I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1692 
To fight criminal gangs. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 26, 2007 
Mr. PALLONE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education 
and Labor and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To fight criminal gangs. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Fighting Gangs and Empowering Youth Act of 2007’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. 
TITLE I—PREVENTION AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT 
Subtitle A—Prevention 
Sec. 101. Reauthorization of certain after-school programs. 
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Sec. 102. Reauthorization of Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities 
Act. 
Sec. 103. Public and assisted housing gang elimination. 
Sec. 104. Demonstration grants to encourage creative approaches to gang activ-
ity and after-school programs. 
Sec. 105. Strategic community planning program. 
Sec. 106. Reauthorization of the Gang Resistance Education and Training 
Projects Program and increased funding for the National 
Youth Gang Survey. 
Subtitle B—Recidivism Reduction and Reentry Assistance 
Sec. 111. Reauthorization of adult and juvenile offender State and local reentry 
demonstration projects. 
Sec. 112. Children of incarcerated parents and families. 
Sec. 113. Encouragement of employment of former prisoners. 
Sec. 114. National Resource Center for Children and Families of the Incarcer-
ated. 
Sec. 115. Use of violent offender truth-in-sentencing grant funding for dem-
onstration project activities. 
Sec. 116. Grants to study parole or post-incarceration supervision violations 
and revocations. 
Sec. 117. Improvement of the residential substance abuse treatment for State 
prisoners program. 
Sec. 118. Residential drug abuse program in Federal prisons. 
Sec. 119. Removal of limitation on amount of funds available for corrections 
education programs under the Adult Education and Family 
Literacy Act. 
Sec. 120. Mentoring grants to nonprofit organizations. 
Sec. 121. Clarification of authority to place prisoner in community corrections. 
Sec. 122. Grants to States for improved workplace and community transition 
training for incarcerated youth offenders. 
Sec. 123. Improved reentry procedures for Federal prisoners. 
Subtitle C—Economic Empowerment 
Sec. 131. Reauthorization of Learn and Serve America. 
Sec. 132. Job Corps. 
Sec. 133. Workforce Investment Act youth activities. 
Sec. 134. Expansion and reauthorization of the mentoring initiative for system 
involved youth. 
TITLE II—SUPPRESSION AND COMMUNITY ANTI-GANG 
INITIATIVES 
Subtitle A—Gang Activity Policing Program 
Sec. 201. Authority to make gang activity policing grants. 
Sec. 202. Eligible activities. 
Sec. 203. Preferential consideration of applications for certain grants. 
Sec. 204. Use of components. 
Sec. 205. Minimum amount. 
Sec. 206. Matching funds. 
Sec. 207. Authorization of appropriations. 
Subtitle B—High-Intensity Interstate Gang Activity Areas 
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Sec. 211. Designation of and assistance for ‘‘high-intensity’’ interstate gang ac-
tivity areas. 
Subtitle C—Additional Funding 
Sec. 221. Additional resources needed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
to investigate and prosecute violent criminal street gangs. 
Sec. 222. Grants to prosecutors and law enforcement to combat violent crime 
and to protect witnesses and victims of crimes. 
Sec. 223. Enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative to improve en-
forcement of criminal laws against violent gangs. 
Sec. 224. Providing additional forensic examiners. 
TITLE III—PUNISHMENT AND IMPROVED CRIME DATA 
Subtitle A—Gang Crimes 
Sec. 301. Criminal street gangs. 
Sec. 302. Solicitation or recruitment of persons and violent crimes in further-
ance or in aid of criminal street gangs. 
Sec. 303. Interstate and foreign travel or transportation in aid of racketeering 
enterprises and criminal street gangs. 
Sec. 304. Amendments relating to violent crime in areas of exclusive Federal 
jurisdiction. 
Sec. 305. Increased penalties for use of interstate commerce facilities in the 
commission of murder-for-hire and other felony crimes of vio-
lence. 
Sec. 306. Increased penalties for violent crimes in aid of racketeering activity. 
Sec. 307. Violent crimes committed during and in relation to a drug trafficking 
crime. 
Sec. 308. Statute of limitations for violent crime. 
Sec. 309. Predicate crimes for authorization of interception of wire, oral, and 
electronic communications. 
Sec. 310. Clarification to hearsay exception for forfeiture by wrongdoing. 
Sec. 311. Clarification of venue for retaliation against a witness. 
Sec. 312. Amendment of sentencing guidelines relating to certain gang and vio-
lent crimes. 
Sec. 313. Study on expanding Federal authority for juvenile offenders. 
Subtitle B—Firearms Offenses 
Sec. 321. Expansion of rebuttable presumption against release of persons 
charged with firearms offenses. 
Sec. 322. Increased penalties for use of firearm in crime of violence or drug 
trafficking crime. 
Sec. 323. Possession of firearms by dangerous felons. 
Subtitle C—Crime Data 
Sec. 331. Standardization of crime reporting and investigation. 
Sec. 332. Consolidating and standardizing gang-related crime data. 
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TITLE I—PREVENTION AND 
ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT 
Subtitle A—Prevention 
SEC. 101. REAUTHORIZATION OF CERTAIN AFTER-SCHOOL 
PROGRAMS. 
(a) 21ST CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CEN-
TERS.—Section 4206 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7176) is amended to 
read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 4206. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There 
is 
authorized 
to 
be 
appropriated 
$2,750,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 and 2009.’’. 
(b) CAROL M. WHITE PHYSICAL EDUCATION PRO-
GRAM.—Section 5401 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7241) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘There are’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) 
IN GENERAL.—There are’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) PHYSICAL EDUCATION.—In addition to the 
amounts authorized to be appropriated by subsection (a), 
there are authorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2008 and 2009 to carry out subpart 
10.’’. 
(c) FEDERAL TRIO PROGRAMS.—Section 402A(f) of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a– 
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11(f)) is amended by striking ‘‘$700,000,000 for fiscal 
year 1999, and such sums as may be necessary for each 
of the 4 succeeding fiscal years’’ and inserting 
‘‘$1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2008 and such sums as 
may be necessary for each of the 5 succeeding fiscal 
years’’. 
(d) GEARUP.—Section 404H of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a–28) is amended by 
striking ‘‘$200,000,000 for fiscal year 1999 and such 
sums as may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding 
fiscal years’’ and inserting ‘‘$350,000,000 for fiscal year 
2008 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 
5 succeeding fiscal years’’. 
SEC. 102. REAUTHORIZATION OF SAFE AND DRUG-FREE 
SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES ACT. 
(a) SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMU-
NITIES.—Section 4003 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7103) is amended— 
(1) 
in 
paragraph 
(1), 
by 
striking 
‘‘$650,000,000 for fiscal year 2002’’ and inserting 
‘‘$700,000,000 for fiscal year 2008’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘such sums 
for 
fiscal 
year 
2002, 
and’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘$400,000,000 for fiscal year 2008’’. 
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(b) NATIONAL COORDINATOR INITIATIVE.—Section 
4125 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7135(a)) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘From funds made avail-
able to carry out this subpart under section 
4003(2), the Secretary may provide’’ and in-
serting ‘‘From amounts made available to carry 
out this subpart under section 4003(2) for each 
fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve not less 
than $40,000,000 to provide’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘, gang prevention,’’ after 
‘‘drug prevention’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in the first sentence— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘, gang prevention,’’ 
after ‘‘serve as drug prevention’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘, gang,’’ after ‘‘sig-
nificant drug’’; and 
(B) in the second sentence, by inserting ‘‘, 
gang,’’ after ‘‘analyzing assessments of drug’’. 
(c) MENTORING PROGRAM.—Section 4130(b) of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 7140(b)) is amended— 
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(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) 
of paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘The Secretary may 
award grants from funds made available to carry out 
this subpart under section 4003(2)’’ and inserting 
‘‘From amounts made available to carry out this 
subpart under section 4003(2) for each fiscal year, 
the 
Secretary 
shall 
reserve 
not 
less 
than 
$50,000,000 to award grants’’; 
(2) in paragraph (5)(B)(i), by inserting ‘‘ele-
mentary school and middle school’’ after ‘‘serves’’; 
and 
(3) in paragraph (5)(C)(ii)(IV), by striking 
‘‘4th’’ and inserting ‘‘kindergarten’’. 
(d) ANTI-GANG DISCRETIONARY GRANTS.—Subpart 
2 of part A of title IV of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7131 et seq.) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 4131. ANTI-GANG DISCRETIONARY GRANTS. 
‘‘(a) 
AUTHORITY
TO
MAKE
GRANTS.—From 
amounts made available to carry out this subpart under 
section 4003(2) for each fiscal year, the Secretary shall 
reserve not less than $50,000,000 to award grants, on a 
competitive basis, to nonprofit organizations to enable the 
nonprofit organizations to establish programs to assist a 
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public elementary school or middle school in providing an 
innovative approach— 
‘‘(1) to combat gang activity in the school and 
the community surrounding the school; and 
‘‘(2) to heighten awareness of, and provide tools 
to reduce, gang violence in the school and the com-
munity surrounding the school. 
‘‘(b) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a grant 
under this section, a nonprofit organization shall submit 
an application to the Secretary that includes a detailed 
plan to combat gang activity and reduce gang violence in 
a school and the surrounding community. 
‘‘(c) 
PRIORITY
CONSIDERATION.—In 
awarding 
grants under this section, the Secretary shall give priority 
consideration to applications describing programs that 
target youth living in a community with a crime level 
above the average crime level of the State in which the 
community is located.’’. 
SEC. 103. PUBLIC AND ASSISTED HOUSING GANG ELIMI-
NATION. 
(a) PUBLIC AND ASSISTED HOUSING.—Title V of the 
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–690; 102 
Stat. 4295) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subtitle: 
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‘‘Subtitle H—Public and Assisted 
Housing Gang Elimination 
‘‘SEC. 5401. SHORT TITLE. 
‘‘This subtitle may be cited as the ‘Public and As-
sisted Housing Gang Elimination Act of 2007’. 
‘‘SEC. 5402. AUTHORITY TO MAKE GRANTS. 
‘‘The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 
in accordance with the provisions of this subtitle, may 
make grants to public housing agencies (including any In-
dian tribe or other recipient under the Native American 
Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996) 
and private, for-profit and nonprofit owners of federally 
assisted low-income housing for use in eliminating gang- 
related crime. 
‘‘SEC. 5403. ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES. 
‘‘Grants under this subtitle may be used in public 
housing or other federally assisted low-income housing 
projects for— 
‘‘(1) the employment of security personnel; 
‘‘(2) reimbursement of local law enforcement 
agencies for additional security and protective serv-
ices; 
‘‘(3) physical improvements which are specifi-
cally designed to enhance security; 
‘‘(4) the employment of 1 or more individuals— 
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‘‘(A) to investigate gang-related crime on 
or about the real property comprising any pub-
lic or other federally assisted low-income hous-
ing project; and 
‘‘(B) to provide evidence relating to such 
crime in any administrative or judicial pro-
ceeding; 
‘‘(5) the provision of training, communications 
equipment, and other related equipment for use by 
voluntary tenant patrols acting in cooperation with 
local law enforcement officials; 
‘‘(6) programs designed to reduce gang activity 
in and around public or other federally assisted low- 
income housing projects, including encouraging teen- 
driven approaches to gang activity prevention; and 
‘‘(7) providing funding to nonprofit public hous-
ing resident management corporations and resident 
councils to develop security and gang prevention pro-
grams involving site residents. 
‘‘SEC. 5404. APPLICATIONS. 
‘‘(a) REQUIRED SUBMISSION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—To receive a grant under 
this subtitle, a public housing agency or an owner of 
federally assisted low-income housing shall submit 
an application to the Secretary, at such time, in 
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such manner, and accompanied by such additional 
information as the Secretary may reasonably re-
quire. 
‘‘(2) REQUIRED INCLUSIONS.—Any application 
submitted under paragraph (1) shall include a plan 
for addressing the problem of gang-related crime on 
the premises of the housing administered or owned 
by the applicant for which the application is being 
submitted. 
‘‘(b) CRITERIA.—Except as provided by subsections 
(c) and (d) the Secretary shall approve applications under 
this subtitle based exclusively on— 
‘‘(1) the extent of the gang-related crime prob-
lem in the public or federally assisted low-income 
housing project or projects proposed for assistance; 
‘‘(2) the quality of the plan of the applicant to 
address the crime problem in the public or federally 
assisted low-income housing project or projects pro-
posed for assistance, including the extent to which 
the plan includes initiatives that can be sustained 
over a period of several years; 
‘‘(3) the capability of the applicant to carry out 
the plan; and 
‘‘(4) the extent to which tenants, the local gov-
ernment, and the local community support and par-
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ticipate in the design and implementation of the ac-
tivities proposed to be funded under the application. 
‘‘(c) FEDERALLY ASSISTED LOW-INCOME HOUS-
ING.—In addition to the selection criteria described in 
subsection (b), the Secretary may establish other criteria 
for the evaluation of applications submitted by owners of 
federally assisted low-income housing, except that such ad-
ditional criteria shall be designed only to reflect— 
‘‘(1) relevant differences between the financial 
resources and other characteristics of public housing 
authorities and owners of federally assisted low-in-
come housing; or 
‘‘(2) relevant differences between the problem 
of gang-related crime in public housing and the 
problem of gang-related crime in federally assisted 
low-income housing. 
‘‘(d) HIGH-INTENSITY INTERSTATE GANG ACTIVITY 
AREAS.—In evaluating the extent of the gang-related 
crime problem pursuant to subsection (b), the Secretary 
may consider whether housing projects proposed for as-
sistance are located in a high-intensity interstate gang ac-
tivity area designated under section 211 of the Fighting 
Gangs and Empowering Youth Act of 2007. 
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‘‘SEC. 5405. DEFINITIONS. 
‘‘For the purposes of this subtitle, the following defi-
nitions shall apply: 
‘‘(1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ means 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 
‘‘(2) FEDERALLY ASSISTED LOW-INCOME HOUS-
ING.—The term ‘federally assisted low-income hous-
ing’ means housing assisted under— 
‘‘(A) section 221(d)(3), section 221(d)(4), 
or 236 of the National Housing Act; 
‘‘(B) section 101 of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1965; 
‘‘(C) section 8 of the United States Hous-
ing Act of 1937; or 
‘‘(D) the Native American Housing Assist-
ance and Self-Determination Act of 1996. 
‘‘SEC. 5406. IMPLEMENTATION. 
‘‘The Secretary shall issue regulations to implement 
this subtitle within 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this subtitle. 
‘‘SEC. 5407. REPORTS. 
‘‘The Secretary shall require any recipient of a grant 
under this subtitle to provide periodic reports that include 
the obligation and expenditure of grant funds, the 
progress made by the grantee in implementing the plan 
described in section 5404(a), and any change in the inci-
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dence of gang-related crime in projects assisted under this 
subtitle. 
‘‘SEC. 5408. MONITORING. 
‘‘The Secretary shall audit and monitor the programs 
funded under this subtitle to ensure that assistance pro-
vided under this subtitle is administered in accordance 
with the provisions of this subtitle. 
‘‘SEC. 5409. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this subtitle $200,000,000 for each 
of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012. Any amount appro-
priated under this section shall remain available until ex-
pended. 
‘‘(b) SET-ASIDE FOR ASSISTED HOUSING.—Of any 
amount made available in any fiscal year to carry out this 
subtitle, not more than 6.25 percent of such amount shall 
be available for grants for federally assisted low-income 
housing.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents in section 5001 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 
(Public Law 100–690; 102 Stat. 4295) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new items: 
‘‘Subtitle H—Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination 
‘‘Sec. 5401. Short title. 
‘‘Sec. 5402. Authority to make grants. 
‘‘Sec. 5403. Eligible activities. 
‘‘Sec. 5404. Applications. 
‘‘Sec. 5405. Definitions. 
‘‘Sec. 5406. Implementation. 
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‘‘Sec. 5407 Reports. 
‘‘Sec. 5408. Monitoring. 
‘‘Sec. 5409. Authorization of appropriations.’’. 
SEC. 104. DEMONSTRATION GRANTS TO ENCOURAGE CRE-
ATIVE APPROACHES TO GANG ACTIVITY AND 
AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may make 
grants to public or nonprofit private entities (including 
faith-based organizations) for the purpose of assisting the 
entities in carrying out projects involving innovative ap-
proaches to combat gang activity. 
(b) CERTAIN APPROACHES.—Approaches under sub-
section (a) may include the following: 
(1) Encouraging teen-driven approaches to 
gang activity prevention. 
(2) Educating parents to recognize signs of 
problems and potential gang involvement in their 
children. 
(3) Teaching parents the importance of a nur-
turing family and home environment to keep chil-
dren out of gangs. 
(4) Facilitating communication between parents 
and children, especially programs that have been 
evaluated and proven effective. 
(c) MATCHING FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may 
make a grant under this section only if the entity re-
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ceiving the grant agrees to make available (directly 
or through donations from public or private entities) 
non-Federal contributions toward the cost of activi-
ties to be performed with that grant in an amount 
that is not less than 25 percent of such costs. 
(2) DETERMINATION
OF
AMOUNT
CONTRIB-
UTED.—Non-Federal contributions required under 
paragraph (1) may be in cash or in kind, fairly eval-
uated, including facilities, equipment, or services. 
Amounts provided by the Federal Government, or 
services assisted or subsidized to any significant ex-
tent by the Federal Government, may not be in-
cluded in determining the amount of such non-Fed-
eral contributions. 
(d) EVALUATION OF PROJECTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall 
establish criteria for the evaluation of projects in-
volving innovative approaches under subsection (a). 
(2) GRANTEES.—A grant may be made under 
such subsection only if the entity involved— 
(A) agrees to conduct evaluations of the 
approach in accordance with such criteria; 
(B) agrees to submit to the Attorney Gen-
eral reports describing the results of the evalua-
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tions, as the Attorney General determines to be 
appropriate; and 
(C) submits to the Attorney General, in 
the application under subsection (e), a plan for 
conducting the evaluations. 
(e) APPLICATION FOR GRANT.—The Attorney Gen-
eral may make a grant under subsection (a) only if an 
application for the grant is submitted to the Attorney Gen-
eral and the application is in such form, is made in such 
manner, and contains such agreements, assurances, and 
information (including the agreements under subsections 
(c) and (d) and the plan under subsection (d)(2)(C)) as 
the Attorney General determines to be necessary to carry 
out this section. 
(f) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than October 
1, 2012, the Attorney General shall submit to Congress 
a report describing the extent to which the approaches 
under subsection (a) have been successful in reducing the 
rate of gang activity in the communities in which the ap-
proaches have been carried out. That report shall describe 
the various approaches used under subsection (a) and the 
effectiveness of each of the approaches. 
(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the 
purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized 
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