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118TH CONGRESS 

2ND SESSION S. 3980 

To award grants to local educational agencies to operate after school programs 

in certain areas with a high rate of juvenile crime. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 19, 2024 

Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself and Ms. CORTEZ MASTO) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 

Judiciary 

A BILL 

To award grants to local educational agencies to operate 

after school programs in certain areas with a high rate 

of juvenile crime. 

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 ‘‘Advancing Frequent 

5 and Tailored Education to Rebuild Safe Communities and 

6 Help Orchestrate Opportunities and Learning Act’’ or the 

7 ‘‘AFTER SCHOOL Act’’. 

8 SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS. 

9 (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 


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1 (1) ESEA TERMS.—The terms ‘‘local edu2 cational agency’’ and ‘‘secondary school’’ have the 

3 meanings given those terms in section 8101 of the 

4 Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 

5 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 

6 (2) ELIGIBLE LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.— 

7 The term ‘‘eligible local educational agency’’ means 

8 a local educational agency that serves 1 or more sec9 ondary schools that are located in a county in which 

10 the juvenile offense rate is not less than 10 percent. 

11 (3) ELIGIBLE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.—The 

12 term ‘‘eligible nonprofit organization’’ means an or13 ganization described in section 501(c)(3) and exempt 

14 from tax under section 501(a) of the Internal Rev15 enue Code of 1986 that has experience in operating 

16 an after school program or similar program for sec17 ondary school students. 

18 (4) ELIGIBLE STUDENTS.—The term ‘‘eligible 

19 students’’ means students in any of grades 6 

20 through 12. 

21 (5) JUVENILE OFFENSE RATE.—The term ‘‘ju22 venile offense rate’’ means the percentage of violent 

23 offenses committed by any individual who is not 

24 more than 19 years of age as compared to the total 

25 number of violent offenses committed by all age 


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1 groups in a given county, as published in the Uni2 form Crime Reporting Program of the Federal Bu3 reau of Investigation. 

4 (b) PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.—The Attorney General 

5 shall award grants, in accordance with subsection (c), to 

6 eligible local educational agencies that have an approved 

7 application in order to enable those eligible local edu8 cational agencies to provide after school programs for eli9 gible students, as described in subsection (e). 

10 (c) FORMULA.—From the total amount made avail11 able to carry out this section, the Attorney General shall 

12 allot to each eligible local educational agency having an 

13 application approved under subsection (d), an amount that 

14 bears the same relationship to that total amount as the 

15 number of eligible students who will be served by such eli16 gible local educational agency under this section bears to 

17 the number of eligible students who will be served by all 

18 eligible local educational agencies under this section. 

19 (d) APPLICATION.—An eligible local educational 

20 agency seeking a grant under this section shall submit an 

21 application to the Attorney General at such time, in such 

22 manner, and containing such information as the Attorney 

23 General may require, including— 

24 (1) the juvenile offense rate for the most recent 

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1 ty in which 1 or more secondary schools served by 

2 the local educational agency are located; 

3 (2) an assurance that the local educational 

4 agency will carry out the after school programs or 

5 will partner only with an eligible nonprofit organiza6 tion to carry out such programs; and 

7 (3) information about the activities and fre8 quency of the after school programs that will be car9 ried out with grant funds under this section. 

10 (e) USES OF FUNDS.— 

11 (1) IN GENERAL.—An eligible local educational 

12 agency that receives a grant under this section shall 

13 use such grant funds to operate after school pro14 grams for eligible students, which may include— 

15 (A) expanding existing after school pro16 grams for eligible students; 

17 (B) developing and carrying out new after 

18 school programs for eligible students; or 

19 (C) partnering with an eligible nonprofit 

20 organization to administer and operate after 

21 school programs for eligible students. 

22 (2) AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS.—An eligible 

23 local educational agency that receives a grant under 

24 this section shall ensure that the after school proVerDate Sep 11 2014 21:52 Apr 02, 2024 Jkt 049200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S3980.IS S3980

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1 grams carried out with grant funds include activities 

2 that have an educational purpose. 

3 (f) REPORTS.— 

4 (1) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY REPORTS.— 

5 Each eligible local educational agency that receives 

6 a grant under this section shall submit an annual re7 port to the Attorney General that describes— 

8 (A) the number of schools served by an 

9 after school program established or maintained 

10 using funds under this section; 

11 (B) the number of children served at each 

12 such school; and 

13 (C) the general successes and 

14 vulnerabilities of the after school programs es15 tablished or maintained using funds under this 

16 section. 

17 (2) ATTORNEY GENERAL REPORT.—Not later 

18 than 90 days after the date as of which the Attorney 

19 General has received all the reports for a year under 

20 paragraph (1), the Attorney General shall submit to 

21 Congress a report summarizing the reports received 

22 under that paragraph. 

23 (g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

24 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 


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1 $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025, 2026, 2027, 

2 and 2028. 

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