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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6090 
To reauthorize and amend part EE of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 relating to drug courts. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 10, 2010 
Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas (for herself, Mr. PIERLUISI, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Mr. RUSH, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. GUTIER-
REZ, Mr. CARNAHAN, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. GONZALEZ, Ms. LEE of Cali-
fornia, Mr. HONDA, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, and Ms. KAPTUR) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary 
A BILL 
To reauthorize and amend part EE of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 relating to drug courts. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE: FINDINGS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Drug Court Reauthorization Act’’. 
(b) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Studies have concluded that drug courts 
significantly reduce crime by as much as 35 percent 
more than other sentencing options. 
(2) Nationwide, 75 percent of participants who 
successfully complete a drug court program remain 
arrest-free for at least 2 years after leaving the pro-
gram, and some studies demonstrate that many 
graduates remain arrest-free for many more years. 
(3) Drug courts are 6 times more likely than 
other sentencing options to keep offenders in treat-
ment long enough to recover, and in programs with 
less supervision than drug courts, 70 percent of par-
ticipants drop out of treatment permanently. 
(4) Nationwide, for every $1 invested in drug 
courts, taxpayers save as much as $3.36. 
(5) In 2007, for every Federal dollar invested 
in drug courts, $9 was leveraged in State funding. 
SEC. 2. DRUG COURTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part EE of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797u 
et seq.) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘PART EE—DRUG COURTS 
‘‘SEC. 2951. GRANT AUTHORITY. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may make 
grants to States, State courts, local courts, units of local 
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government, and Indian tribal governments, acting di-
rectly or through agreements with other public or private 
entities, for adult drug courts, juvenile drug courts, family 
drug courts, and tribal drug courts that involve— 
‘‘(1) continuing judicial supervision over offend-
ers, and other individuals under the jurisdiction of 
the court, with substance abuse problems; 
‘‘(2) coordination with the appropriate State or 
local court, State or local substance abuse treatment 
authority, public defender, and prosecutor; and 
‘‘(3) the integrated administration of other 
sanctions and services, which shall include— 
‘‘(A) mandatory periodic testing for the 
use of controlled substances or other addictive 
substances during any period of supervised re-
lease or probation for each participant; 
‘‘(B) substance abuse treatment for each 
participant, commensurate with the clinical 
needs of the participant; 
‘‘(C) diversion, probation, or other super-
vised release involving the possibility of prosecu-
tion, confinement, or incarceration based on 
noncompliance with program requirements or 
failure to show satisfactory progress; 
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‘‘(D) offender management and aftercare 
services such as relapse prevention, health care, 
education, vocational training, job placement, 
housing placement, and child care or other fam-
ily support services for each participant who re-
quires such services; 
‘‘(E) payment, in whole or part, by the of-
fender of treatment costs, to the extent the 
court determines that such payment is prac-
ticable, such as costs for urinalysis or coun-
seling; and 
‘‘(F) payment, in whole or part, by the of-
fender of restitution, to the extent the court de-
termines that such payment is practicable, to 
either a victim of the offender’s offense or to a 
restitution or similar victim support fund. 
‘‘(b) LIMITATION.—Economic sanctions imposed on 
an offender pursuant to this section shall not be at a level 
that would interfere with the offender’s rehabilitation. 
‘‘(c) MANDATORY DRUG TESTING AND MANDATORY 
SANCTIONS.— 
‘‘(1) MANDATORY
TESTING.—Grant amounts 
under this part may be used for a drug court only 
if such court has mandatory periodic testing as de-
scribed in subsection (a)(3)(A). The Attorney Gen-
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