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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2126
To improve academic and social outcomes for students and reduce both
juvenile crime and the risk that youth will become victims of crime
by providing productive activities during after school hours.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 10, 1999
Ms. BERKLEY (for herself and Mr. UDALL of Colorado) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the
Workforce
A BILL
To improve academic and social outcomes for students and
reduce both juvenile crime and the risk that youth will
become victims of crime by providing productive activities
during after school hours.
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 ‘‘After School Education
and Anti-Crime Act of 1999’’.
SEC. 2. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to improve academic and
social outcomes for students and reduce both juvenile
crime and the risk that youth will become victims of crime
by providing productive activities during after school
hours.
SEC. 3. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Today’s youth face far greater social risks
than did their parents and grandparents.
(2) Students spend more of their waking hours
alone, without supervision, companionship, or activ-
ity, than the students spend in school.
(3) Law enforcement statistics show that youth
who are ages 12 through 17 are most at risk of com-
mitting violent acts and being victims of violent acts
between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.
(4) The consequences of academic failure are
more dire in 1999 than ever before.
(5) After school programs have been shown in
many States to help address social problems facing
our Nation’s youth, such as drugs, alcohol, tobacco,
and gang involvement.
(6) Many of our Nation’s governors endorse in-
creasing the number of after school programs
through a Federal/State partnership.
(7) Over 450 of the Nation’s leading police
chiefs, sheriffs, and prosecutors, along with presi-
dents of the Fraternal Order of Police and the Inter-
national Union of Police Associations, which to-
gether represent 360,000 police officers, have called
upon public officials to provide after school pro-
grams that offer recreation, academic support, and
community service experience, for school-age chil-
dren and teens in the United States.
(8) One of the most important investments that
we can make in our children is to ensure that they
have safe and positive learning environments in the
after school hours.
SEC. 4. GOALS.
The goals of this Act are as follows:
(1) To increase the academic success of stu-
dents.
(2) To promote safe and productive environ-
ments for students in the after school hours.
(3) To provide alternatives to drug, alcohol, to-
bacco, and gang activity.
(4) To reduce juvenile crime and the risk that
youth will become victims of crime during after
school hours.
SEC. 5. PROGRAM AUTHORIZATION.
Section 10903 of the 21st Century Community
Learning Centers Act (20 U.S.C. 8243) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) in the subsection heading, by inserting
‘‘TO
LOCAL
EDUCATIONAL
AGENCIES
FOR
SCHOOLS’’ after ‘‘SECRETARY’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘rural and inner-city pub-
lic’’ and all that follows through ‘‘or to’’ and in-
serting ‘‘local educational agencies for the sup-
port of public elementary schools or secondary
schools, including middle schools, that serve
communities with substantial needs for ex-
panded learning opportunities for children and
youth in the communities, to enable the schools
to establish or’’; and
(C) by striking ‘‘a rural or inner-city com-
munity’’ and inserting ‘‘the communities’’;
(2) in subsection (b)—
(A) by striking ‘‘States, among’’ and in-
serting ‘‘States and among’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘United States,’’ and all
that follows through ‘‘a State’’ and inserting
‘‘United States’’; and
(3) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘3’’ and in-
serting ‘‘5’’.
SEC. 6. APPLICATIONS.
Section 10904 of the 21st Century Community
Learning Centers Act (20 U.S.C. 8244) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (b) as sub-
section (c);
(2) in subsection (a)—
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph
(1)—
(i) in the first sentence, by striking
‘‘an elementary or secondary school or con-
sortium’’ and inserting ‘‘a local educational
agency’’; and
(ii) in the second sentence, by striking
‘‘Each such’’ and inserting the following:
‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—Each such’’; and
(3) in subsection (b) (as so redesignated)—
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘or con-
sortium’’;
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘and’’
after the semicolon; and
(C) in paragraph (3)—
(i) in subparagraph (B), by inserting
‘‘, including programs under the Child
Care and Development Block Grant Act of
1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858 et seq.)’’ after
‘‘maximized’’;
(ii) in subparagraph (C), by inserting
‘‘students, parents, teachers, school admin-
istrators, local government, including law
enforcement organizations such as Police
Athletic and Activity Leagues,’’ after
‘‘agencies,’’;
(iii) in subparagraph (D), by striking
‘‘or consortium’’; and
(iv) in subparagraph (E)—
(I) in the matter preceding clause
(i), by striking ‘‘or consortium’’; and
(II) in clause (ii), by striking the
period and inserting a semicolon; and
(E) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(4) information demonstrating that the local
educational agency will—
‘‘(A) provide not less than 35 percent of
the annual cost of the activities assisted under
the project from sources other than funds pro-
vided under this part, which contribution may
be provided in cash or in kind, fairly evaluated;
and
‘‘(B) provide not more than 25 percent of
the annual cost of the activities assisted under
the project from funds provided by the Sec-
retary under other Federal programs that per-
mit the use of those other funds for activities
assisted under the project; and
‘‘(5) an assurance that the local educational
agency, in each year of the project, will maintain the
agency’s fiscal effort, from non-Federal sources,
from the preceding fiscal year for the activities the
local educational agency provides with funds pro-
vided under this part.’’.
SEC. 7. USES OF FUNDS.
Section 10905 of the 21st Century Community
Learning Centers Act (20 U.S.C. 8245) is amended—
(1) by striking the matter preceding paragraph
(1) and inserting:
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Grants awarded under this part
may be used to establish or expand community learning
centers. The centers may provide 1 or more of the fol-
lowing activities:’’;
(2) in subsection (a)(11) (as redesignated by
paragraph (1)), by inserting ‘‘, and job skills prepa-
ration’’ after ‘‘placement’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(14) After school programs, that—
‘‘(A) shall include at least 2 of the
following—
‘‘(i) mentoring programs;
‘‘(ii) academic assistance;
‘‘(iii) recreational activities; or
‘‘(iv) technology training; and
‘‘(B) may include—
‘‘(i) drug, alcohol, and gang preven-
tion activities;
‘‘(ii) health and nutrition counseling;
and
‘‘(iii) job skills preparation activities.
‘‘(b) LIMITATION.—Not less than 2⁄3 of the amount
appropriated under section 10907 for each fiscal year shall
be used for after school programs, as described in para-
graph (14). Such programs may also include activities de-
scribed in paragraphs (1) through (13) that offer ex-
panded opportunities for children or youth.’’.
SEC. 8. ADMINISTRATION.
Section 10905 of the 21st Century Community
Learning Centers Act (20 U.S.C. 8245) is amended by
adding at the end the following:
‘‘(c) ADMINISTRATION.—In carrying out the activi-
ties described in subsection (a), a local educational agency
or school shall, to the greatest extent practicable—
‘‘(1) request volunteers from business and aca-
demic communities, and law enforcement organiza-
tions, such as Police Athletic and Activity Leagues,
to serve as mentors or to assist in other ways;
‘‘(2) ensure that youth in the local community
participate in designing the after school activities;
‘‘(3) develop creative methods of conducting
outreach to youth in the community;
‘‘(4) request donations of computer equipment
and other materials and equipment; and
‘‘(5) work with State and local park and recre-
ation agencies so that activities carried out by the
agencies prior to the date of enactment of this sub-
section are not duplicated by activities assisted
under this part.’’.
SEC. 9. COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER DEFINED.
Section 10906 of the 21st Century Community
Learning Centers Act (20 U.S.C. 8246) is amended in
paragraph (2) by inserting ‘‘, including law enforcement
organizations such as the Police Athletic and Activity
League’’ after ‘‘governmental agencies’’.
SEC. 10. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 10907 of the 21st Century Community
Learning Centers Act (20 U.S.C. 8247) is amended by
striking ‘‘$20,000,000 for fiscal year 1995’’ and all that
follows and inserting ‘‘$600,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 2000 through 2004, to carry out this part.’’.
SEC. 11. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act, and the amendments made by this Act, take
effect on October 1, 1999.
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