103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3353
AN ACT
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act of 1968 to allow grants to develop more effective
programs to reduce juvenile gang participation and juve-
nile drug trafficking.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. JUVENILE DRUG TRAFFICKING AND GANG PRE-
VENTION GRANTS.
(a) The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
of 1968, is amended—
(1) by redesignating part Q as part R;
(2) by redesignating section 1701 as section
1801; and
(3) by inserting after part P the following new
part:
‘‘PART Q—JUVENILE DRUG TRAFFICKING AND
GANG PREVENTION GRANTS
‘‘SEC. 1701. GRANT AUTHORIZATION.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director is authorized to
make grants to States and units of local government or
combinations thereof to assist them in planning, establish-
ing, operating, coordinating, and evaluating projects di-
rectly or through grants and contracts with public and pri-
vate agencies for the development of more effective pro-
grams, including education, prevention, treatment and en-
forcement programs to reduce—
‘‘(1) the formation or continuation of juvenile
gangs; and
‘‘(2) the use and sale of illegal drugs by juve-
niles.
‘‘(b) USES OF FUNDS.—The grants made under this
section may be used for any of the following specific pur-
poses:
‘‘(1) to reduce the participation of juveniles in
drug related crimes (including drug trafficking and
drug use), particularly in and around elementary
and secondary schools;
‘‘(2) to reduce juvenile involvement in organized
crime, drug and gang-related activity, particularly
activities that involve the distribution of drugs by or
to juveniles;
‘‘(3) to develop new and innovative means to
address the problems of juveniles convicted of seri-
ous, drug-related and gang-related offenses;
‘‘(4) to reduce juvenile drug and gang-related
activity in public housing projects;
‘‘(5) to provide technical assistance and train-
ing to personnel and agencies responsible for the ad-
judicatory and corrections components of the juve-
nile justice system to identify drug-dependent or
gang-involved juvenile offenders and to provide ap-
propriate counseling and treatment to such offend-
ers;
‘‘(6) to promote the involvement of all juveniles
in lawful activities, including—
‘‘(A) school programs that teach that drug
and gang involvement are wrong; and
‘‘(B) programs such as youth sports and
other activities, including girls and boys clubs,
scout troops, and little leagues;
‘‘(7) to facilitate Federal and State cooperation
with local school officials to develop education, pre-
vention and treatment programs for juveniles who
are likely to participate in drug trafficking, drug use
or gang-related activities;
‘‘(8) to provide pre- and post-trial drug abuse
treatment to juveniles in the juvenile justice system;
with the highest possible priority to providing drug
abuse treatment to drug-dependent pregnant juve-
niles and drug-dependent juvenile mothers;
‘‘(9) to provide education and treatment pro-
grams for youth exposed to severe violence in their
homes, schools, or neighborhoods;
‘‘(10) to establish sports mentoring and coach-
ing programs in which athletes serve as role models
for youth to teach that athletics provide a positive
alternative to drug and gang involvement;
‘‘(11) to develop new programs that specifically
address the unique crime, drug, and alcohol-related
challenges faced by juveniles living at or near Inter-
national Ports of Entry and in other international
border communities, including rural localities;
‘‘(12) to identify promising new juvenile drug
demand reduction and enforcement programs, to
replicate and demonstrate these programs to serve
as national, regional or local models that could be
used, in whole or in part, by other public and private
juvenile justice programs, and to provide technical
assistance and training to public or private organiza-
tions to implement similar programs; and
‘‘(13) to coordinate violence, gang, and juvenile
drug prevention programs with other existing Fed-
eral programs that serve community youth to better
address the comprehensive needs of such youth.
‘‘(c) FEDERAL SHARE.—(1) The Federal share of a
grant made under this part may not exceed 75 percent
of the total costs of the projects described in applications
submitted under this section for the fiscal year for which
the projects receive assistance under this part.
‘‘(2) The Director may waive the 25 percent match-
ing requirement under paragraph (1), upon making a de-
termination that such waiver is equitable due to the finan-
cial circumstances affecting the ability of the applicant to
meet such requirements.
‘‘SEC. 1702. APPLICATIONS.
‘‘A State or unit of local government applying for
grants under this part shall submit an application to the
Director in such form and containing such information as
the Director shall reasonably require.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3711 et seq.), is amended
by striking the matter relating to part Q and inserting
the following:
‘‘PART Q—JUVENILE DRUG TRAFFICKING AND GANG PREVENTION GRANTS
‘‘Sec. 1701. Grant authorization.