I 
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 over-
time 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 Com-
mittee 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. 
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 ‘‘Homeland Security 
Overtime Reimbursement Act’’. 
SEC. 2. REIMBURSEMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGEN-
CIES FOR PAST OVERTIME EXPENDITURES 
UNDER THE HOMELAND SECURITY OVER-
TIME PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1701 of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
3796dd) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subsection: 
‘‘(l) SPECIAL RULES
FOR HOMELAND SECURITY 
OVERTIME PROGRAMS.— 
‘‘(1) REIMBURSEMENT
FOR
PAST
OVERTIME 
EXPENDITURES.—Notwithstanding section 1704(a), 
a recipient of a grant under a homeland security 
overtime program may use grant funds to pay for 
homeland security overtime expenditures incurred at 
any time during the fiscal year preceding the fiscal 
year in which the grant is made. 
‘‘(2) WAIVER OF MATCHING FUNDS.—The At-
torney General shall waive the requirement under 
subsection (i) of a non-Federal contribution for any 
grant or portion of a grant under a homeland secu-
rity overtime program to the extent that the grant
is used to pay for expenditures described in para-
graph (1). 
‘‘(3) TREATMENT
OF
PUERTO
RICO.—Puerto 
Rico shall be considered both a unit of local govern-
ment and a State for the purposes of any homeland 
security overtime program. 
‘‘(4) HOMELAND
SECURITY
OVERTIME
PRO-
GRAM.—The term ‘homeland security overtime pro-
gram’ means a program for which a grant is made 
under subsection (a) to fund overtime expenditures 
to law enforcement agencies for training and in-
creased patrols related to homeland security con-
cerns.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Part Q of the Om-
nibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 
U.S.C. 3796dd et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 1704(a) (42 U.S.C. 3799dd– 
3(a)), by striking ‘‘Funds made’’ and inserting ‘‘Ex-
cept as provided in section 1701(l)(1), funds made’’; 
and 
(2) in section 1701(i) (42 U.S.C. 3799dd(i)), by 
striking ‘‘The portion’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as 
provided in subsection (l)(2), the portion’’.
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendments made by this Act shall apply to 
grants made under section 1701(a) of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
9799dd(a)) for which applications are submitted after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
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