I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4882 
To authorize the Attorney General to make grants to provide training to 
improve police responses for people with mental illness and intellectual 
and developmental disabilities, to increase the authorization of appropria-
tions for mental health awareness training grants, and for other pur-
poses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 28, 2019 
Mr. MCCAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize the Attorney General to make grants to provide 
training to improve police responses for people with men-
tal illness and intellectual and developmental disabilities, 
to increase the authorization of appropriations for mental 
health awareness training grants, and for other purposes. 
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 Safety Act 
of 2019’’. 
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SEC. 2. ACADEMIC-BASED TRAINING INITIATIVE TO IM-
PROVE POLICE RESPONSES FOR PEOPLE 
WITH MENTAL ILLNESS AND INTELLECTUAL 
AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Attorney General is au-
thorized to make grants, in the form of cooperative agree-
ments, to eligible entities to provide training and technical 
assistance to law enforcement and other criminal justice 
agencies and their behavioral health service partners to 
improve responses and reduce crime and recidivism associ-
ated with people who have mental illnesses and intellectual 
and developmental disabilities. 
(b) ELIGIBLE ENTITY DEFINED.—For purposes of 
this section, the term ‘‘eligible entity’’ means a public or 
private academic organization, a nonprofit academic orga-
nization (including a tribal nonprofit organization), and 
a public university or colleges (including a tribal institu-
tion of higher education). 
(c) APPLICATION.—An eligible entity seeking a grant 
under this section shall submit to the Attorney General 
an application at such time, in such manner, and con-
taining such information as the Attorney General may rea-
sonably require, including information demonstrating ex-
perience working in a law enforcement training environ-
ment and with local governments, law enforcement agen-
cies, State and county mental and behavioral health sys-
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tems, organizations serving people with mental illness and 
intellectual and developmental disabilities, and criminal 
justice systems. 
(d) COLLABORATION.—An eligible entity receiving a 
grant under this section shall collaborate with other recipi-
ents in order to better service the training needs of local 
communities. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $2,500,000 to carry out this 
section for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2025. 
SEC. 3. INCREASING AMOUNT AUTHORIZED TO BE APPRO-
PRIATED FOR MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS 
TRAINING GRANTS. 
Section 520J of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 290bb–41) is amended by— 
(1) striking paragraph (7) of subsection (b); 
and 
(2) adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2025.’’. 
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