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110TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. CON. RES. 270 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

DECEMBER 18, 2007 

Received 

FEBRUARY 28, 2008 

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

To make corrections in the enrollment of the bill H.R. 1593. 

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 

2 concurring), That, in the enrollment of the bill H.R. 1593, 

3 the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall make the 

4 following corrections (with page and line numbers 


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1 referring to the page and line numbers of the bill as en2 grossed in the House): 

(1) Page 17, strike line 21 through page 18, line 

23 and insert the following: 

3 ‘‘(1) FEDERAL SHARE.— 

4 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Federal share of a 

5 grant received under this section may not exceed 

6 50 percent of the project funded under such 

7 grant. 

8 ‘‘(B) IN-KINDCONTRIBUTIONS.— 

9 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Subject to clause 

10 (ii), the recipient of a grant under this sec11 tion may meet the matching requirement 

12 under subparagraph (A) by making in-kind 

13 contributions of goods or services that are 

14 directly related to the purpose for which 

15 such grant was awarded. 

16 ‘‘(ii) MAXIMUM PERCENTAGE.—Not 

17 more than 50 percent of the amount pro18 vided by a recipient of a grant under this 

19 section to meet the matching requirement 

20 under subparagraph (A) may be provided 

21 through in-kind contributions under clause 

22 (i).’’. 


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(2) Page 37, strike line 22 through page 38, line 

4 and insert the following: 

1 ‘‘(e) FEDERAL SHARE.— 

2 ‘‘(1) MATCHING REQUIREMENT.—The Federal 

3 share of a grant under this section may not exceed 50 

4 percent of the program funded under such grant. 

5 ‘‘(2) IN-KINDCONTRIBUTIONS.— 

6 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subpara7 graph (B), the recipient of a grant under this 

8 section may meet the matching requirement 

9 under paragraph (1) by making in-kind con10 tributions of goods or services that are directly 

11 related to the purpose for which such grant was 

12 awarded. 

13 ‘‘(B) MAXIMUM PERCENTAGE.—Not more 

14 than 50 percent of the amount provided by a re15 cipient of a grant under this section to meet the 

16 matching requirement under paragraph (1) may 

17 be provided through in-kind contributions under 

18 subparagraph (A). 

19 ‘‘(3) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Federal 

20 funds received under this section shall be used to sup21 plement, not supplant, non-Federal funds that would 

22 otherwise be available for the activities funded under 

23 this section.’’. 


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(3) Page 43, strike lines 19 through 24 and insert 

the following: 

1 ‘‘SEC. 2904. FEDERAL SHARE. 

2 ‘‘(a) MATCHING REQUIREMENT.—The Federal share of 

3 a grant under this part may not exceed 50 percent of the 

4 total costs of the qualified drug treatment program funded 

5 under such grant. 

6 ‘‘(b) IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS.— 

7 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), the 

8 recipient of a grant under this part may meet the 

9 matching requirement under subsection (a) by mak10 ing in-kind contributions of goods or services that are 

11 directly related to the purpose for which such grant 

12 was awarded. 

13 ‘‘(2) MAXIMUM PERCENTAGE.—Not more than 50 

14 percent of the amount provided by a recipient of a 

15 grant under this part to meet the matching require16 ment under subsection (a) may be provided through 

17 in-kind contributions under paragraph (1).’’. 

(4) Page 80, after line 4 insert the following: 

18 (C) WAIVER.—The Attorney General is au19 thorized to waive the requirements of section 

20 3624 of title 18, United States Code, as necessary 

21 to provide for the release of some or all eligible 

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1 cility to home detention for the purposes of the 

2 pilot program under this subsection. 

(5) Page 80, line 18, strike ‘‘a Bureau of Prisons 

facility’’ and insert ‘‘at least one Bureau of Prisons facility’’. 

(6) Page 81, strike line 11 through page 83, line 

12 and insert the following: 

3 (A) ELIGIBLE ELDERLY OFFENDER.—The 

4 term ‘‘eligible elderly offender’’ means an of5 fender in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons— 

6 (i) who is not less than 65 years of age; 

7 (ii) who is serving a term of imprison8 ment that is not life imprisonment based on 

9 conviction for an offense or offenses that do 

10 not include any crime of violence (as de11 fined in section 16 of title 18, United States 

12 Code), sex offense (as defined in section 

13 111(5) of the Sex Offender Registration and 

14 Notification Act), offense described in sec15 tion 2332b(g)(5)(B) of title 18, United 

16 States Code, or offense under chapter 37 of 

17 title 18, United States Code, and has served 

18 the greater of 10 years or 75 percent of the 


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1 term of imprisonment to which the offender 

2 was sentenced; 

3 (iii) who has not been convicted in the 

4 past of any Federal or State crime of vio5 lence, sex offense, or other offense described 

6 in clause (ii); 

7 (iv) who has not been determined by 

8 the Bureau of Prisons, on the basis of infor9 mation the Bureau uses to make custody 

10 classifications, and in the sole discretion of 

11 the Bureau, to have a history of violence, or 

12 of engaging in conduct constituting a sex of13 fense or other offense described in clause 

14 (ii); 

15 (v) who has not escaped, or attempted 

16 to escape, from a Bureau of Prisons institu17 tion; 

18 (vi) with respect to whom the Bureau 

19 of Prisons has determined that release to 

20 home detention under this section will result 

21 in a substantial net reduction of costs to the 

22 Federal Government; and 

23 (vii) who has been determined by the 

24 Bureau of Prisons to be at no substantial 

25 risk of engaging in criminal conduct or of 


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1 endangering any person or the public if re2 leased to home detention. 

(7) Page 84, line 25, strike ‘‘section 231’’ and insert ‘‘this section’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives December 17, 

2007. 

Attest: LORRAINE C. MILLER, 

Clerk. 


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