112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1550 
AN ACT 
To direct the Attorney General to give priority in the alloca-
tion of Federal law enforcement personnel and resources 
to States and local jurisdictions that have a high inci-
dence of homicide or other violent crime. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Law Enforce-
ment Personnel and Resources Allocation Improvement 
Act of 2012’’. 
SEC. 2. PRIORITY FOR ALLOCATION OF FEDERAL LAW EN-
FORCEMENT PERSONNEL AND RESOURCES. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—In the allocation of Federal law 
enforcement personnel and resources, the Attorney Gen-
eral shall give priority to placing and retaining those per-
sonnel and resources in States and local jurisdictions that 
have a high incidence of homicide or other violent crime, 
based on records of crime acquired under section 534 of 
title 28, United States Code, including reports of crime 
under the system known as the National Uniform Crime 
Reports, or on the best and most current information oth-
erwise available to the Attorney General. 
(b) DESIGNATION
OF EXISTING FEDERAL OFFI-
CIAL.—Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Attorney General shall designate an exist-
ing official within the Department of Justice— 
(1) to develop practices and procedures to carry 
out the requirement established in subsection (a); 
and 
(2) to monitor compliance with those practices 
and procedures by the bureaus, agencies, and other 
subdivisions of the Department.
SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORT. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General 
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations and the 
Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House 
of Representatives a report on the implementation of the 
requirement established in section 2. The report shall, for 
the year it covers— 
(1) specify which States and local jurisdictions 
have a high incidence of homicide or other violent 
crime; 
(2) identify the specific steps taken by the At-
torney General to implement the requirement with 
respect to each of those States and local jurisdic-
tions; and 
(3) provide a description of the methodology 
(including any changes made in that methodology) 
that the Attorney General has used to determine the 
total number of authorized Federal law enforcement 
positions, to allocate those authorized positions 
among States and local jurisdictions, and to assign 
personnel to fill those authorized positions. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act, the following definitions apply: 
(1) 
FEDERAL
LAW
ENFORCEMENT
PER-
SONNEL.—The term ‘‘Federal law enforcement per-
sonnel’’ means law enforcement personnel employed 
by the Department of Justice, including law enforce-
ment personnel in any of the following agencies of 
the Department: 
(A) The Drug Enforcement Administra-
tion. 
(B) The Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
(C) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire-
arms and Explosives. 
(D) The United States Marshals Service. 
(2) LOCAL JURISDICTION.—The term ‘‘local ju-
risdiction’’ has the meaning given the term ‘‘unit of 
local government’’ in section 901(3) of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 
U.S.C. 3791(3)). 
(3) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means any 
State of the United States, the District of Columbia, 
Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, 
American Samoa, Guam, or the Northern Mariana 
Islands. 
Passed the House of Representatives August 1, 
2012. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1550 
AN ACT 
To direct the Attorney General to give priority in 
the allocation of Federal law enforcement per-
sonnel and resources to States and local jurisdic-
tions that have a high incidence of homicide or 
other violent crime.