PUBLIC LAW 106–572—DEC. 28, 2000

COMPUTER CRIME ENFORCEMENT ACT

114 STAT. 3058 PUBLIC LAW 106–572—DEC. 28, 2000

Public Law 106–572

106th Congress

An Act

To establish a grant program to assist State and local law enforcement in deterring,

investigating, and prosecuting computer crimes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of

the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Computer Crime Enforcement

Act’’.

SEC. 2. STATE GRANT PROGRAM FOR TRAINING AND PROSECUTION

OF COMPUTER CRIMES.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the availability of amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts, the Office of Justice Programs shall make a grant to each State, which shall be used

by the State, in conjunction with units of local government, State

and local courts, other States, or combinations thereof in accordance

with subsection (b).

(b) USE OF GRANT AMOUNTS.—Grants under this section may

be used to establish and develop programs to—

(1) assist State and local law enforcement agencies in

enforcing State and local criminal laws relating to computer

crime;

(2) assist State and local law enforcement agencies in educating the public to prevent and identify computer crime;

(3) educate and train State and local law enforcement

officers and prosecutors to conduct investigations and forensic

analyses of evidence and prosecutions of computer crime;

(4) assist State and local law enforcement officers and

prosecutors in acquiring computer and other equipment to conduct investigations and forensic analysis of evidence of computer crimes; and

(5) facilitate and promote the sharing of Federal law

enforcement expertise and information about the investigation,

analysis, and prosecution of computer crimes with State and

local law enforcement officers and prosecutors, including the

use of multijurisdictional task forces.

(c) ASSURANCES.—To be eligible to receive a grant under this

section, a State shall provide assurances to the Attorney General

that the State—

(1) has in effect laws that penalize computer crime, such

as criminal laws prohibiting—

(A) fraudulent schemes executed by means of a computer system or network;

42 USC 3713.

42 USC 3711

note.

Computer Crime

Enforcement Act.

Dec. 28, 2000

[H.R. 2816]

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(B) the unlawful damaging, destroying, altering,

deleting, removing of computer software, or data contained

in a computer, computer system, computer program, or

computer network; or

(C) the unlawful interference with the operation of

or denial of access to a computer, computer program, computer system, or computer network;

(2) an assessment of the State and local resource needs,

including criminal justice resources being devoted to the investigation and enforcement of computer crime laws; and

(3) a plan for coordinating the programs funded under

this section with other federally funded technical assistant

and training programs, including directly funded local programs

such as the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant program

(described under the heading ‘‘Violent Crime Reduction Programs, State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’ of the

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary,

and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 (Public Law

105–119)).

(d) MATCHING FUNDS.—The Federal share of a grant received

under this section may not exceed 90 percent of the costs of a

program or proposal funded under this section unless the Attorney

General waives, wholly or in part, the requirements of this subsection.

(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appropriated

to carry out this section $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years

2001 through 2004.

(2) LIMITATIONS.—Of the amount made available to carry

out this section in any fiscal year not more than 3 percent

may be used by the Attorney General for salaries and administrative expenses.

(3) MINIMUM AMOUNT.—Unless all eligible applications submitted by any State or unit of local government within such

State for a grant under this section have been funded, such

State, together with grantees within the State (other than

Indian tribes), shall be allocated in each fiscal year under

this section not less than 0.75 percent of the total amount

appropriated in the fiscal year for grants pursuant to this

section, except that the United States Virgin Islands, American

Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands each shall

be allocated 0.25 percent.

(f ) GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES.—Notwithstanding any other

provision of this section, the Attorney General may use amounts

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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2816 (S. 1314):

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 146 (2000):

Dec. 15, considered and passed House and Senate.

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made available under this section to make grants to Indian tribes

for use in accordance with this section.

Approved December 28, 2000.