Union Calendar No. 255
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3968
[Report No. 103–462]
A BILL
To provide grants to States to assist in the incar-
ceration of violent repeat offenders and to man-
age the problems associated with overcapacity in
correctional facilities and programs and to sup-
port comprehensive programs that will reduce the
rate of recidivism.
MARCH 25, 1994
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Commit-
tee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and
ordered to be printed
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Union Calendar No. 255
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3968
[Report No. 103–462]
To provide grants to States to assist in the incarceration of violent repeat
offenders and to manage the problems associated with overcapacity in
correctional facilities and programs and to support comprehensive pro-
grams that will reduce the rate of recidivism.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 8, 1994
Mr. HUGHES introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
MARCH 25, 1994
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 8, 1994]
A BILL
To provide grants to States to assist in the incarceration
of violent repeat offenders and to manage the problems
associated with overcapacity in correctional facilities and
programs and to support comprehensive programs that
will reduce the rate of recidivism.
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 ‘‘Violent Repeat
Offender Incarceration Act’’.
SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.
(a) GRANT AUTHORIZATION.—The Attorney General
may make grants to individual States and to States, orga-
nized as multi-State compacts, to develop, expand, modify,
or improve correctional facilities and programs to ensure
that prison cell space is available for the confinement of
violent repeat offenders.
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a grant
under this Act a State or States, organized as multi-State
compacts, shall submit an application to the Attorney Gen-
eral which includes—
(1) assurances that the State or States, have im-
plemented, or will implement, correctional policies
and programs that are designed to provide suffi-
ciently severe punishment for violent repeat offenders,
including violent juvenile offenders, and that the pris-
on time served is appropriately related to the deter-
mination that the inmate is a violent repeat offender
and for a period of time deemed necessary to protect
the public;
(2) assurances that the State or States have im-
plemented policies that provide for the recognition of
the rights and needs of crime victims;
(3) assurances that funds received under this Act
will be used to develop, expand, modify, or improve
correctional facilities and programs to ensure that
prison cell space is available for the confinement of
violent repeat offenders;
(4) assurances that the State or States have a
comprehensive correctional plan which represents an
integrated approach to the management and oper-
ation of correctional facilities and programs and
which includes diversional programs, particularly
drug diversion programs, community corrections pro-
grams, a prisoner screening and security classifica-
tion system, prisoner rehabilitation and treatment
programs, prisoner work activities, and job skills pro-
grams, a pre-release prisoner assessment to provide
risk reduction management, post-release assistance,
and an assessment of recidivism rates;
(5) assurances that the State or States have in-
volved counties and other units of local government,
when appropriate, in the development, expansion,
modification, or improvement of correctional facilities
and programs designed to ensure the incarceration of
violent offenders;
(6) assurances that funds received under this sec-
tion will be used to supplement, not supplant, other
Federal, State, and local funds; and
(7) documentation of the multi-State compact
agreement that specifies the development, expansion,
modification, or improvement of correctional facilities
and programs.
(c) CONSIDERATION.—The Attorney General, in mak-
ing such grants, shall give consideration to the special bur-
den placed on States which incarcerate a substantial num-
ber of inmates who are in the United States illegally.
(d) MATCHING REQUIREMENT.—The Federal share of
a grant received under this Act may not exceed 75 percent
of the costs of a proposal described in an application ap-
proved under this Act.
SEC. 3. RULES AND REGULATIONS.
The Attorney General shall issue rules and regulations
regarding the uses of grant funds received under this Act
not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act.
SEC. 4. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING.
The Attorney General may request that the Director
of the National Institute of Corrections and the Director
of the Federal Bureau of Prisons provide technical assist-
ance and training to a State or States that receive a grant
under this Act to achieve the purposes of this Act.
SEC. 5. EVALUATION.
The Attorney General may request the Director of the
National Institute of Corrections to assist with an evalua-
tion of programs established with funds under this Act.
SEC. 6. DEFINITION.
For purposes of this Act, the term ‘‘State or States’’
means any State, the District of Columbia, the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands,
American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Is-
lands.
SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated $600,000,000
for each of the fiscal years 1994 through 1998 to carry out
the purposes of this Act.