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Union Calendar No. 417 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1064 
[Report No. 111–688, Part I] 
To provide for evidence-based and promising practices related to juvenile 
delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention 
to help build individual, family, and community strength and resiliency 
to ensure that youth lead productive, safe, healthy, gang-free, and law- 
abiding lives. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 13, 2009 
Mr. SCOTT of Virginia (for himself, Mr. CASTLE, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, 
Ms. LEE of California, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. CONNOLLY of Vir-
ginia, Mr. CAO, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Ms. WATSON, Mr. 
WEINER, Mr. SESTAK, Mr. KENNEDY, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. 
GRIJALVA, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. CUMMINGS, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. 
SERRANO, Mr. MARKEY of Massachusetts, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. 
FATTAH, Mr. NADLER of New York, Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan, Ms. 
DEGETTE, Mr. HONDA, Ms. SUTTON, Mr. CLAY, Ms. WATERS, Mr. 
JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. NORTON, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Ms. 
ZOE LOFGREN of California, Ms. HIRONO, Mrs. CAPPS, Ms. WASSERMAN 
SCHULTZ, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. COHEN, 
Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mr. ELLISON, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali-
fornia, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. SAR-
BANES, Mr. TIERNEY, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. 
BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. DAVIS of Alabama, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, 
Ms. CLARKE, Mr. BISHOP
of Georgia, Mr. RYAN
of Ohio, Mrs. 
NAPOLITANO, Mr. RUSH, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. STARK, Mr. 
CARSON of Indiana, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, 
Mr. SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. WATT, Mr. 
FILNER, Mr. MILLER of North Carolina, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, and Mr. 
RANGEL) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education 
and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
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ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
DECEMBER 16, 2010 
Reported from Committee on the Judiciary with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
DECEMBER 16, 2010 
Referral to the Committees on Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, 
and Financial Services extended for a period ending not later than De-
cember 17, 2010 
DECEMBER 17, 2010 
Referral to the Committees on Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, 
and Financial Services extended for a period ending not later than De-
cember 21, 2010 
DECEMBER 21, 2010 
Referral to the Committees on Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, 
and Financial Services extended for a period ending not later than De-
cember 22, 2010 
DECEMBER 22, 2010 
Additional sponsors: Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, 
Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mr. DELAHUNT, Mr. GONZALEZ, 
Mr. CLYBURN, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. SABLAN, Mr. KIL-
DEE, Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut, Mr. HOLT, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. 
THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. FUDGE, Ms. RICHARDSON, Mr. DOYLE, 
Mr. HARE, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. GUTIERREZ, 
Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. MEEK of Flor-
ida, Ms. EDWARDS of Maryland, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. SIRES, 
Mr. RODRIGUEZ, Mr. PASTOR of Arizona, Ms. SCHWARTZ, Mr. BISHOP 
of New York, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. BOUCHER, Mr. 
CAPUANO, Mr. DRIEHAUS, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. JONES, 
Ms. DELAURO, Mr. PERRIELLO, Mr. NYE, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. WAXMAN, 
Mr. PLATTS, Mr. WITTMAN, Mr. WOLF, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. LOEBSACK, 
Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. PIERLUISI, Mr. QUIGLEY, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. 
BLUMENAUER, Mr. ROTHMAN of New Jersey, Ms. BERKLEY, Mr. 
FORBES, Mr. BILBRAY, Mr. TONKO, Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania, 
Mr. REYES, Mr. MOORE of Kansas, Mr. BACA, Mr. PRICE of North Caro-
lina, Mr. WELCH, Mr. EHLERS, Mr. ORTIZ, Mr. COOPER, Mr. ABER-
CROMBIE, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. BRALEY
of Iowa, Mr. WALZ, Mr. 
COURTNEY, Mr. YARMUTH, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. 
KISSELL, Mr. MOLLOHAN, Mr. MURTHA, Mr. KANJORSKI, Mr. CUELLAR, 
Mr. STUPAK, Mr. ELLSWORTH, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. ENGEL, 
Mr. LATOURETTE, Mr. HOLDEN, Mr. HODES, Mr. MCINTYRE, Mr. 
KLEIN of Florida, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. POMEROY, Mr. SNYDER, Mr. 
PERLMUTTER, Ms. KILROY, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. KAGEN, Mr. HILL, Mr. 
DOGGETT, Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. MICHAUD, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. PASCRELL, 
Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Mr. MAFFEI, Mr. CARNEY, Mr. CARDOZA, 
Mr. BERRY, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr. OLVER, 
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Mr. ARCURI, Mr. SPRATT, Mr. KING of New York, Mr. GRIFFITH, Ms. 
LINDA T. SA´NCHEZ of California, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. MITCHELL, Mr. 
CHANDLER, Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee, Mr. UPTON, Mr. GRAYSON, Mr. 
RAHALL, Mr. HIGGINS, Mr. LUJA´N, Mr. SALAZAR, Mr. WILSON of Ohio, 
Mr. MCMAHON, Mr. PALLONE, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. GORDON of Ten-
nessee, Ms. KOSMAS, Mr. ALTMIRE, Ms. PINGREE of Maine, Mr. DICKS, 
Mr. PATRICK
J. MURPHY
of Pennsylvania, Mrs. EMERSON, Ms. 
VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. TITUS, Mr. KINGSTON, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, 
Mrs. DAHLKEMPER, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. EDWARDS of Texas, Ms. SPEIER, 
Mr. VISCLOSKY, Mr. NEAL
of Massachusetts, Ms. TSONGAS, Mr. 
BOCCIERI, Mr. SPACE, Mr. SCHRADER, Ms. MARKEY of Colorado, Mr. 
PETERS, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. WU, Ms. CHU, 
Mr. HALL of New York, Mr. MASSA, Mr. ROSS, Mr. HEINRICH, Ms. 
HERSETH SANDLIN, and Mr. GARAMENDI 
DECEMBER 22, 2010 
The Committees on Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Finan-
cial Services discharged; committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 13, 2009] 
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A BILL 
To provide for evidence-based and promising practices related 
to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity 
prevention and intervention to help build individual, fam-
ily, and community strength and resiliency to ensure 
that youth lead productive, safe, healthy, gang-free, and 
law-abiding lives. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Youth Prison Reduction 
through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, 
and Education Act’’ or the ‘‘Youth PROMISE Act’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
TITLE I—FEDERAL COORDINATION OF LOCAL AND TRIBAL 
JUVENILE JUSTICE INFORMATION AND EFFORTS 
Sec. 101. PROMISE Advisory Panel. 
Sec. 102. Geographic assessment of resource allocation. 
TITLE II—PROMISE GRANTS 
Sec. 200. Purposes. 
Subtitle A—PROMISE Assessment and Planning Grants 
Sec. 201. PROMISE Assessment and Planning grants authorized. 
Sec. 202. PROMISE Coordinating Councils. 
Sec. 203. Needs and strengths assessment. 
Sec. 204. PROMISE Plan components. 
Sec. 205. Authorization of appropriations. 
Subtitle B—PROMISE Implementation Grants 
Sec. 211. PROMISE Implementation grants authorized. 
Sec. 212. PROMISE Implementation grant application requirements. 
Sec. 213. Grant award guidelines. 
Sec. 214. Reports. 
Sec. 215. Authorization of appropriations. 
Subtitle C—General PROMISE Grant Provisions 
Sec. 221. Non-supplanting clause. 
Sec. 222. Grant application review panel. 
Sec. 223. Evaluation of PROMISE grant programs. 
TITLE III—PROMISE RESEARCH CENTERS 
Sec. 301. Establishment of the National Research Center for Proven Juvenile Jus-
tice Practices. 
Sec. 302. Grants for Regional Research Proven Practices Partnerships. 
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TITLE IV—YOUTH–ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES 
Sec. 401. Purpose. 
Sec. 402. Definitions. 
Sec. 403. Grants to State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to hire and 
train youth-oriented policing officers. 
Sec. 404. Establishment of Center for Youth-oriented Policing. 
Sec. 405. Authorization of appropriations. 
TITLE V—ENHANCED FEDERAL SUPPORT OF LOCAL LAW 
ENFORCEMENT 
Subtitle A—Comprehensive Gang Prevention and Relief 
Sec. 501. Short title. 
Sec. 502. Designation as a comprehensive gang prevention and relief area. 
Sec. 503. Interagency Gang Prevention Task Force. 
Sec. 504. Authorization of appropriations. 
Subtitle B—Community and Police Collaboration 
Sec. 511. Gang prevention grants. 
Subtitle C—City Youth Violence Recovery 
Sec. 521. Grants to prevent or alleviate the effects of youth violence. 
TITLE VI—PRECAUTION ACT 
Sec. 601. Short title. 
Sec. 602. Purposes. 
Sec. 603. Definitions. 
Sec. 604. National Commission on Public Safety Through Crime and Delin-
quency Prevention. 
Sec. 605. Innovative crime and delinquency prevention and intervention strategy 
grants. 
TITLE VII—ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS TO JUVENILE JUSTICE 
Sec. 701. Youth Victim and Witness Assistance Program. 
‘‘Sec. 31707. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 702. Expansion and reauthorization of the Mentoring Initiative for system- 
involved youth. 
Sec. 703. Study on adolescent development and sentences in the Federal system. 
Sec. 704. Partnerships with professional athletic leagues. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) 
ADMINISTRATOR.—The 
term 
‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ means the Administrator of the Office of Juve-
nile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. 
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(2) COMMUNITY.—The term ‘‘community’’ means 
a unit of local government or an Indian Tribe, or 
part of such a unit or Tribe, as determined by such 
a unit or Tribe for the purpose of applying for a 
grant under this Act. 
(3) DESIGNATED GEOGRAPHIC AREA.—The term 
‘‘designated geographic area’’ means a 5-digit postal 
ZIP Code assigned to a geographic area by the 
United States Postal Service. 
(4) EVIDENCE-BASED.—The term ‘‘evidence- 
based’’, when used with respect to a practice relating 
to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang ac-
tivity prevention and intervention, means a practice 
(including a service, program, or strategy) that has 
statistically significant juvenile delinquency and 
criminal street gang activity reduction outcomes when 
evaluated by— 
(A) an experimental trial, in which partici-
pants are randomly assigned to participate in 
the practice that is the subject of the trial; or 
(B) a quasi-experimental trial, in which the 
outcomes for participants are compared with 
outcomes for a control group that is made up of 
individuals who are similar to such partici-
pants. 
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shall consult prior to the appointment of the members 
of the Commission to achieve, to the maximum extent 
possible, fair and equitable representation of various 
points of view with respect to the matters to be stud-
ied by the Commission. 
(4) TERM.—Each member shall be appointed for 
the life of the Commission. 
(5) TIME FOR INITIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The ap-
pointment of the members shall be made not later 
than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(6) VACANCIES.—A vacancy in the Commission 
shall be filled in the manner in which the original 
appointment was made, and shall be made not later 
than 60 days after the date on which the vacancy oc-
curred. 
(c) OPERATION.— 
(1) CHAIRPERSON.—At the initial meeting of the 
Commission, the members of the Commission shall 
elect a chairperson from among its voting members, 
by a vote of 2⁄3 of the members of the Commission. 
The chairperson shall retain this position for the life 
of the Commission. If the chairperson leaves the Com-
mission, a new chairperson shall be selected, by a vote 
of 2⁄3 of the members of the Commission. 
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