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Union Calendar No. 35 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1139 
[Report No. 111–78] 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
enhance the COPS ON THE BEAT grant program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 23, 2009 
Mr. WEINER (for himself, Ms. BERKLEY, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Ms. 
BORDALLO, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. COHEN, Mr. CONYERS, 
Mr. COURTNEY, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. 
HALL of New York, Mr. HIGGINS, Mr. HOLDEN, Mr. HOLT, Mr. ISRAEL, 
Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. KLEIN of Florida, Mr. LATOURETTE, Ms. LEE of 
California, Mr. LOEBSACK, Mr. MARKEY of Massachusetts, Mrs. MCCAR-
THY of New York, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. MCMAHON, Mr. 
NADLER of New York, Mr. ROSS, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California, 
Ms. SCHWARTZ, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. SIRES, Mr. STUPAK, Ms. 
SUTTON, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. WILSON of 
Ohio, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. MCINTYRE, Mr. BISHOP of New York, and Mr. 
ENGEL) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary 
APRIL 21, 2009 
Additional sponsors: Mr. MURTHA, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. PIERLUISI, Mr. WELCH, 
and Mr. REICHERT 
APRIL 21, 2009 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
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[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 23, 2009] 
A BILL 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 to enhance the COPS ON THE BEAT 
grant program, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘COPS Improvements 
Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. COPS GRANT IMPROVEMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1701 of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd) 
is amended— 
(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(a) GRANT AUTHORIZATION.—The Attorney General 
shall carry out grant programs under which the Attorney 
General makes grants to States, units of local government, 
Indian tribal governments, other public and private enti-
ties, multi-jurisdictional or regional consortia, and individ-
uals for the purposes described in subsections (b), (c), (d), 
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and (e). Grants under this subsection shall be awarded on 
a competitive basis.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking the subsection heading text 
and inserting ‘‘COMMUNITY
POLICING
AND 
CRIME PREVENTION GRANTS’’; 
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘, to in-
crease the number of officers deployed in commu-
nity-oriented policing’’; 
(C) by amending paragraph (4) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(4) award grants to pay for or train officers 
hired to perform intelligence, anti-terror, or homeland 
security duties;’’; 
(D) by inserting after paragraph (4) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(5) award grants to hire school resource officers 
and to establish school-based partnerships between 
local law enforcement agencies and local school sys-
tems to combat crime, gangs, drug activities, and 
other problems in and around elementary and sec-
ondary schools;’’; 
(E) by striking paragraph (9); 
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