112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 1550 

AN ACT 

To direct the Attorney General to give priority in the allocation of Federal law enforcement personnel and resources 

to States and local jurisdictions that have a high incidence of homicide or other violent crime. 

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

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Law Enforce3 ment Personnel and Resources Allocation Improvement 

4 Act of 2012’’. 

5 SEC. 2. PRIORITY FOR ALLOCATION OF FEDERAL LAW EN6 FORCEMENT PERSONNEL AND RESOURCES. 

7 (a) REQUIREMENT.—In the allocation of Federal law 

8 enforcement personnel and resources, the Attorney Gen9 eral shall give priority to placing and retaining those per10 sonnel and resources in States and local jurisdictions that 

11 have a high incidence of homicide or other violent crime, 

12 based on records of crime acquired under section 534 of 

13 title 28, United States Code, including reports of crime 

14 under the system known as the National Uniform Crime 

15 Reports, or on the best and most current information oth16 erwise available to the Attorney General. 

17 (b) DESIGNATION OF EXISTING FEDERAL OFFI18 CIAL.—Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 

19 of this Act, the Attorney General shall designate an exist20 ing official within the Department of Justice— 

21 (1) to develop practices and procedures to carry 

22 out the requirement established in subsection (a); 

23 and 

24 (2) to monitor compliance with those practices 

25 and procedures by the bureaus, agencies, and other 

26 subdivisions of the Department. 
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1 SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORT. 

2 Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 

3 of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General 

4 shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations and the 

5 Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House 

6 of Representatives a report on the implementation of the 

7 requirement established in section 2. The report shall, for 

8 the year it covers— 

9 (1) specify which States and local jurisdictions 

10 have a high incidence of homicide or other violent 

11 crime; 

12 (2) identify the specific steps taken by the At13 torney General to implement the requirement with 

14 respect to each of those States and local jurisdic15 tions; and 

16 (3) provide a description of the methodology 

17 (including any changes made in that methodology) 

18 that the Attorney General has used to determine the 

19 total number of authorized Federal law enforcement 

20 positions, to allocate those authorized positions 

21 among States and local jurisdictions, and to assign 

22 personnel to fill those authorized positions. 

23 SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 

24 In this Act, the following definitions apply: 

25 (1) FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PER26 SONNEL.—The term ‘‘Federal law enforcement per-
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1 sonnel’’ means law enforcement personnel employed 

2 by the Department of Justice, including law enforce3 ment personnel in any of the following agencies of 

4 the Department: 

5 (A) The Drug Enforcement Administra6 tion. 

7 (B) The Federal Bureau of Investigation. 

8 (C) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire9 arms and Explosives. 

10 (D) The United States Marshals Service. 

11 (2) LOCAL JURISDICTION.—The term ‘‘local ju12 risdiction’’ has the meaning given the term ‘‘unit of 

13 local government’’ in section 901(3) of the Omnibus 

14 Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 

15 U.S.C. 3791(3)). 

16 (3) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means any 

17 State of the United States, the District of Columbia, 

18 Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, 

19 American Samoa, Guam, or the Northern Mariana 

20 Islands. 

Passed the House of Representatives August 1, 

2012. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 

112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 1550 

AN ACT 

To direct the Attorney General to give priority in 

other violent crime. tions that have a high incidence of homicide or sonnel and resources to States and local jurisdicthe allocation of Federal law enforcement per-