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isolation, including by developing effective behavior 
management techniques; 
‘‘(30) describe— 
‘‘(A) the evidence-based methods that will 
be used to conduct mental health and substance 
abuse screening, assessment, referral, and 
treatment for juveniles who— 
‘‘(i) request a screening; 
‘‘(ii) show signs of needing a screen-
ing; or 
‘‘(iii) are held for a period of more 
than 24 hours in a secure facility that pro-
vides for an initial screening; and 
‘‘(B) how the State will seek, to the extent 
practicable, to provide or arrange for mental 
health and substance abuse disorder treatment 
for juveniles determined to be in need of such 
treatment; 
‘‘(31) describe how reentry planning by the 
State for juveniles will include— 
‘‘(A) a written case plan based on an as-
sessment of needs that includes— 
‘‘(i) the pre-release and post-release 
plans for the juveniles; 
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‘‘(ii) the living arrangement to which 
the juveniles are to be discharged; and 
‘‘(iii) any other plans developed for 
the juveniles based on an individualized as-
sessment; and 
‘‘(B) review processes; 
‘‘(32) provide an assurance that the agency of 
the State receiving funds under this title collaborates 
with the State educational agency receiving assist-
ance under part A of title I of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 
et seq.) to develop and implement a plan to ensure 
that, in order to support educational progress— 
‘‘(A) the student records of adjudicated ju-
veniles, including electronic records if available, 
are transferred in a timely manner from the 
educational program in the juvenile detention or 
secure treatment facility to the educational or 
training program into which the juveniles will 
enroll; 
‘‘(B) the credits of adjudicated juveniles 
are transferred; and 
‘‘(C) adjudicated juveniles receive full or 
partial credit toward high school graduation for 
secondary school coursework satisfactorily com-
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pleted before and during the period of time dur-
ing which the juveniles are held in custody, re-
gardless of the local educational agency or enti-
ty from which the credits were earned; and 
‘‘(33) describe policies and procedures to— 
‘‘(A) screen for, identify, and document in 
records of the State the identification of victims 
of domestic human trafficking, or those at risk 
of such trafficking, upon intake; and 
‘‘(B) divert youth described in subpara-
graph (A) to appropriate programs or services, 
to the extent practicable.’’; 
(2) by amending subsection (c) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(c)(1) If a State fails to comply with any of the core 
requirements in any fiscal year, then— 
‘‘(A) subject to subparagraph (B), the amount 
allocated to such State under section 222 for the 
subsequent fiscal year shall be reduced by not less 
than 20 percent for each core requirement with re-
spect to which the failure occurs; and 
‘‘(B) the State shall be ineligible to receive any 
allocation under such section for such fiscal year un-
less— 
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‘‘(i) the State agrees to expend 50 percent 
of the amount allocated to the State for such 
fiscal year to achieve compliance with any such 
core requirement with respect to which the 
State is in noncompliance; or 
‘‘(ii) the Administrator determines that the 
State— 
‘‘(I) has achieved substantial compli-
ance with such applicable requirements 
with respect to which the State was not in 
compliance; and 
‘‘(II) has made, through appropriate 
executive or legislative action, an unequivo-
cal commitment to achieving full compli-
ance with such applicable requirements 
within a reasonable time. 
‘‘(2) Of the total amount of funds not allocated for 
a fiscal year under paragraph (1)— 
‘‘(A) 50 percent of the unallocated funds shall 
be reallocated under section 222 to States that have 
not failed to comply with the core requirements; and 
‘‘(B) 50 percent of the unallocated funds shall 
be used by the Administrator to provide additional 
training and technical assistance to States for the 
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purpose of promoting compliance with the core re-
quirements.’’; 
(3) in subsection (d)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘described in paragraphs 
(11), (12), (13), and (22) of subsection (a)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘described in the core require-
ments’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘the requirements under 
paragraphs (11), (12), (13), and (22) of sub-
section (a)’’ and inserting ‘‘the core require-
ments’’; 
(4) in subsection (f)(2)— 
(A) by striking subparagraph (A); and 
(B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) 
through (E) as subparagraphs (A) through (D), 
respectively; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(g) COMPLIANCE DETERMINATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For each fiscal year, the 
Administrator shall make a determination regarding 
whether each State receiving a grant under this title 
is in compliance or out of compliance with respect to 
each of the core requirements. 
‘‘(2) REPORTING.—The Administrator shall— 
‘‘(A) issue an annual public report— 
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‘‘(i) describing any determination de-
scribed in paragraph (1) made during the 
previous year, including a summary of the 
information on which the determination is 
based and the actions to be taken by the 
Administrator (including a description of 
any reduction imposed under subsection 
(c)); and 
‘‘(ii) for any such determination that 
a State is out of compliance with any of 
the core requirements, describing the basis 
for the determination; and 
‘‘(B) make the report described in sub-
paragraph (A) available on a publicly available 
website. 
‘‘(3) DETERMINATIONS
REQUIRED.—The Ad-
ministrator may not— 
‘‘(A) determine that a State is ‘not out of 
compliance’, or issue any other determination 
not described in paragraph (1), with respect to 
any core requirement; or 
‘‘(B) otherwise fail to make the compliance 
determinations required under paragraph (1).’’. 
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SEC. 206. REPEAL OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY PREVEN-
TION BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM. 
Part C of title II of the Juvenile Justice and Delin-
quency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5651 et seq.) 
is repealed. 
SEC. 207. RESEARCH AND EVALUATION; STATISTICAL 
ANALYSES; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION. 
Section 251 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5661) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A), by striking ‘‘may’’ and inserting 
‘‘shall’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘plan and identify’’ and inserting ‘‘annu-
ally publish a plan to identify’’; and 
(iii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) by striking clause (iii) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(iii) successful efforts to prevent status 
offenders and first-time minor offenders from 
subsequent involvement with the juvenile justice 
and criminal justice systems;’’; 
(II) by striking clause (vii) and 
inserting the following: 
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‘‘(vii) the prevalence and duration of be-
havioral health needs (including mental health, 
substance abuse, and co-occurring disorders) 
among juveniles pre-placement and post-place-
ment in the juvenile justice system, including 
an examination of the effects of secure confine-
ment;’’; 
(III) by redesignating clauses 
(ix), (x), and (xi) as clauses (xvi), 
(xvii), and (xviii), respectively; and 
(IV) by inserting after clause 
(viii) the following: 
‘‘(ix) training efforts and reforms that 
have produced reductions in or elimination of 
the use of dangerous practices; 
‘‘(x) methods to improve the recruitment, 
selection, training, and retention of professional 
personnel who are focused on the prevention, 
identification, and treatment of delinquency; 
‘‘(xi) methods to improve the identification 
and response to victims of domestic child sex 
trafficking within the juvenile justice system; 
‘‘(xii) identifying positive outcome meas-
ures, such as attainment of employment and 
educational degrees, that States and units of 
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local government should use to evaluate the 
success of programs aimed at reducing recidi-
vism of youth who have come in contact with 
the juvenile justice system or criminal justice 
system; 
‘‘(xiii) evaluating the impact and outcomes 
of the prosecution and sentencing of juveniles 
as adults; 
‘‘(xiv) evaluating the impact of fines, fees, 
and other costs assessed by the juvenile justice 
system on the long-term disposition of status 
offenders and other juveniles; 
‘‘(xiv) successful and cost-effective efforts 
by States and units of local government to re-
duce recidivism through policies that provide for 
consideration of appropriate alternative sanc-
tions to incarceration of youth facing nonviolent 
charges, while ensuring that public safety is 
preserved;’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (4)— 
(i) in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘date of enact-
ment of this paragraph, the’’ and in-
serting ‘‘date of enactment of the 
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Supporting Youth Opportunity and 
Preventing Delinquency Act of 2016, 
the’’; and 
(II) by inserting ‘‘in accordance 
with relevant confidentiality require-
ments’’ after ‘‘wards of the State’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (D), by inserting 
‘‘and Indian tribes’’ after ‘‘State’’; 
(iii) in subparagraph (F), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(iv) in subparagraph (G), by striking 
the period at the end and inserting a semi-
colon; and 
(v) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(H) a description of the best practices in dis-
charge planning; and 
‘‘(I) an assessment of living arrangements for 
juveniles who, upon release from confinement in a 
State correctional facility, cannot return to the resi-
dence they occupied prior to such confinement.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), in the matter preceding 
paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘may’’ and inserting 
‘‘shall’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(f) NATIONAL RECIDIVISM MEASURE.—The Admin-
istrator, in accordance with applicable confidentiality re-
quirements and in consultation with experts in the field 
of juvenile justice research, recidivism, and data collection, 
shall— 
‘‘(1) establish a uniform method of data collec-
tion and technology that States may use to evaluate 
data on juvenile recidivism on an annual basis; 
‘‘(2) establish a common national juvenile re-
cidivism measurement system; and 
‘‘(3) make cumulative juvenile recidivism data 
that is collected from States available to the pub-
lic.’’. 
SEC. 208. TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE. 
Section 252 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5662) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘may’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘shall’’ before ‘‘de-
velop and carry out projects’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semi-
colon; 
(C) in paragraph (2)— 
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(i) by inserting ‘‘may’’ before ‘‘make 
grants to and contracts with’’; and 
(ii) by striking the period at the end 
and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) shall provide periodic training for States 
regarding implementation of the core requirements, 
current protocols and best practices for achieving 
and monitoring compliance, and information sharing 
regarding relevant Office resources on evidence- 
based and promising programs or practices that pro-
mote the purposes of this Act.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘may’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘shall’’ before ‘‘de-
velop and implement projects’’; 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘, including compli-
ance with the core requirements’’ after 
‘‘this title’’; and 
(iii) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(C) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘may’’ before ‘‘make 
grants to and contracts with’’; and 
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(ii) by striking the period at the end 
and inserting a semicolon; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) shall provide technical assistance to States 
and units of local government on achieving compli-
ance with the amendments to the core requirements 
and State Plans made by the Supporting Youth Op-
portunity and Preventing Delinquency Act of 2016, 
including training and technical assistance and, 
when appropriate, pilot or demonstration projects in-
tended to develop and replicate best practices for 
achieving sight and sound separation in facilities or 
portions of facilities that are open and available to 
the general public and that may or may not contain 
a jail or a lock-up; and 
‘‘(4) shall provide technical assistance to States 
in support of efforts to establish partnerships be-
tween a State and a university, institution of higher 
education, or research center designed to improve 
the recruitment, selection, training, and retention of 
professional personnel in the fields of medicine, law 
enforcement, the judiciary, juvenile justice, social 
work and child protection, education, and other rel-
evant fields who are engaged in, or intend to work 
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in, the field of prevention, identification, and treat-
ment of delinquency.’’; 
(3) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘prosecutors,’’ after ‘‘pub-
lic defenders,’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘status offenders and’’ 
after ‘‘needs of’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) BEST PRACTICES REGARDING LEGAL REP-
RESENTATION OF CHILDREN.—In consultation with ex-
perts in the field of juvenile defense, the Administrator 
shall— 
‘‘(1) share best practices, which may include 
sharing standards of practice developed by recog-
nized entities in the profession, for attorneys rep-
resenting children; and 
‘‘(2) provide a State, if it so requests, technical 
assistance to implement any of the best practices 
shared under paragraph (1). 
‘‘(e) TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR 
LOCAL AND STATE JUVENILE DETENTION AND CORREC-
TIONS PERSONNEL.—The Administrator shall coordinate 
training and technical assistance programs with juvenile 
detention and corrections personnel of States and units 
of local government— 
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‘‘(1) to promote methods for improving condi-
tions of juvenile confinement, including methods that 
are designed to minimize the use of dangerous prac-
tices, unreasonable restraints, and isolation and 
methods responsive to cultural differences; and 
‘‘(2) to encourage alternative behavior manage-
ment techniques based on positive youth develop-
ment approaches, which may include policies and 
procedures to train personnel to be culturally com-
petent. 
‘‘(f) TRAINING
AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO 
SUPPORT
MENTAL
HEALTH
OR
SUBSTANCE
ABUSE 
TREATMENT INCLUDING HOME-BASED OR COMMUNITY- 
BASED CARE.—The Administrator shall provide training 
and technical assistance, in conjunction with the appro-
priate public agencies, to individuals involved in making 
decisions regarding the disposition and management of 
cases for youth who enter the juvenile justice system about 
the appropriate services and placement for youth with 
mental health or substance abuse needs, including— 
‘‘(1) juvenile justice intake personnel; 
‘‘(2) probation officers; 
‘‘(3) juvenile court judges and court services 
personnel; 
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‘‘(4) prosecutors and court-appointed counsel; 
and 
‘‘(5) family members of juveniles and family ad-
vocates. 
‘‘(g) TRAINING
AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
TO 
SUPPORT JUVENILE COURT JUDGES AND PERSONNEL.— 
The Attorney General, acting through the Office of Juve-
nile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office 
of Justice Programs, shall provide training and technical 
assistance, in conjunction with the appropriate public 
agencies, to enhance the capacity of State and local courts, 
judges, and related judicial personnel to— 
‘‘(1) improve the lives of children currently in-
volved in or at risk of being involved in the juvenile 
court system; and 
‘‘(2) carry out the requirements of this Act. 
‘‘(h) FREE AND REDUCED PRICE SCHOOL LUNCHES 
FOR INCARCERATED JUVENILES.—The Attorney General, 
in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, shall 
provide guidance to States relating to existing options for 
school food authorities in the States to apply for reim-
bursement for free or reduced price lunches under the 
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 
1751 et seq.) for juveniles who are incarcerated and 
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would, if not incarcerated, be eligible for free or reduced 
price lunches under that Act.’’. 
SEC. 209. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
Section 299 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5672) is amended— 
(1) by striking subsections (b) and (c), and re-
designating subsection (d) as subsection (b); 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘(EXCLUDING PARTS C AND E)’’; 
(B) by striking paragraph (1) and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(1) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry 
out this title— 
‘‘(A) $76,125,000 for fiscal year 2018; 
‘‘(B) $76,125,000 for fiscal year 2019; 
‘‘(C) $77,266,875 for fiscal year 2020; 
‘‘(D) $78,425,878 for fiscal year 2021; and 
‘‘(E) $79,602,266 for fiscal year 2022.’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A), by striking ‘‘(other than parts 
C and E)’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘part D’’ and inserting ‘‘parts D and E’’. 
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‘‘(II) a description of remedial 
actions, if any, that will be taken by 
the Administrator to enhance the in-
ternal controls of the agency and re-
coup funds that may have been ex-
pended in violation of law, regulations, 
or program requirements issued under 
titles II and V; and 
‘‘(III) a description of— 
‘‘(aa) the analysis conducted 
under clause (i); 
‘‘(bb) whether the funds 
awarded under titles II and V 
have been used in accordance 
with law, regulations, program 
guidance, and applicable plans; 
and 
‘‘(cc) the extent to which 
funds awarded to States and In-
dian tribes under titles II and V 
enhanced the ability of grantees 
to fulfill the core requirements. 
‘‘(C) REPORT
BY
THE
ATTORNEY
GEN-
ERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of the Supporting Youth Oppor-
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