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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6363 

To require the Attorney General to establish a competitive grant program 

for State and local law enforcement agencies to carry out training programs based on lessons from the Holocaust. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010 

Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To require the Attorney General to establish a competitive 

grant program for State and local law enforcement agencies to carry out training programs based on lessons 

from the Holocaust. 

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 ‘‘Supporting Law En5 forcement through Lessons of the Holocaust Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. COMPETITIVE GRANT PROGRAM TO CARRY OUT 

2 LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING PROGRAMS 

3 BASED ON LESSONS FROM THE HOLOCAUST. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the amount of funds 

5 appropriated to carry out this section pursuant to sub6 section (e), the Attorney General shall establish a competi7 tive grant program under which the Attorney General may 

8 award grants to State and local law enforcement agencies 

9 to carry out training programs, which may be the model 

10 training program established under subsection (b) or a 

11 variation of such model program, on the implications of 

12 the Holocaust for modern day law enforcement profes13 sionals. 

14 (b) MODEL PROGRAM.—The Attorney General, in 

15 consultation with community-based groups, non-profit or16 ganizations, law enforcement organizations, academic in17 stitutions, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Mu18 seum, shall establish a model training program that exam19 ines each of the issues described in subsection (c) and 

20 which shall be made available for use by State and local 

21 law enforcement agencies to establish training programs 

22 described in subsection (a). 

23 (c) PROGRAM DESCRIBED.—A program funded 

24 through a grant under this section shall examine the fol25 lowing: 


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1 (1) The implications of the history of the Holo2 caust for individuals who are active law enforcement 

3 professionals on or after the date of the enactment 

4 of this Act. 

5 (2) The relationship of law enforcement profes6 sionals to the community served by such profes7 sionals. 

8 (3) The role and responsibility of law enforce9 ment officials as protectors of the Constitution and 

10 civil liberties. 

11 (4) The procedures and practices that prevent 

12 abuse of the roles of such professionals within such 

13 community. 

14 (5) The core values of law enforcement and the 

15 connection of those values to the principles of the 

16 Constitution. 

17 (d) PRIORITY.—In making grants under this section, 

18 the Attorney General shall give priority to any application 

19 of a State or local law enforcement agency that provides 

20 assurances satisfactory to the Attorney General that the 

21 agency will incorporate a training program carried out by 

22 the agency pursuant to a grant received under this section 

23 for a period of at least 2 years. 

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1 GRAM AND PURPOSE.—The Attorney General shall make 

2 publicly available information on the grant program under 

3 this section, including with respect to the availability and 

4 purpose of grants provided under such program. 

5 (f) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 

6 (1) HOLOCAUST.—The term ‘‘Holocaust’’ 

7 means the systematic, state-sponsored, mass murder 

8 of 6,000,000 Jews, and millions of other people, per9 formed by the Nazi regime during World War II, in 

10 the name of racial purity. 

11 (2) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 

12 the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Com13 monwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin 

14 Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Common15 wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any 

16 federally recognized Indian tribe. 

17 (g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

18 authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be nec19 essary to carry out this section for each of fiscal years 

20 2011 through 2014. 

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