cation with national law enforcement and corrections ex-
pertise for the purposes described in subsection (b). 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the grant program 
under this section are to— 
(1) identify drivers of criminal justice resource 
consumption; 
(2) improve jurisdictions’ capacity to prevent 
and respond to violent crime, including by reducing 
the risk for recidivism (as measured by arrests for 
new crimes, convictions for new crimes, incarcer-
ations for new crimes, and revocations based on 
technical violations); 
(3) identify offenders’ risks for general and vio-
lent recidivism, and related substance use and men-
tal health needs, and mitigate their risk for engaging 
in violent behavior or being the victims of violent 
crime; and 
(4) improve public safety through a re-alloca-
tion of resources in high performing crime- and re-
cidivism-reduction efforts. 
(c) APPLICATION.—An applicant 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. 
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(d) USES OF FUNDS.—A recipient of a grant under 
this section shall use the grant funds for programs de-
signed to— 
(1) analyze criminal justice trends to under-
stand factors driving jail and prison population 
growth; 
(2) develop and implement policy options to 
generate savings and increase public safety; 
(3) quantify savings and reinvest in select, 
high-risk communities and other prevention-oriented 
strategies; and 
(4) measure the impact of policy changes and 
reinvestment resources and enhance the account-
ability of criminal justice system actors and policies. 
(e) CONTRACTS AND SUBAWARDS.—A State, unit of 
local government, or Indian tribe may, in using a grant 
under this part for program described in subsection (d), 
use all or a portion of that grant to contract with, or make 
one or more subawards to, one or more— 
(1) local or regional organizations that are pri-
vate and nonprofit, including faith-based organiza-
tions; 
(2) units of local government; or 
(3) tribal organizations. 
(f) PROGRAM ASSESSMENT COMPONENT; WAIVER.— 
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(1) PROGRAM
ASSESSMENT
COMPONENT.— 
Each program funded under this part shall contain 
a program assessment component, developed pursu-
ant to guidelines established by the Attorney Gen-
eral, in coordination with the National Institute of 
Justice. 
(2) WAIVER.—The Attorney General may waive 
the requirement of paragraph (1) with respect to a 
program if, in the opinion of the Attorney General, 
the program is not of sufficient size to justify a full 
program assessment. 
(g) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—Not more than 10 per-
cent of a grant made under this part may be used for 
costs incurred to administer such grant. 
(h) EQUITABLE
DISTRIBUTION
OF
FUNDS.—In 
awarding grants under this section, the Attorney General 
shall distribute funds in a manner that equitably address-
es the needs of underserved populations, including rural 
and tribal communities. 
(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025. 
SEC. 3. AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF GRANTEES. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
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(1) the term ‘‘covered grant program’’ means 
the awarding of grants under section 2; 
(2) the term ‘‘covered grantee’’ means a recipi-
ent of a grant from the covered grant program; 
(3) the term ‘‘nonprofit’’, when used with re-
spect to an organization, means an organization that 
is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986, and is exempt from taxation 
under section 501(a) of such Code; and 
(4) the term ‘‘unresolved audit finding’’ means 
an audit report finding in a final audit report of the 
Inspector General of the Department of Justice that 
a covered grantee has used grant funds awarded to 
that grantee under the covered grant program for an 
unauthorized expenditure or otherwise unallowable 
cost that is not closed or resolved during a 12-month 
period prior to the date on which the final audit re-
port is issued. 
(b) AUDIT REQUIREMENT.—Beginning in fiscal year 
2020, and annually thereafter, the Inspector General of 
the Department of Justice shall conduct audits of covered 
grantees to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of funds 
awarded under covered grant programs. The Inspector 
General shall determine the appropriate number of cov-
ered grantees to be audited each year. 
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(c) MANDATORY EXCLUSION.—A grantee that is 
found to have an unresolved audit finding under an audit 
conducted under subsection (b) may not receive grant 
funds under the covered grant program in the fiscal year 
following the fiscal year to which the finding relates. 
(d) REIMBURSEMENT.—If a covered grantee is 
awarded funds under the covered grant program from 
which it received a grant award during the 1-fiscal-year 
period during which the covered grantee is ineligible for 
an allocation of grant funds under subsection (c), the At-
torney General shall— 
(1) deposit into the General Fund of the Treas-
ury an amount that is equal to the amount of the 
grant funds that were improperly awarded to the 
covered grantee; and 
(2) seek to recoup the costs of the repayment 
to the Fund from the covered grantee that was im-
properly awarded the grant funds. 
(e) PRIORITY OF GRANT AWARDS.—The Attorney 
General, in awarding grants under the covered grant pro-
gram shall give priority to eligible entities that during the 
2-year period preceding the application for a grant have 
not been found to have an unresolved audit finding. 
(f) NONPROFIT REQUIREMENTS.— 
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(1) PROHIBITION.—A nonprofit organization 
that holds money in offshore accounts for the pur-
pose of avoiding the tax described in section 511(a) 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, shall not be 
eligible to receive, directly or indirectly, any funds 
from the covered grant program. 
(2) DISCLOSURE.—Each nonprofit organization 
that is a covered grantee shall disclose in its applica-
tion for such a grant, as a condition of receipt of 
such a grant, the compensation of its officers, direc-
tors, and trustees. Such disclosure shall include a 
description of the criteria relied on to determine 
such compensation. 
(g) PROHIBITION ON LOBBYING ACTIVITY.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Amounts made available 
under the covered grant program may not be used 
by any covered grantee to— 
(A) lobby any representative of the Depart-
ment of Justice regarding the award of grant 
funding; or 
(B) lobby any representative of the Federal 
Government or a State, local, or tribal govern-
ment regarding the award of grant funding. 
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(2) PENALTY.—If the Attorney General deter-
mines that a covered grantee has violated paragraph 
(1), the Attorney General shall— 
(A) require the covered grantee to repay 
the grant in full; and 
(B) prohibit the covered grantee from re-
ceiving a grant under the covered grant pro-
gram from which it received a grant award dur-
ing at least the 5-year period beginning on the 
date of such violation. 
Æ 
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