I 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6542 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
require the Attorney General to establish guidelines to prevent and ad-
dress occurrences of bullying, to provide for grant funding to States 
for programs to prevent and address occurrences of bullying, and to 
reauthorize the Juvenile Accountability Block Grants program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 17, 2010 
Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas (for herself, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. WASSERMAN 
SCHULTZ, Mr. GONZALEZ, and Ms. LINDA T. SA´NCHEZ of California) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 to require the Attorney General to establish 
guidelines to prevent and address occurrences of bullying, 
to provide for grant funding to States for programs 
to prevent and address occurrences of bullying, and to 
reauthorize the Juvenile Accountability Block Grants 
program. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bullying Prevention 
and Intervention Act of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. BULLYING PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION PRO-
GRAMS; REAUTHORIZATION OF JUVENILE AC-
COUNTABILITY BLOCK GRANTS. 
(a) ALLOWING JUVENILE ACCOUNTABILITY BLOCK 
GRANTS TO BE USED FOR BULLYING PREVENTION AND 
INTERVENTION PROGRAMS.—Section 1801 of the Omni-
bus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subsection (b), in the matter preceding 
paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘(and for the purpose 
described in subsection (d)(1))’’ after ‘‘juvenile jus-
tice system’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(d) BULLYING PREVENTION
AND INTERVENTION 
PROGRAMS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Amounts paid to a State or 
a unit of local government under this part may be 
used by the State or unit of local government for 
bullying prevention and intervention programs de-
scribed in paragraph (2)(C) that, subject to para-
graph (3), follow the guidelines established under 
such paragraph (2)(C). 
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‘‘(2) GUIDELINES.—Not later than 6 months 
after the date of this subsection, the Attorney Gen-
eral shall establish voluntary guidelines for use by 
States and units of local government— 
‘‘(A) on ways for relevant entities to iden-
tify occurrences of bullying; 
‘‘(B) on ways to provide for the participa-
tion in programs described in subparagraph (C) 
of juveniles who are involved in such occur-
rences of bullying; and 
‘‘(C) for purposes of developing bullying 
prevention and intervention programs that, at a 
minimum— 
‘‘(i) provide services to juveniles; 
‘‘(ii) provide educational services that 
focus on the accountability of such juve-
niles for their actions, with respect to oc-
currences of bullying, including when the 
outcome of such actions is not intended by 
such juveniles; 
‘‘(iii) provide counseling services for 
both juveniles who commit acts of bullying 
and juveniles who are victims of such bul-
lying; 
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‘‘(iv) include notification and involve-
ment of parents and guardians of juveniles 
who are participating in such programs; 
‘‘(v) address behavior and behavior 
modification of juveniles described in 
clause (iii); and 
‘‘(vi) educate students, adult per-
sonnel (including school administration 
and staff and child care providers), and 
law enforcement officers about how to 
identify occurrences of bullying and how to 
address such occurrences. 
‘‘(3) VARIATION PERMITTED.—A State or unit 
of local government may modify the guidelines estab-
lished under paragraph (2) for use by such State or 
unit, respectively (or entities within such State or 
unit, respectively) in order to meet the specific needs 
or circumstances of relevant populations. 
‘‘(4) BULLYING
DEFINED.—For purposes of 
this subsection, the term ‘bullying’ includes the fol-
lowing behavior by juvenile against another juvenile 
(or group of juveniles): 
‘‘(A) Verbal acts, name-calling, and graph-
ic and written statements that may be threat-
ening, harmful, or humiliating and which may 
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include use of cell phones, the Internet, and 
other forms of electronic communication. 
‘‘(B) Conduct that may be physically 
threatening, harmful, or humiliating. 
‘‘(C) Conduct that creates a hostile envi-
ronment when the conduct is sufficiently severe, 
pervasive, or persistent so as to interfere with 
or limit the ability of such other juvenile to par-
ticipate in or benefit from the services, activi-
ties, or opportunities offered by a school. 
‘‘(D) Harassment based on race, color, na-
tional origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, 
or gender. 
‘‘(E) Statements or other conduct that are 
based on real or perceived imbalance of power, 
repeated over time, and result in humiliation of 
the other juvenile. 
Behavior described in the previous sentence does not 
have to include the intent to harm or be directed at 
a specific juvenile to be considered bullying.’’. 
(b) REAUTHORIZATION
OF
JUVENILE
ACCOUNT-
ABILITY BLOCK GRANTS.—Section 1810(a) of such Act 
is amended by inserting before the period at the end the 
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following: ‘‘and for each of fiscal years 2011 through 
2015’’. 
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