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108TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4153 

To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 

allow the Attorney General to award grants under a homeland security 

overtime program to reimburse law enforcement agencies for past overtime expenditures and to require the Attorney General to waive the 

matching funds requirement for such grants. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 2, 2004 

Mrs. LOWEY (for herself, Mr. RAHALL, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. 

GRIJALVA, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. OWENS, Mr. 

PALLONE, Mr. CASE, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. CARDOZA, Ms. LEE, and Mr. 

WEINER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 

Act of 1968 to allow the Attorney General to award 

grants under a homeland security overtime program to 

reimburse law enforcement agencies for past overtime 

expenditures and to require the Attorney General to 

waive the matching funds requirement for such grants. 

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 ‘‘Homeland Security 

3 Overtime Reimbursement Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. REIMBURSEMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGEN5 CIES FOR PAST OVERTIME EXPENDITURES 

6 UNDER THE HOMELAND SECURITY OVER7 TIME PROGRAM. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1701 of the Omnibus 

9 Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 

10 3796dd) is amended by adding at the end the following 

11 new subsection: 

12 ‘‘(l) SPECIAL RULES FOR HOMELAND SECURITY

13 OVERTIME PROGRAMS.— 

14 ‘‘(1) REIMBURSEMENT FOR PAST OVERTIME

15 EXPENDITURES.—Notwithstanding section 1704(a), 

16 a recipient of a grant under a homeland security 

17 overtime program may use grant funds to pay for 

18 homeland security overtime expenditures incurred at 

19 any time during the fiscal year preceding the fiscal 

20 year in which the grant is made. 

21 ‘‘(2) WAIVER OF MATCHING FUNDS.—The At22 torney General shall waive the requirement under 

23 subsection (i) of a non-Federal contribution for any 

24 grant or portion of a grant under a homeland secu25 rity overtime program to the extent that the grant 
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1 is used to pay for expenditures described in para2 graph (1). 

3 ‘‘(3) TREATMENT OF PUERTO RICO.—Puerto 

4 Rico shall be considered both a unit of local govern5 ment and a State for the purposes of any homeland 

6 security overtime program. 

7 ‘‘(4) HOMELAND SECURITY OVERTIME PRO8 GRAM.—The term ‘homeland security overtime pro9 gram’ means a program for which a grant is made 

10 under subsection (a) to fund overtime expenditures 

11 to law enforcement agencies for training and in12 creased patrols related to homeland security con13 cerns.’’. 

14 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Part Q of the Om15 nibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 

16 U.S.C. 3796dd et seq.) is amended— 

17 (1) in section 1704(a) (42 U.S.C. 3799dd– 

18 3(a)), by striking ‘‘Funds made’’ and inserting ‘‘Ex19 cept as provided in section 1701(l)(1), funds made’’; 

20 and 

21 (2) in section 1701(i) (42 U.S.C. 3799dd(i)), by 

22 striking ‘‘The portion’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as 

23 provided in subsection (l)(2), the portion’’. 
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1 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

2 The amendments made by this Act shall apply to 

3 grants made under section 1701(a) of the Omnibus Crime 

4 Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 

5 9799dd(a)) for which applications are submitted after the 

6 date of the enactment of this Act. 

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