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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3580 
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to use revenue generated by certain 
fines, penalties, and settlements that are not designated for restitution 
or any other purpose to fund evidence-based youth mentoring projects, 
justice reinvestment efforts, and innovations in medical research and 
development. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 21, 2013 
Mr. FATTAH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education 
and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, and Energy and 
Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to use revenue 
generated by certain fines, penalties, and settlements 
that are not designated for restitution or any other pur-
pose to fund evidence-based youth mentoring projects, 
justice reinvestment efforts, and innovations in medical 
research and development. 
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 ‘‘America’s Fund for 
Future Opportunities and Outcomes in the United States 
Act of 2013’’ or ‘‘America’s FOCUS Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States faces increasing competi-
tion from countries with populations of a billion or 
more inhabitants, who contribute to the human cap-
ital of these countries and improve their perform-
ance in the global economy. 
(2) To ensure that the United States retains its 
leadership position in the global economy, the United 
States should maximize the opportunities and out-
comes of its citizenry. 
(3) The United States can achieve this goal by 
investing in STEM education and character develop-
ment for youth, justice reinvestment efforts, and in-
novations in medical research and development. 
(4) To fund these investments in the public in-
terest, the United States should use revenue gen-
erated by acts perpetrated against the public inter-
est. 
(5) As corporate and financial wrongdoing 
touches the lives of all Americans, revenue generated 
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by such acts should serve as the basis for these in-
vestments. 
(6) This revenue should be used to assist pro-
grams and organizations seeking to better the Na-
tion through their work in the youth mentoring, jus-
tice reinvestment, and medical research fields. 
(7) In 1998, Congress issued Federal charters 
to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Big 
Brothers Big Sisters of America in recognition of 
their work helping children reach their full potential 
and succeed in American public life. Youth men-
toring organizations still carry out this work and are 
putting children on the path to self-sufficiency. 
These organizations include— 
(A) the Boys and Girls Clubs of America; 
(B) Big Brothers Big Sisters of America; 
(C) National CARES Mentoring Move-
ment; 
(D) the First Tee; 
(E) Amachi; 
(F) FIRST Robotics; 
(G) the U.S. DREAM Academy; 
(H) GEAR UP; 
(I) the YMCA; 
(J) Civil Air Patrol; 
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