SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Urban Progress Act of 2016’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 
Subtitle A—Rental Assistance Housing Preservation and Rehabilitation Act 
Sec. 101. Short title. 
Sec. 102. Amendments to rental assistance demonstration. 
Subtitle B—Hire For a Second Chance Act 
Sec. 111. Short title. 
Sec. 112. Extension and modification of work opportunity tax credit. 
Subtitle C—Community Investment and Empowerment Act 
Sec. 121. Short title. 
Sec. 122. Purpose. 
Sec. 123. Economic growth, retention, and recruitment of commercial invest-
ment in underserved communities. 
Subtitle D—Promote Startups Act 
Sec. 131. Short title. 
Sec. 132. Permanent increase of limitation on deduction for start-up and orga-
nizational expenditures. 
Subtitle E—Community College to Career Fund Act 
Sec. 141. Short title. 
Sec. 142. Community College to Career Fund. 
Subtitle F—Youth Summer Jobs and Public Service Act 
Sec. 151. Short title. 
Sec. 152. Grants to States for summer employment for youth. 
Subtitle G—Child Poverty Reduction Act 
Sec. 161. Short title. 
CHAPTER 1—FEDERAL INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP ON REDUCING 
CHILD POVERTY 
Sec. 162. Establishment of Working Group. 
Sec. 163. National plan to reduce child poverty. 
Sec. 164. Other duties. 
Sec. 165. Membership. 
Sec. 166. Director and staff. 
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Sec. 167. Reporting requirements. 
CHAPTER 2—WORKSHOPS BY NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Sec. 168. Requirement to enter into agreement with National Academy of 
Sciences. 
Sec. 169. Workshop topics. 
Sec. 170. Reporting requirement. 
Sec. 171. Authorization of appropriations. 
CHAPTER 3—DEFINITIONS 
Sec. 172. Definitions. 
Subtitle H—Hunger-Free Summers for Children 
Sec. 181. Summer SNAP benefits for minor children who received free or re-
duced price school lunches. 
Sec. 182. Child tax credit increased for families under 150 percent of poverty 
line. 
TITLE II—COMMUNITY POLICING 
Subtitle A—Fair Chance for Youth 
Sec. 201. Short title. 
Sec. 202. Expungement and Sealing of Youth Criminal Records. 
Sec. 203. Retroactive Effect. 
Subtitle B—Youth Prison Reduction Through Opportunities, Mentoring, 
Intervention, Support, and Education 
Sec. 211. Short title. 
Sec. 212. Definitions. 
Sec. 213. Findings. 
CHAPTER 1—FEDERAL COORDINATION OF LOCAL AND TRIBAL JUVENILE 
JUSTICE INFORMATION AND EFFORTS 
Sec. 214. PROMISE Advisory Panel. 
Sec. 215. Geographic assessment of resource allocation. 
CHAPTER 2—PROMISE GRANTS 
Sec. 216. Purposes. 
SUBCHAPTER A—PROMISE ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING GRANTS 
Sec. 217. PROMISE Assessment and Planning grants authorized. 
Sec. 218. PROMISE Coordinating Councils. 
Sec. 219. Needs and strengths assessment. 
Sec. 220. PROMISE Plan components. 
Sec. 221. Authorization of appropriations. 
SUBCHAPTER B—PROMISE IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS 
Sec. 222. PROMISE Implementation grants authorized. 
Sec. 223. PROMISE Implementation grant application requirements. 
Sec. 224. Grant award guidelines. 
Sec. 225. Reports. 
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Sec. 226. Authorization of appropriations. 
SUBCHAPTER C—GENERAL PROMISE GRANT PROVISIONS 
Sec. 227. Nonsupplanting clause. 
Sec. 228. Grant application review panel. 
Sec. 229. Evaluation of PROMISE grant programs. 
Sec. 230. Reservation of funds. 
CHAPTER 3—PROMISE RESEARCH CENTERS 
Sec. 231. Establishment of the National Research Center for Proven Juvenile 
Justice Practices. 
Sec. 232. Grants for regional research proven practices partnerships. 
Subtitle C—Safe Streets and Representative Police Forces 
Sec. 241. Short title. 
Sec. 242. Grants to increase the racial diversity of law enforcement agencies. 
TITLE III—COMMON SENSE GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION 
Subtitle A—Hadiya Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard Gun Trafficking and 
Crime Prevention 
Sec. 301. Short title. 
Sec. 302. Firearms trafficking. 
Subtitle B—Report on Effects of Gun Violence on Public Health 
Sec. 311. Report on effects of gun violence on public health. 
Sec. 312. Prohibition on certain amendments to appropriations measures. 
Subtitle C—Keeping Guns From High Risk Individuals 
Sec. 321. Short title. 
Sec. 322. Firearm prohibitions applicable with respect to certain high-risk indi-
viduals. 
Subtitle D—Strengthening Gun Checks Act 
Sec. 341. Short title; table of contents. 
CHAPTER 1—ENSURING THAT ALL INDIVIDUALS WHO SHOULD BE PROHIB-
ITED FROM BUYING
A GUN ARE LISTED
IN
THE NATIONAL INSTANT 
CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM 
Sec. 342. States to make data electronically available to the National Instant 
Criminal Background Check System. 
Sec. 343. Requirement that Federal agencies certify that they have submitted 
to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System all 
records identifying persons prohibited from purchasing fire-
arms under Federal law. 
Sec. 344. Adjudicated as a mental defective. 
Sec. 345. Clarification that Federal court information is to be made available 
to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. 
CHAPTER 2—REQUIRING A BACKGROUND CHECK FOR EVERY FIREARM SALE 
Sec. 346. Purpose. 
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Sec. 347. Firearms transfers. 
Sec. 348. Lost and stolen reporting. 
Subtitle E—Background Check Completion Act 
Sec. 351. Short title. 
Sec. 352. Elimination of requirement that a firearms dealer transfer a firearm 
if the national instant criminal background check system has 
been unable to complete a background check of the prospective 
transferee within 3 business days. 
TITLE I—SUSTAINABLE COMMU-
NITY 
ECONOMIC 
DEVELOP-
MENT 
Subtitle 
A—Rental 
Assistance 
Housing Preservation and Reha-
bilitation Act 
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE. 
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Rental Assistance 
Housing Preservation and Rehabilitation Act of 2016’’. 
SEC. 102. AMENDMENTS TO RENTAL ASSISTANCE DEM-
ONSTRATION. 
(a) AMENDMENTS.—The matter in the heading 
‘‘Rental Assistance Demonstration’’ in title II of the 
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 (division C of 
Public Law 112–55; 125 Stat. 673) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘(except for funds allocated 
under such section for single room occupancy dwell-
ings as authorized by title IV of the McKinney- 
Vento Homeless Assistance Act)’’ each place such 
phrase appears; 
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(2) in the third proviso by inserting ‘‘in excess 
of amounts made available under this heading’’ after 
‘‘associated with such conversion’’; 
(3) in the fourth proviso— 
(A) by striking ‘‘60,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘150,000’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘or section 8(e)(2)’’; and 
(4) in the penultimate proviso by striking ‘‘and 
2013’’ and inserting ‘‘through 2016’’. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub-
section (a) shall apply only to any amounts that are made 
available for fiscal year 2014 or any fiscal year thereafter 
for carrying out the demonstration program established 
under the heading referred to in subsection (a). 
Subtitle B—Hire For a Second 
Chance Act 
SEC. 111. SHORT TITLE. 
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Hire For a Second 
Chance Act of 2016’’. 
SEC. 112. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF WORK OP-
PORTUNITY TAX CREDIT. 
(a) CREDIT MADE PERMANENT.—Section 51(c) of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking 
paragraph (4) and redesignating paragraph (5) as para-
graph (4). 
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