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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 650 

To direct the Attorney General to award grants to eligible entities for first 

responders who handle elder justice-related matters, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 1, 2021 

Mr. EMMER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To direct the Attorney General to award grants to eligible 

entities for first responders who handle elder justicerelated matters, and for other purposes. 

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 ‘‘Senior abuse Training 

5 and Offense Prevention Act’’ or the ‘‘STOP Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SUPPORTING LAW ENFORCEMENT IN ELDER JUS7 TICE MATTERS. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, after con9 sultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Serv10 ices, the Postmaster General, and the Chief Postal InspecVerDate Sep 11 2014 00:07 Mar 07, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H650.IH H650

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1 tor for the United States Postal Inspection Service, shall 

2 award grants to eligible entities, on a competitive basis, 

3 to provide training, technical assistance, multidisciplinary 

4 coordination, policy development, and other types of sup5 port to police, sheriffs, detectives, public safety officers, 

6 corrections personnel, and other first responders who han7 dle elder justice-related matters, to fund specially des8 ignated elder justice positions or units designed to support 

9 first responders in elder justice matters. 

10 (b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

11 (1) ELDER.—The term ‘‘elder’’ means an indi12 vidual age 60 or older. 

13 (2) ELDER JUSTICE.—The term ‘‘elder justice’’ 

14 means— 

15 (A) efforts to— 

16 (i) prevent, detect, threat, intervene 

17 in, and prosecute elder abuse, neglect, and 

18 exploitation; and 

19 (ii) protect elders with diminished ca20 pacity while maximizing their autonomy; 

21 and 

22 (B) the recognition of an elder’s rights, in23 cluding the right to be free of abuse, neglect, 

24 and exploitation. 


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1 (3) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘‘eligible enti2 ty’’ means a State or local government agency, In3 dian tribe or tribal organization, or any other public 

4 or nonprofit private entity that is engaged in and 

5 has expertise in issues relating to elder justice or a 

6 field necessary to promote elder justice efforts. 

7 SEC. 3. EVALUATION; APPLICATIONS. 

8 (a) EVALUATION.—In carrying out the grant pro9 gram under this Act, the Attorney General shall— 

10 (1) require each recipient of a grant to use a 

11 portion of the funds made available through the 

12 grant to conduct a validated evaluation of the effec13 tiveness of the activities carried out through the 

14 grant by such recipient; or 

15 (2) as the Attorney General considers appro16 priate, use a portion of the funds available under 

17 this Act for a grant program under this Act to pro18 vide assistance to an eligible entity to conduct a vali19 dated evaluation of the effectiveness of the activities 

20 carried out through such grant program by each of 

21 the grant recipients. 

22 (b) APPLICATIONS.— 

23 (1) SUBMISSION.—To be eligible to receive a 

24 grant under this Act, an entity shall submit an ap25 plication to the Attorney General at such time, in 


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1 such manner, and containing such information as 

2 the Attorney General may require, which shall in3 clude— 

4 (A) a proposal for the evaluation required 

5 in accordance with subsection (a)(1); and 

6 (B) the amount of assistance under sub7 section (a)(2) the entity is requesting, if any. 

8 (2) REVIEW AND ASSISTANCE.— 

9 (A) IN GENERAL.—An employee of the De10 partment of Justice, after consultation with an 

11 employee of the Department of Health and 

12 Human Services with expertise in evaluation 

13 methodology, shall review each application de14 scribed in subsection (b) and determine whether 

15 the methodology described in the proposal 

16 under paragraph (1)(A) is adequate to gather 

17 meaningful information. 

18 (B) DENIAL.—If the reviewing employee 

19 determines the methodology described in such 

20 proposal is inadequate, the reviewing employee 

21 shall recommend that the Attorney General 

22 deny the application for the grant, or make rec23 ommendations for how the application should 

24 be modified. 


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1 (C) NOTICE TO APPLICANT.—If the Attor2 ney General denies the application on the basis 

3 of such proposal, the Attorney General shall in4 form the applicant of the reasons the applica5 tion was denied, and offer assistance to the ap6 plicant in modifying the proposal. 

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