(d) USE OF FUNDS.—A community-based organiza-
tion receiving funds under this section shall use such grant 
funds for any purpose that has demonstrable connection 
to improving community safety through the use of quali-
fied approaches to community safety, including grant writ-
ing or funding that furthers one or more of the following 
purposes: 
(1) Crisis intervention, including unarmed first 
responder agencies and 9–1–1 dispatchers for divert-
ing calls to first responders. 
(2) Programs that interrupt or prevent violence, 
including violence and abuse interruption and pre-
vention programs, neighborhood mediation pro-
grams, and safe passage to school programs. 
(3) Participatory investments into the built en-
vironment, 
including 
park 
redevelopment, 
streetlights, and public transportation. 
(4) Public health activities and voluntary health 
services, including harm reduction-based treatment 
for mental health and substance use, hiring of com-
munity health workers, long-term supportive hous-
ing, lead abatement, pollution reduction, and nutri-
tion access, such as through establishing farmers 
markets, nonprofit and employee-owned grocery 
stores, and school-based nutrition programs. 
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(5) Housing security programs and initiatives, 
including outreach programs, permanent supportive 
housing, community land trusts and housing for in-
dividuals experiencing temporary or chronic home-
lessness. 
(6) Support for youth and families, including 
school-based counselors, trauma-informed practices, 
youth and mentorship programs, after school and 
enrichment programs, credible messenger in schools 
programs, social-emotional learning programs, wrap-
around services, and two-generational programming. 
(7) Support for victims, including survivors of 
domestic violence, sexual violence, and rape, and tar-
geted services to help victims, witnesses, and sur-
vivors process trauma, achieve financial and housing 
independence, make individualized, needs-based safe-
ty plans, and otherwise access the help that they 
need. 
(8) Reentry support for people who are exiting 
incarceration or criminal supervision, including edu-
cational and workforce programs, stipends, housing 
programs, and support for worker coops. 
(9) Capacity building support to local advocates 
and community-based organizations, including legal 
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assistance, and startup assistance for coops, commu-
nity land trusts, and nonprofit organizations. 
(e) GRANT AMOUNTS.—In determining the amount 
of a grant awarded to a single community-based organiza-
tion under this section, the Secretary shall base such de-
termination on— 
(1) the number of people who will be served by 
the program or intervention; 
(2) the depth of need demonstrated, including 
attention to specific activities planned, the socio-
economic characteristics of the community served by 
the organization, and current patterns of criminal 
legal involvement; and 
(3) such other factors as the Secretary deter-
mines are relevant. 
(f) LIMITATION.—Funds made available under this 
section may be used only to carry out programs, services, 
or activities that use qualified approaches to community 
safety. 
(g) REPORTING.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Beginning not later than 
one year after the date on which a community-based 
organization receives a grant under this section, and 
annually thereafter, the organization shall prepare 
and submit a report to the Secretary and Assistant 
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Secretary containing such information as the Sec-
retary may require, including— 
(A) the use of grant funds; 
(B) an estimation of the number of people 
served through activities carried out using 
grant funds, including demographic information 
disaggregated by race, ethnicity, age, gender, 
disability status sexuality, immigration status, 
ZIP Code, and socioeconomic status (where 
such information is reasonably available and 
voluntarily provided); and 
(C) any relevant feedback received by such 
organization from the populations served by 
such organization regarding— 
(i) the efficacy of support from 
sources other than programs and services 
provided by such organization using grant 
funds; and 
(ii) additional resources and services 
needed by such populations with respect to 
improving community safety. 
(2) PRIVACY.—The report submitted to the 
Secretary and Division of Community Safety pursu-
ant to this section must protect the privacy of the 
individuals served. All of the information gathered 
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as part of the reporting process shall be aggregated, 
anonymized, and used only for the purposes listed in 
this section and shall not be used to initiate or con-
tribute to any criminal, legal, immigration, or Child 
Protective Services actions of proceedings, except 
where such reporting is required by law. 
(h) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$4,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2024 
through 2028. 
SEC. 202. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMUNITY SAFETY GRANT 
FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. 
(a) GRANT PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.—The Secretary 
shall award grants, on a rolling basis, to units of local 
government to assess safety needs, conduct research on, 
fund programming on, and otherwise support the develop-
ment of qualified approaches to community safety. 
(b) APPLICATION.—A unit of local government seek-
ing a grant under this section shall submit an application 
to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and con-
taining such information as the Secretary may require, in-
cluding an assurance that the unit of local government 
shall develop, and submit to the Secretary, during the 
grant period, a safety needs assessment to guide local in-
vestments in qualified approaches to community safety. 
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(c) PREFERENCE.—In awarding grants under this 
section, the Secretary shall give a preference to a unit of 
local government that— 
(1) has taken steps toward, or is submitting 
proposals within the application for such a grant for 
purposes of— 
(A) increasing human liberty, including 
through measures that reduce incarceration, 
pretrial detention, arrests, criminal supervision, 
immigration detention, and other forms of 
criminal justice involvement; 
(B) ending the criminalization of poverty, 
mental illness, homelessness, substance use, and 
related issues by addressing root causes of 
those issues rather than imposing criminal pun-
ishment and other punitive responses; or 
(C) ending racial, economic, gender, and 
other disparities in criminal punishment, includ-
ing discipline in schools; 
(2) has a high rate of poverty, as well as dis-
proportionately high shares of residents who have 
been impacted by violence and the criminal legal sys-
tem (as determined by the Secretary); or 
(3) has prepared and developed the application 
submitted under this section in consultation with the 
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community the unit of local government serves, espe-
cially individuals in such community who have been 
directly impacted by the criminal legal system. 
(d) USE OF FUNDS.—A unit of local government re-
ceiving funds under this section shall use such grant funds 
to: 
(1) Establish or designate a community-led en-
tity that— 
(A) employs qualified approaches to com-
munity safety; and 
(B) can coordinate and make investments 
in community safety, including by using 
participatory budgeting or other community-led 
processes. 
(2) Develop a safety needs assessment and cre-
ate an action plan targeted to address such safety 
needs. 
(3) Invest in programs, interventions, or policy 
initiatives that have a demonstrable connection to 
improving community safety, including programs 
interventions, or policy initiatives that are designed 
to address needs related to economic stability, sur-
vivor safety, physical and behavioral health, environ-
mental safety, housing stability, and educational eq-
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uity and opportunity such as those listed in section 
201(d). 
(4) Train and hire community health workers, 
including individuals who are trained in first re-
sponse and violence prevention, who can help to ad-
dress such identified safety needs. 
(5) Administer programming, including via 
grants to community-based organizations and the di-
rect deployment of community health workers, to im-
plement the action plan. 
(e) GRANT AMOUNTS.—In determining the amount 
of a grant awarded to a State or unit of local government 
under this section, the Secretary shall base such deter-
mination on— 
(1) the number of people who live in the juris-
diction of the local government; 
(2) the depth of need demonstrated, including 
attention to activities planned, the socioeconomic 
characteristics of the community and residents with-
in that jurisdiction, and current patterns of spend-
ing in systems of incarceration; and 
(3) such other factors as the Secretary deter-
mines are relevant. 
(f) LIMITATIONS.— 
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(1) Funds made available under this section 
may be used only to carry out programs, services, or 
activities that use qualified approaches to commu-
nity safety. 
(2) Each State or unit of local government re-
ceiving a grant under this section shall certify to the 
Secretary that any individual hired using funds re-
ceived through such grant will be paid a wage, which 
shall be at least the highest of the following: 
(A) $17 an hour. 
(B) The minimum wage under the applica-
ble State or local minimum wage law. 
(C) The prevailing rates of pay for individ-
uals employed in similar occupations by the 
same employer. 
(D) The Federal minimum wage in effect 
under section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Stand-
ards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)). 
(g) REPORTING.—Beginning not later than one year 
after the date on which a local government receives a 
grant under this section, and annually thereafter, the unit 
of local government shall prepare and submit to the Sec-
retary, and make publicly available, a report containing 
information about— 
(1) how the grant funds were used; 
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(2) the number of people who were cited, ar-
rested, or jailed by any State or local law enforce-
ment officers in the previous year in the jurisdiction 
of the local government, as compared to the number 
cited, arrest, or jailed during the term of the grant; 
(3) the reasons for such citing, arresting, or de-
tained or imprisoned; 
(4) demographic data of individuals cited, ar-
rested, or jailed or referred by local law enforcement 
officers, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, age, gen-
der, disability status, and socioeconomic status; and 
(5) the percentage of grant funds that ulti-
mately benefited community-based organizations. 
(h) SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT.—An unit of local 
government receiving a grant under this section may use 
Federal funds received through the grant only to supple-
ment the funds that would, without such Federal funds, 
be made available from State and local sources, and not 
to supplant such funds. 
(i) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to implement this sec-
tion $3,500,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2024 
through 2028. 
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