H. R. 2816
One Hundred Sixth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand
An Act
To establish a grant program to assist State and local law enforcement in deterring,
investigating, and prosecuting computer crimes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Computer Crime Enforcement
Act’’.
SEC. 2. STATE GRANT PROGRAM FOR TRAINING AND PROSECUTION
OF COMPUTER CRIMES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the availability of amounts pro-
vided in advance in appropriations Acts, the Office of Justice Pro-
grams shall make a grant to each State, which shall be used
by the State, in conjunction with units of local government, State
and local courts, other States, or combinations thereof in accordance
with subsection (b).
(b) USE OF GRANT AMOUNTS.—Grants under this section may
be used to establish and develop programs to—
(1) assist State and local law enforcement agencies in
enforcing State and local criminal laws relating to computer
crime;
(2) assist State and local law enforcement agencies in edu-
cating the public to prevent and identify computer crime;
(3) educate and train State and local law enforcement
officers and prosecutors to conduct investigations and forensic
analyses of evidence and prosecutions of computer crime;
(4) assist State and local law enforcement officers and
prosecutors in acquiring computer and other equipment to con-
duct investigations and forensic analysis of evidence of com-
puter crimes; and
(5) facilitate and promote the sharing of Federal law
enforcement expertise and information about the investigation,
analysis, and prosecution of computer crimes with State and
local law enforcement officers and prosecutors, including the
use of multijurisdictional task forces.
(c) ASSURANCES.—To be eligible to receive a grant under this
section, a State shall provide assurances to the Attorney General
that the State—
(1) has in effect laws that penalize computer crime, such
as criminal laws prohibiting—
(A) fraudulent schemes executed by means of a com-
puter system or network;
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(B) the unlawful damaging, destroying, altering,
deleting, removing of computer software, or data contained
in a computer, computer system, computer program, or
computer network; or
(C) the unlawful interference with the operation of
or denial of access to a computer, computer program, com-
puter system, or computer network;
(2) an assessment of the State and local resource needs,
including criminal justice resources being devoted to the inves-
tigation and enforcement of computer crime laws; and
(3) a plan for coordinating the programs funded under
this section with other federally funded technical assistant
and training programs, including directly funded local programs
such as the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant program
(described under the heading ‘‘Violent Crime Reduction Pro-
grams, State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’ of the
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary,
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 (Public Law
105–119)).
(d) MATCHING FUNDS.—The Federal share of a grant received
under this section may not exceed 90 percent of the costs of a
program or proposal funded under this section unless the Attorney
General waives, wholly or in part, the requirements of this sub-
section.
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appropriated
to carry out this section $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years
2001 through 2004.
(2) LIMITATIONS.—Of the amount made available to carry
out this section in any fiscal year not more than 3 percent
may be used by the Attorney General for salaries and adminis-
trative expenses.
(3) MINIMUM AMOUNT.—Unless all eligible applications sub-
mitted by any State or unit of local government within such
State for a grant under this section have been funded, such
State, together with grantees within the State (other than
Indian tribes), shall be allocated in each fiscal year under
this section not less than 0.75 percent of the total amount
appropriated in the fiscal year for grants pursuant to this
section, except that the United States Virgin Islands, American
Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands each shall
be allocated 0.25 percent.
(f ) GRANTS
TO INDIAN TRIBES.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of this section, the Attorney General may use amounts
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made available under this section to make grants to Indian tribes
for use in accordance with this section.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.