(B) demonstrated exceptional commitment 
and progress toward implementing the violence 
reduction initiatives of the grantee; and 
(C) shown that the grantee would likely 
achieve more substantial reductions in violence 
with additional Federal funding. 
(3) FEDERAL SHARE.—Subsection (i) shall not 
apply to any amounts distributed to a grantee under 
this subsection. 
(4) EXPLANATION
OF
DISTRIBUTION.—Upon 
distributing supplemental incentive funds to a grant-
ee, the Director shall publish a statement on the 
website of the Bureau of Justice Assistance that 
clearly explains the basis for the decision to award 
these funds to a particular grantee. 
(m) EVALUATION AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.— 
The Director may reserve not more than 8 percent of the 
funds appropriated for a fiscal year under subsection (o) 
for the purpose of— 
(1) contracting with or hiring technical assist-
ance providers with experience implementing com-
munity-based violence reduction initiatives; and 
(2) contracting with independent researchers to 
evaluate the performance and impact of selected ini-
tiatives supported by the Community-Based Violence 
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Intervention Program grant, and such evaluations 
shall be made publicly available on the website of the 
Bureau of Justice Assistance. 
(n) NONSUPPLANTING CLAUSE.—A grantee receiving 
a grant under this section shall use the grant to supple-
ment, and not supplant, the amount of funds the grantee 
would otherwise dedicate to reducing gun and group-re-
lated violence in the community of the grantee. 
(o) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Bureau of Justice 
Assistance, in addition to any amounts otherwise author-
ized to be appropriated or made available to the Bureau 
of Justice Assistance, $65,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2020 through 2029. 
SEC. 
4. 
HOSPITAL-BASED 
VIOLENCE 
INTERVENTION 
GRANTS. 
(a) GRANTS.—The Director of the National Insti-
tutes of Health (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Direc-
tor’’) shall award grants on a competitive basis to support 
hospital-based or hospital-linked violence intervention pro-
grams that work to interrupt cycles of violence and reduce 
risk of violent injury and retaliation among patients iden-
tified as being at highest risk for involvement in commu-
nity violence. 
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(b) ELIGIBILITY.—Grants shall be made available 
under this section to private and public hospitals that 
treat at least 250 patients annually for firearm assault 
or stabbing injuries, and to community-based organiza-
tions that operate violence intervention programs in such 
hospitals. 
(c) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this sec-
tion, the Director shall give priority to nonprofit hospitals 
that serve communities with the highest incidence of vio-
lent injury and injury recidivism, and community-based 
organizations that operate violence intervention programs 
in such hospitals. 
(d) GRANT REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each grant awarded under 
this section shall be used to implement or enhance 
a hospital-based or hospital-linked violence interven-
tion program, to reduce risk of violent injury and re-
taliatory violence among patients identified as being 
at highest risk for involvement in community vio-
lence. 
(2) OTHER
REQUIREMENTS.—Any program 
supported by this grant shall be evidence-informed 
and implemented in accordance with standards pre-
scribed by the Director, in consultation with the 
Health Alliance for Violence Intervention. 
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(e) APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS.—Each application 
for a grant under this section shall describe— 
(1) how the applicant proposes to use the grant 
to implement or enhance a hospital-based or hos-
pital-linked violence intervention program in accord-
ance with this section; and 
(2) how the applicant plans to coordinate its vi-
olence intervention program with other relevant 
stakeholders or violence intervention programs in the 
community, if any, to maximize impact and mini-
mize duplication of services. 
(f) GRANT DURATION.—A grant awarded under this 
section shall be for a 5-year period. 
(g) EVALUATION
AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.— 
The Director may reserve not more than 10 percent of 
the funds appropriated under subsection (i) for the pur-
pose of contracting with or hiring technical assistance pro-
viders with experience implementing hospital-based or hos-
pital-linked violence intervention initiatives, and for the 
purpose of contracting with independent researchers to 
evaluate the performance and impact of selected programs 
supported by grants awarded under this section. Such 
evaluations shall be made publicly available on the internet 
website of the National Institutes of Health. 
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(h) NONSUPPLANTING CLAUSE.—An entity receiving 
a grant under this section shall use such grant to supple-
ment, and not supplant, funds otherwise available to sup-
port violence intervention programs of the entity. 
(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To carry 
out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated, 
in addition to any amounts otherwise made available to 
the National Institutes of Health, $25,000,000 for each 
of fiscal years 2020 through 2029. 
SEC. 5. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING SERVICES FOR 
VICTIMS OF VIOLENT CRIME. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) hospital-based and hospital-linked violence 
intervention programs have shown effective results 
as a strategy in reducing violently injured crime vic-
tims’ risk of injury recidivism and retaliation; and 
(2) young men of color are disproportionately 
victimized by violent crime and gun and group-re-
lated violence in particular, but are frequently un-
derserved by the victim services field. 
Æ 
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