IIB 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1700 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 16, 2007 
Received 
AUGUST 3, 2007 
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
AN ACT 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 to enhance the COPS ON THE BEAT 
grant program, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘COPS Improvements 
Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. COPS GRANT IMPROVEMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1701 of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
3796dd) is amended— 
(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(a) GRANT AUTHORIZATION.—The Attorney Gen-
eral shall carry out grant programs under which the Attor-
ney General makes grants to States, units of local govern-
ment, Indian tribal governments, other public and private 
entities, multi-jurisdictional or regional consortia, and in-
dividuals for the purposes described in subsections (b), (c), 
(d), and (e).’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking the subsection heading text 
and inserting ‘‘COMMUNITY
POLICING
AND 
CRIME PREVENTION GRANTS’’; 
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘, to in-
crease the number of officers deployed in com-
munity-oriented policing’’; 
(C) by amending paragraph (4) to read as 
follows: 
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‘‘(4) award grants to pay for or train officers 
hired to perform intelligence, anti-terror, or home-
land security duties;’’; 
(D) by inserting after paragraph (4) the 
following: 
‘‘(5) award grants to hire school resource offi-
cers and to establish school-based partnerships be-
tween local law enforcement agencies and local 
school systems to combat crime, gangs, drug activi-
ties, and other problems in and around elementary 
and secondary schools;’’; 
(E) by striking paragraph (9); 
(F) by redesignating paragraphs (10) 
through (12) as paragraphs (9) through (11), 
respectively; 
(G) by striking paragraph (13); 
(H) by redesignating paragraphs (14) 
through (17) as paragraphs (12) through (15), 
respectively; 
(I) in paragraph (14), as so redesignated, 
by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(J) in paragraph (15), as so redesignated, 
by striking the period at the end and inserting 
a semicolon; and 
(K) by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(16) establish and implement innovative pro-
grams to reduce and prevent illegal drug manufac-
turing, distribution, and use, including the manufac-
turing, distribution, and use of methamphetamine; 
‘‘(17) establish criminal gang enforcement task 
forces, consisting of members of Federal, State, and 
local law enforcement authorities (including Federal, 
State, and local prosecutors), for the coordinated in-
vestigation, disruption, apprehension, and prosecu-
tion of criminal gangs and offenders involved in local 
or multi-jurisdictional gang activities; and 
‘‘(18) award enhancing community policing and 
crime prevention grants that meet emerging law en-
forcement needs, as warranted.’’; 
(3) by striking subsection (c); 
(4) by striking subsections (h) and (i); 
(5) by redesignating subsections (d) through (g) 
as subsections (f) through (i), respectively; 
(6) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(c) TROOPS-TO-COPS PROGRAMS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Grants made under sub-
section (a) may be used to hire former members of 
the Armed Forces to serve as career law enforce-
ment officers for deployment in community-oriented 
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policing, particularly in communities that are ad-
versely affected by a recent military base closing. 
‘‘(2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, ‘former 
member of the Armed Forces’ means a member of 
the Armed Forces of the United States who has 
been honorably discharged from the Armed Forces 
of the United States. 
‘‘(d) COMMUNITY PROSECUTORS PROGRAM.—The 
Attorney General may make grants under subsection (a) 
to pay for additional community prosecuting programs, in-
cluding programs that assign prosecutors to— 
‘‘(1) handle cases from specific geographic 
areas; and 
‘‘(2) address counter-terrorism problems, spe-
cific violent crime problems (including intensive ille-
gal gang, gun, and drug enforcement and quality of 
life initiatives), and localized violent and other crime 
problems based on needs identified by local law en-
forcement agencies, community organizations, and 
others. 
‘‘(e) TECHNOLOGY GRANTS.—The Attorney General 
may make grants under subsection (a) to develop and use 
new technologies (including interoperable communications 
technologies, modernized criminal record technology, and 
forensic technology) to assist State and local law enforce-
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ment agencies in reorienting the emphasis of their activi-
ties from reacting to crime to preventing crime and to 
train law enforcement officers to use such technologies.’’; 
(7) in subsection (f), as so redesignated— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘to 
States, units of local government, Indian tribal 
governments, and to other public and private 
entities,’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘define 
for State and local governments, and other pub-
lic and private entities,’’ and inserting ‘‘estab-
lish’’; 
(C) in the first sentence of paragraph (3), 
by inserting ‘‘(including regional community po-
licing institutes)’’ after ‘‘training centers or fa-
cilities’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) EXCLUSIVITY.—The Office of Community 
Oriented Policing Services shall be the exclusive 
component of the Department of Justice to perform 
the functions and activities specified in this para-
graph.’’; 
(8) in subsection (g), as so redesignated, by 
striking ‘‘may utilize any component’’, and all that 
follows and inserting ‘‘shall use the Office of Com-
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munity Oriented Policing Services of the Depart-
ment of Justice in carrying out this part.’’; 
(9) in subsection (h), as so redesignated— 
(A) by striking ‘‘subsection (a)’’ the first 
place that term appears and inserting ‘‘para-
graphs (1) and (2) of subsection (b)’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘in each fiscal year pursu-
ant to subsection (a)’’ and inserting ‘‘in each 
fiscal year for purposes described in paragraph 
(1) and (2) of subsection (b)’’; 
(10) in subsection (i), as so redesignated— 
(A) by striking ‘‘the Federal share shall 
decrease from year to year for up to 5 years’’ 
and inserting ‘‘unless the Attorney General 
waives the non-Federal contribution require-
ment as described in the preceding sentence, 
the non-Federal share of the costs of hiring or 
rehiring such officers may be less than 25 per-
cent of such costs for any year during the grant 
period, provided that the non-Federal share of 
such costs shall not be less than 25 percent in 
the aggregate for the entire grant period, but 
the State or local government should make an 
effort to increase the non-Federal share of such 
costs during the grant period’’; and 
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(B) by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ‘‘The preceding sentences shall not 
apply with respect to any program, project, or 
activity provided by a grant made pursuant to 
subsection (b)(4).’’; and 
(11) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(j) RETENTION
OF ADDITIONAL OFFICER POSI-
TIONS.—For any grant under paragraph (1) or (2) of sub-
section (b) for hiring or rehiring career law enforcement 
officers, a grant recipient shall retain each additional law 
enforcement officer position created under that grant for 
not less than 12 months after the end of the period of 
that grant, unless the Attorney General waives, wholly or 
in part, the retention requirement of a program, project, 
or activity.’’. 
(b) APPLICATIONS.—Section 1702 of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
3796dd–1) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by inserting ‘‘, unless waived by the Attorney 
General’’ after ‘‘under this part shall’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘share of 
the cost’’ and all that follows and inserting 
‘‘share of the costs during the grant period, 
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how the applicant will maintain the increased 
hiring level of the law enforcement officers, and 
how the applicant will eventually assume re-
sponsibility for all of the costs for such offi-
cers;’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (d). 
(c) RENEWAL OF GRANTS.—Section 1703 of the Om-
nibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 
U.S.C. 3796dd–2) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 1703. RENEWAL OF GRANTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b), a grant made under this part may be renewed, without 
limitations on the duration of such renewal, to provide ad-
ditional funds if the Attorney General determines that the 
funds made available to the recipient were used in a man-
ner required under an approved application and if the re-
cipient can demonstrate significant progress in achieving 
the objectives of the initial application. 
‘‘(b) GRANTS FOR HIRING.—Grants made under this 
part for hiring or rehiring additional career law enforce-
ment officers may be renewed for up to 5 years, except 
that the Attorney General may waive such 5-year limita-
tion for good cause. 
‘‘(c) NO COST EXTENSIONS.—Notwithstanding sub-
sections (a) and (b), the Attorney General may extend a 
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grant period, without limitations as to the duration of 
such extension, to provide additional time to complete the 
objectives of the initial grant award.’’. 
(d) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—Section 1704 
of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd–3) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘that would, in the absence 
of Federal funds received under this part, be 
made available from State or local sources’’ and 
inserting ‘‘that the Attorney General determines 
would, in the absence of Federal funds received 
under this part, be made available for the pur-
pose of the grant under this part from State or 
local sources’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ‘‘The preceding sentence shall not 
apply with respect to funds made available 
under this part by a grant made pursuant to 
subsection (a) for the purposes described in 
subsection (b)(4).’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (c). 
(e) STUDY OF PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS.—Section 
1705 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
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of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd–4) is amended by adding at 
the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(d) STUDY OF PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall 
provide for a scientific study of the effectiveness of 
the programs, projects, and activities funded under 
this part in reducing crime. 
‘‘(2) STUDY.—The Attorney General shall se-
lect one or more institutions of higher education, in-
cluding historically Black colleges and universities, 
to conduct the study described in paragraph (1). 
‘‘(3) REPORTS.—Not later than 4 years after 
the date of the enactment of the COPS Improve-
ments Act of 2007, the institution or institutions se-
lected under paragraph (2) shall report the findings 
of the study described in paragraph (1) to the Attor-
ney General. Not later than 30 days after the receipt 
of such report, the Attorney General shall report 
such findings to the appropriate committees of Con-
gress, along with any recommendations the Attorney 
General may have relating to the effectiveness of the 
programs, projects, and activities funded under this 
part in reducing crime.’’. 
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(f) ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS.—Section 1706 of the 
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 
U.S.C. 3796dd–5) is amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘REV-
OCATION OR SUSPENSION OF FUNDING’’ and in-
serting ‘‘ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘revoke or suspend’’ and all that 
follows and inserting ‘‘take any enforcement action 
available to the Department of Justice.’’. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—Section 1709(1) of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
3796dd–8(1)) is amended by inserting ‘‘who is a sworn 
law enforcement officer’’ after ‘‘permanent basis’’. 
(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
1001(a)(11) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3793(a)(11)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) 
in 
subparagraph 
(A), 
by 
striking 
‘‘1,047,119,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 
through 2009’’ and inserting ‘‘1,150,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2008 through 2013’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (B)— 
(A) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘3 
percent may be used for technical assistance 
under section 1701(d)’’ and inserting ‘‘5 per-
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cent may be used for technical assistance under 
section 1701(f)’’; and 
(B) by striking the second sentence and in-
serting the following: ‘‘Of the funds available 
for grants under part Q, not less than 
$600,000,000 shall be used for grants for the 
purposes specified in section 1701(b), not more 
than $200,000,000 shall be used for grants 
under section 1701(d), and not more than 
$350,000,000 shall be used for grants under 
section 1701(e).’’. 
(i) PURPOSES.—Section 10002 of the Public Safety 
Partnership and Community Policing Act of 1994 (42 
U.S.C. 3796dd note) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘development’’ 
and inserting ‘‘use’’; and 
(2) in the matter following paragraph (4), by 
striking ‘‘for a period of 6 years’’. 
(j) COPS PROGRAM IMPROVEMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 109(b) of the Omni-
bus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 
U.S.C. 3712h(b)) is amended— 
(A) by striking paragraph (1); 
(B) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and 
(3) as paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively; and 
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(C) in paragraph (2), as so redesignated, 
by inserting ‘‘, except for the program under 
part Q of this title’’ before the period. 
(2) 
LAW
ENFORCEMENT
COMPUTER
SYS-
TEMS.—Section 107 of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3712f) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) EXCEPTION.—This section shall not apply to any 
grant made under part Q of this title.’’. 
SEC. 3. REPORT BY INSPECTOR GENERAL REQUIRED. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of the 
Department of Justice shall submit to Congress a report 
on the Public Safety and Community Policing (‘‘COPS 
ON THE BEAT’’) grant program authorized by part Q 
of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd et seq.), including the ele-
ments described in subsection (b). 
(b) ELEMENTS OF REPORT.—The report submitted 
under subsection (a) shall include information on the fol-
lowing, with respect to the grant program described in 
such subsection: 
(1) The effect of the program on the rate of 
violent crime, drug offenses, and other crimes. 
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(2) The degree to which State and local govern-
ments awarded a grant under the program con-
tribute State and local funds, respectively, for law 
enforcement programs and activities. 
(3) Any waste, fraud, or abuse within the pro-
gram. 
(c) RANDOM SAMPLING REQUIRED.—For purposes of 
subsection (a), the Inspector General of the Department 
of Justice shall audit and review a random sampling of 
State and local law enforcement agencies. Such sampling 
shall include— 
(1) law enforcement agencies of various sizes; 
(2) law enforcement agencies that serve various 
populations; and 
(3) law enforcement agencies that serve areas 
of various crime rates. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 15, 2007. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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