H. Con. Res. 270 Agreed to March 11, 2008

One Hundred Tenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and eight 

Concurrent Resolution 

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That, in the enrollment of the bill H.R. 1593, the Clerk 

of the House of Representatives shall make the following corrections 

(with page and line numbers referring to the page and line numbers 

of the bill as engrossed in the House): 

(1) Page 17, strike line 21 through page 18, line 23 and 

insert the following: 

‘‘(1) FEDERAL SHARE.— 

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

received under this section may not exceed 50 percent 

of the project funded under such grant. 

‘‘(B) IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS.— 

‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Subject to clause (ii), the 

recipient of a grant under this section may meet the 

matching requirement under subparagraph (A) by 

making in-kind contributions of goods or services that 

are directly related to the purpose for which such grant 

was awarded. 

‘‘(ii) MAXIMUM PERCENTAGE.—Not more than 50 

percent of the amount provided by a recipient of a 

grant under this section to meet the matching requirement under subparagraph (A) may be provided through 

in-kind contributions under clause (i).’’. 

(2) Page 37, strike line 22 through page 38, line 4 and 

insert the following: 

‘‘(e) FEDERAL SHARE.— 

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

grant under this section may not exceed 50 percent of the 

program funded under such grant. 

‘‘(2) IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS.— 

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subparagraph (B), the 

recipient of a grant under this section may meet the 

matching requirement under paragraph (1) by making inkind contributions of goods or services that are directly 

related to the purpose for which such grant was awarded. 

‘‘(B) MAXIMUM PERCENTAGE.—Not more than 50 percent of the amount provided by a recipient of a grant 

under this section to meet the matching requirement under 
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paragraph (1) may be provided through in-kind contributions under subparagraph (A). 

‘‘(3) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Federal funds received 

under this section shall be used to supplement, not supplant, 

non-Federal funds that would otherwise be available for the 

activities funded under this section.’’. 

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

following: 

‘‘SEC. 2904. FEDERAL SHARE. 

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

under this part may not exceed 50 percent of the total costs of 

the qualified drug treatment program funded under such grant. 

‘‘(b) IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS.— 

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

of a grant under this part may meet the matching requirement 

under subsection (a) by making in-kind contributions of goods 

or services that are directly related to the purpose for which 

such grant was awarded. 

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

of the amount provided by a recipient of a grant under this 

part to meet the matching requirement under subsection (a) 

may be provided through in-kind contributions under paragraph 

(1).’’. 

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

(C) WAIVER.—The Attorney General is authorized to 

waive the requirements of section 3624 of title 18, United 

States Code, as necessary to provide for the release of 

some or all eligible elderly offenders from the Bureau of 

Prisons facility to home detention for the purposes of the 

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: 

(A) ELIGIBLE ELDERLY OFFENDER.—The term ‘‘eligible 

elderly offender’’ means an offender in the custody of the 

Bureau of Prisons— 

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

(ii) who is serving a term of imprisonment that 

is not life imprisonment based on conviction for an 

offense or offenses that do not include any crime of 

violence (as defined in section 16 of title 18, United 

States Code), sex offense (as defined in section 111(5) 

of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act), 

offense described in section 2332b(g)(5)(B) of title 18, 

United States Code, or offense under chapter 37 of 

title 18, United States Code, and has served the greater 
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of 10 years or 75 percent of the term of imprisonment 

to which the offender was sentenced; 

(iii) who has not been convicted in the past of 

any Federal or State crime of violence, sex offense, 

or other offense described in clause (ii); 

(iv) who has not been determined by the Bureau 

of Prisons, on the basis of information the Bureau 

uses to make custody classifications, and in the sole 

discretion of the Bureau, to have a history of violence, 

or of engaging in conduct constituting a sex offense 

or other offense described in clause (ii); 

(v) who has not escaped, or attempted to escape, 

from a Bureau of Prisons institution; 

(vi) with respect to whom the Bureau of Prisons 

has determined that release to home detention under 

this section will result in a substantial net reduction 

of costs to the Federal Government; and 

(vii) who has been determined by the Bureau of 

Prisons to be at no substantial risk of engaging in 

criminal conduct or of endangering any person or the 

public if released to home detention. 

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

section’’. 

Attest: 

Clerk of the House of Representatives. 

Attest: 

Secretary of the Senate.