I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5752 
To provide for making grants to expand the capacity of the Big Brothers 
Big Sisters mentoring program for at-risk youth. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 10, 2006 
Mr. SIMMONS (for himself and Mr. FITZPATRICK of Pennsylvania) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
the Workforce 
A BILL 
To provide for making grants to expand the capacity of 
the Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring program for 
at-risk youth. 
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 ‘‘Mentoring Matches 
for Youth Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, which 
was founded in 1904 and chartered by Congress in 
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1958, is the oldest and largest mentoring organiza-
tion in the United States. 
(2) There are over 450 Big Brothers Big Sis-
ters of America local agencies providing mentoring 
programs for at-risk children in over 5,000 commu-
nities throughout every State, Guam, and Puerto 
Rico. 
(3) Over the last decade, Big Brother Big Sis-
ters of America has raised a minimum of 75 percent 
of its annual operating budget from private sources 
and is continually working to grow private sources of 
funding to maintain this ratio of private to Federal 
funds. 
(4) In 2005, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Amer-
ica provided mentors for over 235,000 children. 
(5) Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has a 
goal to provide mentors for 1 million children per 
year. 
SEC. 3. GRANT PROGRAM FOR EXPANDING BIG BROTHERS 
BIG SISTERS MENTORING PROGRAM. 
In each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012, the Ad-
ministrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delin-
quency Prevention (hereinafter in this Act referred to as 
the ‘‘Administrator’’) may make grants to Big Brothers 
Big Sisters of America to use for expanding the capacity 
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of and carrying out the Big Brothers Big Sisters men-
toring programs for at-risk youth. 
SEC. 4. BIANNUAL REPORT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Big Brothers Big Sisters of 
America shall submit 2 reports to the Administrator in 
each of fiscal years 2008 through 2013. Big Brothers Big 
Sisters of America shall submit the first report in a fiscal 
year not later than April 1 of that fiscal year and the sec-
ond report in a fiscal year not later than September 30 
of that fiscal year. 
(b) REQUIRED CONTENT.—Each such report must 
include the following: 
(1) A detailed statement of the progress made 
by Big Brothers Big Sisters of America in expand-
ing the capacity of and carrying out mentoring pro-
grams for at-risk youth. 
(2) A detailed statement of how the amounts 
received under this Act have been used. 
(3) A detailed assessment of the effectiveness of 
the mentoring programs. 
(4) Recommendations for continued grants and 
the appropriate amounts for such grants. 
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this Act— 
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(1) $8,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 
and 2009; 
(2) $8,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 
and 2011; and 
(3) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2012. 
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