I
107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1429
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
APRIL 4, 2001
Ms. BERKLEY (for herself, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. FROST, Ms. SLAUGH-
TER, Mr. SERRANO, Mrs. THURMAN, Mr. SANDLIN, Mr. WEXLER, Mr.
LANTOS, Mr. BAIRD, Ms. LEE, Ms. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. ACEVEDO-
VILA´, Mr. GUTIERREZ, and Mr. MCGOVERN) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Work-
force
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 2001’’.
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 2001 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-