of racial equity, systems of oppression, and 
the impact of structural racism on the 
community and population to be served, 
the partnership’s commitment to pro-
moting such equity, dismantling such sys-
tems, and reducing such impact, and an 
established record of accomplishment in 
improving outcomes or preventing, reduc-
ing, or eliminating inequities in that com-
munity; 
(C) how the grant funds will be used; 
(D) the expertise of the partnership, in-
cluding its staff, in implementing the project to 
provide the proposed services; 
(E) how the partnership will implement or 
develop evidence-based best practices, including 
development of culturally informed evidence- 
based best practices, in carrying out the 
project, including references to applicable re-
search; and 
(F) the partnership’s plan for gathering 
feedback from service recipients about the qual-
ity of the services, including contacts and re-
sources, provided through the project; and 
(2) a memorandum of understanding that— 
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(A) identifies each partner (including each 
agency of the unit of local government or In-
dian tribe or tribal organization, as applicable, 
involved) and is signed by a representative of 
each partner in the partnership carrying out 
the project; and 
(B) outlines— 
(i) the partnership’s engagement with 
the community, including members of the 
covered population, and the role the en-
gagement played in developing the project; 
(ii) the financial and programmatic 
commitment of each partner, and the spe-
cific role of a law enforcement agency if in-
volved in a backup role; 
(iii) the responsibilities of emergency 
dispatch operators, dispatchers, and part-
ners in the national 911 system, in prop-
erly identifying calls in the community to 
be served necessitating a community-based 
emergency and non-emergency response 
and directing those calls to appropriate re-
sponders; 
(iv) the responsibilities of information 
and referral systems for essential commu-
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nity services (accessed in most localities by 
dialing 211) and the National Suicide Pre-
vention Hotline (to be accessed by dialing 
988) for participating in efficiently routing 
direct callers to services; 
(v) the responsibilities of each partner 
with respect to data collection and evalua-
tion; 
(vi) how each partner’s existing (as of 
the date of submission of the application) 
vision, theory of change, theory of action, 
and activities align with those of the grant 
program set forth in this Act; 
(vii) the governance structure pro-
posed for the project, including a system 
for holding partners accountable; 
(viii) how the eligible partners’ gov-
erning boards or advisory boards, and 
emergency responders, are representative 
of the community to be served; 
(ix) how a structure through which 
residents of the community and grassroots 
organizations will have an active role in the 
eligible partnership’s decisionmaking; 
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(x) how the partnership anticipates 
that the project involved will decrease the 
responsibilities of local law enforcement, 
including responsibilities related to polic-
ing, arrests, and incarceration, and of 
other public safety entities; 
(xi) any State or local laws that may 
be an impediment to implementation of the 
project; and 
(xii) any other information the Sec-
retary reasonably determines to be nec-
essary. 
(b) PRIORITY.—In making grants under this Act, the 
Secretary shall give priority to— 
(1) eligible partnerships that include covered 
community-based organizations with a documented 
record of effectively serving 1 or more covered popu-
lations; and 
(2) eligible partnerships that include covered 
community-based organizations that are led by indi-
viduals who are members of the covered populations 
to be served. 
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SEC. 7. USE OF FUNDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—An eligible partnership that re-
ceives a grant under this Act for a project may use the 
grant funds for— 
(1) project planning and community engage-
ment; 
(2) project implementation; 
(3) staffing and recruitment; 
(4) facilities; 
(5) operational costs, including costs of startup 
or expansion activities, marketing, language trans-
lation, and transportation; 
(6) engagement with technical assistance pro-
viders; 
(7) consulting services; 
(8) training; 
(9) program and project evaluation, including 
evaluation of program and project efficacy, staff per-
formance, and service delivery; 
(10) programming and service interventions 
that include— 
(A) activities that prioritize human service 
interventions, by entities other than law en-
forcement, over interventions by law enforce-
ment; or 
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(B) activities that include triaging emer-
gencies, through emergency dispatch operators, 
in a manner that results in referral to a wholly 
nonpolice entity; and 
(11) programming and service interventions 
that may include— 
(A) activities that include co-occurring law 
enforcement and human services activities, such 
as responses to calls about dating violence; 
(B) activities that include followup by 
human services organizations after contact by 
law enforcement, such as community mediation, 
social services, or behavioral health services; 
(C) training for emergency dispatch opera-
tors; and 
(D) training for community members, or 
family members of people requiring emergency 
or non-emergency response, to facilitate com-
prehensive and clear communication with emer-
gency dispatch operators to ensure that nec-
essary information is conveyed about when an 
intervention by a nonpolice human services or-
ganization is the most appropriate response. 
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(b) FUNDING LIMITATION.—None of the grant funds 
shall be provided to State, tribal, or local law enforcement 
agencies. 
SEC. 8. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE. 
The Secretary shall arrange for a national technical 
assistance provider for organizations described in section 
5, to provide technical assistance support and develop and 
disseminate best practices for projects carried out under 
this Act. 
SEC. 9. ANNUAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
Each recipient of a grant for a project under this sec-
tion is required to submit an annual report to the Sec-
retary that details— 
(1) the specific uses of the grant funds; 
(2) the number of individuals contacted through 
the project; 
(3) the number of individuals connected with 
ongoing services or resources through the project, 
disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual ori-
entation and gender identity, disability status, and 
other characteristics; 
(4) the quality of the contacts, services, and re-
sources, as reported by the individuals contacted; 
(5) any evidence of positive outcomes following 
the contacts or connections; 
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(6) any evidence of negative outcomes that may 
have occurred following the contacts or connections; 
(7) the percentage of total emergency calls di-
verted from law enforcement to the grant recipient; 
(8) the percentage of emergency calls diverted 
to the grant recipient that have been addressed; 
(9) the extent to which the grant recipient is 
hiring or training individuals from within the cov-
ered population, and the recruitment, hiring, train-
ing, and retention practices for such individuals; 
(10) any related reduction in the number of 
calls to law enforcement over the period of the 
project; 
(11) any changes in the types of calls made to 
the 911 system, to the extent that it is practicable 
to report information on such changes; 
(12) any increases in the number of calls to the 
211 (or equivalent) systems for essential non-emer-
gency community services or calls to the 988 Na-
tional Suicide Prevention Hotline over the period of 
the project; 
(13) any related reduction in the budget of the 
law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over 
the community served by the eligible partnership 
over that period; 
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(14) any State or local laws that were an im-
pediment to implementation of the project; and 
(15) any evidence of completed in-home, tele-
therapy, or in-community responses that included 
counseling, crisis response, family treatment, medi-
ation, or other evidence-based interventions that ad-
dressed complex needs not able to be resolved by 
non-emergency calls alone. 
SEC. 10. EVALUATION AND REPORT. 
Not later than October 1, 2026, the Secretary shall— 
(1) complete an evaluation detailing the imple-
mentation of, outcomes of, and best practices from 
the grant program carried out under this Act, in-
cluding program-wide information on the factors de-
scribed in paragraphs (2) through (15) of section 9; 
and 
(2) submit to Congress a report containing the 
evaluation. 
SEC. 11. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated— 
(1) to carry out initiation grants under this sec-
tion, $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 
through 2025; and 
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(2) to carry out continuation grants under this 
section, $75,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 
and 2027. 
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