I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1568 
To reauthorize the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, 
to reauthorize and rename the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Preven-
tion Act of 1974 (JJDPA) as the KIDS Act, to provide for funding 
parity between COPS and the KIDS Act, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 17, 2009 
Mr. SCHIFF introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on the Judici-
ary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each 
case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To reauthorize the Community Oriented Policing Services 
(COPS) program, to reauthorize and rename the Juve-
nile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 
(JJDPA) as the KIDS Act, to provide for funding parity 
between COPS and the KIDS Act, and for other pur-
poses. 
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 ‘‘Community Oriented 
Policing Services and Key Investments in Developmental 
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Services Act of 2009’’ or the ‘‘COPS and KIDS Act of 
2009’’. 
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF THE COPS GRANT PROGRAM. 
Section 1001(a)(11)(A) of the Omnibus Crime Con-
trol and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
3793(a)(11)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘1,047,119,000 
for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2009’’ and inserting 
‘‘$2,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 through 
2014’’. 
SEC. 3. KEY INVESTMENTS IN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES 
ACT (KIDS ACT). 
(a) RENAMING JJDPA AS THE KIDS ACT.— 
(1) SHORT TITLE AMENDED.—The matter be-
fore title I of Public Law 93–415 is amended by 
striking the ‘‘Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Pre-
vention Act of 1974’’ and inserting ‘‘Key Invest-
ments in Developmental Services Act’’. 
(2) REFERENCES TO FORMER SHORT TITLE.— 
Any reference in a law, regulation, document, paper, 
or other record of the United States to the Juvenile 
Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the Key Invest-
ments in Developmental Services Act. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE 
KIDS ACT.—Section 299 of the Key Investments in De-
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velopmental Services Act (as renamed by (42 U.S.C. 
5671) is amended— 
(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS
FOR 
TITLE II AND TITLE V.—There are authorized to be ap-
propriated $2,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 
through 2015 to carry out this title and title V of this 
Act.’’; and 
(2) by striking subsections (b) and (c), and re-
designating subsection (d) as subsection (b). 
SEC. 4. EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT 
APPROPRIATIONS 
FOR 
COPS 
PROGRAM 
SHOULD BE MATCHED BY APPROPRIATIONS 
FOR THE KIDS ACT. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Pre-
vention Act has helped modernize the United States 
juvenile justice system by incentivizing the establish-
ment of juvenile courts premised on best practices, 
reducing recidivism through evidence based interven-
tions, and by keeping kids out of trouble to begin 
with by awarding prevention grants to community 
based efforts that have a proven track record of suc-
cess. 
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(2) The Office of Community Oriented Policing 
Services has, since its creation in 1994, provided ex-
pertise and funding to local law enforcement as they 
invest in innovative policing approaches that incor-
porate community involvement and coordination with 
local stakeholders. 
(3) A successful national strategy to combat 
crime and violence will include prevention, suppres-
sion, and enforcement in a coordinated approach 
that works with young people to provide them better 
options, suppresses crime through law enforcement 
activities, and fairly punishes offenders. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the 
Congress that— 
(1) the Congress has authorized appropriations 
of $2,000,000,000 a year for programs under the 
COPS Office and the KIDS Act; and 
(2) the yearly appropriations for grants admin-
istered by the Office of Community Oriented Polic-
ing should be equal to the yearly appropriations for 
grants for effective juvenile courts, prevention, and 
intervention programs as authorized under the Key 
Investments in Developmental Services Act (KIDS 
Act). 
Æ 
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