torney General, or by any individual or organi-
zation awarded discretionary funds through a 
cooperative agreement under this Act, to host 
or support any expenditure for conferences that 
uses more than $20,000 in funds made avail-
able to the Department of Justice, unless the 
Deputy Attorney General or such Assistant At-
torney Generals, Directors, or principal deputies 
as the Deputy Attorney General may designate, 
provides prior written authorization that the 
funds may be expended to host a conference. 
‘‘(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, audiovisual equipment, honoraria for 
speakers, and 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 Education and the Workforce of 
the House of Representatives on all conference 
expenditures approved under this paragraph. 
‘‘(3) PROHIBITION ON LOBBYING ACTIVITY.— 
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‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Amounts authorized 
to be appropriated under this Act may not be 
utilized by any recipient of a grant made using 
such amounts— 
‘‘(i) to lobby any representative of the 
Department of Justice regarding the 
award of grant funding; or 
‘‘(ii) to lobby any representative of a 
Federal, State, local, or tribal government 
regarding the award of grant funding. 
‘‘(B) PENALTY.—If the Attorney General 
determines that any recipient of a grant made 
using amounts authorized to be appropriated 
under this Act has violated subparagraph (A), 
the Attorney General shall— 
‘‘(i) require the recipient to repay the 
grant in full; and 
‘‘(ii) prohibit the recipient to receive 
another grant under this Act for not less 
than 5 years. 
‘‘(C) CLARIFICATION.—For purposes of 
this paragraph, submitting an application for a 
grant under this Act shall not be considered 
lobbying activity in violation of subparagraph 
(A). 
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‘‘(c) PREVENTING DUPLICATIVE GRANTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Before the Attorney Gen-
eral awards a grant to an applicant under this Act, 
the Attorney General shall compare potential grant 
awards with other grants awarded under this Act to 
determine if duplicate grant awards are awarded for 
the same purpose. 
‘‘(2) REPORT.—If the Attorney General awards 
duplicate grants to the same applicant for the same 
purpose the Attorney General shall submit to the 
Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce of the 
House of Representatives a report that includes— 
‘‘(A) a list of all duplicate grants awarded, 
including the total dollar amount of any dupli-
cate grants awarded; and 
‘‘(B) the reason the Attorney General 
awarded the duplicative grant. 
‘‘(d) COMPLIANCE WITH AUDITING STANDARDS.— 
The Administrator shall comply with the Generally Ac-
cepted Government Auditing Standards, published by the 
General Accountability Office (commonly known as the 
‘Yellow Book’), in the conduct of fiscal, compliance, and 
programmatic audits of States.’’. 
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— 
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(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 is amended by 
striking paragraphs (6) and (7) of section 407 (42 
U.S.C. 5776a). 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made 
by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the first day 
of the first fiscal year that begins after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
(3) SAVINGS CLAUSE.—In the case of an entity 
that is barred from receiving grant funds under 
paragraph (7)(B)(ii) of section 407 of the Juvenile 
Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 
U.S.C. 5776a), the amendment made by paragraph 
(1) of this subsection shall not affect the applica-
bility to the entity, or to the Attorney General with 
respect to the entity, of paragraph (7) of such sec-
tion 407, as in effect on the day before the effective 
date of the amendment made by paragraph (1). 
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