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mittee on Education and the Workforce of the House
of Representatives a report on the results of the study
conducted under paragraph (1).
‘‘SEC. 247. CONSIDERATIONS FOR APPROVAL OF APPLICA-
TIONS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Any agency, institution, or indi-
vidual seeking to receive a grant, or enter into a contract,
under section 243, 244, or 245 shall submit an application
at such time, in such manner, and containing or accom-
panied by such information as the Administrator or the Di-
rector, as appropriate, may prescribe.
‘‘(b) APPLICATION CONTENTS.—In accordance with
guidelines established by the Administrator or the Director,
as appropriate, each application for assistance under sec-
tion 243, 244, or 245 shall—
‘‘(1) set forth a program for carrying out 1 or
more of the purposes set forth in section 243, 244, or
245, and specifically identify each such purpose such
program is designed to carry out;
‘‘(2) provide that such program shall be admin-
istered by or under the supervision of the applicant;
‘‘(3) provide for the proper and efficient admin-
istration of such program;
‘‘(4) provide for regular evaluation of such pro-
gram; and
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‘‘(5) provide for such fiscal control and fund ac-
counting procedures as may be necessary to ensure
prudent use, proper disbursement, and accurate ac-
counting of funds received under this title.
‘‘(c) FACTORS FOR CONSIDERATION.—In determining
whether or not to approve applications for grants and for
contracts under this part, the Administrator or the Direc-
tor, as appropriate, shall consider—
‘‘(1) whether the project uses appropriate and
rigorous methodology, including appropriate samples,
control groups, psychometrically sound measurement,
and appropriate data analysis techniques;
‘‘(2) the experience of the principal and coprin-
cipal investigators in the area of youth violence and
juvenile delinquency;
‘‘(3) the protection offered human subjects in the
study, including informed consent procedures; and
‘‘(4) the cost-effectiveness of the proposed project.
‘‘(d) SELECTION PROCESS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—
‘‘(A) COMPETITIVE
PROCESS.—Subject to
subparagraph (B), programs selected for assist-
ance through grants or contracts under section
243, 244, or 245 shall be selected through a com-
petitive process, which shall be established by the
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Administrator or the Director, as appropriate,
by rule. As part of such a process, the Adminis-
trator or the Director, as appropriate, shall an-
nounce in the Federal Register—
‘‘(i) the availability of funds for such
assistance;
‘‘(ii) the general criteria applicable to
the selection of applicants to receive such
assistance; and
‘‘(iii) a description of the procedures
applicable to submitting and reviewing ap-
plications for such assistance.
‘‘(B) WAIVER.—The competitive process de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) shall not be re-
quired if the Administrator or the Director, as
appropriate, makes a written determination
waiving the competitive process with respect to a
program to be carried out in an area with re-
spect to which the President declares under the
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.)
that a major disaster or emergency exists.
‘‘(2) REVIEW PROCESS.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Programs selected for
assistance through grants and contracts under
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this part shall be selected after a competitive
process that provides potential grantees and con-
tractors with not less than 90 days to submit ap-
plications for funds. Applications for funds shall
be reviewed through a formal peer review process
by qualified scientists with expertise in the fields
of criminology, juvenile delinquency, sociology,
psychology, research methodology, evaluation re-
search, statistics, and related areas. The peer re-
view process shall conform to the process used by
the National Institutes of Health, the National
Institute of Justice, or the National Science
Foundation.
‘‘(B) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROCESS.—Such
process shall be established by the Administrator
or the Director, as appropriate, in consultation
with the Directors and other appropriate offi-
cials of the National Science Foundation and the
National Institute of Mental Health. Before im-
plementation of such process, the Administrator
or the Director, as appropriate, shall submit
such process to such Directors, each of whom
shall prepare and furnish to the Chairman of the
Committee on Education and the Workforce of
the House of Representatives and the Chairman
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of the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate
a final report containing their comments on such
process as proposed to be established.
‘‘(3) EMERGENCY EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION.—
In establishing the process required under paragraphs
(1) and (2), the Administrator or the Director, as ap-
propriate, shall provide for emergency expedited con-
sideration of a proposed program if the Adminis-
trator or the Director, as appropriate, determines
such action to be necessary in order to avoid a delay
that would preclude carrying out the program.
‘‘(e) EFFECT OF POPULATION.—A city shall not be de-
nied assistance under section 243, 244, or 245 solely on the
basis of its population.
‘‘(f) NOTIFICATION PROCESS.—Notification of grants
and contracts made under sections 243, 244, and 245 (and
the applications submitted for such grants and contracts)
shall, upon being made, be transmitted by the Adminis-
trator or the Director, as appropriate, to the Chairman of
the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the
House of Representatives and the Chairman of the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary of the Senate.
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‘‘SEC. 248. STUDY OF VIOLENT ENTERTAINMENT.
‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT.—The National Institutes of
Health shall conduct a study of the effects of violent video
games and music on child development and youth violence.
‘‘(b) ELEMENTS.—The study under subsection (a) shall
address—
‘‘(1) whether, and to what extent, violence in
video games and music adversely affects the emotional
and psychological development of juveniles; and
‘‘(2) whether violence in video games and music
contributes to juvenile delinquency and youth vio-
lence.
‘‘PART D—GANG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMU-
NITIES; COMMUNITY-BASED GANG INTER-
VENTION
‘‘SEC. 251. DEFINITION OF JUVENILE.
‘‘In this part, the term ‘juvenile’ means an individual
who has not attained the age of 22 years.
‘‘SEC. 252. GANG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—
‘‘(1) The Administrator shall make grants to or
enter into contracts with public agencies (including
local educational agencies) and private nonprofit
agencies, organizations, and institutions to establish
and support programs and activities that involve
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families and communities and that are designed to
carry out any of the following purposes:
‘‘(A) To prevent and to reduce the partici-
pation of juveniles in the activities of gangs that
commit crimes. Such programs and activities
may include—
‘‘(i) individual, peer, family, and
group counseling, including the provision of
life skills training and preparation for liv-
ing independently, which shall include co-
operation with social services, welfare, and
health care programs;
‘‘(ii) education, recreation, and social
services designed to address the social and
developmental needs of juveniles that such
juveniles would otherwise seek to have met
through membership in gangs;
‘‘(iii) crisis intervention and coun-
seling to juveniles, who are particularly at
risk of gang involvement, and their families,
including assistance from social service,
welfare, health care, mental health, and sub-
stance abuse prevention and treatment
agencies where necessary;
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‘‘(iv) the organization of neighborhood
and community groups to work closely with
parents, schools, law enforcement, and other
public and private agencies in the commu-
nity; and
‘‘(v) training and assistance to adults
who have significant relationships with ju-
veniles who are or may become members of
gangs, to assist such adults in providing
constructive alternatives to participating in
the activities of gangs.
‘‘(B) To develop within the juvenile adju-
dicatory and correctional systems new and inno-
vative means to address the problems of juveniles
convicted of serious drug-related and gang-re-
lated offenses.
‘‘(C) To target elementary school students,
with the purpose of steering students away from
gang involvement.
‘‘(D) To provide treatment to juveniles who
are members of such gangs, including members
who are accused of committing a serious crime
and members who have been adjudicated as being
delinquent.
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‘‘(E) To promote the involvement of juve-
niles in lawful activities in geographical areas
in which gangs commit crimes.
‘‘(F) To promote and support, with the co-
operation of community-based organizations ex-
perienced in providing services to juveniles en-
gaged in gang-related activities and the coopera-
tion of local law enforcement agencies, the devel-
opment of policies and activities in public ele-
mentary and secondary schools that will assist
such schools in maintaining a safe environment
conducive to learning.
‘‘(G) To assist juveniles who are or may be-
come members of gangs to obtain appropriate
educational instruction, in or outside a regular
school program, including the provision of coun-
seling and other services to promote and support
the continued participation of such juveniles in
such instructional programs.
‘‘(H) To expand the availability of preven-
tion and treatment services relating to the illegal
use of controlled substances and controlled sub-
stance analogues (as defined in paragraphs (6)
and (32) of section 102 of the Controlled Sub-
stances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)) by juveniles, pro-
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vided through State and local health and social
services agencies.
‘‘(I) To provide services to prevent juveniles
from coming into contact with the juvenile jus-
tice system again as a result of gang-related ac-
tivity.
‘‘(J) To provide services authorized in this
section at a special location in a school or hous-
ing project or other appropriate site.
‘‘(K) To support activities to inform juve-
niles of the availability of treatment and services
for which financial assistance is available under
this section.
‘‘(2) From not more than 15 percent of the total
amount appropriated to carry out this part in each
fiscal year, the Administrator may make grants to
and enter into contracts with public agencies and pri-
vate 
nonprofit 
agencies, 
organizations, 
and
institutions—
‘‘(A) to conduct research on issues related to
juvenile gangs;
‘‘(B) to evaluate the effectiveness of pro-
grams and activities funded under paragraph
(1); and
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‘‘(C) to increase the knowledge of the public
(including public and private agencies that oper-
ate or desire to operate gang prevention and
intervention programs) by disseminating infor-
mation on research and on effective programs
and activities funded under this section.
‘‘(b) APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Any agency, organization, or
institution seeking to receive a grant, or to enter into
a contract, under this section shall submit an appli-
cation at such time, in such manner, and containing
such information as the Administrator may prescribe.
‘‘(2) APPLICATION
CONTENTS.—In accordance
with guidelines established by the Administrator, each
application submitted under paragraph (1) shall—
‘‘(A) set forth a program or activity for car-
rying out 1 or more of the purposes specified in
subsection (a) and specifically identify each such
purpose such program or activity is designed to
carry out;
‘‘(B) provide that such program or activity
shall be administered by or under the super-
vision of the applicant;
‘‘(C) provide for the proper and efficient ad-
ministration of such program or activity;
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‘‘(D) provide for regular evaluation of such
program or activity;
‘‘(E) provide an assurance that the pro-
posed program or activity will supplement, not
supplant, similar programs and activities al-
ready available in the community;
‘‘(F) describe how such program or activity
is coordinated with programs, activities, and
services available locally under part B or C of
this title, and under chapter 1 of subtitle B of
title III of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (42
U.S.C. 11801–11805);
‘‘(G) certify that the applicant has re-
quested the State planning agency to review and
comment on such application and summarize the
responses of such State planning agency to such
request;
‘‘(H) provide that regular reports on such
program or activity shall be sent to the Adminis-
trator and to such State planning agency; and
‘‘(I) provide for such fiscal control and fund
accounting procedures as may be necessary to
ensure prudent use, proper disbursement, and
accurate accounting of funds received under this
section.
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‘‘(3) PRIORITY.—In reviewing applications for
grants and contracts under this section, the Adminis-
trator shall give priority to applications—
‘‘(A) submitted by, or substantially involv-
ing, local educational agencies (as defined in sec-
tion 1471 of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 2891));
‘‘(B) based on the incidence and severity of
crimes committed by gangs whose membership is
composed primarily of juveniles in the geo-
graphical area in which the applicants propose
to carry out the programs and activities for
which such grants and contracts are requested;
and
‘‘(C) for assistance for programs and activi-
ties that—
‘‘(i) are broadly supported by public
and private nonprofit agencies, organiza-
tions, and institutions located in such geo-
graphical area; and
‘‘(ii) will substantially involve the
families of juvenile gang members in car-
rying out such programs or activities.
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‘‘SEC. 253. COMMUNITY-BASED GANG INTERVENTION.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall make
grants to or enter into contracts with public and private
nonprofit agencies, organizations, and institutions to carry
out programs and activities—
‘‘(1) to reduce the participation of juveniles in
the illegal activities of gangs;
‘‘(2) to develop regional task forces involving
State, local, and community-based organizations to
coordinate the disruption of gangs and the prosecu-
tion of juvenile gang members and to curtail inter-
state activities of gangs; and
‘‘(3) to facilitate coordination and cooperation
among—
‘‘(A) local education, juvenile justice, em-
ployment, recreation, and social service agencies;
and
‘‘(B) community-based programs with a
proven record of effectively providing interven-
tion services to juvenile gang members for the
purpose of reducing the participation of juveniles
in illegal gang activities; and
‘‘(4) to support programs that, in recognition of
varying degrees of the seriousness of delinquent behav-
ior and the corresponding gradations in the responses
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of the juvenile justice system in response to that be-
havior, are designed to—
‘‘(A) encourage courts to develop and imple-
ment a continuum of post-adjudication re-
straints that bridge the gap between traditional
probation and confinement in a correctional set-
ting (including expanded use of probation, medi-
ation, restitution, community service, treatment,
home detention, intensive supervision, electronic
monitoring, boot camps and similar programs,
and secure community-based treatment facilities
linked to other support services such as health,
mental health, education (remedial and special),
job training, and recreation); and
‘‘(B) assist in the provision by the Adminis-
trator of information and technical assistance,
including technology transfer, to States in the
design and utilization of risk assessment mecha-
nisms to aid juvenile justice personnel in deter-
mining appropriate sanctions for delinquent be-
havior.
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE PROGRAMS
AND ACTIVITIES.—Pro-
grams and activities for which grants and contracts are to
be made under this section may include—
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‘‘(1) the hiring of additional State and local
prosecutors, and the establishment and operation of
programs, including multijurisdictional task forces,
for the disruption of gangs and the prosecution of
gang members;
‘‘(2) developing within the juvenile adjudicatory
and correctional systems new and innovative means
to address the problems of juveniles convicted of seri-
ous drug-related and gang-related offenses;
‘‘(3) providing treatment to juveniles who are
members of such gangs, including members who are
accused of committing a serious crime and members
who have been adjudicated as being delinquent;
‘‘(4) promoting the involvement of juveniles in
lawful activities in geographical areas in which gangs
commit crimes;
‘‘(5) expanding the availability of prevention
and treatment services relating to the illegal use of
controlled substances and controlled substances ana-
logues (as defined in paragraphs (6) and (32) of sec-
tion 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C.
802)), by juveniles, provided through State and local
health and social services agencies;
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‘‘(6) providing services to prevent juveniles from
coming into contact with the juvenile justice system
again as a result of gang-related activity; or
‘‘(7) supporting activities to inform juveniles of
the availability of treatment and services for which fi-
nancial assistance is available under this section.
‘‘(c) APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Any agency, organization, or
institution desiring to receive a grant, or to enter into
a contract, under this section shall submit an appli-
cation at such time, in such manner, and containing
such information as the Administrator may prescribe.
‘‘(2) APPLICATION
CONTENTS.—In accordance
with guidelines established by the Administrator, each
application submitted under paragraph (1) shall—
‘‘(A) set forth a program or activity for car-
rying out 1 or more of the purposes specified in
subsection (a) and specifically identify each such
purpose such program or activity is designed to
carry out;
‘‘(B) provide that such program or activity
shall be administered by or under the super-
vision of the applicant;
‘‘(C) provide for the proper and efficient ad-
ministration of such program or activity;
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‘‘(D) provide for regular evaluation of such
program or activity;
‘‘(E) provide an assurance that the pro-
posed program or activity will supplement, not
supplant, similar programs and activities al-
ready available in the community;
‘‘(F) describe how such program or activity
is coordinated with programs, activities, and
services available locally under part B of this
title and under chapter 1 of subtitle B of title III
of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C.
11801–11805);
‘‘(G) certify that the applicant has re-
quested the State planning agency to review and
comment on such application and summarize the
responses of such State planning agency to such
request;
‘‘(H) provide that regular reports on such
program or activity shall be sent to the Adminis-
trator and to such State planning agency; and
‘‘(I) provide for such fiscal control and fund
accounting procedures as may be necessary to
ensure prudent use, proper disbursement, and
accurate accounting of funds received under this
section.
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‘‘(3) PRIORITY.—In reviewing applications for
grants and contracts under subsection (a), the Admin-
istrator shall give priority to applications—
‘‘(A) submitted by, or substantially involv-
ing, community-based organizations experienced
in providing services to juveniles;
‘‘(B) based on the incidence and severity of
crimes committed by gangs whose membership is
composed primarily of juveniles in the geo-
graphical area in which the applicants propose
to carry out the programs and activities for
which such grants and contracts are requested;
and
‘‘(C) for assistance for programs and activi-
ties that—
‘‘(i) are broadly supported by public
and private nonprofit agencies, organiza-
tions, and institutions located in such geo-
graphical area; and
‘‘(ii) will substantially involve the
families of juvenile gang members in car-
rying out such programs or activities.
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‘‘SEC. 254. PRIORITY.
‘‘In making grants under this part, the Administrator
shall give priority to funding programs and activities de-
scribed in subsections (a)(2) and (b)(1) of section 253.
‘‘PART 
E—DEVELOPING, 
TESTING, 
AND 
DEM-
ONSTRATING PROMISING NEW INITIATIVES
AND PROGRAMS
‘‘SEC. 261. GRANTS AND PROJECTS.
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY TO MAKE GRANTS.—The Adminis-
trator may make grants to, and enter into contracts with,
States, units of local government, Indian tribal govern-
ments, public and private agencies, organizations, and in-
dividuals, or combinations thereof, to carry out projects for
the development, testing, and demonstration of promising
initiatives and programs for the prevention, control, or re-
duction of juvenile delinquency. The Administrator shall
ensure that, to the extent reasonable and practicable, such
grants are made to achieve an equitable geographical dis-
tribution of such projects throughout the United States.
‘‘(b) USE OF GRANTS.—A grant made under sub-
section (a) may be used to pay all or part of the cost of
the project for which such grant is made.
‘‘SEC. 262. GRANTS FOR TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSIST-
ANCE.
‘‘The Administrator may make grants to, and enter
into contracts with, public and private agencies, organiza-
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tions, and individuals to provide training and technical as-
sistance to States, units of local government, Indian tribal
governments, local private entities or agencies, or any com-
bination thereof, to carry out the projects for which grants
are made under section 261.
‘‘SEC. 263. ELIGIBILITY.
‘‘To be eligible to receive assistance pursuant to a
grant or contract under this part, a public or private agen-
cy, Indian tribal government, organization, institution, in-
dividual, or combination thereof, shall submit an applica-
tion to the Administrator at such time, in such form, and
containing such information as the Administrator may rea-
sonably require by rule.
‘‘SEC. 264. REPORTS.
‘‘Each recipient of assistance pursuant to a grant or
contract under this part shall submit to the Administrator
such reports as may be reasonably requested by the Admin-
istrator to describe progress achieved in carrying the
projects for which the assistance was provided.
‘‘PART F—MENTORING
‘‘SEC. 271. MENTORING.
‘‘The purposes of this part are to, through the use of
mentors for at-risk youth—
‘‘(1) reduce juvenile delinquency and gang par-
ticipation;
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‘‘(2) improve academic performance; and
‘‘(3) reduce the dropout rate.
‘‘SEC. 272. DEFINITIONS.
‘‘In this part—
‘‘(1) the term ‘at-risk youth’ means a youth at
risk of educational failure, dropping out of school, or
involvement in criminal or delinquent activities; and
‘‘(2) the term ‘mentor’ means a person who
works with an at-risk youth on a one-to-one basis,
providing a positive role model for the youth, estab-
lishing a supportive relationship with the youth, and
providing the youth with academic assistance and ex-
posure to new experiences and examples of oppor-
tunity that enhance the ability of the youth to become
a responsible adult.
‘‘SEC. 273. GRANTS.
‘‘(a) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL GRANTS.—The Adminis-
trator shall make grants to local education agencies and
nonprofit organizations to establish and support programs
and activities for the purpose of implementing mentoring
programs that—
‘‘(1) are designed to link at-risk children, par-
ticularly children living in high crime areas and chil-
dren experiencing educational failure, with respon-
sible adults such as law enforcement officers, persons
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working with local businesses, elders in Alaska Native
villages, and adults working for community-based or-
ganizations and agencies; and
‘‘(2) are intended to achieve 1 or more of the fol-
lowing goals:
‘‘(A) Provide general guidance to at-risk
youth.
‘‘(B) Promote personal and social responsi-
bility among at-risk youth.
‘‘(C) Increase at-risk youth’s participation
in and enhance their ability to benefit from ele-
mentary and secondary education.
‘‘(D) Discourage at-risk youth’s use of ille-
gal drugs, violence, and dangerous weapons, and
other criminal activity.
‘‘(E) Discourage involvement of at-risk
youth in gangs.
‘‘(F) Encourage at-risk youth’s participa-
tion in community service and community ac-
tivities.
‘‘(b) FAMILY-TO-FAMILY MENTORING GRANTS.—
‘‘(1) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection:
‘‘(A) FAMILY-TO-FAMILY
MENTORING
PRO-
GRAM.—The term ‘family-to-family mentoring
program’ means a mentoring program that—
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‘‘(i) utilizes a 2-tier mentoring ap-
proach that matches volunteer families with
at-risk families allowing parents to directly
work with parents and children to work di-
rectly with children; and
‘‘(ii) has an afterschool program for
volunteer and at-risk families.
‘‘(B) POSITIVE ALTERNATIVES PROGRAM.—
The term ‘positive alternatives program’ means
a positive youth development and family-to-fam-
ily mentoring program that emphasizes drug
and gang prevention components.
‘‘(C) QUALIFIED
POSITIVE
ALTERNATIVES
PROGRAM.—The term ‘qualified positive alter-
natives program’ means a positive alternatives
program that has established a family-to-family
mentoring program, as of the date of enactment
of the Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Ac-
countability and Rehabilitation Act of 1999.
‘‘(2) 
AUTHORITY.—The 
Administrator 
shall
make and enter into contracts with a qualified posi-
tive alternatives program.
‘‘SEC. 274. REGULATIONS AND GUIDELINES.
‘‘(a) PROGRAM
GUIDELINES.—The Administrator
shall issue program guidelines to implement this part. The
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program guidelines shall be effective only after a period for
public notice and comment.
‘‘(b) MODEL SCREENING GUIDELINES.—The Adminis-
trator shall develop and distribute to program participants
specific model guidelines for the screening of prospective
program mentors.
‘‘SEC. 275. USE OF GRANTS.
‘‘(a) PERMITTED USES.—Grants awarded under this
part shall be used to implement mentoring programs,
including—
‘‘(1) hiring of mentoring coordinators and sup-
port staff;
‘‘(2) recruitment, screening, and training of
adult mentors;
‘‘(3) reimbursement of mentors for reasonable in-
cidental expenditures such as transportation that are
directly associated with mentoring; and
‘‘(4) such other purposes as the Administrator
may reasonably prescribe by regulation.
‘‘(b) PROHIBITED USES.—Grants awarded pursuant
to this part shall not be used—
‘‘(1) to directly compensate mentors, except as
provided pursuant to subsection (a)(3);
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‘‘(2) to obtain educational or other materials or
equipment that would otherwise be used in the ordi-
nary course of the grantee’s operations;
‘‘(3) to support litigation of any kind; or
‘‘(4) for any other purpose reasonably prohibited
by the Administrator by regulation.
‘‘SEC. 276. PRIORITY.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—In making grants under this part,
the Administrator shall give priority for awarding grants
to applicants that—
‘‘(1) serve at-risk youth in high crime areas;
‘‘(2) have 60 percent or more of their youth eligi-
ble to receive funds under the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965; and
‘‘(3) have a considerable number of youths who
drop out of school each year.
‘‘(b) OTHER CONSIDERATIONS.—In making grants
under this part, the Administrator shall give consideration
to—
‘‘(1) the geographic distribution (urban and
rural) of applications;
‘‘(2) 
the 
quality 
of 
a 
mentoring 
plan,
including—
‘‘(A) the resources, if any, that will be dedi-
cated to providing participating youth with op-
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portunities for job training or postsecondary
education; and
‘‘(B) the degree to which parents, teachers,
community-based organizations, and the local
community participate in the design and imple-
mentation of the mentoring plan; and
‘‘(3) the capability of the applicant to effectively
implement the mentoring plan.
‘‘SEC. 277. APPLICATIONS.
‘‘An application for assistance under this part shall
include—
‘‘(1) information on the youth expected to be
served by the program;
‘‘(2) a provision for a mechanism for matching
youth with mentors based on the needs of the youth;
‘‘(3) An assurance that no mentor or mentoring
family will be assigned a number of youths that
would undermine their ability to be an effective men-
tor and ensure a one-to-one relationship with
mentored youths;
‘‘(4) an assurance that projects operated in sec-
ondary schools will provide youth with a variety of
experiences and support, including—
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‘‘(A) an opportunity to spend time in a
work environment and, when possible, partici-
pate in the work environment;
‘‘(B) an opportunity to witness the job skills
that will be required for youth to obtain employ-
ment upon graduation;
‘‘(C) assistance with homework assignments;
and
‘‘(D) exposure to experiences that youth
might not otherwise encounter;
‘‘(5) an assurance that projects operated in ele-
mentary schools will provide youth with—
‘‘(A) academic assistance;
‘‘(B) exposure to new experiences and ac-
tivities that youth might not encounter on their
own; and
‘‘(C) emotional support;
‘‘(6) an assurance that projects will be monitored
to ensure that each youth benefits from a mentor rela-
tionship, with provision for a new mentor assignment
if the relationship is not beneficial to the youth;
‘‘(7) the method by which mentors and youth
will be recruited to the project;
‘‘(8) the method by which prospective mentors
will be screened; and
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‘‘(9) the training that will be provided to men-
tors.
‘‘SEC. 278. GRANT CYCLES.
‘‘Each grant under this part shall be made for a 3-
year period.
‘‘SEC. 279. FAMILY MENTORING PROGRAM.
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section—
‘‘(1) the term ‘cooperative extension services’ has
the meaning given that term in section 1404 of the
National Agricultural Research, Extension, and
Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3103);
‘‘(2) the term ‘family mentoring program’ means
a mentoring program that—
‘‘(A) utilizes a 2-tier mentoring approach
that uses college age or young adult mentors
working directly with at-risk youth and uses re-
tirement-age couples working with the parents
and siblings of at-risk youth; and
‘‘(B) has a local advisory board to provide
direction and advice to program administrators;
and
‘‘(3) the term ‘qualified cooperative extension
service’ means a cooperative extension service that has
established a family mentoring program, as of the
date of enactment of the Violent and Repeat Juvenile
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Offender Accountability and Rehabilitation Act of
1999.
‘‘(b) MODEL PROGRAM.—The Administrator, in co-
operation with the Secretary of Agriculture, shall make a
grant to a qualified cooperative extension service for the
purpose of expanding and replicating family mentoring
programs to reduce the incidence of juvenile crime and de-
linquency among at-risk youth.
‘‘(c) ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW FAMILY MENTORING
PROGRAMS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator, in co-
operation with the Secretary of Agriculture, may
make 1 or more grants to cooperative extension serv-
ices for the purpose of establishing family mentoring
programs to reduce the incidence of juvenile crime
and delinquency among at-risk youth.
‘‘(2) MATCHING REQUIREMENT AND SOURCE OF
MATCHING FUNDS.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The amount of a grant
under this subsection may not exceed 35 percent
of the total costs of the program funded by the
grant.
‘‘(B) SOURCE OF MATCH.—Matching funds
for grants under this subsection may be derived
from amounts made available to a State under
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subsections (b) and (c) of section 3 of the Smith-
Lever Act (7 U.S.C. 343), except that the total
amount derived from Federal sources may not
exceed 70 percent of the total cost of the program
funded by the grant.
‘‘SEC. 280. CAPACITY BUILDING.
‘‘(a) MODEL
PROGRAM.—The Administrator may
make a grant to a qualified national organization with a
proven history of providing one-to-one services for the pur-
pose of expanding and replicating capacity building pro-
grams to reduce the incidence of juvenile crime and delin-
quency among at-risk youth.
‘‘(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW CAPACITY BUILDING
PROGRAMS.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Administrator may
make one or more grants to national organizations
with proven histories of providing one-to-one services
for the purpose of expanding and replicating capacity
building programs to reduce the incidence of juvenile
crime and delinquency among at-risk youth.
‘‘(2) MATCHING REQUIREMENT AND SOURCE OF
MATCHING FUNDS.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The amount of a grant
under this subsection may not exceed 50 percent
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of the total cost of the programs funded by the
grant.
‘‘(B) SOURCE OF MATCH.—Matching funds
for grants under this subsection must be derived
from a private agency, institution or business.
‘‘PART G—ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
‘‘SEC. 291. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this title, and to carry out part R of
title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796 et seq.), $1,100,000,000 for each
of fiscal years 1999 through 2004.
‘‘(b) ALLOCATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—Of the
amount made available under subsection (a) for each fiscal
year—
‘‘(1) $500,000,000 shall be for programs under
sections 1801 and 1803 of part R of title I of the Om-
nibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42
U.S.C. 3796 et seq.), of which $50,000,000 shall be for
programs under section 1803;
‘‘(2) $75,000,000 shall be for grants for juvenile
criminal history records upgrades pursuant to section
1802 of part R of title I of the Omnibus Crime Con-
trol and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796 et
seq.);
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‘‘(3) $200,000,000 shall be for programs under
section 205 of part A of this title;
‘‘(4) $200,000,000 shall be for programs under
part B of this title;
‘‘(5) $40,000,000 shall be for prevention pro-
grams under part C of this title—
‘‘(A) of which $20,000,000 shall be for eval-
uation research of primary, secondary, and ter-
tiary juvenile delinquency programs; and
‘‘(B) $2,000,000 shall be for the study re-
quired by section 248;
‘‘(6) $20,000,000 shall be for programs under
parts D and E of this title; and
‘‘(7) $20,000,000 shall be for programs under
part F of this title, of which $3,000,000 shall be for
programs under section 279 and $3,000,000 for pro-
grams under section 280.
‘‘(c) SOURCE OF SUMS.—Amounts authorized to be ap-
propriated pursuant to this section may be derived from
the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund.
‘‘(d) ADMINISTRATION
AND OPERATIONS.—There is
authorized to be appropriated for the administration and
operation of the Office of Juvenile Crime Control and Pre-
vention such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal
years 1999 through 2004.
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‘‘(e) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Amounts made avail-
able pursuant to this section and allocated in accordance
with this title in any fiscal year shall remain available
until expended.
‘‘SEC. 
292. 
RELIGIOUS 
NONDISCRIMINATION; 
RESTRIC-
TIONS ON USE OF AMOUNTS; PENALTIES.
‘‘(a) RELIGIOUS
NONDISCRIMINATION.—The provi-
sions of section 104 of the Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. 604a)
shall apply to a State or local government exercising its
authority to distribute grants to applicants under this title.
‘‘(b) RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF AMOUNTS.—
‘‘(1) EXPERIMENTATION ON INDIVIDUALS.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—No amounts made
available to carry out this title may be used for
any biomedical or behavior control experimen-
tation on individuals or any research involving
such experimentation.
‘‘(B) DEFINITION OF BEHAVIOR CONTROL.—
In this paragraph, the term ‘behavior control’—
‘‘(i) means any experimentation or re-
search employing methods that—
‘‘(I) involve a substantial risk of
physical or psychological harm to the
individual subject; and
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‘‘(II) are intended to modify or
alter criminal and other antisocial be-
havior, including aversive conditioning
therapy, drug therapy, chemotherapy
(except as part of routine clinical
care), physical therapy of mental dis-
orders, electroconvulsive therapy, or
physical punishment; and
‘‘(ii) does not include a limited class of
programs generally recognized as involving
no such risk, including methadone mainte-
nance and certain substance abuse treat-
ment programs, psychological counseling,
parent training, behavior contracting, sur-
vival skills training, restitution, or commu-
nity service, if safeguards are established for
the informed consent of subjects (including
parents or guardians of minors).
‘‘(2) PROHIBITION
AGAINST
PRIVATE
AGENCY
USE OF AMOUNTS IN CONSTRUCTION.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—No amount made avail-
able to any private agency or institution, or to
any individual, under this title (either directly
or through a State office) may be used for con-
struction.
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‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—The restriction in clause
(i) shall not apply to any juvenile program in
which training or experience in construction or
renovation is used as a method of juvenile ac-
countability or rehabilitation.
‘‘(3) LOBBYING.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in
subparagraph (B), no amount made available
under this title to any public or private agency,
organization or institution, or to any individual
shall be used to pay for any personal service, ad-
vertisement, telegram, telephone communication,
letter, printed or written matter, or other device
intended or designed to influence a Member of
Congress or any other Federal, State, or local
elected official to favor or oppose any Act, bill,
resolution, or other legislation, or any ref-
erendum, initiative, constitutional amendment,
or any other procedure of Congress, any State
legislature, any local council, or any similar
governing body.
‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—This paragraph does not
preclude the use of amounts made available
under this title in connection with communica-
tions to Federal, State, or local elected officials,
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upon the request of such officials through proper
official channels, pertaining to authorization,
appropriation, or oversight measures directly af-
fecting the operation of the program involved.
‘‘(4) LEGAL ACTION.—No amounts made avail-
able under this title to any public or private agency,
organization, institution, or to any individual, shall
be used in any way directly or indirectly to file an
action or otherwise take any legal action against any
Federal, State, or local agency, institution, or em-
ployee.
‘‘(c) PENALTIES.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If any amounts are used for
the purposes prohibited in either paragraph (3) or (4)
of subsection (b), or in violation of subsection (a)—
‘‘(A) funding for the agency, organization,
institution, or individual at issue shall be imme-
diately discontinued in whole or in part; and
‘‘(B) the agency, organization, institution,
or individual using amounts for the purpose pro-
hibited in paragraph (3) or (4) of subsection (b),
or in violation of subsection (a), shall be liable
for reimbursement of all amounts granted to the
individual or entity for the fiscal year for which
the amounts were granted.
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‘‘(2) LIABILITY FOR EXPENSES AND DAMAGES.—
In relation to a violation of subsection (b)(4), the in-
dividual filing the lawsuit or responsible for taking
the legal action against the Federal, State, or local
agency or institution, or individual working for the
Government, shall be individually liable for all legal
expenses and any other expenses of the Government
agency, institution, or individual working for the
Government, including damages assessed by the jury
against the Government agency, institution, or indi-
vidual working for the Government, and any punitive
damages.
‘‘SEC. 293. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY
OF ADMINISTRATOR.—The Office
shall be administered by the Administrator under the gen-
eral authority of the Attorney General.
‘‘(b) APPLICABILITY
OF CERTAIN CRIME CONTROL
PROVISIONS.—Sections 809(c), 811(a), 811(b), 811(c),
812(a), 812(b), and 812(d) of the Omnibus Crime Control
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3789d(c), 3789f(a),
3789f(b), 3789f(c), 3789g(a), 3789g(b), 3789g(d)) shall
apply with respect to the administration of and compliance
with this title, except that for purposes of this Act—
‘‘(1) any reference to the Office of Justice Pro-
grams in such sections shall be considered to be a ref-
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erence to the Assistant Attorney General who heads
the Office of Justice Programs; and
‘‘(2) the term ‘this title’ as it appears in such
sections shall be considered to be a reference to this
title.
‘‘(c) APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN OTHER CRIME CON-
TROL PROVISIONS.—Sections 801(a), 801(c), and 806 of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42
U.S.C. 3711(a), 3711(c), and 3787) shall apply with respect
to the administration of and compliance with this title, ex-
cept that, for purposes of this title—
‘‘(1) any reference to the Attorney General, the
Assistant Attorney General who heads the Office of
Justice Programs, the Director of the National Insti-
tute of Justice, the Director of the Bureau of Justice
Statistics, or the Director of the Bureau of Justice As-
sistance shall be considered to be a reference to the
Administrator;
‘‘(2) any reference to the Office of Justice Pro-
grams, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the National
Institute of Justice, or the Bureau of Justice Statis-
tics shall be considered to be a reference to the Office
of Juvenile Crime Control and Prevention; and
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‘‘(3) the term ‘this title’ as it appears in those
sections shall be considered to be a reference to this
title.
‘‘(d) RULES, REGULATIONS, AND PROCEDURES.—The
Administrator may, after appropriate consultation with
representatives of States and units of local government, and
an opportunity for notice and comment in accordance with
subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5, United States Code,
establish such rules, regulations, and procedures as are nec-
essary for the exercise of the functions of the Office and as
are consistent with the purpose of this Act.
‘‘(e) WITHHOLDING.—The Administrator shall initiate
such proceedings as the Administrator determines to be ap-
propriate if the Administrator, after giving reasonable no-
tice and opportunity for hearing to a recipient of financial
assistance under this title, finds that—
‘‘(1) the program or activity for which the grant
or contract involved was made has been so changed
that the program or activity no longer complies with
this title; or
‘‘(2) in the operation of such program or activity
there is failure to comply substantially with any pro-
vision of this title.’’.
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(b) REPEAL.—Title V of the Juvenile Justice and De-
linquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5781 et seq.)
is repealed.
SEC. 303. RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH.
(a) FINDINGS.—Section 302 of the Runaway and
Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5701) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘accurate re-
porting of the problem nationally and to develop’’
and inserting ‘‘an accurate national reporting system
to report the problem, and to assist in the develop-
ment of’’; and
(2) by striking paragraph (8) and inserting the
following:
‘‘(8) services for runaway and homeless youth
are needed in urban, suburban, and rural areas;’’.
(b) AUTHORITY TO MAKE GRANTS FOR CENTERS AND
SERVICES.—Section 311 of the Runaway and Homeless
Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5711) is amended—
(1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the
following:
‘‘(a) GRANTS FOR CENTERS AND SERVICES.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall make
grants to public and nonprofit private entities (and
combinations of such entities) to establish and operate
(including renovation) local centers to provide serv-
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ices for runaway and homeless youth and for the fam-
ilies of such youth.
‘‘(2) SERVICES
PROVIDED.—Services provided
under paragraph (1)—
‘‘(A) shall be provided as an alternative to
involving runaway and homeless youth in the
law enforcement, child welfare, mental health,
and juvenile justice systems;
‘‘(B) shall include—
‘‘(i) safe and appropriate shelter; and
‘‘(ii) individual, family, and group
counseling, as appropriate; and
‘‘(C) may include—
‘‘(i) street-based services;
‘‘(ii) home-based services for families
with youth at risk of separation from the
family; and
‘‘(iii) drug abuse education and pre-
vention services.’’;
(2) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘the Trust
Territory of the Pacific Islands,’’; and
(3) by striking subsections (c) and (d).
(c) ELIGIBILITY.—Section 312 of the Runaway and
Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5712) is amended—
(1) in subsection (b)—
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(A) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘para-
graph (6)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph (7)’’;
(B) in paragraph (10), by striking ‘‘and’’
at the end;
(C) in paragraph (11), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(12) shall submit to the Secretary an annual
report that includes, with respect to the year for
which the report is submitted—
‘‘(A) information regarding the activities
carried out under this part;
‘‘(B) the achievements of the project under
this part carried out by the applicant; and
‘‘(C) statistical summaries describing—
‘‘(i) the number and the characteristics
of the runaway and homeless youth, and
youth at risk of family separation, who par-
ticipate in the project; and
‘‘(ii) the services provided to such
youth by the project.’’; and
(2) by striking subsections (c) and (d) and in-
serting the following:
‘‘(c) APPLICANTS PROVIDING STREET-BASED SERV-
ICES.—To be eligible to use assistance under section
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311(a)(2)(C)(i) to provide street-based services, the appli-
cant shall include in the plan required by subsection (b)
assurances that in providing such services the applicant
will—
‘‘(1) provide qualified supervision of staff, in-
cluding 
on-street 
supervision 
by 
appropriately
trained staff;
‘‘(2) provide backup personnel for on-street staff;
‘‘(3) provide initial and periodic training of
staff who provide such services; and
‘‘(4) conduct outreach activities for runaway and
homeless youth, and street youth.
‘‘(d) APPLICANTS PROVIDING HOME-BASED SERV-
ICES.—To be eligible to use assistance under section 311(a)
to provide home-based services described in section
311(a)(2)(C)(ii), an applicant shall include in the plan re-
quired by subsection (b) assurances that in providing such
services the applicant will—
‘‘(1) provide counseling and information to
youth and the families (including unrelated individ-
uals in the family households) of such youth, includ-
ing services relating to basic life skills, interpersonal
skill building, educational advancement, job attain-
ment skills, mental and physical health care, par-
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enting skills, financial planning, and referral to
sources of other needed services;
‘‘(2) provide directly, or through an arrangement
made by the applicant, 24-hour service to respond to
family crises (including immediate access to tem-
porary shelter for runaway and homeless youth, and
youth at risk of separation from the family);
‘‘(3) establish, in partnership with the families
of runaway and homeless youth, and youth at risk of
separation from the family, objectives and measures of
success to be achieved as a result of receiving home-
based services;
‘‘(4) provide initial and periodic training of
staff who provide home-based services; and
‘‘(5) ensure that—
‘‘(A) caseloads will remain sufficiently low
to allow for intensive (5 to 20 hours per week)
involvement with each family receiving such
services; and
‘‘(B) staff providing such services will re-
ceive qualified supervision.
‘‘(e) APPLICANTS PROVIDING DRUG ABUSE EDU-
CATION AND PREVENTION SERVICES.—To be eligible to use
assistance under section 311(a)(2)(C)(iii) to provide drug
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abuse education and prevention services, an applicant shall
include in the plan required by subsection (b)—
‘‘(1) a description of—
‘‘(A) the types of such services that the ap-
plicant proposes to provide;
‘‘(B) the objectives of such services; and
‘‘(C) the types of information and training
to be provided to individuals providing such
services to runaway and homeless youth; and
‘‘(2) an assurance that in providing such services
the applicant shall conduct outreach activities for
runaway and homeless youth.’’.
(d) APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS.—Section 313 of the
Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5713) is
amended to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 313. APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—An application by a public or pri-
vate entity for a grant under section 311(a) may be ap-
proved by the Secretary after taking into consideration,
with respect to the State in which such entity proposes to
provide services under this part—
‘‘(1) the geographical distribution in such State
of the proposed services under this part for which all
grant applicants request approval; and
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‘‘(2) which areas of such State have the greatest
need for such services.
‘‘(b) PRIORITY.—In selecting applications for grants
under section 311(a), the Secretary shall give priority to—
‘‘(1) eligible applicants who have demonstrated
experience in providing services to runaway and
homeless youth; and
‘‘(2) eligible applicants that request grants of less
than $200,000.’’.
(e) AUTHORITY
FOR TRANSITIONAL LIVING GRANT
PROGRAM.—Section 321 of the Runaway and Homeless
Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5714–1) is amended—
(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘PURPOSE
AND’’;
(2) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘(a)’’; and
(3) by striking subsection (b).
(f) ELIGIBILITY.—Section 322(a)(9) of the Runaway
and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5714–2(a)(9)) is
amended by inserting ‘‘, and the services provided to such
youth by such project,’’ after ‘‘such project’’.
(g) COORDINATION.—Section 341 of the Runaway and
Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5714–21) is amended to
read as follows:
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‘‘SEC. 341. COORDINATION.
‘‘With respect to matters relating to the health, edu-
cation, employment, and housing of runaway and homeless
youth, the Secretary—
‘‘(1) in conjunction with the Attorney General,
shall coordinate the activities of agencies of the De-
partment of Health and Human Services with activi-
ties under any other Federal juvenile crime control,
prevention, and juvenile offender accountability pro-
gram and with the activities of other Federal entities;
and
‘‘(2) shall coordinate the activities of agencies of
the Department of Health and Human Services with
the activities of other Federal entities and with the
activities of entities that are eligible to receive grants
under this title.’’.
(h) AUTHORITY TO MAKE GRANTS FOR RESEARCH,
EVALUATION, 
DEMONSTRATION, 
AND
SERVICE
PROJECTS.—Section 343 of the Runaway and Homeless
Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5714–23) is amended—
(1) in the section heading, by inserting ‘‘EVAL-
UATION,’’ after ‘‘RESEARCH,’’;
(2) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘evaluation,’’
after ‘‘research,’’; and
(3) in subsection (b)—
(A) by striking paragraph (2); and
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(B) 
by 
redesignating 
paragraphs 
(3)
through (10) as paragraphs (2) through (9), re-
spectively.
(i) ASSISTANCE TO POTENTIAL GRANTEES.—Section
371 of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C.
5714a) is amended by striking the last sentence.
(j) REPORTS.—Section 381 of the Runaway and
Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5715) is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘SEC. 381. REPORTS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than April 1, 2000, and
biennially thereafter, the Secretary shall submit, to the
Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House
of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of
the Senate, a report on the status, activities, and accom-
plishments of entities that receive grants under parts A, B,
C, D, and E, with particular attention to—
‘‘(1) in the case of centers funded under part A,
the ability or effectiveness of such centers in—
‘‘(A) alleviating the problems of runaway
and homeless youth;
‘‘(B) if applicable or appropriate, reuniting
such youth with their families and encouraging
the resolution of intrafamily problems through
counseling and other services;
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‘‘(C) strengthening family relationships and
encouraging stable living conditions for such
youth; and
‘‘(D) assisting such youth to decide upon a
future course of action; and
‘‘(2) in the case of projects funded under part
B—
‘‘(A) the number and characteristics of
homeless youth served by such projects;
‘‘(B) the types of activities carried out by
such projects;
‘‘(C) the effectiveness of such projects in al-
leviating the problems of homeless youth;
‘‘(D) the effectiveness of such projects in
preparing homeless youth for self-sufficiency;
‘‘(E) the effectiveness of such projects in as-
sisting homeless youth to decide upon future edu-
cation, employment, and independent living;
‘‘(F) the ability of such projects to encour-
age the resolution of intrafamily problems
through counseling and development of self-suffi-
cient living skills; and
‘‘(G) activities and programs planned by
such projects for the following fiscal year.
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‘‘(b) CONTENTS OF REPORTS.—The Secretary shall in-
clude in each report submitted under subsection (a), sum-
maries of—
‘‘(1) the evaluations performed by the Secretary
under section 386; and
‘‘(2) descriptions of the qualifications of, and
training provided to, individuals involved in car-
rying out such evaluations.’’.
(k) EVALUATION.—Section 384 of the Runaway and
Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5732) is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘SEC. 386. EVALUATION AND INFORMATION.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—If a grantee receives grants for 3
consecutive fiscal years under part A, B, C, D, or E (in
the alternative), then the Secretary shall evaluate such
grantee on-site, not less frequently than once in the period
of such 3 consecutive fiscal years, for purposes of—
‘‘(1) determining whether such grants are being
used for the purposes for which such grants are made
by the Secretary;
‘‘(2) collecting additional information for the re-
port required by section 383; and
‘‘(3) providing such information and assistance
to such grantee as will enable such grantee to improve
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the operation of the centers, projects, and activities for
which such grants are made.
‘‘(b) COOPERATION.—Recipients of grants under this
title shall cooperate with the Secretary’s efforts to carry out
evaluations, and to collect information, under this title.’’.
(l) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section
385 of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C.
5751) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 388. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—
‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION.—There is authorized to be
appropriated to carry out this title (other than part
E) such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.
‘‘(2) ALLOCATION.—
‘‘(A) PARTS A AND B.—From the amount
appropriated under paragraph (1) for a fiscal
year, the Secretary shall reserve not less than 90
percent to carry out parts A and B.
‘‘(B) PART
B.—Of the amount reserved
under subparagraph (A), not less than 20 per-
cent, and not more than 30 percent, shall be re-
served to carry out part B.
‘‘(3) PARTS C AND D.—In each fiscal year, after
reserving the amounts required by paragraph (2), the
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Secretary shall use the remaining amount (if any) to
carry out parts C and D.
‘‘(b) SEPARATE
IDENTIFICATION
REQUIRED.—No
funds appropriated to carry out this title may be combined
with funds appropriated under any other Act if the purpose
of combining such funds is to make a single discretionary
grant, or a single discretionary payment, unless such funds
are separately identified in all grants and contracts and
are used for the purposes specified in this title.’’.
(m) SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAM.—
(1) AUTHORITY FOR PROGRAM.—The Runaway
and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5701 et seq.) is
amended—
(A) by striking the heading for part F;
(B) by redesignating part E as part F; and
(C) by inserting after part D the following:
‘‘PART E—SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAM
‘‘SEC. 351. AUTHORITY TO MAKE GRANTS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may make grants
to nonprofit private agencies for the purpose of providing
street-based services to runaway and homeless, and street
youth, who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being
subjected to, sexual abuse, prostitution, or sexual exploi-
tation.
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‘‘(b) PRIORITY.—In selecting applicants to receive
grants under subsection (a), the Secretary shall give pri-
ority to nonprofit private agencies that have experience in
providing services to runaway and homeless, and street
youth.’’.
(2) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Sec-
tion 388(a) of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act
(42 U.S.C. 5751), as amended by subsection (l) of this
section, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(4) PART E.—There is authorized to be appropriated
to carry out part E such sums as may be necessary for
fiscal years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.’’.
(n) DEFINITIONS.—The Runaway and Homeless
Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5701 et seq.) is amended by inserting
after section 386, as amended by subsection (k) of this sec-
tion, the following:
‘‘SEC. 387. DEFINITIONS.
‘‘In this title:
‘‘(1) DRUG ABUSE EDUCATION AND PREVENTION
SERVICES.—The term ‘drug abuse education and pre-
vention services’—
‘‘(A) means services to runaway and home-
less youth to prevent or reduce the illicit use of
drugs by such youth; and
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‘‘(B) may include—
‘‘(i) individual, family, group, and
peer counseling;
‘‘(ii) drop-in services;
‘‘(iii) assistance to runaway and
homeless youth in rural areas (including
the development of community support
groups);
‘‘(iv) information and training relat-
ing to the illicit use of drugs by runaway
and homeless youth, to individuals involved
in providing services to such youth; and
‘‘(v) activities to improve the avail-
ability of local drug abuse prevention serv-
ices to runaway and homeless youth.
‘‘(2) HOME-BASED SERVICES.—The term ‘home-
based services’—
‘‘(A) means services provided to youth and
their families for the purpose of—
‘‘(i) preventing such youth from run-
ning away, or otherwise becoming sepa-
rated, from their families; and
‘‘(ii) assisting runaway youth to re-
turn to their families; and
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‘‘(B) includes services that are provided in
the residences of families (to the extent prac-
ticable), including—
‘‘(i) intensive individual and family
counseling; and
‘‘(ii) training relating to life skills and
parenting.
‘‘(3) HOMELESS
YOUTH.—The term ‘homeless
youth’ means an individual—
‘‘(A) who is—
‘‘(i) not more than 21 years of age;
and
‘‘(ii) for the purposes of part B, not
less than 16 years of age;
‘‘(B) for whom it is not possible to live in
a safe environment with a relative; and
‘‘(C) who has no other safe alternative liv-
ing arrangement.
‘‘(4) 
STREET-BASED
SERVICES.—The 
term
‘street-based services’—
‘‘(A) means services provided to runaway
and homeless youth, and street youth, in areas
where they congregate, designed to assist such
youth in making healthy personal choices regard-
ing where they live and how they behave; and
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‘‘(B) may include—
‘‘(i) identification of and outreach to
runaway and homeless youth, and street
youth;
‘‘(ii) crisis intervention and coun-
seling;
‘‘(iii) information and referral for
housing;
‘‘(iv) information and referral for
transitional living and health care services;
‘‘(v) advocacy, education, and preven-
tion services related to—
‘‘(I) alcohol and drug abuse;
‘‘(II) sexual exploitation;
‘‘(III) sexually transmitted dis-
eases, 
including 
human 
immuno-
deficiency virus (HIV); and
‘‘(IV) physical and sexual assault.
‘‘(5) STREET YOUTH.—The term ‘street youth’
means an individual who—
‘‘(A) is—
‘‘(i) a runaway youth; or
‘‘(ii) indefinitely or intermittently a
homeless youth; and
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‘‘(B) spends a significant amount of time
on the street or in other areas that increase the
risk to such youth for sexual abuse, sexual exploi-
tation, prostitution, or drug abuse.
‘‘(6) TRANSITIONAL LIVING YOUTH PROJECT.—
The term ‘transitional living youth project’ means a
project that provides shelter and services designed to
promote a transition to self-sufficient living and to
prevent long-term dependency on social services.
‘‘(7) YOUTH AT RISK OF SEPARATION FROM THE
FAMILY.—The term ‘youth at risk of separation from
the family’ means an individual—
‘‘(A) who is less than 18 years of age; and
‘‘(B)(i) who has a history of running away
from the family of such individual;
‘‘(ii) whose parent, guardian, or custodian
is not willing to provide for the basic needs of
such individual; or
‘‘(iii) who is at risk of entering the child
welfare system or juvenile justice system as a re-
sult of the lack of services available to the family
to meet such needs.’’.
(o) REDESIGNATION OF SECTIONS.—Sections 371, 372,
381, 382, and 383 of the Runaway and Homeless Youth
Act (42 U.S.C. 5714b–5851 et seq.), as amended by this
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title, are redesignated as sections 381, 382, 383, 384, and
385, respectively.
(p) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.—The Runaway and
Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5701 et seq.) is amended—
(1) in section 331, in the first sentence, by strik-
ing ‘‘With’’ and all that follows through ‘‘the Sec-
retary’’, and inserting ‘‘The Secretary’’; and
(2) in section 344(a)(1), by striking ‘‘With’’ and
all that follows through ‘‘the Secretary’’, and insert-
ing ‘‘The Secretary’’.
SEC. 304. NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED
CHILDREN.
(a) FINDINGS.—Section 402 of the Missing Children’s
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5771) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the
end;
(2) in paragraph (8), by striking the period at
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(9) for 14 years, the National Center for Miss-
ing and Exploited Children has—
‘‘(A) served as the national resource center
and clearinghouse congressionally mandated
under the provisions of the Missing Children’s
Assistance Act of 1984; and
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‘‘(B) worked in partnership with the De-
partment of Justice, the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation, the Department of the Treasury, the
Department of State, and many other agencies
in the effort to find missing children and prevent
child victimization;
‘‘(10) Congress has given the Center, which is a
private non-profit corporation, access to the National
Crime Information Center of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and the National Law Enforcement
Telecommunications System;
‘‘(11) since 1987, the Center has operated the
National Child Pornography Tipline, in conjunction
with the United States Customs Service and the
United States Postal Inspection Service and, begin-
ning this year, the Center established a new
CyberTipline on child exploitation, thus becoming ‘the
911 for the Internet’;
‘‘(12) in light of statistics that time is of the es-
sence in cases of child abduction, the Director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation in February of 1997
created a new NCIC child abduction (‘CA’) flag to
provide the Center immediate notification in the most
serious cases, resulting in 642 ‘CA’ notifications to
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the Center and helping the Center to have its highest
recovery rate in history;
‘‘(13) the Center has established a national and
increasingly worldwide network, linking the Center
online with each of the missing children clearing-
houses operated by the 50 States, the District of Co-
lumbia, and Puerto Rico, as well as with Scotland
Yard in the United Kingdom, the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon,
France, and others, which has enabled the Center to
transmit images and information regarding missing
children to law enforcement across the United States
and around the world instantly;
‘‘(14) from its inception in 1984 through March
31, 1998, the Center has—
‘‘(A) handled 1,203,974 calls through its 24-
hour toll-free hotline (1–800–THE–LOST) and
currently averages 700 calls per day;
‘‘(B) trained 146,284 law enforcement,
criminal and juvenile justice, and healthcare
professionals in child sexual exploitation and
missing child case detection, identification, in-
vestigation, and prevention;
‘‘(C) disseminated 15,491,344 free publica-
tions to citizens and professionals; and
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‘‘(D) worked with law enforcement on the
cases of 59,481 missing children, resulting in the
recovery of 40,180 children;
‘‘(15) the demand for the services of the Center
is growing dramatically, as evidenced by the fact that
in 1997, the Center handled 129,100 calls, an all-time
record, and by the fact that its new Internet website
(www.missingkids.com) receives 1,500,000 ‘hits’ every
day, and is linked with hundreds of other websites to
provide real-time images of breaking cases of missing
children;
‘‘(16) in 1997, the Center provided policy train-
ing to 256 police chiefs and sheriffs from 50 States
and Guam at its new Jimmy Ryce Law Enforcement
Training Center;
‘‘(17) the programs of the Center have had a re-
markable impact, such as in the fight against infant
abductions in partnership with the healthcare indus-
try, during which the Center has performed 668 on-
site hospital walk-throughs and inspections, and
trained 45,065 hospital administrators, nurses, and
security personnel, and thereby helped to reduce in-
fant abductions in the United States by 82 percent;
‘‘(18) the Center is now playing a significant
role in international child abduction cases, serving as
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a representative of the Department of State at cases
under The Hague Convention, and successfully resolv-
ing the cases of 343 international child abductions,
and providing greater support to parents in the
United States;
‘‘(19) the Center is a model of public/private
partnership, raising private sector funds to match
congressional appropriations and receiving extensive
private in-kind support, including advanced tech-
nology provided by the computer industry such as im-
aging technology used to age the photographs of long-
term missing children and to reconstruct facial im-
ages of unidentified deceased children;
‘‘(20) the Center was 1 of only 10 of 300 major
national charities given an A+ grade in 1997 by the
American Institute of Philanthropy; and
‘‘(21) the Center has been redesignated as the
Nation’s missing children clearinghouse and resource
center once every 3 years through a competitive selec-
tion process conducted by the Office of Juvenile Jus-
tice and Delinquency Prevention of the Department of
Justice, and has received grants from that Office to
conduct the crucial purposes of the Center.’’.
(b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 403 of the Missing Chil-
dren’s Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5772) is amended—
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(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the
end;
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(3) the term ‘Center’ means the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children.’’.
(c) DUTIES
AND
FUNCTIONS
OF
THE
ADMINIS-
TRATOR.—Section 404 of the Missing Children’s Assistance
Act (42 U.S.C. 5773) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection
(d); and
(2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the
following:
‘‘(b) ANNUAL GRANT TO NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISS-
ING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall an-
nually make a grant to the Center, which shall be
used to—
‘‘(A)(i) operate a national 24-hour toll-free
telephone line by which individuals may report
information regarding the location of any miss-
ing child, or other child 13 years of age or
younger whose whereabouts are unknown to such
child’s legal custodian, and request information
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pertaining to procedures necessary to reunite
such child with such child’s legal custodian; and
‘‘(ii) coordinate the operation of such tele-
phone line with the operation of the national
communications system referred to in part C of
the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (42
U.S.C. 5714–11);
‘‘(B) operate the official national resource
center and information clearinghouse for missing
and exploited children;
‘‘(C) provide to State and local govern-
ments, public and private nonprofit agencies,
and individuals, information regarding—
‘‘(i) free or low-cost legal, restaurant,
lodging, and transportation services that
are available for the benefit of missing and
exploited children and their families; and
‘‘(ii) the existence and nature of pro-
grams being carried out by Federal agencies
to assist missing and exploited children and
their families;
‘‘(D) coordinate public and private pro-
grams that locate, recover, or reunite missing
children with their families;
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‘‘(E) disseminate, on a national basis, in-
formation relating to innovative and model pro-
grams, services, and legislation that benefit miss-
ing and exploited children;
‘‘(F) provide technical assistance and train-
ing to law enforcement agencies, State and local
governments, elements of the criminal justice sys-
tem, public and private nonprofit agencies, and
individuals in the prevention, investigation,
prosecution, and treatment of cases involving
missing and exploited children; and
‘‘(G) provide assistance to families and law
enforcement agencies in locating and recovering
missing and exploited children, both nationally
and internationally.
‘‘(2) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Admin-
istrator to carry out this subsection, $10,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.
‘‘(c) NATIONAL INCIDENCE STUDIES.—The Adminis-
trator, either by making grants to or entering into contracts
with public agencies or nonprofit private agencies, shall—
‘‘(1) periodically conduct national incidence
studies to determine for a given year the actual num-
ber of children reported missing each year, the num-
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ber of children who are victims of abduction by
strangers, the number of children who are the victims
of parental kidnapings, and the number of children
who are recovered each year; and
‘‘(2) provide to State and local governments,
public and private nonprofit agencies, and individ-
uals information to facilitate the lawful use of school
records and birth certificates to identify and locate
missing children.’’.
(d) NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED
CHILDREN.—Section 405(a) of the Missing Children’s As-
sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5775(a)) is amended by inserting
‘‘the Center and with’’ before ‘‘public agencies’’.
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section
408 of the Missing Children’s Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.
5777) is amended by striking ‘‘1997 through 2001’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2000 through 2004’’.
SEC. 305. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS AND SAVINGS PROVI-
SIONS.
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, unless otherwise
provided or indicated by the context:
(1) 
ADMINISTRATOR.—The 
term 
‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ means the Administrator of the Office of Juve-
nile Crime Control and Prevention established by op-
eration of subsection (b).
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(2) ADMINISTRATOR OF THE OFFICE.—The term
‘‘Administrator of the Office’’ means the Adminis-
trator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delin-
quency Prevention.
(3) BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE.—The term
‘‘Bureau of Justice Assistance’’ means the bureau es-
tablished under section 401 of title I of the Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.
(4) FEDERAL AGENCY.—The term ‘‘Federal agen-
cy’’ has the meaning given the term ‘‘agency’’ by sec-
tion 551(1) of title 5, United States Code.
(5) FUNCTION.—The term ‘‘function’’ means any
duty, obligation, power, authority, responsibility,
right, privilege, activity, or program.
(6) OFFICE OF JUVENILE CRIME CONTROL AND
PREVENTION.—The term ‘‘Office of Juvenile Crime
Control and Prevention’’ means the office established
by operation of subsection (b).
(7) OFFICE OF JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELIN-
QUENCY PREVENTION.—The term ‘‘Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention’’ means the Of-
fice of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
of the Department of Justice, established by section
201 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Preven-
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tion Act of 1974, as in effect on the day before the
date of enactment of this Act.
(8) OFFICE.—The term ‘‘office’’ includes any of-
fice, administration, agency, institute, unit, organiza-
tional entity, or component thereof.
(b) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS.—There are transferred
to the Office of Juvenile Crime Control and Prevention all
functions that the Administrator of the Office exercised be-
fore the date of enactment of this Act (including all related
functions of any officer or employee of the Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention), and authorized after
the date of enactment of this Act, relating to carrying out
the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of
1974.
(c) TRANSFER AND ALLOCATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS
AND PERSONNEL.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise provided
in this section, the personnel employed in connection
with, and the assets, liabilities, contracts, property,
records, and unexpended balances of appropriations,
authorizations, allocations, and other amounts em-
ployed, used, held, arising from, available to, or to be
made available in connection with the functions
transferred by this section, subject to section 1531 of
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title 31, United States Code, shall be transferred to
the Office of Juvenile Crime Control and Prevention.
(2) UNEXPENDED
AMOUNTS.—Any unexpended
amounts transferred pursuant to this subsection shall
be used only for the purposes for which the amounts
were originally authorized and appropriated.
(d) INCIDENTAL TRANSFERS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Office of
Management and Budget, at such time or times as the
Director of that Office shall provide, may make such
determinations as may be necessary with regard to
the functions transferred by this section, and to make
such additional incidental dispositions of personnel,
assets, liabilities, grants, contracts, property, records,
and unexpended balances of appropriations, author-
izations, allocations, and other amounts held, used,
arising from, available to, or to be made available in
connection with such functions, as may be necessary
to carry out this section.
(2) TERMINATION OF AFFAIRS.—The Director of
the Office of Management and Budget shall provide
for the termination of the affairs of all entities termi-
nated by this section and for such further measures
and dispositions as may be necessary to effectuate the
purposes of this section.
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(e) EFFECT ON PERSONNEL.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise provided
by this section, the transfer pursuant to this section
of full-time personnel (except special Government em-
ployees) and part-time personnel holding permanent
positions shall not cause any such employee to be sep-
arated or reduced in grade or compensation for 1
year after the date of transfer of such employee under
this section.
(2) EXECUTIVE SCHEDULE POSITIONS.—Except
as otherwise provided in this section, any person who,
on the day before the date of enactment of this Act,
held a position compensated in accordance with the
Executive Schedule prescribed in chapter 53 of title 5,
United States Code, and who, without a break in
service, is appointed in the Office of Juvenile Crime
Control and Prevention to a position having duties
comparable to the duties performed immediately pre-
ceding such appointment shall continue to be com-
pensated in such new position at not less than the
rate provided for such previous position, for the dura-
tion of the service of such person in such new posi-
tion.
(3) TRANSITION RULE.—The incumbent Admin-
istrator of the Office as of the date immediately pre-
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ceding the date of enactment of this Act shall continue
to serve as Administrator after the date of enactment
of this Act until such time as the incumbent resigns,
is relieved of duty by the President, or an Adminis-
trator is appointed by the President, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate.
(f) SAVINGS PROVISIONS.—
(1) CONTINUING
EFFECT
OF
LEGAL
DOCU-
MENTS.—All orders, determinations, rules, regula-
tions, permits, agreements, grants, contracts, certifi-
cates, licenses, registrations, privileges, and other ad-
ministrative actions—
(A) that have been issued, made, granted, or
allowed to become effective by the President, any
Federal agency or official thereof, or by a court
of competent jurisdiction, in the performance of
functions that are transferred under this section;
and
(B) that are in effect at the time this section
takes effect, or were final before the date of enact-
ment of this Act and are to become effective on
or after the date of enactment of this Act, shall
continue in effect according to their terms until
modified, terminated, superseded, set aside, or
revoked in accordance with law by the President,
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the Administrator, or other authorized official, a
court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation
of law.
(2) PROCEEDINGS NOT AFFECTED.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—This section shall not af-
fect any proceedings, including notices of pro-
posed rulemaking, or any application for any li-
cense, permit, certificate, or financial assistance
pending before the Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention on the date on which
this section takes effect, with respect to functions
transferred by this section but such proceedings
and applications shall be continued.
(B) ORDERS; APPEALS; PAYMENTS.—Orders
shall be issued in such proceedings, appeals shall
be taken therefrom, and payments shall be made
pursuant to such orders, as if this section had
not been enacted, and orders issued in any such
proceedings shall continue in effect until modi-
fied, terminated, superseded, or revoked by a
duly authorized official, by a court of competent
jurisdiction, or by operation of law.
(C) DISCONTINUANCE OR MODIFICATION.—
Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to
prohibit the discontinuance or modification of
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any such proceeding under the same terms and
conditions and to the same extent that such pro-
ceeding could have been discontinued or modified
if this paragraph had not been enacted.
(3) SUITS NOT AFFECTED.—This section shall
not affect suits commenced before the date of enact-
ment of this Act, and in all such suits, proceedings
shall be had, appeals taken, and judgments rendered
in the same manner and with the same effect as if
this section had not been enacted.
(4) NONABATEMENT OF ACTIONS.—No suit, ac-
tion, or other proceeding commenced by or against the
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Preven-
tion, or by or against any individual in the official
capacity of such individual as an officer of the Office
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, shall
abate by reason of the enactment of this section.
(5) ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS RELATING TO PRO-
MULGATION
OF
REGULATIONS.—Any administrative
action relating to the preparation or promulgation of
a regulation by the Office of Juvenile Justice and De-
linquency Prevention relating to a function trans-
ferred under this section may be continued, to the ex-
tent authorized by this section, by the Office of Juve-
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nile Crime Control and Prevention with the same ef-
fect as if this section had not been enacted.
(6) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this
subsection may be construed to affect the authority
under section 242A or 243 of the Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, as amended by
this Act.
(g) TRANSITION.—The Administrator may utilize—
(1) the services of such officers, employees, and
other personnel of the Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention with respect to functions
transferred to the Office of Juvenile Crime Control
and Prevention by this section; and
(2) amounts appropriated to such functions for
such period of time as may reasonably be needed to
facilitate the orderly implementation of this section.
(h) REFERENCES.—Reference in any other Federal
law, Executive order, rule, regulation, or delegation of au-
thority, or any document of or relating to—
(1) the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention with regard to
functions transferred by operation of subsection (b),
shall be considered to refer to the Administrator of the
Office of Juvenile Crime Control and Prevention; and
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(2) the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delin-
quency Prevention with regard to functions trans-
ferred by operation of subsection (b), shall be consid-
ered to refer to the Office of Juvenile Crime Control
and Prevention.
(i) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) Section 5315 of title 5, United States Code,
is amended by striking ‘‘Administrator, Office of Ju-
venile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Administrator, Office of Juvenile Crime Con-
trol and Prevention’’.
(2) Section 4351(b) of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘Office of Juvenile Jus-
tice and Delinquency Prevention’’ and inserting ‘‘Of-
fice of Juvenile Crime Control and Prevention’’.
(3) Subsections (a)(1) and (c) of section 3220 of
title 39, United States Code, are each amended by
striking ‘‘Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Of-
fice of Juvenile Crime Control and Prevention’’.
(4) Section 463(f) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 663(f)) is amended by striking ‘‘Office of Juve-
nile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘Office of Juvenile Crime Control and Preven-
tion’’.
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(5) Sections 801(a), 804, 805, and 813 of title I
of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3712(a), 3782, 3785, 3786, 3789i)
are amended by striking ‘‘Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention’’ each place it appears
and inserting ‘‘Office of Juvenile Crime Control and
Prevention’’.
(6) The Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (42
U.S.C. 13001 et seq.) is amended—
(A) in section 214(b)(1) by striking ‘‘262,
293, and 296 of subpart II of title II’’ and in-
serting ‘‘299B and 299E’’;
(B) in section 214A(c)(1) by striking ‘‘262,
293, and 296 of subpart II of title II’’ and in-
serting ‘‘299B and 299E’’;
(C) in sections 217 and 222 by striking
‘‘Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Pre-
vention’’ each place it appears and inserting
‘‘Office of Juvenile Crime Control and Preven-
tion’’; and
(D) in section 223(c) by striking ‘‘section
262, 293, and 296’’ and inserting ‘‘sections 262,
299B, and 299E’’.
(7) The Missing Children’s Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5771 et seq.) is amended—
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(A) in section 403(2) by striking ‘‘Justice
and Delinquency Prevention’’ and inserting
‘‘Crime Control and Delinquency Prevention’’;
and
(B) in subsections (a)(5)(E) and (b)(1)(B)
of section 404 by striking ‘‘section 313’’ and in-
serting ‘‘section 331’’.
(8) The Crime Control Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C.
13001 et seq.) is amended—
(A) in section 217(c)(1) by striking ‘‘sec-
tions 262, 293, and 296 of subpart II of title II’’
and inserting ‘‘sections 299B and 299E’’; and
(B) in section 223(c) by striking ‘‘section
262, 293, and 296 of title II’’ and inserting ‘‘sec-
tions 299B and 299E’’.
(j) REFERENCES.—In any Federal law (excluding this
Act and the Acts amended by this Act), Executive order,
rule, regulation, order, delegation of authority, grant, con-
tract, suit, or document a reference to the Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention shall be deemed to in-
clude a reference to the Office of Juvenile Crime Control
and Prevention.
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Subtitle B—Accountability for Juve-
nile Offenders and Public Pro-
tection Incentive Grants
SEC. 321. BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part R of title I of the Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796
et seq.) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘PART R—JUVENILE ACCOUNTABILITY BLOCK
GRANTS
‘‘SEC. 1801. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall make,
subject to the availability of appropriations, grants to
States for use by States and units of local government in
planning, establishing, operating, coordinating, and evalu-
ating projects, directly or through grants and contracts with
public and private agencies, for the development of more
effective investigation, prosecution, and punishment (in-
cluding the imposition of graduated sanctions) of crimes
or acts of delinquency committed by juveniles, programs to
improve the administration of justice for and ensure ac-
countability by juvenile offenders, and programs to reduce
the risk factors (such as truancy, drug or alcohol use, and
gang involvement) associated with juvenile crime or delin-
quency.
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‘‘(b) USE OF GRANTS.—Grants under this section may
be used by States and units of local government—
‘‘(1) for programs to enhance the identification,
investigation, prosecution, and punishment of juvenile
offenders, such as—
‘‘(A) the utilization of graduated sanctions;
‘‘(B) the utilization of short-term confine-
ment of juvenile offenders;
‘‘(C) the incarceration of violent juvenile of-
fenders for extended periods of time;
‘‘(D) the hiring of juvenile public defenders,
juvenile judges, juvenile probation officers, and
juvenile correctional officers to implement poli-
cies to control juvenile crime and violence and
ensure accountability of juvenile offenders; and
‘‘(E) the development and implementation
of coordinated, multi-agency systems for—
‘‘(i) the comprehensive and coordinated
booking, identification, and assessment of
juveniles arrested or detained by law en-
forcement agencies, including the utilization
of multi-agency facilities such as juvenile
assessment centers; and
‘‘(ii) the coordinated delivery of sup-
port services for juveniles who have had or
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are at risk for contact with the juvenile or
criminal systems, including utilization of
court-established local service delivery coun-
cils;
‘‘(2) for programs that require juvenile offenders
to make restitution to the victims of offenses com-
mitted by those juvenile offenders, including programs
designed and operated to further the goal of providing
eligible offenders with an alternative to adjudication
that emphasizes restorative justice;
‘‘(3) for programs that require juvenile offenders
to attend and successfully complete school or voca-
tional training as part of a sentence imposed by a
court;
‘‘(4) for programs that require juvenile offenders
who are parents to demonstrate parental responsi-
bility by working and paying child support;
‘‘(5) for programs that seek to curb or punish
truancy;
‘‘(6) for programs designed to collect, record, re-
tain, and disseminate information useful in the iden-
tification, prosecution, and sentencing of juvenile of-
fenders, such as criminal history information, finger-
prints, DNA tests, and ballistics tests;
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‘‘(7) for the development and implementation of
coordinated multijurisdictional or multiagency pro-
grams for the identification, control, supervision, pre-
vention, investigation, and treatment of the most seri-
ous juvenile offenses and offenders, popularly known
as a ‘SHOCAP Program’ (Serious Habitual Offenders
Comprehensive Action Program);
‘‘(8) for the development and implementation of
coordinated multijurisdictional or multiagency pro-
grams for the identification, control, supervision, pre-
vention, investigation, and disruption of youth gangs;
‘‘(9) for the construction or remodeling of short-
and long-term facilities for juvenile offenders;
‘‘(10) for the development and implementation of
technology, equipment, training programs for juvenile
crime control, for law enforcement officers, judges,
prosecutors, probation officers, and other court per-
sonnel who are employed by State and local govern-
ments, in furtherance of the purposes identified in
this section;
‘‘(11) for partnerships between State educational
agencies and local educational agencies for the design
and implementation of character education and
training programs that incorporate the following ele-
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ments of character: Caring, citizenship, fairness, re-
spect, responsibility and trustworthiness;
‘‘(12) for programs to seek to target, curb and
punish adults who knowingly and intentionally use a
juvenile during the commission or attempted commis-
sion of a crime, including programs that specifically
provide for additional punishments or sentence en-
hancements for adults who knowingly and inten-
tionally use a juvenile during the commission or at-
tempted commission of a crime;
‘‘(13) for juvenile prevention programs (includ-
ing curfews, youth organizations, anti-drug, and
anti-alcohol programs, anti-gang programs, and after
school programs and activities);
‘‘(14) for juvenile drug and alcohol treatment
programs;
‘‘(15) for school counseling and other school-base
prevention programs;
‘‘(16) for programs that drug test juveniles who
are arrested, including follow-up testings; and
‘‘(17) for programs for—
‘‘(A) providing cross-training, jointly with
the public mental health system, for State juve-
nile court judges, public defenders, prosecutors,
and mental health and substance abuse agency
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representatives with respect to the appropriate
use of effective, community-based alternatives to
juvenile justice or mental health system institu-
tional placements; or
‘‘(B) providing training for State juvenile
probation officers and community mental health
and substance abuse program representatives on
appropriate linkages between probation pro-
grams and mental health community programs,
specifically focusing on the identification of men-
tal disorders and substance abuse addiction in
juveniles on probation, effective treatment inter-
ventions for those disorders, and making appro-
priate contact with mental health and substance
abuse case managers and programs in the com-
munity, in order to ensure that juveniles on pro-
bation receive appropriate access to mental
health and substance abuse treatment programs
and services.
‘‘(c) REQUIREMENTS.—To be eligible to receive an in-
centive grant under this section, a State shall submit to
the Attorney General an application, in such form as shall
be prescribed by the Attorney General, which shall contain
assurances that, not later than 1 year after the date on
which the State submits such application—
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‘‘(1) the State has established or will establish a
system of graduated sanctions for juvenile offenders
that ensures appropriate sanctions, which are grad-
uated to reflect the severity or repeated nature of vio-
lations, for each act of delinquency;
‘‘(2) the State has established or will establish a
policy of drug testing (including followup testing) ju-
venile offenders upon their arrest for any offense with-
in an appropriate category of offenses designated by
the chief executive officer of the State; and
‘‘(3) the State has an established policy recog-
nizing the rights and needs of victims of crimes com-
mitted by juveniles.
‘‘(d) ALLOCATION
AND
DISTRIBUTION
OF
STATE
GRANTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—
‘‘(A) STATE AND LOCAL DISTRIBUTION.—
Subject to subparagraph (B), of amounts made
available to the State, 30 percent may be re-
tained by the State for use pursuant to para-
graph (2) and 70 percent shall be reserved by the
State for local distribution pursuant to para-
graph (3).
‘‘(B) SPECIAL RULE.—The Attorney Gen-
eral may waive the requirements of this para-
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graph with respect to any State in which the
criminal and juvenile justice services for delin-
quent or other youth are organized primarily on
a statewide basis, in which case not more than
50 percent of funds shall be made available to all
units of local government in that State pursuant
to paragraph (3).
‘‘(2) OTHER
DISTRIBUTION.—Of amounts re-
tained by the State under paragraph (1)—
‘‘(A) not less than 50 percent shall be des-
ignated for—
‘‘(i) programs pursuant to paragraph
(1) or (9) of subsection (b), except that if
the State designates any amounts for pur-
poses of construction or remodeling of short-
or long-term facilities pursuant to sub-
section (b)(9), such amounts shall constitute
not more than 50 percent of the estimated
construction or remodeling cost and that no
funds expended pursuant to this subpara-
graph may be used for the incarceration of
any offender who was more than 21 years
of age at the time of the offense, and no
funds expended pursuant to this subpara-
graph may be used for construction, renova-
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tion, or expansion of facilities for such of-
fenders, except that funds may be used to
construct juvenile facilities collocated with
adult facilities; or
‘‘(ii) drug testing upon arrest for any
offense within the category of offenses des-
ignated pursuant to subsection (c)(3), and
intensive supervision thereafter pursuant to
programs under subsection (b)(7) and sub-
section (c)(3); and
‘‘(B) not less than 25 percent shall be used
for the purposes set forth in paragraph (13),
(14), or (15) of subsection (b).
‘‘(3) LOCAL ELIGIBILITY AND DISTRIBUTION.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—
‘‘(i) LOCAL
DISTRIBUTION
SUBGRANT
ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a
subgrant, a unit of local government shall
provide such assurances to the State as the
State shall require, that, to the maximum
extent applicable, the unit of local govern-
ment has laws or policies and programs
that comply with the eligibility require-
ments of subsection (c).
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‘‘(ii) COORDINATED LOCAL EFFORT.—
Prior to receiving a grant under this sec-
tion, a unit of local government shall certify
that it has or will establish a coordinated
enforcement plan for reducing juvenile
crime within the jurisdiction of the unit of
local government, developed by a juvenile
crime enforcement coalition, such coalition
consisting of individuals within the juris-
diction representing the police, sheriff, pros-
ecutor, State or local probation services, ju-
venile court, schools, business, and religious
affiliated, fraternal, nonprofit, or social
service organizations involved in crime pre-
vention.
‘‘(B) SPECIAL RULE.—The requirements of
subparagraph (A) shall apply to an eligible unit
that receives funds from the Attorney General
under subparagraph (H), except that informa-
tion that would otherwise be submitted to the
State shall be submitted to the Attorney General.
‘‘(C) LOCAL DISTRIBUTION.—From amounts
reserved for local distribution under paragraph
(1), the State shall allocate to such units of local
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government an amount that bears the same ratio
to the aggregate amount of such funds as—
‘‘(i) the sum of—
‘‘(I) the product of—
‘‘(aa) two-thirds; multiplied
by
‘‘(bb) the average law en-
forcement expenditure for such
unit of local government for the 3
most recent calendar years for
which such data is available; plus
‘‘(II) the product of—
‘‘(aa) one-third; multiplied
by
‘‘(bb) the average annual
number of part 1 violent crimes
in such unit of local government
for the 3 most recent calendar
years for which such data is
available, bears to—
‘‘(ii) the sum of the products deter-
mined under subparagraph (A) for all such
units of local government in the State.
‘‘(D) EXPENDITURES.—The allocation any
unit of local government shall receive under
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paragraph (1) for a payment period shall not ex-
ceed 100 percent of law enforcement expenditures
of the unit for such payment period.
‘‘(E) REALLOCATION.—The amount of any
unit of local government’s allocation that is not
available to such unit by operation of paragraph
(2) shall be available to other units of local gov-
ernment that are not affected by such operation
in accordance with this subsection.
‘‘(F) UNAVAILABILITY OF DATA FOR UNITS
OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.—If the State has reason
to believe that the reported rate of part 1 violent
crimes or law enforcement expenditure for a unit
of local government is insufficient or inaccurate,
the State shall—
‘‘(i) investigate the methodology used
by the unit to determine the accuracy of the
submitted data; and
‘‘(ii) if necessary, use the best available
comparable data regarding the number of
violent crimes or law enforcement expendi-
ture for the relevant years for the unit of
local government.
‘‘(G) LOCAL
GOVERNMENT
WITH
ALLOCA-
TIONS LESS THAN $5,000.—If, under this section,
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a unit of local government is allocated less than
$5,000 for a payment period, the amount allo-
cated shall be expended by the State on services
to units of local government whose allotment is
less than such amount in a manner consistent
with this part.
‘‘(H) 
DIRECT
GRANTS
TO
ELIGIBLE
UNITS.—
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—If a State does not
qualify or apply for a grant under this sec-
tion, by the application deadline established
by the Attorney General, the Attorney Gen-
eral shall reserve not more than 70 percent
of the allocation that the State would have
received for grants under this section under
subsection (e) for such fiscal year to provide
grants to eligible units that meet the re-
quirements for funding under subparagraph
(A).
‘‘(ii) AWARD
BASIS.—In addition to
the qualification requirements for direct
grants for eligible units the Attorney Gen-
eral may use the average amount allocated
by the States to like governmental units as
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a basis for awarding grants under this sec-
tion.
‘‘(I) ALLOCATION BY UNITS OF LOCAL GOV-
ERNMENT.—Of the total amount made available
under this section to a unit of local government
for a fiscal year, not less than 25 percent shall
be used for the purposes set forth in paragraph
(13), (14), or (15) of subsection (b), and not less
than 50 percent shall be designated for—
‘‘(i) paragraph (1) or (9) of subsection
(b), except that, if amounts are allocated for
purposes of construction or remodeling of
short- or long-term facilities pursuant to
subsection (b)(9)—
‘‘(I) the unit of local government
shall coordinate such expenditures with
similar State expenditures;
‘‘(II) Federal funds shall con-
stitute not more than 50 percent of the
estimated construction or remodeling
cost; and
‘‘(III) no funds expended pursu-
ant to this clause may be used for the
incarceration of any offender who was
more than 21 years of age at the time
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of the offense or for construction, ren-
ovation, or expansion of facilities for
such offenders, except that funds may
be used to construct juvenile facilities
collocated with adult facilities, includ-
ing separate buildings for juveniles
and separate juvenile wings, cells, or
areas collocated within an adult jail or
lockup; or
‘‘(ii) drug testing upon arrest for any
offense within the category of offenses des-
ignated pursuant to subsection (c)(3), and
intensive supervision thereafter pursuant to
programs under subsection (b)(7) and sub-
section (c)(3).
‘‘(4) 
NONSUPPLANTATION.—Amounts 
made
available under this section to the States (or units of
local government in the State) shall not be used to
supplant State or local funds (or in the case of In-
dian tribal governments, to supplant amounts pro-
vided by the Bureau of Indian Affairs) but shall be
used to increase the amount of funds that would in
the absence of amounts received under this section, be
made available from a State or local source, or in the
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case of Indian tribal governments, from amounts pro-
vided by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
‘‘(e) ALLOCATION
OF GRANTS AMONG QUALIFYING
STATES; RESTRICTIONS ON USE.—
‘‘(1) ALLOCATION.—Amounts made available
under this section shall be allocated as follows:
‘‘(A) 0.5 percent shall be allocated to each
eligible State.
‘‘(B) The amount remaining after the allo-
cation under subparagraph (A) shall be allocated
proportionately based on the population that is
less than 18 years of age in the eligible States.
‘‘(2) RESTRICTIONS
ON USE.—Amounts made
available under this section shall be subject to the re-
strictions of subsections (a) and (b) of section 292 of
the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
of 1974, except that the penalties in section 292(c) of
such Act do not apply.
‘‘(f) GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES.—
‘‘(1) RESERVATION OF FUNDS.—Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, from the amounts appro-
priated pursuant to section 291 of the Juvenile Jus-
tice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, for each
fiscal year, the Attorney General shall reserve an
amount equal to the amount to which all Indian
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tribes eligible to receive a grant under paragraph (3)
would collectively be entitled, if such tribes were col-
lectively treated as a State to carry out this sub-
section.
‘‘(2) GRANTS
TO
INDIAN
TRIBES.—From the
amounts reserved under paragraph (1), the Attorney
General shall make grants to Indian tribes for pro-
grams pursuant to the permissible purposes under
section 1801.
‘‘(3) APPLICATIONS.—To be eligible to receive a
grant under this subsection, an Indian tribe shall
submit to the Attorney General an application in
such form and containing such information as the At-
torney General may by regulation require. The re-
quirements of subsection (c) apply to grants under
this subsection.
‘‘SEC. 1802. JUVENILE CRIMINAL HISTORY GRANTS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, through the
Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics and with con-
sultation and coordination with the Office of Justice Pro-
grams and the Attorney General, upon application from a
State (in such form and containing such information as
the Attorney General may reasonably require) shall make
a grant to each eligible State to be used by the State exclu-
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sively for purposes of meeting the eligibility requirements
of subsection (b).
‘‘(b) ELIGIBILITY.—A State is eligible for a grant
under subsection (a) if its application provides assurances
that, not later than 3 years after the date on which such
application is submitted, the State will—
‘‘(1) maintain, at the adult State central reposi-
tory in accordance with the State’s established prac-
tices and policies relating to adult criminal history
records—
‘‘(A) a fingerprint supported record of the
adjudication of delinquency of any juvenile who
commits an act that, if committed by an adult,
would constitute the offense of murder, armed
robbery, rape (except statutory rape), or a felony
offense involving sexual molestation of a child, or
a conspiracy or attempt to commit any such of-
fense (all as defined by State law), that is equiv-
alent to, and maintained and disseminated in
the same manner and for the same purposes as
are adult criminal history records for the same
offenses, except that the record may include a no-
tation of expungement pursuant to State law;
and
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‘‘(B) a fingerprint supported record of the
adjudication of delinquency of any juvenile who
commits an act that, if committed by an adult,
would be a felony other than a felony described
in subparagraph (A) that is equivalent to, and
maintained and disseminated in the same man-
ner for any criminal justice purpose as are adult
criminal history records for the same offenses, ex-
cept that the record may include a notation of
expungement pursuant to State law; and
‘‘(2) will establish procedures by which an offi-
cial of an elementary, secondary, and post-secondary
school may, in appropriate circumstances (as defined
by applicable State law), gain access to the juvenile
adjudication record of a student enrolled at the school,
or a juvenile who seeks, intends, or is instructed to
enroll at that school, if—
‘‘(A) the official is subject to the same
standards and penalties under applicable Fed-
eral and State law relating to the handling and
disclosure of information contained in juvenile
adjudication records as are employees of law en-
forcement and juvenile justice agencies in the
State; and
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‘‘(B) information contained in the juvenile
adjudication record may not be used for the pur-
pose of making an admission determination.
‘‘(c) VALIDITY OF CERTAIN JUDGMENTS.—Nothing in
this section shall require States, in order to qualify for
grants under this title, to modify laws concerning the status
of any adjudication of juvenile delinquency or judgment of
conviction under the law of the State that entered the judg-
ment.
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section—
‘‘(1) the term ‘criminal justice purpose’ means
the use by and within the criminal justice system for
the detection, apprehension, detention, pretrial re-
lease, post-trial release, prosecution, adjudication,
sentencing, disposition, correctional supervision, or
rehabilitation of accused persons, criminal offenders,
or juvenile delinquents; and
‘‘(2) the term ‘expungement’ means the nullifica-
tion of the legal effect of the conviction or adjudica-
tion to which the record applies.
‘‘SEC. 1803. GRANTS TO COURTS FOR STATE JUVENILE JUS-
TICE SYSTEMS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may make
grants in accordance with this section to States and units
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of local government to assist State and local courts with
juvenile offender dockets.
‘‘(b) GRANT PURPOSES.—Grants under this section
may be used—
‘‘(1) for technology, equipment, and training for
judges, probation officers, and other court personnel to
implement an accountability-based juvenile justice
system that provides substantial and appropriate
sanctions that are graduated in such manner as to re-
flect (for each delinquent act or criminal offense) the
severity or repeated nature of that act or offense;
‘‘(2) to hire additional judges, probation officers,
other necessary court personnel, victims counselors,
and public defenders for juvenile courts or adult
courts with juvenile offender dockets, including courts
with specialized juvenile drug offense or juvenile fire-
arms offense dockets to reduce juvenile court backlogs,
and provide additional services to make more effective
systems of graduated sanctions designed to reduce re-
cidivism and deter future crimes or delinquent acts
by juvenile offenders;
‘‘(3) to provide funding to enable juvenile courts
and juvenile probation officers to address drug, gang,
and youth violence problems more effectively; and
‘‘(4) to provide funds to—
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‘‘(A) effectively supervise and monitor juve-
nile offenders sentenced to probation or parole;
and
‘‘(B) enforce conditions of probation and
parole imposed on juvenile offenders, including
drug testing and payment of restitution.
‘‘(c) APPLICATION.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each State or unit of local
government that applies for a grant under this section
shall submit an application to the Attorney General,
in such form and containing such information as the
Attorney General may reasonably require.
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS.—In submitting an appli-
cation for a grant under this part, a State or unit
of local government shall provide assurances that the
State or unit of local government will—
‘‘(A) give priority to the prosecution of vio-
lent juvenile offenders;
‘‘(B) seek to reduce any backlogs in juvenile
justice cases and provide additional services to
make more effective systems of graduated sanc-
tions designed to reduce recidivism and deter fu-
ture crimes or delinquent acts by juvenile offend-
ers;
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‘‘(C) give adequate consideration to the
rights and needs of victims of juvenile offenders;
and
‘‘(D) use amounts received under this sec-
tion to supplement (and not supplant) State and
local resources.
‘‘(d) ALLOCATION OF GRANTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—
‘‘(A) ALLOCATION TO STATES.—
‘‘(i) 
IN
GENERAL.—In 
awarding
grants under this part, the Attorney Gen-
eral may award grants provided for a State
(including units of local government in that
State) an aggregate amount equal to 0.75
percent of the amount made available to the
Attorney General by appropriations for this
section made pursuant to section 291(b)(1)
of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention 
Act 
of 
1974 
(reduced 
by
amounts reserved under subsection (e)).
‘‘(ii) ADJUSTMENT.—If the Attorney
General determines that an insufficient
number of applications have been submitted
for a State, the Attorney General may ad-
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just the aggregate amount awarded for a
State under clause (i).
‘‘(B) REMAINING
AMOUNTS.—Of the ad-
justed amounts available to the Attorney General
to carry out the grant program under this sec-
tion referred to in subparagraph (A) that remain
after the Attorney General distributes the
amounts specified in that subparagraph (referred
to in this subparagraph as the ‘remaining
amount’) the Attorney General may award an
additional aggregate amount to each State (in-
cluding any political subdivision thereof) that
(or with respect to which a political subdivision
thereof) submits an application that is approved
by the Attorney General under this section that
bears the same ratio to the remaining amount as
the population of juveniles residing in that State
bears to the population of juveniles residing in
all States.
‘‘(2) EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION.—The Attorney
General shall ensure that the distribution of grant
amounts made available for a State (including units
of local government in that State) under this section
is made on an equitable geographic basis, to ensure
that—
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‘‘(A) an equitable amount of available funds
are directed to rural areas, including those juris-
dictions serving smaller urban and rural com-
munities located along interstate transportation
routes that are adversely affected by interstate
criminal gang activity, such as illegal drug traf-
ficking; and
‘‘(B) the amount allocated to a State is eq-
uitably divided between the State, counties, and
other units of local government to reflect the rel-
ative responsibilities of each such unit of local
government.
‘‘(e) ADMINISTRATION; TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may
reserve for each fiscal year not more than 2 percent
of amounts appropriated for this section pursuant to
section 291(b)(1) of the Juvenile Justice and Delin-
quency Prevention Act of 1974—
‘‘(A) for the administration of this section;
and
‘‘(B) for the provision of technical assist-
ance to recipients of or applicants for grant
awards under this section.
‘‘(2) CARRYOVER PROVISION.—Any amounts re-
served for any fiscal year pursuant to paragraph (1)
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that are not expended during that fiscal year shall re-
main available until expended, except that any
amount reserved under this subsection for the suc-
ceeding fiscal year from amounts made available by
appropriations shall be reduced by an amount equal
to the amount that remains available.
‘‘(f) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Any grant amounts
awarded under this section shall remain available until ex-
pended.’’.
SEC. 322. PILOT PROGRAM TO PROMOTE REPLICATION OF
RECENT SUCCESSFUL JUVENILE CRIME RE-
DUCTION STRATEGIES.
(a) PILOT PROGRAM TO PROMOTE REPLICATION OF
RECENT
SUCCESSFUL
JUVENILE
CRIME
REDUCTION
STRATEGIES.—
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Attorney General (or
a designee of the Attorney General), in conjunction
with the Secretary of the Treasury (or the designee of
the Secretary), shall establish a pilot program (re-
ferred to in this section as the ‘‘program’’) to encour-
age and support communities that adopt a com-
prehensive approach to suppressing and preventing
violent juvenile crime patterned after successful State
juvenile crime reduction strategies.
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(2) PROGRAM.—In carrying out the program,
the Attorney General shall—
(A) make and track grants to grant recipi-
ents (referred to in this section as ‘‘coalitions’’);
(B) in conjunction with the Secretary of the
Treasury, provide for technical assistance and
training, data collection, and dissemination of
relevant information; and
(C) provide for the general administration
of the program.
(3) ADMINISTRATION.—Not later than 30 days
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney
General shall appoint or designate an Administrator
(referred to in this section as the ‘‘Administrator’’) to
carry out the program.
(4) PROGRAM AUTHORIZATION.—To be eligible to
receive an initial grant or a renewal grant under this
section, a coalition shall meet each of the following
criteria:
(A) COMPOSITION.—The coalition shall con-
sist of 1 or more representatives of—
(i) the local police department or sher-
iff’s department;
(ii) the local prosecutors’ office;
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(iii) the United States Attorney’s of-
fice;
(iv) the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion;
(v) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms;
(vi) State or local probation officers;
(vii) religious affiliated or fraternal
organizations involved in crime prevention;
(viii) schools;
(ix) parents or local grass roots organi-
zations such as neighborhood watch groups;
(x) local recreation agencies; and
(xi) social service agencies involved in
crime prevention.
(B) OTHER PARTICIPANTS.—If possible, in
addition to the representatives from the cat-
egories listed in subparagraph (A), the coalition
shall include—
(i) representatives from the business
community; and
(ii) researchers who have studied
criminal justice and can offer technical or
other assistance.
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(C) COORDINATED STRATEGY.—A coalition
shall submit to the Attorney General, or the At-
torney General’s designee, a comprehensive plan
for reducing violent juvenile crime. To be eligible
for consideration, a plan shall—
(i) ensure close collaboration among all
members of the coalition in suppressing and
preventing juvenile crime;
(ii) place heavy emphasis on coordi-
nated enforcement initiatives, such as Fed-
eral and State programs that coordinate
local police departments, prosecutors, and
local community leaders to focus on the sup-
pression of violent juvenile crime involving
gangs;
(iii) ensure that there is close collabo-
ration between police and probation officers
in the supervision of juvenile offenders, such
as initiatives that coordinate the efforts of
parents, school officials, and police and pro-
bation officers to patrol the streets and
make home visits to ensure that offenders
comply with the terms of their probation;
(iv) ensure that a program is in place
to trace all firearms seized from crime
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scenes or offenders in an effort to identify
illegal gun traffickers; and
(v) ensure that effective crime preven-
tion programs are in place, such as pro-
grams that provide after-school safe havens
and other opportunities for at-risk youth to
escape or avoid gang or other criminal ac-
tivity, and to reduce recidivism.
(D) ACCOUNTABILITY.—A coalition shall—
(i) establish a system to measure and
report outcomes consistent with common in-
dicators and evaluation protocols estab-
lished by the Administrator and that re-
ceives the approval of the Administrator;
and
(ii) devise a detailed model for meas-
uring and evaluating the success of the plan
of the coalition in reducing violent juvenile
crime, and provide assurances that the plan
will be evaluated on a regular basis to as-
sess progress in reducing violent juvenile
crime.
(5) GRANT AMOUNTS.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator may
grant to an eligible coalition under this para-
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graph, an amount not to exceed the amount of
non-Federal funds raised by the coalition, in-
cluding in-kind contributions, for that fiscal
year.
(B) NONSUPPLANTING
REQUIREMENT.—A
coalition seeking funds shall provide reasonable
assurances that funds made available under this
program to States or units of local government
shall be so used as to supplement and increase
(but not supplant) the level of the State, local,
and other non-Federal funds that would in the
absence of such Federal funds be made available
for programs described in this section, and shall
in no event replace such State, local, or other
non-Federal funds.
(C) SUSPENSION OF GRANTS.—If a coali-
tion fails to continue to meet the criteria set
forth in this section, the Administrator may sus-
pend the grant, after providing written notice to
the grant recipient and an opportunity to ap-
peal.
(D) RENEWAL
GRANTS.—Subject to sub-
paragraph (D), the Administrator may award a
renewal grant to grant recipient under this sub-
paragraph for each fiscal year following the fis-
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cal year for which an initial grant is awarded,
in an amount not to exceed the amount of non-
Federal funds raised by the coalition, including
in-kind contributions, for that fiscal year, dur-
ing the 4-year period following the period of the
initial grant.
(E) LIMITATION.—The amount of a grant
award under this section may not exceed
$300,000 for a fiscal year.
(6) PERMITTED USE OF FUNDS.—A coalition re-
ceiving funds under this section may expend such
Federal funds on any use or program that is con-
tained in the plan submitted to the Administrator.
(7) CONGRESSIONAL CONSULTATION.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Two years after the date
of implementation of the program established in
this section, the Comptroller General of the
United States shall submit to Congress a report
reviewing the effectiveness of the program in sup-
pressing and reducing violent juvenile crime in
the participating communities.
(B) CONTENTS
OF
REPORT.—The report
submitted 
under 
subparagraph 
(A) 
shall
include—
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(i) an analysis of each community
participating in the program, along with
information regarding the plan undertaken
in the community, and the effectiveness of
the plan in reducing violent juvenile crime;
and
(ii) recommendations regarding the ef-
ficacy of continuing the program.
(b) INFORMATION COLLECTION AND DISSEMINATION
WITH RESPECT TO COALITIONS.—
(1) COALITION INFORMATION.—For the purpose
of audit and examination, the Attorney General—
(A) shall have access to any books, docu-
ments, papers, and records that are pertinent to
any grant or grant renewal request under this
section; and
(B) may periodically request information
from a coalition to ensure that the coalition
meets the applicable criteria.
(2) REPORTING.—The Attorney General shall, to
the maximum extent practicable and in a manner
consistent with applicable law, minimize reporting
requirements by a coalition and expedite any appli-
cation for a renewal grant made under this section.
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be ap-
propriated to carry out this section $3,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 2000 through 2003.
(2) SOURCE OF SUMS.—Amounts authorized to
be appropriated pursuant to this subsection may be
derived from the Violent Crime Reduction Trust
Fund.
SEC. 323. REPEAL OF UNNECESSARY AND DUPLICATIVE
PROGRAMS.
(a) VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCE-
MENT ACT OF 1994.—
(1) TITLE III.—Title III of the Violent Crime
Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C.
13741 et seq.) is amended by striking subtitles A
through C, and subtitles G through S.
(2) TITLE XXVII.—Title XXVII of the Violent
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42
U.S.C. 14191 et seq.) is repealed.
(b) REFORM OF GREAT PROGRAM.—Section 32401(a)
of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of
1994 (42 U.S.C. 13921(a)) is amended—
(1) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the
following:
‘‘(2) SELECTION OF COMMUNITIES.—
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each community iden-
tified for a GREAT project referred to in para-
graph (1) shall be selected by the Secretary of the
Treasury on the basis of—
‘‘(i) the level of gang activity and
youth violence in the area in which the
community is located;
‘‘(ii) the number of schools in the com-
munity in which training would be pro-
vided under the project;
‘‘(iii) the number of students who
would receive the training referred to in
clause (ii) in schools referred to in that
clause; and
‘‘(iv) a written description from offi-
cials of the community explaining the man-
ner in which funds made available to the
community under this section would be allo-
cated.
‘‘(B) EQUITABLE
SELECTION.—The Sec-
retary of the Treasury shall ensure that—
‘‘(i) communities are identified and se-
lected for GREAT projects under this sub-
section on an equitable geographic basis (ex-
cept that this clause shall not be construed
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to require the termination of any projects
selected prior to the beginning of fiscal year
1999); and
‘‘(ii) the communities referred to in
clause (i) include rural communities.’’; and
(2) in paragraph (3)—
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘50
percent’’ and inserting ‘‘85 percent’’; and
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘50
percent’’ and inserting ‘‘15 percent’’.
SEC. 324. EXTENSION OF VIOLENT CRIME REDUCTION
TRUST FUND.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 310001(b) of the Violent
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42
U.S.C. 14211) is amended by striking paragraphs (1)
through (5) and inserting the following:
‘‘(1) for fiscal year 2001, $6,025,000,000;
‘‘(2) for fiscal year 2002, $6,169,000,000;
‘‘(3) for fiscal year 2003, $6,316,000,000;
‘‘(4) for fiscal year 2004, $6,458,000,000; and
‘‘(5) for fiscal year 2005, $6,616,000,000.’’.
(b) DISCRETIONARY LIMITS.—Title XXXI of the Vio-
lent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42
U.S.C. 14211 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section
310001 the following:
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‘‘SEC. 310002. DISCRETIONARY LIMITS.
‘‘For the purposes of allocations made for the discre-
tionary category pursuant to section 302(a) of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(a)), the term ‘dis-
cretionary spending limit’ means—
‘‘(1) with respect to fiscal year 2001—
‘‘(A) 
for 
the 
discretionary 
category,
amounts of budget authority and outlays nec-
essary to adjust the discretionary spending lim-
its to reflect the changes in subparagraph (B) as
determined by the Chairman of the Budget Com-
mittee; and
‘‘(B) for the violent crime reduction cat-
egory: $6,025,000,000 in new budget authority
and $5,718,000,000 in outlays;
‘‘(2) with respect to fiscal year 2002—
‘‘(A) 
for 
the 
discretionary 
category,
amounts of budget authority and outlays nec-
essary to adjust the discretionary spending lim-
its to reflect the changes in subparagraph (B) as
determined by the Chairman of the Budget Com-
mittee; and
‘‘(B) for the violent crime reduction cat-
egory: $6,169,000,000 in new budget authority
and $6,020,000,000 in outlays; and
‘‘(3) with respect to fiscal year 2003—
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‘‘(A) 
for 
the 
discretionary 
category,
amounts of budget authority and outlays nec-
essary to adjust the discretionary spending lim-
its to reflect the changes in subparagraph (B) as
determined by the Chairman of the Budget Com-
mittee; and
‘‘(B) for the violent crime reduction cat-
egory: $6,316,000,000 in new budget authority
and $6,161,000,000 in outlays;
‘‘(4) with respect to fiscal year 2004—
‘‘(A) 
for 
the 
discretionary 
category,
amounts of budget authority and outlays nec-
essary to adjust the discretionary spending lim-
its to reflect the changes in subparagraph (B) as
determined by the Chairman of the Budget Com-
mittee; and
‘‘(B) for the violent crime reduction cat-
egory: $6,458,000 in new budget authority and
$6,303,000,000 in outlays; and
‘‘(5) with respect to fiscal year 2005—
‘‘(A) 
for 
the 
discretionary 
category,
amounts of budget authority and outlays nec-
essary to adjust the discretionary spending lim-
its to reflect the changes in subparagraph (B) as
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determined by the Chairman of the Budget Com-
mittee; and
‘‘(B) for the violent crime reduction cat-
egory: $6,616,000 in new budget authority and
$6,452,000,000 in outlays;
as adjusted in accordance with section 251(b) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
(2 U.S.C. 901(b)) and section 314 of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974.’’.
SEC. 325. REIMBURSEMENT OF STATES FOR COSTS OF IN-
CARCERATING JUVENILE ALIENS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 501 of the Immigration Re-
form and Control Act of 1986 (8 U.S.C. 1365) is
amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘or illegal ju-
venile alien who has been adjudicated delinquent and
committed to a juvenile correctional facility by such
State or locality’’ before the period;
(2) in subsection (b), by inserting ‘‘(including
any juvenile alien who has been adjudicated delin-
quent and has been committed to a correctional facil-
ity)’’ before ‘‘who is in the United States unlawfully’’;
and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
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‘‘(f) JUVENILE ALIEN DEFINED.—In this section, the
term ‘juvenile alien’ means an alien (as defined in section
101(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act) who has
been adjudicated delinquent and committed to a correc-
tional facility by a State or locality as a juvenile offender.’’.
(b) ANNUAL REPORT.—Section 332 of the Illegal Im-
migration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of
1996 (8 U.S.C. 1366) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(3);
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (4) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(5) the number of illegal juvenile aliens that are
committed to State or local juvenile correctional fa-
cilities, including the type of offense committed by
each juvenile.’’.
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 241(i)(3)(B)
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1231(i)(3)(B)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of clause (ii);
(2) by striking the period at the end of clause
(iii) and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
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‘‘(iv) is a juvenile alien with respect to
whom section 501 of the Immigration Re-
form and Control Act of 1986 applies.’’.
Subtitle C—Alternative Education
and Delinquency Prevention
SEC. 331. ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION.
Part D of title I of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6421 et seq.) is amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘Subpart 4—Alternative Education Demonstration
Project Grants
‘‘SEC. 1441. PROGRAM AUTHORITY.
‘‘(a) GRANTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—From amounts appropriated
under section 1443, the Secretary, in consultation
with the Administrator, shall make grants to State
educational agencies or local educational agencies for
not less than 10 demonstration projects that enable
the agencies to develop models for and carry out alter-
native education for at-risk youth.
‘‘(2) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this subpart
shall be construed to affect the requirements of the In-
dividuals with Disabilities Education Act.
‘‘(b) DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.—
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‘‘(1) PARTNERSHIPS.—Each agency receiving a
grant under this subpart may enter into a partner-
ship with a private sector entity to provide alter-
native educational services to at-risk youth.
‘‘(2) 
REQUIREMENTS.—Each 
demonstration
project assisted under this subpart shall—
‘‘(A) accept for alternative education at-risk
or delinquent youth who are referred by a local
school or by a court with a juvenile delinquency
docket and who—
‘‘(i) have demonstrated a pattern of se-
rious and persistent behavior problems in
regular schools;
‘‘(ii) are at risk of dropping out of
school;
‘‘(iii) have been convicted of a criminal
offense or adjudicated delinquent for an act
of juvenile delinquency, and are under a
court’s supervision; or
‘‘(iv) have demonstrated that continued
enrollment in a regular classroom—
‘‘(I) poses a physical threat to
other students; or
‘‘(II) inhibits an atmosphere con-
ducive to learning; and
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‘‘(B) provide for accelerated learning, in a
safe, 
secure, 
and 
disciplined 
environment,
including—
‘‘(i) basic curriculum focused on mas-
tery of essential skills, including targeted
instruction in basic skills required for sec-
ondary school graduation; and
‘‘(ii) emphasis on—
‘‘(I) personal, academic, social,
and workplace skills; and
‘‘(II) behavior modification.
‘‘(c) APPLICABILITY.—Except as provided in sub-
sections (c) and (e) of section 1442, the provisions of section
1401(c), 1402, and 1431, and subparts 1 and 2, shall not
apply to this subpart.
‘‘(d) DEFINITION OF ADMINISTRATOR.—In this sub-
part, the term ‘Administrator’ means the Administrator of
the Office of Juvenile Crime Control and Prevention of the
Department of Justice.
‘‘SEC. 1442. APPLICATIONS; GRANTEE SELECTION.
‘‘(a) APPLICATIONS.—Each State educational agency
and local educational agency seeking a grant under this
subpart shall submit an application in such form, and con-
taining such information, as the Secretary, in consultation
with the Administrator, may reasonably require.
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‘‘(b) SELECTION OF GRANTEES.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall select
State educational agencies and local educational
agencies to receive grants under this subpart on an
equitable geographic basis, including selecting agen-
cies that serve urban, suburban, and rural popu-
lations.
‘‘(2) MINIMUM.—The Secretary shall award a
grant under this subpart to not less than 1 agency
serving a population with a significant percentage of
Native Americans.
‘‘(3) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this
subpart, the Secretary may give priority to State edu-
cational agencies and local educational agencies that
demonstrate in the application submitted under sub-
section (a) that the State has a policy of equitably
distributing resources among school districts in the
State.
‘‘(c) QUALIFICATIONS.—To qualify for a grant under
this subpart, a State educational agency or local edu-
cational agency shall—
‘‘(1) in the case of a State educational agency,
have submitted a State plan under section 1414(a)
that is approved by the Secretary;
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‘‘(2) in the case of a local educational agency,
have submitted an application under section 1423
that is approved by the State educational agency;
‘‘(3) certify that the agency will comply with the
restrictions of section 292 of the Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974;
‘‘(4) explain the educational and juvenile justice
needs of the community to be addressed by the dem-
onstration project;
‘‘(5) provide a detailed plan to implement the
demonstration project; and
‘‘(6) provide assurances and an explanation of
the agency’s ability to continue the program funded
by the demonstration project after the termination of
Federal funding under this subpart.
‘‘(d) MATCHING REQUIREMENT.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Grant funds provided under
this subpart shall not constitute more than 35 percent
of the cost of the demonstration project funded.
‘‘(2) SOURCE OF FUNDS.—Matching funds for
grants under this subpart may be derived from
amounts available under section 205, or part B of
title II, of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Pre-
vention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5611 et seq.) to the
State in which the demonstration project will be car-
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ried out, except that the total share of funds derived
from Federal sources shall not exceed 50 percent of the
cost of the demonstration project.
‘‘(e) PROGRAM EVALUATION.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Each State educational
agency or local educational agency that receives a
grant under this subpart shall evaluate the dem-
onstration project assisted under this subpart in the
same manner as programs are evaluated under sec-
tion 1431. In addition, the evaluation shall include—
‘‘(A) an evaluation of the effect of the alter-
native education project on order, discipline, and
an effective learning environment in regular
classrooms;
‘‘(B) an evaluation of the project’s effective-
ness in improving the skills and abilities of at-
risk students assigned to alternative education,
including an analysis of the academic and social
progress of such students; and
‘‘(C) an evaluation of the project’s effective-
ness in reducing juvenile crime and delinquency,
including—
‘‘(i) reductions in incidents of campus
crime in relevant school districts, compared
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with school districts not included in the
project; and
‘‘(ii) reductions in recidivism by at-
risk students who have juvenile justice sys-
tem involvement and are assigned to alter-
native education.
‘‘(2) EVALUATION
BY
THE
SECRETARY.—The
Secretary, in cooperation with the Administrator,
shall comparatively evaluate each of the demonstra-
tion projects funded under this subpart, including an
evaluation of the effectiveness of private sector edu-
cational services, and shall report the findings of the
evaluation to the Committee on Education and the
Workforce of the House of Representatives and the
Committees on the Judiciary and Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions of the Senate not later than June
30, 2005.
‘‘SEC. 1443. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out
this subpart $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2000, 2001,
2002, and 2003.’’.
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Subtitle D—Parenting as
Prevention
SEC. 341. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle shall be cited as the ‘‘Parenting as Pre-
vention Act’’.
SEC. 342. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, in con-
sultation with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Edu-
cation, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development,
the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Agriculture, and
the Secretary of Defense shall establish a parenting support
and education program as provided in sections 343, 344,
and 345.
SEC. 343. NATIONAL PARENTING SUPPORT AND EDUCATION
COMMISSION.
(a) ESTABLISH
COMMISSION.—The Secretary of
Health and Human Services shall establish a National Par-
enting Support and Education Commission (hereinafter re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Commission’’) to identify the best practices
for parenting and to provide practical parenting advice for
parents and caregivers based on the best available research
data. She shall provide the Commission with necessary staff
and other resources to fulfill its duties.
(b) MEMBERSHIP
OF COMMISSION.—The Secretary
shall appoint the Commission after consultation with the
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cabinet members identified in section 342. The Commission
shall consist of the following members—
(1) an adolescent representative;
(2) a parent representative;
(3) an expert in brain research;
(4) experts in child development, youth develop-
ment, early childhood education, primary education,
and secondary education;
(5) an expert in children’s mental health;
(6) an expert on children’s health and nutrition;
(7) an expert on child abuse prevention, diag-
nosis, and treatment;
(8) a representative of parenting support pro-
grams;
(9) a representative of parenting education;
(10) a representative from law enforcement;
(11) an expert on firearm safety programs;
(12) a representative from a nonprofit organiza-
tion that delivers services to children and their fami-
lies which may include a faith based organization;
and
(13) such other representatives as the Secretary
deems necessary.
(c) DUTIES
OF
COMMISSION.—The Commission
shall—
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(1) identify best parenting practices for parents
and caregivers of young children on topics including
but not limited to brain stimulation, developing
healthy attachments and social relationships, anger
management and conflict resolution, character devel-
opment, discipline, controlling access to television and
other entertainment including computers, firearms
safety, mental health, health care and nutrition in-
cluding breastfeeding, encouraging reading and life-
long learning habits, and recognition and treatment
of developmental and behavioral problems;
(2) identify best parenting practices of adoles-
cents and pre-adolescents on topics including but not
limited to methods of addressing peer pressure with
respect to underage drinking, sexual relations, illegal
drug use, and other negative behavior; developing
healthy social and family relationships; exercising
discipline; controlling access to television and other
entertainment including computers, video games, and
movies; firearm safety; encouraging success in school;
and other issues of concern to parents of adolescents;
(3) identify best parenting practices and re-
sources available for parents and caregivers of chil-
dren with special needs including fetal alcohol syn-
drome, fetal alcohol effect, mental illness, autism, re-
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tardation, learning disabilities, behavioral disorders,
chronic illness, and physical disabilities; and
(4) review existing parenting support and edu-
cation programs and the data evaluating them and
make recommendations to the Secretary and the Con-
gress on which are most effective and should receive
Federal support within 18 months of appointment.
(d) PUBLIC HEARINGS AND TESTIMONY.—The Com-
mission shall conduct four public hearings, shall solicit and
receive testimony from national experts and national orga-
nizations, shall conduct a comprehensive review of academic
and other research literature, and shall seek information
from the Governors on existing brain development and par-
enting programs which have been most successful.
(e) PUBLICATION OF MATERIALS.—If not otherwise
available, the Commission shall prepare materials which
may include written material, videotapes, CD’s, and other
audio and visual material on best parenting practices and
shall make them available for distribution to parents, care-
givers, and others through State and local government pro-
grams, hospitals, maternity centers, and other health care
providers, adoption agencies, schools, public housing units,
child care centers, and social service providers. If such ma-
terials are already available, the Commission may print,
reproduce, and distribute such materials.
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(f) REPORTING
REQUIREMENT.—The Commission
shall prepare and submit a report of its findings and rec-
ommendations to the Secretary and the Congress no later
than 18 months after appointment.
(g) AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS.—There is authorized
to be appropriated in fiscal year 2000 such sums as may
be necessary to support the work of the Commission and
to produce and distribute the materials described in sub-
section (e). Such sum shall remain available until ex-
pended. Any fund appropriated pursuant to this section
shall remain available until expended.
SEC. 344. STATE AND LOCAL PARENTING SUPPORT AND
EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) STATE ALLOTMENTS.—The Secretary shall make
allotments to eligible States to support parenting support
and training programs. Each State shall receive an amount
that bears the same relationship to the amount appro-
priated as the total number of children in the State bears
to the total number of children in all States, but no State
shall receive less than one-half of one percent of the state
allocation. From the amounts provided to each State with
Indian or Alaska Native populations exceeding two percent
of its total statewide population, the Governor shall set
aside two percent for Indian tribes as that term is defined
in section 4(e) of the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-
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cation Assistance Act (P.L. 93–638, as amended; 25 U.S.C.
450b(e)) which shall be distributed based on the percentage
of Indian children in each tribe except that with respect
to Alaska, the funds shall be distributed to the nonprofit
entities described in section 419(4)(B) of the Social Secu-
rity Act pursuant to section 103 of Public Law 104–193
(110 Stat. 2159, 2160; 42 U.S.C. 619(4)(B)) which shall
be allocated based on the percentage of Alaska Native chil-
dren in each region.
(b) STATE PARENTING SUPPORT
AND EDUCATION
COUNCIL.—To be eligible to receive Federal funding, the
Governor of each State shall appoint a State Parenting
Support and Education Council (hereinafter referred to as
the ‘‘Council’’) which shall include parent representatives,
representatives of the State government, bipartisan rep-
resentation from the State legislature, representatives from
local communities, and interested children’s organizations,
except that the Governor may designate an existing entity
that includes such groups. The Council shall conduct a
needs and resources assessment of parenting support and
education programs in the State to determine where pro-
grams are lacking or inadequate and identify what addi-
tional programs are needed and which programs require
additional resources. It shall consider the findings and rec-
ommendations of the Parenting Commission in making
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those determinations. Upon completion of the assessment,
the Council may consider grant applications from the State
to provide statewide programs, from local communities in-
cluding schools, and from nonprofit service providers in-
cluding faith based organizations.
(c) GRANTS.—Grants may be made for:
(1) Parenting support to promote early brain de-
velopment and childhood development and education
including—
(A) assistance to schools to offer classroom
instruction on brain stimulation, child develop-
ment, and early childhood education;
(B) distribution of materials developed by
the Commission or another entity that reflect
best parenting practices;
(C) development and distribution of referral
information on programs and services available
to children and families at the local level, includ-
ing eligibility criteria;
(D) 
voluntary 
hospital 
visits 
for
postpartum women and in-home visits for fami-
lies with infants, toddlers, or newly adopted chil-
dren to provide hands-on training and one-on-
one instruction on brain stimulation, child de-
velopment, and early childhood education;
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(E) parenting education programs includ-
ing training with respect to the best parenting
practices identified in subsection (c).
(2) Parenting support for adolescents and youth
including funds for services and support for parents
and other caregivers of young people being served by
a range of education, social service, mental health,
health, runaway and homeless youth programs. Pro-
grams may include the Boys and Girls Club, YMCA
and YWCA, after school programs, 4–H programs, or
other community based organizations. Eligible activi-
ties may include parent-caregiver support groups,
peer support groups, parent education classes, semi-
nars or discussion groups on problems facing adoles-
cents, advocates and mentors to help parents under-
stand and work with schools, the courts, and various
treatment programs.
(3) Parenting support and education resource
centers including—
(A) development of parenting resource cen-
ters which may serve as a single point of contact
for the provision of comprehensive services avail-
able to children and their families including
Federal, State, and local governmental and non-
profit services available to children. Such serv-
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ices may include child care, respite care, pedi-
atric care, child abuse prevention programs, nu-
trition programs, parent training, infant and
child CPR and safety training programs, care-
giver training and education, and other related
programs;
(B) a national toll free anonymous parent
hotline with 24 hour a day consultation and ad-
vice including referral to local community based
services;
(C) respite care for parents with children
with special needs, single mothers, and at-risk
youth.
(d) REPORTING.—Each entity that receives a grant
under this section shall submit a report every 2 years to
the Council describing the program it has developed, the
number of parents and children served, and the success of
the program using specific performance measures.
(e) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—Not more than 5 percent
of the amounts received by a State may be used to pay for
the administrative expenses of the Council in implementing
the grant program.
(f) SUPPLEMENT
NOT
SUPPLANT.—Funds appro-
priated pursuant to this section shall be used to supplement
and not supplant other Federal, State, and local public
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funds expended for parenting support and education pro-
grams.
(g) AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS.—There is authorized
to be appropriated such sums as are necessary for fiscal
year 2000 and subsequent fiscal years.
SEC. 345. GRANTS TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF VIO-
LENCE RELATED STRESS TO PARENTS AND
CHILDREN.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that a child’s
brain is wired between the ages of 0–3. A child’s ability
to learn, develop healthy family and social relationships,
resist peer pressure, and control violent impulses depends
on the quality and quantity of brain stimulation he re-
ceives. Research shows that children exposed to negative
brain stimulation in the form of physical and sexual abuse
and violence in the family or community causes the brain
to be miswired making it difficult for the child to be success-
ful in life. Intervention early in a child’s life to correct the
miswiring is much more successful than adult rehabilita-
tion efforts.
(b) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall award grants,
enter into contracts or cooperative agreements to public and
nonprofit private entities, as well as to Indian tribes, Na-
tive Hawaiians, and Alaska Native nonprofit corporations
to establish national and regional centers of excellence on
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psychological trauma response and to identify the best prac-
tices for treating psychiatric and behavioral disorders re-
sulting from children witnessing or experiencing such stress.
(c) PRIORITIES.—In awarding grants, contracts or co-
operative agreements under subsection (a) related to the
identifying best practices for treating disorders associated
with psychological trauma, the Secretary shall give priority
to programs that work with children, adolescents, adults,
and families who are survivors and witnesses of child abuse,
domestic, school, and community violence, and disasters.
(d) GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—The Secretary
shall ensure that grants, contracts, or cooperative agree-
ments under subsection (a) with respect to centers of excel-
lence are distributed equitably among the regions of the
country and among urban and rural areas.
(e) EVALUATION.—The Secretary shall require that
each applicant for a grant, contract or cooperative agree-
ment under subsection (a) submit a plan as part of his ap-
plication for the rigorous evaluation of the activities funded
under the grant, contract or agreement, including both
process and outcomes evaluation, and the submission of an
evaluation at the end of the project period.
(f) DURATION OF AWARDS.—With respect to a grant,
contract or cooperative agreement under this section, the pe-
riod during which payments under such an award will be
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made to the recipient may not be less than 3 years. Such
grants, contract or agreement may be renewed.
(g) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date of
enactment of this section, the General Accounting Office
shall prepare and submit to the Committee on Health, Edu-
cation, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Com-
mittee on Commerce of the House of Representatives a re-
port concerning whether individuals are covered for post-
traumatic stress disorders under public and private health
plans, and the course of treatment, if any, that is covered.
(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is
authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary
to carry out this section for fiscal year 2000 and subsequent
fiscal years.
TITLE 
IV—VOLUNTARY 
MEDIA
AGREEMENTS 
FOR 
CHIL-
DREN’S PROTECTION
Subtitle A—Children and the Media
SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Children’s Protec-
tion Act of 1999’’.
SEC. 402. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Television is seen and heard in nearly every
United States home and is a uniquely pervasive pres-
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ence in the daily lives of Americans. The average
American home has 2.5 televisions, and a television
is turned on in the average American home 7 hours
every day.
(2) Television plays a particularly significant
role in the lives of children. Figures provided by
Nielsen Research show that children between the ages
of 2 years and 11 years spend an average of 21 hours
in front of a television each week.
(3) Television has an enormous capability to in-
fluence perceptions, especially those of children, of the
values and behaviors that are common and acceptable
in society.
(4) The influence of television is so great that its
images and messages often can be harmful to the de-
velopment of children. Social science research amply
documents a strong correlation between the exposure
of children to televised violence and a number of be-
havioral and psychological problems.
(5) Hundreds of studies have proven conclusively
that children who are consistently exposed to violence
on television have a higher tendency to exhibit violent
and aggressive behavior, both as children and later in
life.
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(6) Such studies also show that repeated expo-
sure to violent programming causes children to be-
come desensitized to and more accepting of real-life
violence and to grow more fearful and less trusting of
their surroundings.
(7) A growing body of social science research in-
dicates that sexual content on television can also have
a significant influence on the attitudes and behaviors
of young viewers. This research suggests that heavy
exposure to programming with strong sexual content
contributes to the early commencement of sexual ac-
tivity among teenagers.
(8) Members of the National Association of
Broadcasters (NAB) adhered for many years to a
comprehensive code of conduct that was based on an
understanding of the influence exerted by television
and on a widely held sense of responsibility for using
that influence carefully.
(9) This code of conduct, the Television Code of
the National Association of Broadcasters, articulated
this sense of responsibility as follows:
(A) ‘‘In selecting program subjects and
themes, great care must be exercised to be sure
that the treatment and presentation are made in
good faith and not for the purpose of sensa-
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tionalism or to shock or exploit the audience or
appeal to prurient interests or morbid curi-
osity.’’.
(B) ‘‘Broadcasters have a special responsi-
bility toward children. Programs designed pri-
marily for children should take into account the
range of interests and needs of children, from in-
structional and cultural material to a wide vari-
ety of entertainment material. In their totality,
programs should contribute to the sound, bal-
anced development of children to help them
achieve a sense of the world at large and in-
formed adjustments to their society.’’.
(C) ‘‘Violence, physical, or psychological,
may only be projected in responsibly handled
contexts, not used exploitatively. Programs in-
volving violence present the consequences of it to
its victims and perpetrators. Presentation of the
details of violence should avoid the excessive, the
gratuitous and the instructional.’’.
(D) ‘‘The presentation of marriage, family,
and similarly important human relationships,
and material with sexual connotations, shall not
be treated exploitatively or irresponsibly, but
with sensitivity.’’.
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(E) ‘‘Above and beyond the requirements of
the law, broadcasters must consider the family
atmosphere in which many of their programs are
viewed. There shall be no graphic portrayal of
sexual acts by sight or sound. The portrayal of
implied sexual acts must be essential to the plot
and presented in a responsible and tasteful man-
ner.’’.
(10) The National Association of Broadcasters
abandoned the code of conduct in 1983 after three
provisions of the code restricting the sale of adver-
tising were challenged by the Department of Justice
on antitrust grounds and a Federal district court
issued a summary judgment against the National As-
sociation of Broadcasters regarding one of the provi-
sions on those grounds. However, none of the pro-
gramming standards of the code were challenged.
(11) While the code of conduct was in effect, its
programming standards were never found to have vio-
lated any antitrust law.
(12) Since the National Association of Broad-
casters abandoned the code of conduct, programming
standards on broadcast and cable television have dete-
riorated dramatically.
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(13) In the absence of effective programming
standards, public concern about the impact of tele-
vision on children, and on society as a whole, has
risen substantially. Polls routinely show that more
than 80 percent of Americans are worried by the in-
creasingly graphic nature of sex, violence, and vul-
garity on television and by the amount of program-
ming that openly sanctions or glorifies criminal,
antisocial, and degrading behavior.
(14) At the urging of Congress, the television in-
dustry has taken some steps to respond to public con-
cerns about programming standards and content. The
broadcast television industry agreed in 1992 to adopt
a set of voluntary guidelines designed to ‘‘proscribe
gratuitous or excessive portrayals of violence’’. Short-
ly thereafter, both the broadcast and cable television
industries agreed to conduct independent studies of
the violent content in their programming and make
those reports public.
(15) In 1996, the television industry as a whole
made a commitment to develop a comprehensive rat-
ing system to label programming that may be harm-
ful or inappropriate for children. That system was
implemented at the beginning of 1999.
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(16) Despite these efforts to respond to public
concern about the impact of television on children,
millions of Americans, especially parents with young
children, remain angry and frustrated at the sinking
standards of television programming, the reluctance
of the industry to police itself, and the harmful influ-
ence of television on the well-being of the children and
the values of the United States.
(17) The Department of Justice issued a ruling
in 1993 indicating that additional efforts by the tele-
vision industry to develop and implement voluntary
programming guidelines would not violate the anti-
trust laws. The ruling states that ‘‘such activities may
be likened to traditional standard setting efforts that
do not necessarily restrain competition and may have
significant procompetitive benefits . . . . Such guide-
lines could serve to disseminate valuable information
on program content to both advertisers and television
viewers. Accurate information can enhance the de-
mand for, and increase the output of, an industry’s
products or services.’’.
(18) The Children’s Television Act of 1990 (Pub-
lic Law 101–437) states that television broadcasters
in the United States have a clear obligation to meet
the educational and informational needs of children.
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(19) Several independent analyses have dem-
onstrated that the television broadcasters in the
United States have not fulfilled their obligations
under the Children’s Television Act of 1990 and have
not noticeably expanded the amount of educational
and informational programming directed at young
viewers since the enactment of that Act.
(20) The popularity of video and personal com-
puter (PC) games is growing steadily among children.
Although most popular video and personal computer
games are educational or harmless in nature, many
of the most popular are extremely violent. One recent
study by Strategic Record Research found that 64
percent of teenagers played video or personal com-
puter games on a regular basis. Other surveys of chil-
dren as young as elementary school age found that al-
most half of them list violent computer games among
their favorites.
(21) Violent video games often present violence
in a glamorized light. Game players are often cast in
the role of shooter, with points scored for each ‘‘kill’’.
Similarly, advertising for such games often touts vio-
lent content as a selling point—the more graphic and
extreme, the better.
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(22) As the popularity and graphic nature of
such video games grows, so do their potential to nega-
tively influence impressionable children.
(23) Music is another extremely pervasive and
popular form of entertainment. American children
and teenagers listen to music more than any other de-
mographic group. The Journal of American Medicine
reported that between the 7th and 12th grades the av-
erage teenager listens to 10,500 hours of rock or rap
music, just slightly less than the entire number of
hours spent in the classroom from kindergarten
through high school.
(24) Teens are among the heaviest purchasers of
music, and are most likely to favor music genres that
depict, and often appear to glamorize violence.
(25) Music has a powerful ability to influence
perceptions, attitudes, and emotional state. The use of
music as therapy indicates its potential to increase
emotional, psychological. and physical health. That
influence can be used for ill as well.
SEC. 403. PURPOSES; CONSTRUCTION.
(a) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this subtitle are to
permit the entertainment industry—
(1) to work collaboratively to respond to growing
public concern about television programming, movies,
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video games, Internet content, and music lyrics, and
the harmful influence of such programming, movies,
games, content, and lyrics on children;
(2) to develop a set of voluntary programming
guidelines similar to those contained in the Television
Code of the National Association of Broadcasters; and
(3) to implement the guidelines in a manner
that alleviates the negative impact of television pro-
gramming, movies, video games, Internet content, and
music lyrics on the development of children in the
United States and stimulates the development and
broadcast of educational and informational program-
ming for such children.
(b) CONSTRUCTION.—This subtitle may not be con-
strued as—
(1) providing the Federal Government with any
authority to restrict television programming, movies,
video games, Internet content, or music lyrics that is
in addition to the authority to restrict such program-
ming, movies, games, content, or lyrics under law as
of the date of the enactment of this Act; or
(2) approving any action of the Federal Govern-
ment to restrict such programming, movies, games,
content, or lyrics that is in addition to any actions
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undertaken for that purpose by the Federal Govern-
ment under law as of such date.
SEC. 404. EXEMPTION OF VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS ON
GUIDELINES FOR CERTAIN ENTERTAINMENT
MATERIAL FROM APPLICABILITY OF ANTI-
TRUST LAWS.
(a) EXEMPTION.—Subject to subsection (b), the anti-
trust laws shall not apply to any joint discussion, consider-
ation, review, action, or agreement by or among persons
in the entertainment industry for the purpose of developing
and disseminating voluntary guidelines designed—
(1) to alleviate the negative impact of telecast
material, movies, video games, Internet content, and
music lyrics containing violence, sexual content,
criminal behavior, or other subjects that are not ap-
propriate for children; or
(2) to promote telecast material that is edu-
cational, informational, or otherwise beneficial to the
development of children.
(b) LIMITATION.—The exemption provided in sub-
section (a) shall not apply to any joint discussion, consider-
ation, review, action, or agreement which—
(1) results in a boycott of any person; or
(2) concerns the purchase or sale of advertising,
including (without limitation) restrictions on the
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number of products that may be advertised in a com-
mercial, the number of times a program may be in-
terrupted for commercials, and the number of consecu-
tive commercials permitted within each interruption.
SEC. 405. EXEMPTION OF ACTIVITIES TO ENSURE COMPLI-
ANCE WITH RATINGS AND LABELING SYS-
TEMS FROM APPLICABILITY OF ANTITRUST
LAWS.
(a) EXEMPTION FROM ANTITRUST LAWS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The antitrust laws shall not
apply to any joint discussion, consideration, review,
action, or agreement between or among persons in the
motion picture, recording, or video game industry for
the purpose of and limited to the development or en-
forcement of voluntary guidelines, procedures, and
mechanisms designed to ensure compliance by persons
and entities described in paragraph (2) with ratings
and labeling systems to identify and limit dissemina-
tion of sexual, violent, or other indecent material to
children.
(2) PERSONS AND ENTITIES DESCRIBED.—A per-
son or entity described in this paragraph is a person
or entity that is—
(A) engaged in the retail sales of motion
pictures, recordings, or video games; or
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(B) a theater owner or operator, video game
arcade owner or operator, or other person or en-
tity that makes available the viewing, listening,
or use of a motion picture, recording, or video
game to a member of the general public for com-
pensation.
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 12 months after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Antitrust Division of the
Department of Justice, in conjunction with the Federal
Trade Commission, shall submit to Congress a report on—
(1) the extent to which the motion picture, re-
cording, and video game industry have developed or
enforced guidelines, procedures, or mechanisms to en-
sure compliance by persons and entities described in
subsection (b)(2) with ratings or labeling systems
which identify and limit dissemination of sexual, vio-
lent, or other indecent material to children; and
(2) the extent to which Federal or State antitrust
laws preclude those industries from developing and
enforcing the guidelines described in subsection (b)(1).
SEC. 406. DEFINITIONS.
In this subtitle:
(1) ANTITRUST
LAWS.—The term ‘‘antitrust
laws’’ has the meaning given such term in the first
section of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 12) and in-
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cludes section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act
(15 U.S.C. 45).
(2) INTERNET.—The term ‘‘Internet’’ means the
combination of computer facilities and electro-
magnetic transmission media, and related equipment
and software, comprising the interconnected world-
wide network of computer networks that employ the
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol or
any successor protocol to transmit information.
(3) MOVIES.—The term ‘‘movies’’ means motion
pictures.
(4) PERSON
IN
THE
ENTERTAINMENT
INDUS-
TRY.—The term ‘‘person in the entertainment indus-
try’’ means a television network, any entity which
produces or distributes television programming (in-
cluding motion pictures), the National Cable Tele-
vision Association, the Association of Independent
Television Stations, Incorporated, the National Asso-
ciation of Broadcasters, the Motion Picture Associa-
tion of America, each of the affiliate organizations of
the television networks, the Interactive Digital Soft-
ware Association, any entity which produces or dis-
tributes video games, the Recording Industry Associa-
tion of America, and any entity which produces or
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distributes music, and includes any individual acting
on behalf of such person.
(5) TELECAST.—The term ‘‘telecast’’ means any
program broadcast by a television broadcast station
or transmitted by a cable television system.
Subtitle B—Other Matters
SEC. 411. STUDY OF MARKETING PRACTICES OF MOTION
PICTURE, RECORDING, AND VIDEO/PERSONAL
COMPUTER GAME INDUSTRIES.
(a) STUDY.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Federal Trade Commis-
sion and the Attorney General shall jointly conduct a
study of the marketing practices of the motion pic-
ture, recording, and video/personal computer game
industries.
(2) ISSUES EXAMINED.—In conducting the study
under paragraph (1), the Commission and the Attor-
ney General shall examine—
(A) the extent to which the motion picture,
recording, and video/personal computer indus-
tries target the marketing of violent, sexually ex-
plicit, or other unsuitable material to minors,
including whether such content is advertised or
promoted in media outlets in which minors com-
prise a substantial percentage of the audience;
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(B) the extent to which retail merchants,
movie theaters, or others who engage in the sale
or rental for a fee of products of the motion pic-
ture, recording, and video/personal computer
industries—
(i) have policies to restrict the sale,
rental, or viewing to minors of music, mov-
ies, or video/personal computer games that
are deemed inappropriate for minors under
the applicable voluntary industry rating or
labeling systems; and
(ii) have procedures compliant with
such policies;
(C) whether and to what extent the motion
picture, recording, and video/personal computer
industries require, monitor, or encourage the en-
forcement of their respective voluntary rating or
labeling systems by industry members, retail
merchants, movie theaters, or others who engage
in the sale or rental for a fee of the products of
such industries;
(D) whether any of the marketing practices
examined may violate Federal law; and
(E) whether and to what extent the motion
picture, recording, and video/personal computer
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industries engage in actions to educate the public
on the existence, use, or efficacy of their vol-
untary rating or labeling systems.
(3) FACTORS
FOR
DETERMINATION.—In deter-
mining whether the products of the motion picture,
recording, or video/personal computer industries are
violent, sexually explicit, or otherwise unsuitable for
minors for the purposes of paragraph (2)(A), the
Commission and the Attorney General shall consider
the voluntary industry rating or labeling systems of
the industry concerned as in effect on the date of the
enactment of this Act.
(b) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Commission and the Attor-
ney General shall submit to Congress a report on the study
conducted under subsection (a).
(c) AUTHORITY.—For the purposes of the study con-
ducted under subsection (a), the Commission may use its
authority under section 6(b) of the Federal Trade Commis-
sion Act to require the filing of reports or answers in writ-
ing to specific questions, as well as to obtain information,
oral testimony, documentary material, or tangible things.
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TITLE V—GENERAL FIREARM
PROVISIONS
SEC. 501. SPECIAL LICENSEES; SPECIAL REGISTRATIONS.
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 921(a) of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(35) GUN SHOW.—The term ‘gun show’ means
a gun show or event described in section 923(j).
‘‘(36) SPECIAL LICENSE.—The term ‘special li-
cense’ means a license issued under section 923(m).
‘‘(37) SPECIAL LICENSEE.—The term ‘special li-
censee’ means a person to whom a special license has
been issued.
‘‘(38) SPECIAL REGISTRANT.—The term ‘special
registrant’ means a person to whom a special reg-
istration has been issued.
‘‘(39) SPECIAL REGISTRATION.—The term ‘spe-
cial registration’ means a registration issued under
section 923(m).’’.
(b) SPECIAL LICENSES; SPECIAL REGISTRATION.—
Section 923 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the following:
‘‘(m) SPECIAL LICENSES; SPECIAL REGISTRATIONS.—
‘‘(1) SPECIAL LICENSES.—
‘‘(A) APPLICATION.—A person who—
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‘‘(i) is engaged in the business of deal-
ing in firearms by—
‘‘(I) buying or selling firearms
solely or primarily at gun shows; or
‘‘(II) buying or selling firearms as
part of a gunsmith or firearm repair
business or the conduct of other activ-
ity that, absent this subsection, would
require a license under this chapter;
and
‘‘(ii) desires to have access to the Na-
tional Instant Check System;
may submit to the Secretary an application for a spe-
cial license.
‘‘(B) EFFECT OF PARAGRAPH.—Nothing in
this paragraph—
‘‘(i) requires a license for conduct that
did not require a license before the date of
enactment of this subsection; or
‘‘(ii) diminishes in any manner any
right to display, sell, or otherwise dispose of
firearms or ammunition, make repairs, or
engage in any other conduct or activity,
that was otherwise lawful to engage in with-
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out a license before the date of enactment of
this subsection.
‘‘(C) CONTENTS.—An application under
subparagraph (A) shall—
‘‘(i) contain a certification by the ap-
plicant that—
‘‘(I) the applicant meets the re-
quirements 
of 
subparagraphs 
(A)
through (D) of subsection (d)(1);
‘‘(II)(aa) the applicant conducts
the firearm business primarily or sole-
ly at gun shows, and the applicant has
premises (or a designated portion of
premises) that may be inspected under
this chapter from which the applicant
conducts business (or intends to estab-
lish such premises) within a reasonable
period of time; or
‘‘(bb) the applicant conducts the
firearm business from a premises (or a
designated portion of premises) of a
gunsmith or firearms repair business
(or intends to establish such premises
within a reasonable period of time);
and
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‘‘(III) the firearm business to be
conducted under the license—
‘‘(aa) is not engaged in busi-
ness for regularly buying and sell-
ing firearms from the applicant’s
premises;
‘‘(bb) will be engaged in the
buying or selling of firearms
only—
‘‘(AA) primarily or sole-
ly for a firearm business at
gun shows; or
‘‘(BB) as part of a gun-
smith or firearm repair busi-
ness;
‘‘(cc) shall be conducted in
accordance with all dealer record-
keeping required under this chap-
ter for a dealer; and
‘‘(dd) shall be subject to in-
spection under this chapter, in-
cluding the special licensee’s (or a
designated portion of the prem-
ises), pursuant to the provisions
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in this chapter applicable to deal-
ers;
‘‘(ii) include a photograph and finger-
prints of the applicant; and
‘‘(iii) be in such form as the Secretary
shall by regulation promulgate.
‘‘(D) COMPLIANCE WITH STATE OR LOCAL
LAW.—
‘‘(i) 
IN
GENERAL.—An 
applicant
under subparagraph (A) shall not be re-
quired to certify or demonstrate that any
firearm business to be conducted from the
premises or elsewhere, to the extent per-
mitted under this subsection, is or will be
done in accordance with State or local law
regarding the carrying on of a general busi-
ness or commercial activity, including com-
pliance with zoning restrictions.
‘‘(ii) DUTY TO COMPLY.—The issuance
of a special license does not relieve an ap-
plicant or licensee, as a matter of State or
local law, from complying with State or
local law described in clause (i).
‘‘(E) APPROVAL.—
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‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall
approve an application under subpara-
graph (A) if the application meets the re-
quirements of subparagraph (D).
‘‘(ii) ISSUANCE OF LICENSE.—On ap-
proval of the application and payment by
the applicant of a fee prescribed for dealers
under this section, the Secretary shall issue
to the applicant a license which, subject to
the provisions of this chapter and other ap-
plicable provisions of law, entitles the li-
censee to conduct business during the 3-year
period that begins on the date on which the
license is issued.
‘‘(iii) TIMING.—
‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary
shall approve or disapprove an appli-
cation under subparagraph (A) not
later than 60 days after the Secretary
receives the application.
‘‘(II) FAILURE
TO
ACT.—If the
Secretary fails to approve or dis-
approve an application within the
time specified by subclause (I), the ap-
plicant may bring an action under sec-
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tion 1361 of title 28 to compel the Sec-
retary to act.
‘‘(2) SPECIAL REGISTRANTS.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A person who is not li-
censed under this chapter (other than a licensed
collector) and who wishes to perform instant
background checks for the purposes of meeting
the requirements of section 922(t) at a gun show
may submit to the Secretary an application for
a special registration.
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—An application under
subparagraph (A) shall—
‘‘(i) contain a certification by the ap-
plicant that—
‘‘(I) the applicant meets the re-
quirements 
of 
subparagraphs 
(A)
through (D) of subsection (d)(1); and
‘‘(II)(aa) any gun show at which
the applicant will conduct instant
checks under the special registration
will be a show that is not prohibited by
State or local law; and
‘‘(bb) instant checks will be con-
ducted only at gun shows that are con-
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ducted in accordance with Federal,
State, and local law;
‘‘(ii) include a photograph and finger-
prints of the applicant; and
‘‘(iii) be in such form as the Secretary
shall by regulation promulgate.
‘‘(C) APPROVAL.—
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall
approve an application under subpara-
graph (A) if the application meets the re-
quirements of subparagraph (B).
‘‘(ii) ISSUANCE
OF
REGISTRATION.—
On approval of the application and pay-
ment by the applicant of a fee of $100 for
3 years, and upon renewal of valid registra-
tion a fee of $50 for 3 years, the Secretary
shall issue to the applicant a special reg-
istration, and notify the Attorney General
of the United States of the issuance of the
special registration.
‘‘(iii) PERMITTED ACTIVITY.—Under a
special registration, a special registrant
may conduct instant check screening during
the 3-year period that begins with the date
on which the registration is issued.
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‘‘(D) TIMING.—
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall
approve or deny an application under sub-
paragraph (A) not later than 60 days after
the Secretary receives the application.
‘‘(ii) FAILURE
TO
ACT.—If the Sec-
retary fails to approve or disapprove an ap-
plication under subparagraph (A) within
the time specified by clause (i), the appli-
cant may bring an action under section
1361 of title 28 to compel the Secretary to
act.
‘‘(E) USE OF SPECIAL REGISTRANTS.—
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—A person not li-
censed under this chapter who desires to
transfer a firearm at a gun show in the per-
son’s State of residence to another person
who is a resident of the same State, may
use (but shall not be required to use) the
services of a special registrant to determine
the eligibility of the prospective transferee to
possess a firearm by having the transferee
provide the special registrant at the gun
show, on a special and limited-purpose form
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that the Secretary shall prescribe for use by
a special registrant—
‘‘(I) the name, age, address, and
other identifying information of the
prospective transferee (or, in the case
of a prospective transferee that is a
corporation or other business entity,
the identity and principal and local
places of business of the prospective
transferee); and
‘‘(II) proof of verification of the
identity of the prospective transferee as
required by section 922(t)(1)(C).
‘‘(ii) ACTION
BY
THE
SPECIAL
REG-
ISTRANT.—The special registrant shall—
‘‘(I) make inquiry of the national
instant background check system (or as
the Attorney General shall arrange,
with the appropriate State point of
contact agency for each jurisdiction in
which the special registrant intends to
offer services) concerning the prospec-
tive transferee in accordance with the
established procedures for making such
inquiries;
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‘‘(II) receive the response from the
system;
‘‘(III) indicate the response on
both a portion of the inquiry form for
the records of the special registrant
and on a separate form to be provided
to the prospective transferee;
‘‘(IV) provide the response to the
transferor; and
‘‘(V) follow the procedures estab-
lished by the Secretary and the Attor-
ney General for advising a person un-
dergoing an instant background check
on the meaning of a response, and any
appeal rights, if applicable.
‘‘(iii) 
RECORDKEEPING.—A 
special
registrant shall—
‘‘(I) keep all records or documents
that the special registrant collected
pursuant to clause (ii) during the gun
show; and
‘‘(II) transmit the records to the
Secretary when the special registration
is no longer valid, expires, or is re-
voked.
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‘‘(iv) NO OTHER REQUIREMENTS.—Ex-
cept for the requirements stated in this sec-
tion, a special registrant is not subject to
any of the requirements imposed on licens-
ees by this chapter, including those in sec-
tion 922(t) and paragraphs (1)(A) and
(3)(A) of subsection (g) with respect to the
proposed transfer of a firearm.
‘‘(3) NO CAUSE OF ACTION OR STANDARD OF
CONDUCT.—
‘‘(A) 
IN
GENERAL.—Nothing 
in 
this
subsection—
‘‘(i) creates a cause of action against
any special registrant or any other person,
including the transferor, for any civil liabil-
ity; or
‘‘(ii) establishes any standard of care.
‘‘(B) 
EVIDENCE.—Notwithstanding 
any
other provision of law, except to give effect to the
provisions of paragraph (3)(vi), evidence regard-
ing the use or nonuse by a transferor of the serv-
ices of a special registrant under this paragraph
shall not be admissible as evidence in any pro-
ceeding of any court, agency, board, or other en-
tity for the purposes of establishing liability
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based on a civil action brought on any theory for
harm caused by a product or by negligence.
‘‘(4) IMMUNITY.—
‘‘(A) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph:
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘qualified
civil liability action’ means a civil action
brought by any person against a person de-
scribed in subparagraph (B) for damages
resulting from the criminal or unlawful
misuse of the firearm by the transferee or a
third party.
‘‘(ii) EXCLUSIONS.—The term ‘quali-
fied civil liability action’ shall not include
an action—
‘‘(B) 
IMMUNITY.—Notwithstanding 
any
other provision of law, a person who is—
‘‘(i) a special registrant who performs
a background check in the manner pre-
scribed in this subsection at a gun show;
‘‘(ii) a licensee or special licensee who
acquires a firearm at a gun show from a
nonlicensee, for transfer to another non-
licensee in attendance at the gun show, for
the purpose of effectuating a sale, trade, or
transfer between the 2 nonlicensees, all in
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the manner prescribed for the acquisition
and disposition of a firearm under this
chapter; or
‘‘(iii) a nonlicensee person disposing of
a firearm who uses the services of a person
described in clause (i) or (ii);
shall be entitled to immunity from civil liability
action as described in subparagraph (B).
‘‘(C) PROSPECTIVE
ACTIONS.—A qualified
civil liability action may not be brought in any
Federal or State court—
‘‘(i) brought against a transferor con-
victed under section 922(h), or a com-
parable State felony law, by a person di-
rectly harmed by the transferee’s criminal
conduct, as defined in section 922(h); or
‘‘(ii) brought against a transferor for
negligent entrustment or negligence per se.
‘‘(D) DISMISSAL OF PENDING ACTIONS.—A
qualified civil liability action that is pending on
the date of enactment of this subsection shall be
dismissed immediately by the court.
‘‘(5) REVOCATION.—A special license or special
registration shall be subject to revocation under proce-
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dures provided for revocation of licensees in this chap-
ter.’’.
(b) PENALTIES.—Section 924(a) of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(7) 
SPECIAL
LICENSEES; 
SPECIAL
REG-
ISTRANTS.—Whoever 
knowingly 
violates 
section
923(m)(1) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned
not more than 5 years, or both.’’.
SEC. 502. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT
FIREARM TRANSACTIONS AT GUN SHOWS.
Section 923 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
by striking subsection (j) and inserting the following:
‘‘(j) GUN SHOWS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A licensed importer, licensed
manufacturer, or licensed dealer may, under regula-
tions promulgated by the Secretary, conduct business
at a temporary location, other than the location speci-
fied on the license, described in paragraph (2).
‘‘(2) TEMPORARY LOCATION.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A temporary location
referred to in paragraph (1) is a location for a
gun show, or for an event in the State specified
on the license, at which firearms, firearms acces-
sories and related items may be bought, sold,
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traded, and displayed, in accordance with Fed-
eral, State, and local laws.
‘‘(B) LOCATIONS OUT OF STATE.—If the lo-
cation is not in the State specified on the license,
a licensee may display any firearm, and take or-
ders for a firearm or effectuate the transfer of a
firearm, in accordance with this chapter, includ-
ing paragraph (3) of this subsection.
‘‘(C) QUALIFIED GUN SHOWS OR EVENTS.—
A gun show or an event shall qualify as a tem-
porary location if—
‘‘(i) the gun show or event is one which
is sponsored, for profit or not, by an indi-
vidual, national, State, or local organiza-
tion, association, or other entity to foster
the collecting, competitive use, sporting use,
or any other legal use of firearms; and
‘‘(ii) the gun show or event has 20 per-
cent or more firearm exhibitors out of all
exhibitors.
‘‘(D) FIREARM EXHIBITOR.—The term ‘fire-
arm exhibitor’ means an exhibitor who displays
1 or more firearms (as defined by section
921(a)(3)) and offers such firearms for sale or
trade at the gun show or event.
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‘‘(3) RECORDS.—Records of receipt and disposi-
tion of firearms transactions conducted at a tem-
porary location—
‘‘(A) shall include the location of the sale or
other disposition;
‘‘(B) shall be entered in the permanent
records of the licensee; and
‘‘(C) shall be retained at the location prem-
ises specified on the license.
‘‘(4) VEHICLES.—Nothing in this subsection au-
thorizes a licensee to conduct business in or from any
motorized or towed vehicle.
‘‘(5) NO SEPARATE FEE.—Notwithstanding sub-
section (a), a separate fee shall not be required of a
licensee with respect to business conducted under this
subsection.
‘‘(6) INSPECTIONS AND EXAMINATIONS.—
‘‘(A) AT A TEMPORARY LOCATION.—Any in-
spection or examination of inventory or records
under this chapter by the Secretary at a tem-
porary location shall be limited to inventory
consisting of, or records relating to, firearms held
or disposed at the temporary location.
‘‘(B) NO REQUIREMENT.—Nothing in this
subsection authorizes the Secretary to inspect or
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examine the inventory or records of a licensed
importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed
dealer at any location other than the location
specified on the license.
‘‘(7) NO EFFECT ON OTHER RIGHTS.—Nothing
in this subsection diminishes in any manner any
right to display, sell, or otherwise dispose of firearms
or ammunition that is in effect before the date of en-
actment of this subsection, including the right of a li-
censee to conduct firearms transfers and business
away from their business premises with another li-
censee without regard to whether the location of the
business is in the State specified on the license of ei-
ther licensee.’’.
SEC. 503. ‘‘INSTANT CHECK’’ GUN TAX AND GUN OWNER PRI-
VACY.
(a) PROHIBITION OF GUN TAX.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 33 of title 28, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing:
‘‘§ 540B. Prohibition of background check fee
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—No officer, employee, or agent of
the United States, including a State or local officer or em-
ployee acting on behalf of the United States, may charge
or collect any fee in connection with any background check
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required in connection with the transfer of a firearm (as
defined in section 921(a)(3) of title 18).
‘‘(b) CIVIL REMEDIES.—Any person aggrieved by a
violation of this section may bring an action in United
States district court for actual damages, punitive damages,
and such other remedies as the court may determine to be
appropriate, including a reasonable attorney’s fee.’’.
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The analysis for
chapter 33 of title 28, United States Code, is amended
by inserting after the item relating to section 540A
the following:
‘‘540B. Prohibition of background check fee.’’.
(b) PROTECTION OF GUN OWNER PRIVACY AND OWN-
ERSHIP RIGHTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 44 of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing:
‘‘§ 931. Gun owner privacy and ownership rights
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, no department, agency, or instrumentality of
the United States or officer, employee, or agent of the
United States, including a State or local officer or employee
acting on behalf of the United States shall—
‘‘(1) perform any national instant criminal
background check on any person through the system
established under section 103 of the Brady Handgun
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Violence Prevention Act (18 U.S.C. 922 note) (re-
ferred to in this section as the ‘‘system’’) if the system
does not require and result in the immediate destruc-
tion of all information, in any form whatsoever or
through any medium, concerning the person if the
person is determined, through the use of the system,
not to be prohibited by subsection (g) or (n) of section
922 or by State law from receiving a firearm; or
‘‘(2) continue to operate the system (including
requiring a background check before the transfer of a
firearm) unless—
‘‘(A) the National Instant Check System
index complies with the requirements of section
552a(e)(5) of title 5, United States Code; and
‘‘(B) does not invoke the exceptions under
subsection (j)(2) or paragraph (2) or (3) of sub-
section (k) of section 552a of title 5, United
States Code, except if specifically identifiable in-
formation is compiled for a particular law en-
forcement investigation or specific criminal en-
forcement matter.
‘‘(b) APPLICABILITY.—Subsection (a)(1) does not
apply to the retention or transfer of information relating
to—
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‘‘(1) any unique identification number provided
by the national instant criminal background check
system pursuant to section 922(t)(1)(B)(i) of title 18,
United States Code; or
‘‘(2) the date on which that number is provided.
‘‘(c) CIVIL REMEDIES.—Any person aggrieved by a
violation of this section may bring an action in United
States district court for actual damages, punitive damages,
and such other remedies as the court may determine to be
appropriate, including a reasonable attorney’s fee.’’.
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The analysis for
chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘931. Gun owner privacy and ownership rights.’’.
(c) PROVISION RELATING
TO PAWN
AND OTHER
TRANSACTIONS.—
(1) REPEAL.—Section 655 of title VI of the
Treasury and General Governmental Appropriations
Act, 1999 (112 Stat. 2681–530) is repealed.
(2) RETURN OF FIREARM.—Section 922(t)(1) of
title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting
‘‘(other than the return of a firearm to the person
from whom it was received)’’ before ‘‘to any other per-
son’’.
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SEC. 504. EFFECTIVE DATE.
(a) SECTIONS 501 AND 502.—The amendments made
by sections 501 and 502 shall take effect on the date that
is 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
(b) SECTION 503.—The amendments made by section
503 take effect on the date of enactment of this Act, except
that the amendment made by subsection (a) of that section
takes effect on October 1, 1999.
TITLE VI—RESTRICTING JUVE-
NILE 
ACCESS 
TO 
CERTAIN
FIREARMS
SEC. 601. PENALTIES FOR UNLAWFUL ACTS BY JUVENILES.
(a) JUVENILE WEAPONS PENALTIES.—Section 924(a)
of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in paragraph (4) by striking ‘‘Whoever’’ at
the beginning of the first sentence, and inserting in
lieu thereof, ‘‘Except as provided in paragraph (6) of
this subsection, whoever’’; and
(2) in paragraph (6), by amending it to read as
follows:
‘‘(6)(A) A juvenile who violates section 922(x)
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more
than 1 year, or both, except—
‘‘(i) a juvenile shall be sentenced to proba-
tion on appropriate conditions and shall not be
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incarcerated unless the juvenile fails to comply
with a condition of probation, if—
‘‘(I) the offense of which the juvenile is
charged is possession of a handgun, ammu-
nition, large capacity ammunition feeding
device or a semiautomatic assault weapon
in violation of section 922(x)(2); and
‘‘(II) the juvenile has not been con-
victed in any court of an offense (including
an offense under section 922(x) or a similar
State law, but not including any other of-
fense consisting of conduct that if engaged
in by an adult would not constitute an of-
fense) or adjudicated as a juvenile delin-
quent for conduct that if engaged in by an
adult would constitute an offense; or
‘‘(ii) a juvenile shall be fined under this
title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or
both, if—
‘‘(I) the offense of which the juvenile is
charged is possession of a handgun, ammu-
nition, large capacity ammunition feeding
device or a semiautomatic assault weapon
in violation of section 922(x)(2); and
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‘‘(II) during the same course of con-
duct in violating section 922(x)(2), the juve-
nile violated section 922(q), with the intent
to carry or otherwise possess or discharge or
otherwise use the handgun, ammunition,
large capacity ammunition feeding device
or a semiautomatic assault weapon in the
commission of a violent felony.
‘‘(B) A person other than a juvenile who know-
ingly violates section 922(x)—
‘‘(i) shall be fined under this title, impris-
oned not more than 1 year, or both; and
‘‘(ii) if the person sold, delivered, or other-
wise transferred a handgun, ammunition, large
capacity ammunition feeding device or a semi-
automatic assault weapon to a juvenile knowing
or having reasonable cause to know that the juve-
nile intended to carry or otherwise possess or
discharge or otherwise use the handgun, ammu-
nition, large capacity ammunition feeding device
or semiautomatic assault weapon in the commis-
sion of a violent felony, shall be fined under this
title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or
both.
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‘‘(C) For purposes of this paragraph a ‘violent
felony’ means conduct as described in section
924(e)(2)(B) of this title.
‘‘(D) Except as otherwise provided in this chap-
ter, in any case in which a juvenile is prosecuted in
a district court of the United States, and the juvenile
is subject to the penalties under clause (ii) of para-
graph (A), the juvenile shall be subject to the same
laws, rules, and proceedings regarding sentencing (in-
cluding the availability of probation, restitution,
fines, forfeiture, imprisonment, and supervised re-
lease) that would be applicable in the case of an
adult. No juvenile sentenced to a term of imprison-
ment shall be released from custody simply because
the juvenile reaches the age of 18 years.’’.
(b) UNLAWFUL
WEAPONS
TRANSFERS
TO
JUVE-
NILES.—Section 922(x) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended to read as follows:
‘‘(x)(1) It shall be unlawful for a person to sell, deliver,
or otherwise transfer to a person who the transferor knows
or has reasonable cause to believe is a juvenile—
‘‘(A) a handgun;
‘‘(B) ammunition that is suitable for use only in
a handgun;
‘‘(C) a semiautomatic assault weapon; or
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‘‘(D) a large capacity ammunition feeding de-
vice.
‘‘(2) It shall be unlawful for any person who is a juve-
nile to knowingly possess—
‘‘(A) a handgun;
‘‘(B) ammunition that is suitable for use only in
a handgun;
‘‘(C) a semiautomatic assault weapon; or
‘‘(D) a large capacity ammunition feeding de-
vice.
‘‘(3) This subsection does not apply to—
‘‘(A) a temporary transfer of a handgun, ammu-
nition, large capacity ammunition feeding device or
a semiautomatic assault weapon to a juvenile or to
the possession or use of a handgun, ammunition,
large capacity ammunition feeding device or a semi-
automatic assault weapon by a juvenile—
‘‘(i) if the handgun, ammunition, large ca-
pacity ammunition feeding device or semiauto-
matic assault weapon are possessed and used by
the juvenile—
‘‘(I) in the course of employment,
‘‘(II) in the course of ranching or
farming related to activities at the residence
of the juvenile (or on property used for
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ranching or farming at which the juvenile,
with the permission of the property owner
or lessee, is performing activities related to
the operation of the farm or ranch),
‘‘(III) for target practice,
‘‘(IV) for hunting, or
‘‘(V) for a course of instruction in the
safe and lawful use of a firearm;
‘‘(ii) clause (i) shall apply only if the juve-
nile’s possession and use of a handgun, ammuni-
tion, large capacity ammunition feeding device
or a semiautomatic assault weapon under this
subparagraph are in accordance with State and
local law, and the following conditions are met—
‘‘(I) except when a parent or guardian
of the juvenile is in the immediate and su-
pervisory presence of the juvenile, the juve-
nile shall have in the juvenile’s possession at
all times when a handgun, ammunition,
large capacity ammunition feeding device
or semiautomatic assault weapon is in the
possession of the juvenile, the prior written
consent of the juvenile’s parent or guardian
who is not prohibited by Federal, State, or
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local law from possessing a firearm or am-
munition; and
‘‘(II) during transportation by the ju-
venile directly from the place of transfer to
a place at which an activity described in
clause (i) is to take place the firearm shall
be unloaded and in a locked container or
case, and during the transportation by the
juvenile of that firearm, directly from the
place at which such an activity took place
to the transferor, the firearm shall also be
unloaded and in a locked container or case;
or
‘‘(III) with respect to employment,
ranching or farming activities as described
in clause (i), a juvenile may possess and use
a handgun, ammunition, large capacity
ammunition feeding device or a semiauto-
matic assault rifle with the prior written
approval of the juvenile’s parent or legal
guardian, if such approval is on file with
the adult who is not prohibited by Federal,
State, or local law from possessing a fire-
arm or ammunition and that person is di-
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recting the ranching or farming activities of
the juvenile;
‘‘(B) a juvenile who is a member of the Armed
Forces of the United States or the National Guard
who possesses or is armed with a handgun, ammuni-
tion, large capacity ammunition feeding device or
semiautomatic assault weapon in the line of duty;
‘‘(C) a transfer by inheritance of title (but not
possession) of a handgun, ammunition, large capacity
ammunition feeding device or a semiautomatic as-
sault weapon to a juvenile; or
‘‘(D) the possession of a handgun, ammunition,
large capacity ammunition feeding device or a semi-
automatic assault weapon taken in lawful defense of
the juvenile or other persons in the residence of the ju-
venile or a residence in which the juvenile is an in-
vited guest.
‘‘(4) A handgun, ammunition, large capacity ammu-
nition feeding device or a semiautomatic assault weapon,
the possession of which is transferred to a juvenile in cir-
cumstances in which the transferor is not in violation of
this subsection, shall not be subject to permanent confisca-
tion by the Government if its possession by the juvenile sub-
sequently becomes unlawful because of the conduct of the
juvenile, but shall be returned to the lawful owner when
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such handgun, ammunition, large capacity ammunition
feeding device or semiautomatic assault weapon is no longer
required by the Government for the purposes of investiga-
tion or prosecution.
‘‘(5) For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘juvenile’
means a person who is less than 18 years of age.
‘‘(6)(A) In a prosecution of a violation of this sub-
section, the court shall require the presence of a juvenile
defendant’s parent or legal guardian at all proceedings.
‘‘(B) The court may use the contempt power to enforce
subparagraph (A).
‘‘(C) The court may excuse attendance of a parent or
legal guardian of a juvenile defendant at a proceeding in
a prosecution of a violation of this subsection for good cause
shown.
‘‘(7) For purposes of this subsection only, the term
‘large capacity ammunition feeding device’ has the same
meaning as in section 921(a)(31) of title 18 and includes
similar devices manufactured before the effective date of the
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.’’.
SEC. 602. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This title and the amendments made by this title shall
take effect 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
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TITLE VII—EFFECTIVE GUN LAW
ENFORCEMENT
Subtitle A—Criminal Use of
Firearms by Felons
SEC. 701. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be referred to as the ‘‘Criminal Use
of Firearms by Felons (CUFF) Act’’.
SEC. 702. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) Tragedies such as those occurring recently in
the communities of Pearl, Mississippi, Paducah, Ken-
tucky, Jonesboro, Arkansas, Springfield, Oregon, and
Littleton, Colorado are terrible reminders of the vul-
nerability of innocent individuals to random and
senseless acts of criminal violence.
(2) The United States Congress has responded to
the problem of gun violence by passing numerous
criminal statutes and by supporting the development
of law enforcement programs designed both to punish
the criminal misuse of weapons and also to deter in-
dividuals from undertaking illegal acts.
(3) In 1988, the Administration initiated an in-
novative program known as Project Achilles. The con-
cept behind the initiative was that the illegal posses-
sion of firearms was the Achilles heel or the area of
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greatest vulnerability of criminals. By aggressively
prosecuting criminals with guns in Federal court, the
offenders were subject to stiffer penalties and expe-
dited prosecutions. The Achilles program was particu-
larly effective in removing the most violent criminals
from our communities.
(4) In 1991, the Administration expanded its ef-
forts to remove criminals with guns from our streets
with Project Triggerlock. Triggerlock continued the
ideas formulated in the Achilles program and com-
mitted the Department of Justice resources to the
prosecution effort. Under the program, every United
States Attorney was directed to form special teams of
Federal, State, and local investigators to look for gang
and drug cases that could be prosecuted as Federal
weapon violations. Congress appropriated additional
funds to allow a large number of new law enforcement
officers and Federal prosecutors to target these gun
and drug offenders. In 1992, approximately 7048 de-
fendants were prosecuted under this initiative.
(5) 
Since 
1993, 
the 
number 
of 
‘‘Project
Triggerlock’’ type gun prosecutions pursued by the
Department of Justice has fallen to approximately
3807 prosecutions in 1998. This is a decline of over