisdiction over areas

8 located within the boundaries of an area over which

9 a unit of local government certified pursuant to

10 clause (i) has jurisdiction.

11 (c) UNAVAILABILITY AND INACCURACY OF INFORMA12 TION.—

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

14 section, if data regarding part 1 violent crimes in

15 any State for the 3 most recent calendar years is

16 unavailable or substantially inaccurate, the Director

17 shall utilize the best available comparable data re18 garding the number of violent crimes for such years

19 for such State for the purposes of allocation of any

20 funds under this Act.

21 (2) POSSIBLE INACCURACY OF DATA FOR UNITS

22 OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.—In addition to the provi23 sions of paragraph (1), if the Director believes that

24 the reported rate of part 1 violent crimes for a unit
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1 of local government is inaccurate, the Director

2 shall—

3 (A) investigate the methodology used by

4 such unit to determine the accuracy of the sub5 mitted data; and

6 (B) when necessary, use the best available

7 comparable data regarding the number of vio8 lent crimes for such years for such unit of local

9 government.

10 SEC. 6. UTILIZATION OF PRIVATE SECTOR.

11 Funds or a portion of funds allocated under this Act

12 may be utilized to contract with private, nonprofit entities

13 or community-based organizations to carry out the pur14 poses specified under section 2(a)(2).

15 SEC. 7. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.

16 (a) IN GENERAL.—A unit of local government ex17 pending payments under this Act shall hold not less than

18 1 public hearing on the proposed use of the payment from

19 the Director in relation to its entire budget.

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

21 an opportunity to provide written and oral views to the

22 unit of local government authority responsible for enacting

23 the budget and to ask questions about the entire budget

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

25 entire budget.
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1 (c) TIME AND PLACE.—The unit of local government

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

3 encourages public attendance and participation.

4 SEC. 8. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.

5 The administrative provisions of part H of the Omni6 bus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, shall

7 apply to this Act and for purposes of this section any ref8 erence in such provisions to title I of the Omnibus Crime

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

10 be a reference to this Act.

11 SEC. 9. DEFINITIONS.

12 For the purposes of this Act:

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

14 means—

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

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

17 is a unit of local government as determined by

18 the Secretary of Commerce for general statis19 tical purposes; and

20 (B) the District of Columbia and the rec21 ognized governing body of an Indian tribe or

22 Alaskan Native village that carries out substan23 tial governmental duties and powers.
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1 (2) The term ‘‘payment period’’ means each 1-

2 year period beginning on October 1 of any year in

3 which a grant under this Act is awarded.

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

5 United States, the District of Columbia, the Com6 monwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Amer7 ican Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Is8 lands.

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

10 who is 17 years of age or younger.

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

12 murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible

13 rape, robbery, and aggravated assault as reported to

14 the Federal Bureau of Investigation for purposes of

15 the Uniform Crime Reports.

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

17 the Bureau of Justice Assistance.

Passed the House of Representatives September 19,

2000.

Attest: JEFF TRANDAHL,

Clerk.