actment of the Act and continues to spend over $47 
million annually. 
‘‘(3) Drug offenses are the leading cause of ar-
rest in the United States, remaining largely un-
changed from 2010–2019, during which time over 
10 million arrests were made for drug possession. 
Black individuals are arrested at rates far higher 
than their representation in the population and in 
far greater numbers than individuals in other demo-
graphic groups. 
‘‘(4) Drug arrests have significant collateral 
consequences, interfering or denying access to edu-
cation, employment, housing, child custody, immi-
gration, and public benefits. 
‘‘(5) Drug control strategies focused on crim-
inalizing personal use of drugs have not achieved re-
ductions in the availability, prevalence of use, prices, 
or incidence of drug overdose. 
‘‘(6) The criminalization of people who use 
drugs reduces the availability of resources for evi-
dence-based compassionate drug education, addiction 
health services, including substance abuse treatment 
and medication assisted treatment, and other serv-
ices focused on the health and safety of consumers. 
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‘‘(7) Federal regulation of controlled substances 
pursuant to this subchapter shall promote the 
health, safety and welfare of individuals who use 
drugs and seek to prevent the harms of criminalizing 
individual users of drugs.’’. 
SEC. 12. EVIDENCE-BASED DRUG EDUCATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, and not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall 
transfer certain programs to the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services. 
(b) 
FEDERAL
FUNDS
PROHIBITION.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, no Federal funds may 
be used by the Attorney General for drug education pro-
gramming, including public education related to drug use, 
unless that the Attorney General or designee may provide 
information to the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices in support of the Secretary’s responsibilities pursuant 
to this section. 
(c) PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT.—Notwithstanding 
any provision of law, a transfer pursuant to paragraph (1) 
shall include any personnel and equipment exclusively re-
sponsible for the administration of the certain programs. 
(d) CERTAIN PROGRAM DEFINED.—The term ‘‘cer-
tain program’’ means Federal programs including: 
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(1) Access to recovery programs. 
(2) Block grants for prevention and treatment 
of substance abuse. 
(3) Community transformation grants. 
(4) Drug abuse and addiction research pro-
grams. 
(5) Enhance the safety of children affected by 
parental methamphetamine or other substance 
abuse. 
(6) Family connection grants. 
(7) Using family group decision-making to build 
protective factors for children and families. 
(8) Health improvement for reentering ex-of-
fenders initiative. 
(9) Healthy start initiative. 
(10) HIV prevention activities nongovernmental 
organization based in the United States. 
(11) Maternal, infant and early childhood home 
visiting program. 
(12) Mentoring children of prisoners. 
(13) National all schedules prescription elec-
tronic reporting grant. 
(14) Project for assistance in transition from 
homelessness. 
(15) Promoting safe and stable homes. 
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(16) Strategic prevention framework. 
(17) Substance abuse and mental health serv-
ices projects of regional and national significance. 
(18) Urban Indian Health Services. 
(e) PUBLIC EDUCATION REGARDING DRUGS
AND 
DRUG USE.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
any Federal funds used for designing, administering, or 
supporting programs to provide education regarding drugs 
or drug use shall provide scientifically-accurate, culturally 
and gender competent, trauma-informed, and evidence- 
based information about drug use and effects that can 
help persons participating in such a program make healthy 
choices about substance use and develop personal and so-
cial strategies to manage the risks, benefits, and potential 
harms of substance use. 
(f) IMPROVE RESEARCH ON IMPACTS OF DRUG CRIM-
INALIZATION AND ENFORCEMENT.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, and not later than one year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney Gen-
eral shall transfer programs with respect to drugs and 
crime to the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration to expand research 
on harms of criminalization and to study the effectiveness 
of non-prohibitionist models of ensuring the health and 
safety of individuals who use drugs. 
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SEC. 13. DATA COLLECTION AND TRANSPARENCY. 
(a) LOCALITY DATA.—Not later than one year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation make publicly available 
all available data, on a quarterly basis, regarding local en-
forcement of drug laws, including local arrests for drug 
possession and distribution offenses, possession of drug 
paraphernalia, public use or intoxication, loitering, and all 
other drug-related violations. 
(b) NATIONAL INCIDENT-BASED REPORTING SYS-
TEM.—Not later than one year after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation shall make available on the internet website 
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation any data provided 
by localities to the National Incident-Based Reporting 
System, including any aggregate data reported regarding 
the alleged substances and quantities recovered, and de-
mographic data for persons arrested. 
(c) DEPARTMENT
OF JUSTICE REPORTING.—Not 
later than one year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General shall 
collect and make publicly available on the internet website 
of the Department of Justice information from any unit 
of local government that receives any Federal funding 
identifying expenditures on drug offense enforcement. 
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