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103D CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. R. 4234

To make grants to local educational agencies and community-based organizations to provide assistance to localities most directly affected by hate

crimes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APRIL 14, 1994

Ms. VELA ́ZQUEZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to the

Committee on Education and Labor

A BILL

To make grants to local educational agencies and communitybased organizations to provide assistance to localities

most directly affected by hate crimes.

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

3 SECTION 1. HATE CRIME PREVENTION.

4 (a) GRANT AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary of Edu5 cation may make grants to local educational agencies and

6 community-based organizations for the purpose of provid7 ing assistance to localities most directly affected by hate

8 crimes.

9 (b) USE OF FUNDS.—
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1 (1) PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT.—Grants under

2 this section may be used to improve elementary and

3 secondary educational efforts, including—

4 (A) development of education and training

5 programs designed to prevent and to reduce the

6 incidence of crimes and conflicts motivated by

7 hate;

8 (B) development of curricula for the pur9 pose of improving conflict or dispute resolution

10 skills of students, teachers, and administrators;

11 (C) development and acquisition of equip12 ment and instructional materials to meet the

13 needs of, or otherwise be part of, hate crime or

14 conflict programs; and

15 (D) professional training and development

16 for teachers and administrators on the causes,

17 effects, and resolutions of hate crimes or hate18 based conflicts.

19 (2) IN GENERAL.—In order to be eligible to re20 ceive a grant under this section for any fiscal year,

21 a local educational agency or a local educational

22 agency in conjunction with a community-based orga23 nization shall submit an application to the Secretary

24 in such form and containing such information as the

25 office may reasonably require.
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1 (3) REQUIREMENTS.—Each application under

2 subsection (a) shall include—

3 (A) a request for funds for the purposes

4 described in this section;

5 (B) a description of the schools and com6 munities to be served by the grants; and

7 (C) assurances that Federal funds received

8 under this section shall be used to supplement,

9 not supplant, non-Federal funds.

10 (4) COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.—Each application

11 shall include a comprehensive plan that contains—

12 (A) a description of the hate crime or con13 flict problems within the schools or the commu14 nity targeted for assistance;

15 (B) a description of the program to be de16 veloped or augmented by these Federal and

17 matching funds;

18 (C) assurances that such program or activ19 ity shall be administered by or under the super20 vision of the applicant;

21 (D) proper and efficient administration of

22 such program; and

23 (E) fiscal control and fund accounting pro24 cedures as may be necessary to ensure prudent
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1 use, proper disbursement, and accurate ac2 counting of funds received under this section.

3 (c) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—From the funds au4 thorized under this Act. The Secretary of Education may

5 carry out programs under this section.

6 (d) AWARD OF GRANTS.—

7 (1) SELECTION OF RECIPIENTS.—The Sec8 retary shall consider the incidence of crimes and

9 conflicts motivated by bias in the targeted schools

10 and communities in awarding grants under this

11 section.

12 (2) GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION.—The Sec13 retary shall attempt, to the extent practicable, to

14 achieve an equitable geographic distribution of grant

15 awards.

16 (3) DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION.—The

17 Secretary shall attempt, to the extent practicable, to

18 make available information regarding successful hate

19 crime prevention programs, including programs es20 tablished or expanded with grants under this section.

21 (e) REPORTS.—The Secretary shall submit to the

22 Congress a report every 2 years which shall contain a de23 tailed statement regarding grants and awards, activities

24 of grant recipients and an evaluation of programs estab25 lished under this section.
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1 (f) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section—

2 (1) the term ‘hate crime’ means a crime as de3 fined by the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990;

4 (2) the term ‘local educational agency’ means a

5 public board of education or other public authority

6 legally constituted within a State for either adminis7 trative control or direction of, or to perform a serv8 ice function for, public elementary and secondary

9 schools in a city, county, township, school district, or

10 other political subdivision of a State, or such com11 bination of school districts or counties as are recog12 nized in a State as an administrative agency for its

13 public elementary and secondary schools and in14 cludes any other public institution or agency having

15 administrative control and direction of a public ele16 mentary or secondary school; and

17 (3) the term ‘community-based organization’

18 means a private nonprofit organization which is rep19 resentative of a community or significant segments

20 of a community and which provides educational or

21 related services to individuals in the community.

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