(3) QUALIFIED
APPROACH
TO
COMMUNITY 
SAFETY.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘qualified ap-
proach to community safety’’ means, with re-
spect to a program or service, that the program 
or service is established or provided in a man-
ner that is disconnected from carceral institu-
tions, including law enforcement, criminal 
courts, prosecution, probation, child welfare 
services, or immigration enforcement. 
(B) DISCONNECTED.— For purposes of 
subparagraph (A), the term ‘‘disconnected from 
carceral institutions’’ means having no relation-
ship with respect to administration, staffing, or 
funding, or otherwise cooperating with, collabo-
rating with, or reporting to, any carceral insti-
tution in any situation, except where the pro-
gram or service involved is bound to engage in 
such cooperation or reporting by existing Fed-
eral, State, or local law.’’ 
(4) PARTICIPATORY
BUDGETING.—The term 
‘‘participatory budgeting’’ means a democratic en-
gagement process in which community members de-
liberate and decide directly how to allocate a portion 
of a public budget. 
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(5) SAFETY
NEEDS
ASSESSMENT.—The term 
‘‘safety needs assessment’’ means a systematic, 
participatory process for identifying the safety needs 
in the local community. Such process shall include— 
(A) soliciting input from persons who rep-
resent the broad interests of the local commu-
nity, including those who have been directly im-
pacted by arrest, incarceration, criminal super-
vision, immigration detention, or other criminal 
justice system involvement; 
(B) identifying the structural, systemic 
factors that may lead community members to 
feel unsafe or may increase the risk that com-
munity members may become involved with the 
criminal justice system; 
(C) identifying existing resources that are 
potentially available to address those safety 
needs as well as any other gaps in necessary re-
sources; and 
(D) providing opportunities that allow peo-
ple meaningful opportunities to review, com-
ment on, and provide suggested modifications 
to the draft assessment, such as through public 
hearings, online publication, and a comment pe-
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riod that allows sufficient time for community 
feedback. 
(6) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means any 
State of the United States, the District of Columbia, 
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Is-
lands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern 
Mariana Islands. 
(7) UNIT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.—The term 
‘‘unit of local government’’ means a any city, county, 
township, town, borough, parish, village, or other 
general purpose political subdivision of a State. 
TITLE I—DIVISION ON 
COMMUNITY SAFETY 
SEC. 101. DIVISION ON COMMUNITY SAFETY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There is established within the 
Department of Health and Human Services a Division of 
Community Safety (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Divi-
sion’’). The Division shall be headed by an Assistant Sec-
retary for Community Safety (referred to in this Act as 
the ‘‘Assistant Secretary’’) who shall be designated by and 
report directly to the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Division shall have re-
sponsibility for overseeing activities that promote qualified 
approaches to community safety, including— 
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(1) coordinating and carrying out other over-
sight activities with respect to the grant programs 
established under title II; 
(2) funding, conducting, and publicly dissemi-
nating the findings of, research into policies, pro-
grams, infrastructure, and other investments that 
serve to increase qualified approaches to community 
safety, including through interdisciplinary collabora-
tions involving scholars, nonprofits, and other non-
governmental actors; 
(3) providing and funding technical assistance 
to State and local governments to implement quali-
fied approaches to community safety; 
(4) establishing— 
(A) the Community Advisory Board under 
section 102; 
(B) the Federal Health Response Unit 
under section 103; 
(C) the Interagency Task force under sec-
tion 104; 
(D) the Community Safety and Crisis Re-
sponse Grant for community-led organizations 
under section 201; 
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(E) the Community Safety and Crisis Re-
sponse Grant for Local Governments under sec-
tion 202; 
(F) the Community Safety and Crisis Re-
sponse Grant for States under section 203; and 
(G) the First Responders Hiring Grants 
under section 204; 
(5) coordinating, streamlining, and imple-
menting qualified approaches to community safety in 
collaboration with the Assistant Secretary for the 
Administration for Children and Families, Director 
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
Administrator of the Health Resources and Services 
Administration, Director of the Indian Health Serv-
ice, and the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health 
and Substances Use, and other relevant agencies 
within the Department of Health and Human Serv-
ices; 
(6) supporting and helping to coordinate inter-
agency initiatives that advance, streamline, and oth-
erwise implement qualified approaches to community 
safety; 
(7) administering grant programs that support 
State governments, local governments, and commu-
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nity-based organizations in implementing qualified 
approaches to increasing community safety; 
(8) providing to the public updates, findings, 
and recommendations on qualified approaches to 
community safety collected from the reports made by 
recipients of grants under title II; and 
(9) establishing and maintaining a complaint 
system responsible for the resolution of complaints 
from members of the general public regarding grant 
funding for programs not compliant with the quali-
fied approaches to community safety standard. 
SEC. 102. COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Division shall establish an 
advisory board to oversee the activities of the Division es-
tablished under section 101 and grant programs under 
title II, to be known as the Community Advisory Board 
(referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Advisory Board’’). 
(b) COMPOSITION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Advisory Board shall be 
composed of individuals, to be selected by the Sec-
retary. Such members shall reflect the racial, reli-
gious, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, disability 
status, immigration status, and other diversities of 
the United States, including representation for 
Black people, Asian-American people, Latinx people, 
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indigenous people, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgen-
der, and queer people, women, youth, disabled peo-
ple, undocumented and formerly undocumented im-
migrants, and other groups that have been dis-
proportionately disadvantaged by the criminal justice 
system. 
(2) REPRESENTATION.—The Assistant Sec-
retary shall ensure that a certain number of individ-
uals selected to serve as members of the Advisory 
Board— 
(A) have personal experience with the 
criminal justice system, including — 
(i) individuals who have been detained 
or incarcerated; 
(ii) individuals who are currently on 
community supervision (such as probation 
or parole) or who have been on community 
supervision; 
(iii) individuals who have been ar-
rested or cited by law enforcement; 
(iv) individuals who have been directly 
impacted by police violence or other forms 
of violence, including domestic violence, 
sexual assault, rape, and other forms of 
sexual or intimate partner violence; and 
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(v) immediate family members of indi-
viduals who have been directly impacted by 
police violence; and 
(B) are advocates or grassroots practi-
tioners working to advance educational equity, 
health equity, housing equity, environmental 
justice, racial justice, gender justice, disability 
justice, or indigenous justice. 
(3) PAY.—Members of the Advisory Board shall 
serve at a rate of pay to be determined by the Sec-
retary. 
(4) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The duties of the Ad-
visory Board are as follows: 
(A) Approving annual priorities and fund-
ing for research and technical assistance and 
evaluating, on an annual basis research con-
ducted or supported by the Division and tech-
nical assistance provided by the Division. 
(B) Based on the evaluations conducted 
under paragraph (5), producing, and submitting 
to the Administrator, annual recommendations 
on the following: 
(i) Whether activities conducted by 
the Division adequately reflect the specific 
needs and interests of all individuals, in-
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cluding Black individuals, Asian-American 
individuals, Latinx individuals, indigenous 
individuals, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and 
transgender individuals, disabled individ-
uals, and other individuals who are mem-
bers of communities that have been dis-
proportionately impacted by the immigra-
tion and criminal justice system. 
(ii) Whether funding made available 
to the Division is sufficiently flowing to or-
ganizations that are led by individuals re-
ferred to in clause (i). 
(iii) Changes that the Division could 
make to address any issues uncovered dur-
ing such evaluations, including ways to en-
sure that grants awarded under this title 
are serving to enhance racial equity and 
benefit 
community-based 
organizations 
that have diverse leadership and composi-
tion. 
(5) REPORT.—Not later than 60 days after the 
date on which the Division receives the recommenda-
tions under paragraph (4)(E), the Division shall 
submit a report to Congress, which details— 
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(A) steps the Division has taken or will 
take to implement the Advisory Board’s rec-
ommendations; or 
(B) for any recommendations not imple-
mented or planned to be implemented, an expla-
nation as to why such recommendation was in-
feasible or conflicted with the Division’s statu-
tory obligations. 
SEC. 103. FEDERAL HEALTH RESPONSE UNIT. 
The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
establish a Federal health response unit, to be known as 
the ‘‘Federal Health Response Unit’’, which shall— 
(1) respond, through a response unit trained in 
accordance with training developed under paragraph 
(2), to any public health emergency— 
(A) declared by the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services under section 319 of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d); or 
(B) with respect to which the head of a 
State public health agency makes a request to 
the Secretary for assistance; 
(2) develop, provide for the training of, and 
hire, not fewer than 5,000 personnel to respond to 
such an emergency; 
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(3) develop, and provide to States and units of 
local government, guidelines for qualified approaches 
to community safety; 
(4) support local educational agencies as de-
fined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801) 
with resources, personnel and services that create 
truly safe and inclusive schools; 
(5) provide States and units of local govern-
ment with personnel to improve access to health 
services and address the public health emergency de-
scribed in paragraph (1) within their respective ju-
risdiction; and 
(6) coordinate with the commissioned Regular 
corps and Ready Reserve Corps under section 203 of 
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204), the 
Medical Reserve Corps under section 2813 of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300hh–15), 
and State-level agencies and crisis response teams. 
SEC. 104. INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall establish an interagency task force 
(referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Task Force’’) to coordinate 
and promote holistic, qualified approaches to community 
safety. 
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(b) MEMBERS.—The Task Force shall be composed 
of the following members: 
(1) The Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices, or the designee of the Secretary. 
(2) The Attorney General, or the designee of 
the Attorney General. 
(3) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, or the designee of the Secretary. 
(4) The Secretary of Education, or the designee 
of the Secretary. 
(5) The Secretary of Labor, or the designee of 
the Secretary. 
(6) The Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, or the designee of the Adminis-
trator. 
(7) Other agencies, as determined necessary by 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 
(c) DUTIES.—The Task Force shall: 
(1) Conduct a comprehensive audit of all funds 
allocated and programs supported by the Depart-
ment of Justice and other Federal agencies that 
fund law enforcement, jails, prisons, and other de-
tention facilities, and other coercive or carceral ap-
proaches to community safety. 
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(2) Conduct a comprehensive audit that as-
sesses all Federal funds allocated to, as well as Fed-
eral programs supporting, initiatives that are in-
tended to enhance qualified approaches to commu-
nity safety, disaggregated by jurisdiction. 
(3) Facilitate ongoing efforts to streamline the 
application, monitoring, and reporting processes to 
make Federal funds provided pursuant to any grant 
made under this Act maximally accessible to small, 
grassroots organizations that work to develop, imple-
ment, or evaluate qualified approaches to community 
safety. 
(d) MEETINGS.—For the purpose of carrying out this 
section, the Task Force may hold such meetings, and sit 
and act at such times and places, as the Task Force con-
siders appropriate. 
(e) INFORMATION.—The Task Force may secure di-
rectly from any Federal agency such information as may 
be necessary to enable the Task Force to carry out this 
section. Upon request of the Chairperson of the Task 
Force, the head of such agency shall furnish such informa-
tion to the Task Force. 
(f) REPORTS.—For the purposes of enabling the 
Task Force to carry out the audits required under sub-
section (c), not less than once every six months— 
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(1) the Secretary of Education shall submit to 
the Assistant Secretary a report that contains with 
respect to each recipient of a grant awarded by the 
Secretary a profile of such recipient and in the case 
of any such recipient that is a State or unit of local 
government— 
(A) the needs of school health providers in 
the relevant jurisdiction; and 
(B) information on the applicable local 
school population, including the largest barriers 
to the safety of the school population (including 
when school is not in session); 
(2) the Attorney General shall submit to the 
Assistant Secretary a report that contains with re-
spect to each recipient of a grant awarded by the 
Secretary a profile of such recipient and in the case 
of any such recipient that is a State or unit of local 
government— 
(A) the amount of grant funds awarded to 
the jurisdiction under a grant administered by 
the Attorney General; 
(B) the recipients progress in meeting the 
purposes specified in section 1, including— 
(i) the number of residents who are 
being incarcerated, criminally supervised, 
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or otherwise confined in any coercive insti-
tutional structure and how these numbers 
have changed over time; 
(ii) the amount and type of any fines, 
fees, or other financial obligations owed by 
residents to any component of the criminal 
justice system; 
(iii) the amount and type of contact 
that residents have with the criminal jus-
tice system; and 
(iv) racial disparities in arrest, incar-
ceration, criminal supervision, school dis-
cipline, and other areas that people may 
contact the criminal justice system. 
SEC. 105. NON-DISCRIMINATION. 
No person in the United States shall, on the basis 
of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, 
sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), or 
disability, be excluded from participation in, be denied the 
benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under— 
(1) any program or activity funded, in whole or 
in part, with funds made available under this title; 
or 
(2) any other program or activity funded, in 
whole or in part, with funds appropriated for grants, 
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cooperative agreements, and other assistance admin-
istered by the Assistant Secretary. 
TITLE II—GRANTS IN SUPPORT 
OF COMMUNITY SAFETY 
SEC. 201. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMUNITY SAFETY AND 
CRISIS RESPONSE GRANT FOR COMMUNITY- 
LED ORGANIZATIONS. 
(a) GRANT PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.—The Secretary 
of Health and Human Services (in this Act referred to 
as the ‘‘Secretary’’), shall award grants, on a rolling basis, 
to community-based organizations that are designing, im-
plementing, monitoring, or otherwise supporting qualified 
approaches to community safety. 
(b) APPLICATION.—A community-based organization 
seeking a grant under this section shall submit an applica-
tion to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and 
containing such information as the Secretary may require. 
(c) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this sec-
tion, the Secretary shall give priority to community-based 
organizations that— 
(1) serve, are located in, and directly employ 
people who live in, communities that have been dis-
proportionately impacted by the immigration or 
criminal justice system, as evidenced by high rates 
of individuals who have been cited, arrested, or in-
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carcerated in the year preceding the year for which 
the application for such grant is submitted; 
(2) are led by, or employ, individuals who have 
been directly impacted by the criminal justice sys-
tem, including via arrests, incarceration, witnessing 
or being victims of police violence, or having a family 
member who was arrested, incarcerated, or a victim 
of police violence; 
(3) are led by individuals who have proven ties 
to the community in which the organization oper-
ates; 
(4) are located in, or primarily serve, Native 
American communities on and off of reservations, 
including Urban Indian (as defined in section 4 of 
the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 
1603)) communities; or 
(5) have a leadership that reflects the racial di-
versity of the community in which the organization 
operates. 
(d) USE OF FUNDS.—A community-based organiza-
tion receiving funds under this section shall use such grant 
funds for any purpose that has demonstrable connection 
to improving community safety through the use of quali-
fied approaches to community safety, including grant writ-
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