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laboratory to conduct an audit described in sub-
section (a)(7); and 
‘‘(B) shall— 
‘‘(i) not later than 1 year after receiv-
ing the grant, complete the audit referred 
to in paragraph (1)(A) in accordance with 
the plan submitted under such paragraph; 
‘‘(ii) not later than 60 days after re-
ceiving possession of a sample of sexual as-
sault evidence that was not in the posses-
sion of the State or unit of local govern-
ment at the time of the initiation of an 
audit under paragraph (1)(A), subject to 
paragraph (4)(F), include in any required 
reports under clause (v), the information 
listed under paragraph (4)(B); 
‘‘(iii) for each sample of sexual as-
sault evidence that is identified as awaiting 
testing as part of the audit referred to in 
paragraph (1)(A)— 
‘‘(I) assign a unique numeric or 
alphanumeric identifier to each sam-
ple of sexual assault evidence that is 
in the possession of the State or unit 
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of local government and is awaiting 
testing; and 
‘‘(II) identify the date or dates 
after which the State or unit of local 
government would be barred by any 
applicable statutes of limitations from 
prosecuting a perpetrator of the sex-
ual assault to which the sample re-
lates; 
‘‘(iv) provide that— 
‘‘(I) the chief law enforcement of-
ficer of the State or unit of local gov-
ernment, respectively, is the individual 
responsible for the compliance of the 
State or unit of local government, re-
spectively, with the reporting require-
ments described in clause (v); or 
‘‘(II) the designee of such officer 
may fulfill the responsibility described 
in subclause (I) so long as such des-
ignee is an employee of the State or 
unit of local government, respectively, 
and is not an employee of any govern-
mental 
laboratory 
or 
non-govern-
mental vendor laboratory; and 
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‘‘(v) comply with all grantee reporting 
requirements described in paragraph (4). 
‘‘(3) EXTENSION OF INITIAL DEADLINE.—The 
Attorney General may grant an extension of the 
deadline under paragraph (2)(B)(i) to a State or 
unit of local government that demonstrates that 
more time is required for compliance with such para-
graph. 
‘‘(4) SEXUAL
ASSAULT
FORENSIC
EVIDENCE 
REPORTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For not less than 12 
months after the completion of an initial count 
of sexual assault evidence that is awaiting test-
ing during an audit referred to in paragraph 
(1)(A), a State or unit of local government that 
receives a grant award under subsection (a)(7) 
shall, not less than every 60 days, submit a re-
port to the Department of Justice, on a form 
prescribed by the Attorney General, which shall 
contain the information required under sub-
paragraph (B). 
‘‘(B) CONTENTS OF REPORTS.—A report 
under this paragraph shall contain the following 
information— 
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‘‘(i) the name of the State or unit of 
local government filing the report; 
‘‘(ii) the period of dates covered by 
the report; 
‘‘(iii) the cumulative total number of 
samples of sexual assault evidence that, at 
the end of the reporting period— 
‘‘(I) are in the possession of the 
State or unit of local government at 
the reporting period; 
‘‘(II) are awaiting testing; and 
‘‘(III) the State or unit of local 
government has determined should 
undergo DNA or other appropriate fo-
rensic analyses; 
‘‘(iv) the cumulative total number of 
samples of sexual assault evidence in the 
possession of the State or unit of local gov-
ernment that, at the end of the reporting 
period, the State or unit of local govern-
ment has determined should not undergo 
DNA or other appropriate forensic anal-
yses, provided that the reporting form shall 
allow for the State or unit of local govern-
ment, at its sole discretion, to explain the 
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reasoning for this determination in some 
or all cases; 
‘‘(v) the cumulative total number of 
samples of sexual assault evidence in a 
total under clause (iii) that have been sub-
mitted to a laboratory for DNA or other 
appropriate forensic analyses; 
‘‘(vi) the cumulative total number of 
samples of sexual assault evidence identi-
fied by an audit referred to in paragraph 
(1)(A) or under paragraph (2)(B)(ii) for 
which DNA or other appropriate forensic 
analysis has been completed at the end of 
the reporting period; 
‘‘(vii) the total number of samples of 
sexual assault evidence identified by the 
State or unit of local government under 
paragraph (2)(B)(ii), since the previous re-
porting period; and 
‘‘(viii) the cumulative total number of 
samples of sexual assault evidence de-
scribed under clause (iii) for which the 
State or unit of local government will be 
barred within 12 months by any applicable 
statute of limitations from prosecuting a 
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perpetrator of the sexual assault to which 
the sample relates. 
‘‘(C) PUBLICATION
OF
REPORTS.—Not 
later than 7 days after the submission of a re-
port under this paragraph by a State or unit of 
local government, the Attorney General shall, 
subject to subparagraph (D), publish and dis-
seminate a facsimile of the full contents of such 
report on an appropriate internet website. 
‘‘(D) PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFOR-
MATION.—The Attorney General shall ensure 
that any information published and dissemi-
nated as part of a report under this paragraph, 
which reports information under this sub-
section, does not include personally identifiable 
information or details about a sexual assault 
that might lead to the identification of the indi-
viduals involved. 
‘‘(E) OPTIONAL REPORTING.—The Attor-
ney General shall— 
‘‘(i) at the discretion of a State or 
unit of local government required to file a 
report under subparagraph (A), allow such 
State or unit of local government, at their 
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sole discretion, to submit such reports on 
a more frequent basis; and 
‘‘(ii) make available to all States and 
units of local government the reporting 
form created pursuant to subparagraph 
(A), whether or not they are required to 
submit such reports, and allow such States 
or units of local government, at their sole 
discretion, to submit such reports for pub-
lication. 
‘‘(F) SAMPLES EXEMPT FROM REPORTING 
REQUIREMENT.—The reporting requirements 
described in paragraph (2) shall not apply to a 
sample of sexual assault evidence that— 
‘‘(i) is not considered criminal evi-
dence (such as a sample collected anony-
mously from a victim who is unwilling to 
make a criminal complaint); or 
‘‘(ii) relates to a sexual assault for 
which the prosecution of each perpetrator 
is barred by a statute of limitations. 
‘‘(5) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) 
AWAITING
TESTING.—The 
term 
‘awaiting testing’ means, with respect to a sam-
ple of sexual assault evidence, that— 
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‘‘(i) the sample has been collected and 
is in the possession of a State or unit of 
local government; 
‘‘(ii) DNA and other appropriate fo-
rensic analyses have not been performed on 
such sample; and 
‘‘(iii) the sample is related to a crimi-
nal case or investigation in which final dis-
position has not yet been reached. 
‘‘(B) FINAL DISPOSITION.—The term ‘final 
disposition’ means, with respect to a criminal 
case or investigation to which a sample of sex-
ual assault evidence relates— 
‘‘(i) the conviction or acquittal of all 
suspected perpetrators of the crime in-
volved; 
‘‘(ii) a determination by the State or 
unit of local government in possession of 
the sample that the case is unfounded; or 
‘‘(iii) a declaration by the victim of 
the crime involved that the act constituting 
the basis of the crime was not committed. 
‘‘(C) POSSESSION.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘posses-
sion’, used with respect to possession of a 
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sample of sexual assault evidence by a 
State or unit of local government, includes 
possession by an individual who is acting 
as an agent of the State or unit of local 
government for the collection of the sam-
ple. 
‘‘(ii) 
RULE
OF
CONSTRUCTION.— 
Nothing in clause (i) shall be construed to 
create or amend any Federal rights or 
privileges for non-governmental vendor lab-
oratories described in regulations promul-
gated under section 210303 of the DNA 
Identification Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 
14131). 
‘‘(o) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTOCOLS, TECHNICAL 
ASSISTANCE, AND DEFINITIONS.— 
‘‘(1) PROTOCOLS AND PRACTICES.—Not later 
than 18 months after the date of enactment of the 
SAFER Act of 2013, the Director, in consultation 
with Federal, State, and local law enforcement agen-
cies and government laboratories, shall develop and 
publish a description of protocols and practices the 
Director considers appropriate for the accurate, 
timely, and effective collection and processing of 
DNA evidence, including protocols and practices spe-
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cific to sexual assault cases, which shall address ap-
propriate steps in the investigation of cases that 
might involve DNA evidence, including— 
‘‘(A) how to determine— 
‘‘(i) which evidence is to be collected 
by law enforcement personnel and for-
warded for testing; 
‘‘(ii) the preferred order in which evi-
dence from the same case is to be tested; 
and 
‘‘(iii) what information to take into 
account when establishing the order in 
which evidence from different cases is to be 
tested; 
‘‘(B) the establishment of a reasonable pe-
riod of time in which evidence is to be for-
warded by emergency response providers, law 
enforcement personnel, and prosecutors to a 
laboratory for testing; 
‘‘(C) the establishment of reasonable peri-
ods of time in which each stage of analytical 
laboratory testing is to be completed; 
‘‘(D) systems to encourage communication 
within a State or unit of local government 
among emergency response providers, law en-
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forcement personnel, prosecutors, courts, de-
fense counsel, crime laboratory personnel, and 
crime victims regarding the status of crime 
scene evidence to be tested; and 
‘‘(E) standards for conducting the audit of 
the backlog for DNA case work in sexual as-
sault cases required under subsection (n). 
‘‘(2) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING.— 
The Director shall make available technical assist-
ance and training to support States and units of 
local government in adopting and implementing the 
protocols and practices developed under paragraph 
(1) on and after the date on which the protocols and 
practices are published. 
‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection, the 
terms ‘awaiting testing’ and ‘possession’ have the 
meanings given those terms in subsection (n).’’. 
SEC. 3. REPORTS TO CONGRESS. 
Not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal 
year for which a grant is made for the purpose described 
in section 2(a)(7) of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimi-
nation Act of 2000, as amended by section 2, the Attorney 
General shall submit to Congress a report that— 
(1) lists the States and units of local govern-
ment that have been awarded such grants and the 
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amount of the grant received by each such State or 
unit of local government; 
(2) states the number of extensions granted by 
the Attorney General under section 2(n)(3) of the 
DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000, as 
added by section 2; and 
(3) summarizes the processing status of the 
samples of sexual assault evidence identified in Sex-
ual Assault Forensic Evidence Reports established 
under section 2(n)(4) of the DNA Analysis Backlog 
Elimination Act of 2000, including the number of 
samples that have not been tested. 
SEC. 4. REDUCING THE RAPE KIT BACKLOG. 
Section 2(c)(3) of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimi-
nation Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135(c)(3)) is amended— 
(a) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘2014’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2018’’; and 
(b) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(C) For each of fiscal years 2014 through 
2018, not less than 75 percent of the total 
grant amounts shall be awarded for a combina-
tion of purposes under paragraphs (1), (2), and 
(3) of subsection (a).’’. 
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SEC. 5. OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY. 
All grants awarded by the Department of Justice that 
are authorized under the SAFER Act of 2013 shall be 
subject to the following: 
(1) AUDIT REQUIREMENT.—Beginning in fiscal 
year 2013, and each fiscal year thereafter, the In-
spector General of the Department of Justice shall 
conduct audits of recipients of grants under this Act 
to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of funds by 
grantees. The Inspector General shall determine the 
appropriate number of grantees to be audited each 
year. 
(2) MANDATORY
EXCLUSION.—A recipient of 
grant funds under this Act that is found to have an 
unresolved audit finding shall not be eligible to re-
ceive grant funds under this Act during the 2 fiscal 
years beginning after the 12-month period described 
in paragraph (5). 
(3) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this 
Act, the Attorney General shall give priority to eligi-
ble entities that, during the 3 fiscal years before 
submitting an application for a grant under this Act, 
did not have an unresolved audit finding showing a 
violation in the terms or conditions of a Department 
of Justice grant program. 
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(4) REIMBURSEMENT.—If an entity is awarded 
grant funds under this Act during the 2-fiscal-year 
period in which the entity is barred from receiving 
grants under paragraph (2), the Attorney General 
shall— 
(A) deposit an amount equal to the grant 
funds that were improperly awarded to the 
grantee into the General Fund of the Treasury; 
and 
(B) seek to recoup the costs of the repay-
ment to the fund from the grant recipient that 
was erroneously awarded grant funds. 
(5) DEFINED TERM.—In this section, the term 
‘‘unresolved audit finding’’ means an audit report 
finding in the final audit report of the Inspector 
General of the Department of Justice that the 
grantee has utilized grant funds for an unauthorized 
expenditure or otherwise unallowable cost that is not 
closed or resolved within a 12-month period begin-
ning on the date when the final audit report is 
issued. 
(6) 
NONPROFIT
ORGANIZATION
REQUIRE-
MENTS.— 
(A) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this 
section and the grant programs described in 
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this Act, the term ‘‘nonprofit organization’’ 
means an organization that is described in sec-
tion 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 and is exempt from taxation under section 
501(a) of such Code. 
(B) PROHIBITION.—The Attorney General 
shall not award a grant under any grant pro-
gram described in this Act to a nonprofit orga-
nization that holds money in offshore accounts 
for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax de-
scribed in section 511(a) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986. 
(C) DISCLOSURE.—Each nonprofit organi-
zation that is awarded a grant under a grant 
program described in this Act and uses the pro-
cedures prescribed in regulations to create a re-
buttable presumption of reasonableness for the 
compensation of its officers, directors, trustees 
and key employees, shall disclose to the Attor-
ney General, in the application for the grant, 
the process for determining such compensation, 
including the independent persons involved in 
reviewing and approving such compensation, the 
comparability data used, and contemporaneous 
substantiation of the deliberation and decision. 
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Upon request, the Attorney General shall make 
the information disclosed under this subsection 
available for public inspection. 
(7) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Unless oth-
erwise explicitly provided in authorizing legislation, 
not more than 7.5 percent of the amounts author-
ized to be appropriated under this Act may be used 
by the Attorney General for salaries and administra-
tive expenses of the Department of Justice. 
(8) CONFERENCE EXPENDITURES.— 
(A) LIMITATION.—No amounts authorized 
to be appropriated to the Department of Justice 
under this Act may be used by the Attorney 
General or by any individual or organization 
awarded discretionary funds through a coopera-
tive agreement under this Act, to host or sup-
port any expenditure for conferences that uses 
more than $20,000 in Department funds, un-
less the Deputy Attorney General or the appro-
priate Assistant Attorney General, Director, or 
principal deputy as the Deputy Attorney Gen-
eral may designate, provides prior written au-
thorization that the funds may be expended to 
host a conference. 
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(B) WRITTEN
APPROVAL.—Written ap-
proval under subparagraph (A) shall include a 
written estimate of all costs associated with the 
conference, including the cost of all food and 
beverages, audio/visual equipment, honoraria 
for speakers, and any entertainment. 
(C) REPORT.—The Deputy Attorney Gen-
eral shall submit an annual report to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the 
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives on all conference expenditures 
approved by operation of this paragraph. 
(9) PROHIBITION ON LOBBYING ACTIVITY.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Amounts authorized to 
be appropriated under this Act may not be uti-
lized by any grant recipient to— 
(i) lobby any representative of the De-
partment of Justice regarding the award of 
grant funding; or 
(ii) lobby any representative of a Fed-
eral, State, local, or tribal government re-
garding the award of grant funding. 
(B) PENALTY.—If the Attorney General 
determines that any recipient of a grant under 
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HR 2126 PP
on-related technology and expertise; for programs relating
to the training and support of defense and military person-
nel for demilitarization and protection of weapons, weap-
ons components and weapons technology and expertise;
$200,000,000 to remain available until expended.
TITLE III
PROCUREMENT
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, ARMY
For construction, procurement, production, modifica-
tion, and modernization of aircraft, equipment, including
ordnance, ground handling equipment, spare parts, and
accessories therefor; specialized equipment and training
devices; expansion of public and private plants, including
the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes,
and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired,
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of
title; and procurement and installation of equipment, ap-
pliances, and machine tools in public and private plants;
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned
equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the
foregoing purposes; $1,468,067,000, to remain available
for obligation until September 30, 1998: Provided, That
of the funds appropriated in this paragraph, $45,000,000
shall not be obligated or expended until authorized by law.
HR 2126 PP
MISSILE PROCUREMENT, ARMY
For construction, procurement, production, modifica-
tion, and modernization of missiles, equipment, including
ordnance, ground handling equipment, spare parts, and
accessories therefor; specialized equipment and training
devices; expansion of public and private plants, including
the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes,
and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired,
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of
title; and procurement and installation of equipment, ap-
pliances, and machine tools in public and private plants;
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned
equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the
foregoing purposes; $842,830,000, to remain available for
obligation until September 30, 1998.
PROCUREMENT OF WEAPONS AND TRACKED COMBAT
VEHICLES, ARMY
For
construction,
procurement,
production,
and
modification of weapons and tracked combat vehicles,
equipment, including ordnance, spare parts, and acces-
sories therefor; specialized equipment and training devices;
expansion of public and private plants, including the land
necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and such
lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and con-
struction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; and
HR 2126 PP
procurement and installation of equipment, appliances,
and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve
plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment
layaway; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing
purposes; $1,616,964,000, to remain available for obliga-
tion until September 30, 1998: Provided, That of the
funds appropriated in this paragraph, $257,300,000 shall
not be obligated or expended until authorized by law.
PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY
For
construction,
procurement,
production,
and
modification of ammunition, and accessories therefor; spe-
cialized equipment and training devices; expansion of pub-
lic and private plants, including ammunition facilities au-
thorized by section 2854, title 10, United States Code, and
the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes,
and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired,
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of
title; and procurement and installation of equipment, ap-
pliances, and machine tools in public and private plants;
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned
equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the
foregoing purposes; $1,019,315,000, to remain available
for obligation until September 30, 1998.