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SEC. 1104. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 
2009. 
There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2009, 
to carry out the activities of the Department of Justice (including 
any bureau, office, board, division, commission, subdivision, unit, 
or other component thereof), the following sums: 
(1) GENERAL
ADMINISTRATION.—For General Administra-
tion: $181,561,000. 
(2) ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW AND APPEALS.—For Adminis-
trative Review and Appeals: $243,291,000 for administration 
of pardon and clemency petitions and for immigration-related 
activities. 
(3) OFFICE
OF
INSPECTOR
GENERAL.—For the Office of 
Inspector General: $81,922,000, which shall include not to 
exceed $10,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a confidential 
character. 
(4) GENERAL LEGAL ACTIVITIES.—For General Legal Activi-
ties: $764,526,000, which shall include— 
(A) not less than $4,000,000 for the investigation and 
prosecution of denaturalization and deportation cases 
involving alleged Nazi war criminals; 
(B) not less than $16,872,000 for the investigation and 
prosecution of violations of title 17 of the United States 
Code; 
(C) not to exceed $20,000 to meet unforeseen emer-
gencies of a confidential character; and 
(D) $5,000,000 for the investigation and prosecution 
of violations of chapter 77 of title 18 of the United States 
Code. 
(5) ANTITRUST
DIVISION.—For the Antitrust Division: 
$162,488,000. 
(6) UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS.—For United States Attor-
neys: $1,829,194,000. 
(7) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.—For the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation: $6,480,608,000, which shall include 
not to exceed $70,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a 
confidential character. 
(8) UNITED
STATES
MARSHALS
SERVICE.—For the United 
States Marshals Service: $900,178,000. 
(9) FEDERAL
PRISON
SYSTEM.—For the Federal Prison 
System, including the National Institute of Corrections: 
$5,698,292,000. 
(10) DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION.—For the Drug 
Enforcement Administration: $1,930,462,000, which shall 
include not to exceed $70,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies 
of a confidential character. 
(11) BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND EXPLO-
SIVES.—For the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and 
Explosives: $1,038,939,000. 
(12) FEES
AND
EXPENSES
OF
WITNESSES.—For Fees and 
Expenses of Witnesses: $203,755,000, which shall include not 
to exceed $8,000,000 for construction of protected witness 
safesites. 
(13) INTERAGENCY CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT.—For 
Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement: $744,593,000, for 
expenses not otherwise provided for, for the investigation and
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prosecution of persons involved in organized crime drug traf-
ficking, except that any funds obligated from appropriations 
authorized by this paragraph may be used under authorities 
available to the organizations reimbursed from such funds. 
(14) FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION.—For the 
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission: $1,429,000. 
(15) COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE.—For the Community 
Relations Service: $10,977,000. 
(16) ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND.—For the Assets Forfeiture 
Fund: $22,000,000 for expenses authorized by section 524 of 
title 28, United States Code. 
(17) UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION.—For the United 
States Parole Commission: $12,711,000. 
(18) FEDERAL
DETENTION
TRUSTEE.—For the necessary 
expenses of the Federal Detention Trustee: $1,858,509,000. 
(19) JUSTICE INFORMATION SHARING TECHNOLOGY.—For nec-
essary expenses for information sharing technology, including 
planning, development, and deployment: $204,152,000. 
(20) NARROWBAND
COMMUNICATIONS.—For the costs of 
conversion to narrowband communications, including the cost 
for operation and maintenance of Land Mobile Radio legacy 
systems: $144,771,000. 
(21) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES FOR CERTAIN ACTIVITIES.—
For the administrative expenses of the Office of Justice Pro-
grams, the Office on Violence Against Women, and the Office 
of Community Oriented Policing Services: 
(A) $132,226,000 for the Office of Justice Programs. 
(B) $16,837,000 for the Office on Violence Against 
Women. 
(C) $35,257,000 for the Office of Community Oriented 
Policing Services. 
SEC. 1105. ORGANIZED RETAIL THEFT. 
(a) NATIONAL DATA.—(1) The Attorney General and the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, in consultation with the retail community, 
shall establish a task force to combat organized retail theft and 
provide expertise to the retail community for the establishment 
of a national database or clearinghouse housed and maintained 
in the private sector to track and identify where organized retail 
theft type crimes are being committed in the United Sates. The 
national database shall allow Federal, State, and local law enforce-
ment officials as well as authorized retail companies (and authorized 
associated retail databases) to transmit information into the data-
base electronically and to review information that has been sub-
mitted electronically. 
(2) The Attorney General shall make available funds to provide 
for the ongoing administrative and technological costs to federal 
law enforcement agencies participating in the database project. 
(3) The Attorney General through the Bureau of Justice Assist-
ance in the Office of Justice may make grants to help provide 
for the administrative and technological costs to State and local 
law enforcement agencies participating in the data base project. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is authorized 
to be appropriated for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2009, 
$5,000,000 for educating and training federal law enforcement 
regarding organized retail theft, for investigating, apprehending 
and prosecuting individuals engaged in organized retail theft, and
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for working with the private sector to establish and utilize the 
database described in subsection (a). 
(c) DEFINITION OF ORGANIZED RETAIL THEFT.—For purposes 
of this section, ‘‘organized retail theft’’ means— 
(1) the violation of a State prohibition on retail merchandise 
theft or shoplifting, if the violation consists of the theft of 
quantities of items that would not normally be purchased for 
personal use or consumption and for the purpose of reselling 
the items or for reentering the items into commerce; 
(2) the receipt, possession, concealment, bartering, sale, 
transport, or disposal of any property that is know or should 
be known to have been taken in violation of paragraph (1); 
or 
(3) the coordination, organization, or recruitment of persons 
to undertake the conduct described in paragraph (1) or (2). 
SEC. 1106. UNITED STATES-MEXICO BORDER VIOLENCE TASK FORCE. 
(a) TASK FORCE.—(1) The Attorney General shall establish the 
United States-Mexico Border Violence Task Force in Laredo, Texas, 
to combat drug and firearms trafficking, violence, and kidnapping 
along the border between the United States and Mexico and to 
provide expertise to the law enforcement and homeland security 
agencies along the border between the United States and Mexico. 
The Task Force shall include personnel from the Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs and 
Border Protection, other Federal agencies (as appropriate), the 
Texas Department of Public Safety, and local law enforcement 
agencies. 
(2) The Attorney General shall make available funds to provide 
for the ongoing administrative and technological costs to Federal, 
State, and local law enforcement agencies participating in the Task 
Force. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized 
to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 
through 2009, for— 
(1) the establishment and operation of the United States-
Mexico Border Violence Task Force; and 
(2) the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of 
individuals engaged in drug and firearms trafficking, violence, 
and kidnapping along the border between the United States 
and Mexico. 
SEC. 1107. NATIONAL GANG INTELLIGENCE CENTER. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Attorney General shall establish a 
National Gang Intelligence Center and gang information database 
to be housed at and administered by the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation to collect, analyze, and disseminate gang activity informa-
tion from— 
(1) the Federal Bureau of Investigation; 
(2) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explo-
sives; 
(3) the Drug Enforcement Administration; 
(4) the Bureau of Prisons; 
(5) the United States Marshals Service; 
(6) the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security 
of the Department of Homeland Security; 
(7) the Department of Housing and Urban Development;
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(8) State and local law enforcement; 
(9) Federal, State, and local prosecutors; 
(10) Federal, State, and local probation and parole offices; 
(11) Federal, State, and local prisons and jails; and 
(12) any other entity as appropriate. 
(b) INFORMATION.—The Center established under subsection 
(a) shall make available the information referred to in subsection 
(a) to— 
(1) Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies; 
(2) Federal, State, and local corrections agencies and penal 
institutions; 
(3) Federal, State, and local prosecutorial agencies; and 
(4) any other entity as appropriate. 
(c) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Center established under subsection 
(a) shall annually submit to Congress a report on gang activity. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized 
to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for fiscal 
year 2006 and for each fiscal year thereafter. 
Subtitle B—IMPROVING THE DEPART-
MENT 
OF 
JUSTICE’S 
GRANT 
PRO-
GRAMS 
CHAPTER 1—ASSISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT AND 
CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCIES 
SEC. 1111. MERGER OF BYRNE GRANT PROGRAM AND LOCAL LAW 
ENFORCEMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 is amended as follows: 
(1) Subpart 1 of such part (42 U.S.C. 3751–3759) is 
repealed. 
(2) Such part is further amended— 
(A) by inserting before section 500 (42 U.S.C. 3750) 
the following new heading: 
‘‘Subpart 1—Edward Byrne Memorial Justice 
Assistance Grant Program’’; 
(B) by amending section 500 to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 500. NAME OF PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The grant program established under this 
subpart shall be known as the ‘Edward Byrne Memorial Justice 
Assistance Grant Program’. 
‘‘(b) REFERENCES
TO FORMER PROGRAMS.—(1) Any reference 
in a law, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforce-
ment Assistance Programs, or to the Local Government Law 
Enforcement Block Grants program, shall be deemed to be a ref-
erence to the grant program referred to in subsection (a). 
‘‘(2) Any reference in a law, regulation, document, paper, or 
other record of the United States to section 506 of this Act as 
such section was in effect on the date of the enactment of the 
Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act, Fiscal
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Years 2006 through 2009, shall be deemed to be a reference to 
section 505(a) of this Act as amended by the Department of Justice 
Appropriations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2006 through 2009.’’; 
and 
(C) by inserting after section 500 the following new 
sections: 
‘‘SEC. 501. DESCRIPTION. 
‘‘(a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—From amounts made available to carry 
out this subpart, the Attorney General may, in accordance 
with the formula established under section 505, make grants 
to States and units of local government, for use by the State 
or unit of local government to provide additional personnel, 
equipment, supplies, contractual support, training, technical 
assistance, and information systems for criminal justice, 
including for any one or more of the following programs: 
‘‘(A) Law enforcement programs. 
‘‘(B) Prosecution and court programs. 
‘‘(C) Prevention and education programs. 
‘‘(D) Corrections and community corrections programs. 
‘‘(E) Drug treatment and enforcement programs. 
‘‘(F) Planning, evaluation, and technology improvement 
programs. 
‘‘(G) Crime victim and witness programs (other than 
compensation). 
‘‘(2) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Paragraph (1) shall be con-
strued to ensure that a grant under that paragraph may be 
used for any purpose for which a grant was authorized to 
be used under either or both of the programs specified in 
section 500(b), as those programs were in effect immediately 
before the enactment of this paragraph. 
‘‘(b) CONTRACTS
AND SUBAWARDS.—A State or unit of local 
government may, in using a grant under this subpart for purposes 
authorized by subsection (a), use all or a portion of that grant 
to contract with or make one or more subawards to one or more— 
‘‘(1) neighborhood or community-based organizations that 
are private and nonprofit; 
‘‘(2) units of local government; or 
‘‘(3) tribal governments. 
‘‘(c) PROGRAM ASSESSMENT COMPONENT; WAIVER.— 
‘‘(1) Each program funded under this subpart shall contain 
a program assessment component, developed pursuant to guide-
lines established by the Attorney General, in coordination with 
the National Institute of Justice. 
‘‘(2) The Attorney General may waive the requirement of 
paragraph (1) with respect to a program if, in the opinion 
of the Attorney General, the program is not of sufficient size 
to justify a full program assessment. 
‘‘(d) PROHIBITED USES.—Notwithstanding any other provision 
of this Act, no funds provided under this subpart may be used, 
directly or indirectly, to provide any of the following matters: 
‘‘(1) Any security enhancements or any equipment to any 
nongovernmental entity that is not engaged in criminal justice 
or public safety. 
‘‘(2) Unless the Attorney General certifies that extraor-
dinary and exigent circumstances exist that make the use of
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such funds to provide such matters essential to the maintenance 
of public safety and good order— 
‘‘(A) vehicles (excluding police cruisers), vessels 
(excluding police boats), or aircraft (excluding police heli-
copters); 
‘‘(B) luxury items; 
‘‘(C) real estate; 
‘‘(D) construction projects (other than penal or correc-
tional institutions); or 
‘‘(E) any similar matters. 
‘‘(e) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—Not more than 10 percent of a 
grant made under this subpart may be used for costs incurred 
to administer such grant. 
‘‘(f) PERIOD.—The period of a grant made under this subpart 
shall be four years, except that renewals and extensions beyond 
that period may be granted at the discretion of the Attorney Gen-
eral. 
‘‘(g) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Subparagraph (d)(1) shall not 
be construed to prohibit the use, directly or indirectly, of funds 
provided under this subpart to provide security at a public event, 
such as a political convention or major sports event, so long as 
such security is provided under applicable laws and procedures. 
‘‘SEC. 502. APPLICATIONS. 
‘‘To request a grant under this subpart, the chief executive 
officer of a State or unit of local government shall submit an 
application to the Attorney General within 90 days after the date 
on which funds to carry out this subpart are appropriated for 
a fiscal year, in such form as the Attorney General may require. 
Such application shall include the following: 
‘‘(1) A certification that Federal funds made available under 
this subpart will not be used to supplant State or local funds, 
but will be used to increase the amounts of such funds that 
would, in the absence of Federal funds, be made available 
for law enforcement activities. 
‘‘(2) An assurance that, not fewer than 30 days before 
the application (or any amendment to the application) was 
submitted to the Attorney General, the application (or amend-
ment) was submitted for review to the governing body of the 
State or unit of local government (or to an organization des-
ignated by that governing body). 
‘‘(3) An assurance that, before the application (or any 
amendment to the application) was submitted to the Attorney 
General— 
‘‘(A) the application (or amendment) was made public; 
and 
‘‘(B) an opportunity to comment on the application 
(or amendment) was provided to citizens and to neighbor-
hood or community-based organizations, to the extent 
applicable law or established procedure makes such an 
opportunity available. 
‘‘(4) An assurance that, for each fiscal year covered by 
an application, the applicant shall maintain and report such 
data, records, and information (programmatic and financial) 
as the Attorney General may reasonably require. 
‘‘(5) A certification, made in a form acceptable to the 
Attorney General and executed by the chief executive officer
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of the applicant (or by another officer of the applicant, if quali-
fied under regulations promulgated by the Attorney General), 
that— 
‘‘(A) the programs to be funded by the grant meet 
all the requirements of this subpart; 
‘‘(B) all the information contained in the application 
is correct; 
‘‘(C) there has been appropriate coordination with 
affected agencies; and 
‘‘(D) the applicant will comply with all provisions of 
this subpart and all other applicable Federal laws. 
‘‘SEC. 503. REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS. 
‘‘The Attorney General shall not finally disapprove any applica-
tion (or any amendment to that application) submitted under this 
subpart without first affording the applicant reasonable notice of 
any deficiencies in the application and opportunity for correction 
and reconsideration. 
‘‘SEC. 504. RULES. 
‘‘The Attorney General shall issue rules to carry out this sub-
part. The first such rules shall be issued not later than one year 
after the date on which amounts are first made available to carry 
out this subpart. 
‘‘SEC. 505. FORMULA. 
‘‘(a) ALLOCATION AMONG STATES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Of the total amount appropriated for 
this subpart, the Attorney General shall, except as provided 
in paragraph (2), allocate— 
‘‘(A) 50 percent of such remaining amount to each 
State in amounts that bear the same ratio of— 
‘‘(i) the total population of a State to— 
‘‘(ii) the total population of the United States; and 
‘‘(B) 50 percent of such remaining amount to each 
State in amounts that bear the same ratio of— 
‘‘(i) the average annual number of part 1 violent 
crimes of the Uniform Crime Reports of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation reported by such State for 
the three most recent years reported by such State 
to— 
‘‘(ii) the average annual number of such crimes 
reported by all States for such years. 
‘‘(2) MINIMUM ALLOCATION.—If carrying out paragraph (1) 
would result in any State receiving an allocation less than 
0.25 percent of the total amount (in this paragraph referred 
to as a ‘minimum allocation State’), then paragraph (1), as 
so carried out, shall not apply, and the Attorney General shall 
instead— 
‘‘(A) allocate 0.25 percent of the total amount to each 
State; and 
‘‘(B) using the amount remaining after carrying out 
subparagraph (A), carry out paragraph (1) in a manner 
that excludes each minimum allocation State, including 
the population of and the crimes reported by such State. 
‘‘(b) ALLOCATION
BETWEEN
STATES
AND
UNITS
OF
LOCAL 
GOVERNMENT.—Of the amounts allocated under subsection (a)—
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‘‘(1) 60 percent shall be for direct grants to States, to 
be allocated under subsection (c); and 
‘‘(2) 40 percent shall be for grants to be allocated under 
subsection (d). 
‘‘(c) ALLOCATION FOR STATE GOVERNMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Of the amounts allocated under sub-
section (b)(1), each State may retain for the purposes described 
in section 501 an amount that bears the same ratio of— 
‘‘(A) total expenditures on criminal justice by the State 
government in the most recently completed fiscal year to— 
‘‘(B) the total expenditure on criminal justice by the 
State government and units of local government within 
the State in such year. 
‘‘(2) REMAINING
AMOUNTS.—Except as provided in sub-
section (e)(1), any amounts remaining after the allocation 
required by paragraph (1) shall be made available to units 
of local government by the State for the purposes described 
in section 501. 
‘‘(d) ALLOCATIONS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Of the amounts allocated under sub-
section (b)(2), grants for the purposes described in section 501 
shall be made directly to units of local government within 
each State in accordance with this subsection, subject to sub-
section (e). 
‘‘(2) ALLOCATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—From the amounts referred to in 
paragraph (1) with respect to a State (in this subsection 
referred to as the ‘local amount’), the Attorney General 
shall allocate to each unit of local government an amount 
which bears the same ratio to such share as the average 
annual number of part 1 violent crimes reported by such 
unit to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the 3 most 
recent calendar years for which such data is available 
bears to the number of part 1 violent crimes reported 
by all units of local government in the State in which 
the unit is located to the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
for such years. 
‘‘(B) TRANSITIONAL
RULE.—Notwithstanding subpara-
graph (A), for fiscal years 2006, 2007, and 2008, the 
Attorney General shall allocate the local amount to units 
of local government in the same manner that, under the 
Local Government Law Enforcement Block Grants program 
in effect immediately before the date of the enactment 
of this section, the reserved amount was allocated among 
reporting and nonreporting units of local government. 
‘‘(3) ANNEXED
UNITS.—If a unit of local government in 
the State has been annexed since the date of the collection 
of the data used by the Attorney General in making allocations 
pursuant to this section, the Attorney General shall pay the 
amount that would have been allocated to such unit of local 
government to the unit of local government that annexed it. 
‘‘(4) RESOLUTION OF DISPARATE ALLOCATIONS.—(A) Notwith-
standing any other provision of this subpart, if— 
‘‘(i) the Attorney General certifies that a unit of local 
government bears more than 50 percent of the costs of 
prosecution or incarceration that arise with respect to part
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1 violent crimes reported by a specified geographically con-
stituent unit of local government; and 
‘‘(ii) but for this paragraph, the amount of funds allo-
cated under this section to— 
‘‘(I) any one such specified geographically con-
stituent unit of local government exceeds 150 percent 
of the amount allocated to the unit of local government 
certified pursuant to clause (i); or 
‘‘(II) more than one such specified geographically 
constituent unit of local government exceeds 400 per-
cent of the amount allocated to the unit of local govern-
ment certified pursuant to clause (i), 
then in order to qualify for payment under this subsection, 
the unit of local government certified pursuant to clause (i), 
together with any such specified geographically constituent 
units of local government described in clause (ii), shall submit 
to the Attorney General a joint application for the aggregate 
of funds allocated to such units of local government. Such 
application shall specify the amount of such funds that are 
to be distributed to each of the units of local government 
and the purposes for which such funds are to be used. The 
units of local government involved may establish a joint local 
advisory board for the purposes of carrying out this paragraph. 
‘‘(B) In this paragraph, the term ‘geographically constituent 
unit of local government’ means a unit of local government 
that has jurisdiction over areas located within the boundaries 
of an area over which a unit of local government certified 
pursuant to clause (i) has jurisdiction. 
‘‘(e) LIMITATION ON ALLOCATIONS TO UNITS OF LOCAL GOVERN-
MENT.— 
‘‘(1) MAXIMUM ALLOCATION.—No unit of local government 
shall receive a total allocation under this section that exceeds 
such unit’s total expenditures on criminal justice services for 
the most recently completed fiscal year for which data are 
available. Any amount in excess of such total expenditures 
shall be allocated proportionally among units of local govern-
ment whose allocations under this section do not exceed their 
total expenditures on such services. 
‘‘(2) ALLOCATIONS UNDER $10,000.—If the allocation under 
this section to a unit of local government is less than $10,000 
for any fiscal year, the direct grant to the State under sub-
section (c) shall be increased by the amount of such allocation, 
to be distributed (for the purposes described in section 501) 
among State police departments that provide criminal justice 
services to units of local government and units of local govern-
ment whose allocation under this section is less than $10,000. 
‘‘(3) NON-REPORTING UNITS.—No allocation under this sec-
tion shall be made to a unit of local government that has 
not reported at least three years of data on part 1 violent 
crimes of the Uniform Crime Reports to the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation within the immediately preceding 10 years. 
‘‘(f) FUNDS NOT USED BY THE STATE.—If the Attorney General 
determines, on the basis of information available during any grant 
period, that any allocation (or portion thereof) under this section 
to a State for such grant period will not be required, or that 
a State will be unable to qualify or receive funds under this subpart, 
or that a State chooses not to participate in the program established
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under this subpart, then such State’s allocation (or portion thereof) 
shall be awarded by the Attorney General to units of local govern-
ment, or combinations thereof, within such State, giving priority 
to those jurisdictions with the highest annual number of part 1 
violent crimes of the Uniform Crime Reports reported by the unit 
of local government to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 
the three most recent calendar years for which such data are 
available. 
‘‘(g) SPECIAL RULES FOR PUERTO RICO.— 
‘‘(1) ALL FUNDS SET ASIDE FOR COMMONWEALTH GOVERN-
MENT.—Notwithstanding any other provision of this subpart, 
the amounts allocated under subsection (a) to Puerto Rico, 
100 percent shall be for direct grants to the Commonwealth 
government of Puerto Rico. 
‘‘(2) NO LOCAL ALLOCATIONS.—Subsections (c) and (d) shall 
not apply to Puerto Rico. 
‘‘(h) UNITS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN LOUISIANA.—In carrying 
out this section with respect to the State of Louisiana, the term 
‘unit of local government’ means a district attorney or a parish 
sheriff. 
‘‘SEC. 506. RESERVED FUNDS. 
‘‘(a) Of the total amount made available to carry out this 
subpart for a fiscal year, the Attorney General shall reserve not 
more than— 
‘‘(1) $20,000,000, for use by the National Institute of Justice 
in assisting units of local government to identify, select, develop, 
modernize, and purchase new technologies for use by law 
enforcement, of which $1,000,000 shall be for use by the Bureau 
of Justice Statistics to collect data necessary for carrying out 
this subpart; and 
‘‘(2) $20,000,000, to be granted by the Attorney General 
to States and units of local government to develop and imple-
ment antiterrorism training programs. 
‘‘(b) Of the total amount made available to carry out this 
subpart for a fiscal year, the Attorney General may reserve not 
more than 5 percent, to be granted to 1 or more States or units 
of local government, for 1 or more of the purposes specified in 
section 501, pursuant to his determination that the same is nec-
essary— 
‘‘(1) to combat, address, or otherwise respond to precipitous 
or extraordinary increases in crime, or in a type or types 
of crime; or 
‘‘(2) to prevent, compensate for, or mitigate significant pro-
grammatic harm resulting from operation of the formula estab-
lished under section 505. 
‘‘SEC. 507. INTEREST-BEARING TRUST FUNDS. 
‘‘(a) TRUST FUND REQUIRED.—A State or unit of local govern-
ment shall establish a trust fund in which to deposit amounts 
received under this subpart. 
‘‘(b) EXPENDITURES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each amount received under this sub-
part (including interest on such amount) shall be expended 
before the date on which the grant period expires. 
‘‘(2) REPAYMENT.—A State or unit of local government that 
fails to expend an entire amount (including interest on such
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amount) as required by paragraph (1) shall repay the unex-
pended portion to the Attorney General not later than 3 months 
after the date on which the grant period expires. 
‘‘(3) REDUCTION OF FUTURE AMOUNTS.—If a State or unit 
of local government fails to comply with paragraphs (1) and 
(2), the Attorney General shall reduce amounts to be provided 
to that State or unit of local government accordingly. 
‘‘(c) REPAID AMOUNTS.—Amounts received as repayments under 
this section shall be subject to section 108 of this title as if such 
amounts had not been granted and repaid. Such amounts shall 
be deposited in the Treasury in a dedicated fund for use by the 
Attorney General to carry out this subpart. Such funds are hereby 
made available to carry out this subpart. 
‘‘SEC. 508. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subpart 
$1,095,000,000 for fiscal year 2006 and such sums as may be 
necessary for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2009.’’. 
(b) REPEALS
OF CERTAIN AUTHORITIES RELATING
TO BYRNE 
GRANTS.— 
(1) DISCRETIONARY GRANTS TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTI-
TIES.—Chapter A of subpart 2 of Part E of title I of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3760–
3762) is repealed. 
(2) TARGETED GRANTS TO CURB MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT.—
Subtitle B of title I of the Anti Car Theft Act of 1992 (42 
U.S.C. 3750a–3750d) is repealed. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) CRIME IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY ACT.—Subsection 
(c)(2)(G) of section 102 of the Crime Identification Technology 
Act of 1998 (42 U.S.C. 14601) is amended by striking ‘‘such 
as’’ and all that follows through ‘‘the M.O.R.E. program’’ and 
inserting ‘‘such as the Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant 
Program and the M.O.R.E. program’’. 
(2) SAFE STREETS ACT.—Title I of the Omnibus Crime Con-
trol and Safe Streets Act of 1968 is amended— 
(A) in section 517 (42 U.S.C. 3763), in subsection (a)(1), 
by striking ‘‘pursuant to section 511 or 515’’ and inserting 
‘‘pursuant to section 515’’; 
(B) in section 520 (42 U.S.C. 3766)— 
(i) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘the program 
evaluations as required by section 501(c) of this part’’ 
and inserting ‘‘program evaluations’’; 
(ii) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ‘‘evaluations 
of programs funded under section 506 (formula grants) 
and sections 511 and 515 (discretionary grants) of this 
part’’ and inserting ‘‘evaluations of programs funded 
under section 505 (formula grants) and section 515 
(discretionary grants) of this part’’; and 
(iii) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘programs 
funded under section 506 (formula grants) and section 
511 (discretionary grants)’’ and inserting ‘‘programs 
funded under section 505 (formula grants)’’; 
(C) in section 522 (42 U.S.C. 3766b)— 
(i) in subsection (a), in the matter preceding para-
graph (1), by striking ‘‘section 506’’ and inserting ‘‘sec-
tion 505’’; and
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(ii) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘an assessment 
of the impact of such activities on meeting the needs 
identified in the State strategy submitted under section 
503’’ and inserting ‘‘an assessment of the impact of 
such activities on meeting the purposes of subpart 
1’’; 
(D) in section 801(b) (42 U.S.C. 3782(b)), in the matter 
following paragraph (5)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘the purposes of section 501 of this 
title’’ and inserting ‘‘the purposes of such subpart 1’’; 
and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘the application submitted pursuant 
to section 503 of this title.’’ and inserting ‘‘the applica-
tion submitted pursuant to section 502 of this title. 
Such report shall include details identifying each 
applicant that used any funds to purchase any cruiser, 
boat, or helicopter and, with respect to such applicant, 
specifying both the amount of funds used by such 
applicant for each purchase of any cruiser, boat, or 
helicopter and a justification of each such purchase 
(and the Bureau of Justice Assistance shall submit 
to the Committee of the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee of the Judiciary 
of the Senate, promptly after preparation of such report 
a written copy of the portion of such report containing 
the information required by this sentence).’’; 
(E) in section 808 (42 U.S.C. 3789), by striking ‘‘the 
State office described in section 507 or 1408’’ and inserting 
‘‘the State office responsible for the trust fund required 
by section 507, or the State office described in section 
1408,’’; 
(F) in section 901 (42 U.S.C. 3791), in subsection (a)(2), 
by striking ‘‘for the purposes of section 506(a)’’ and 
inserting ‘‘for the purposes of section 505(a)’’; 
(G) in section 1502 (42 U.S.C. 3796bb–1)— 
(i) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘section 506(a)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘section 505(a)’’; 
(ii) in paragraph (2)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘section 503(a)’’ and inserting 
‘‘section 502’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘section 506’’ and inserting 
‘‘section 505’’; 
(H) in section 1602 (42 U.S.C. 3796cc–1), in subsection 
(b), by striking ‘‘The office designated under section 507 
of title I’’ and inserting ‘‘The office responsible for the 
trust fund required by section 507’’; 
(I) in section 1702 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd–1), in subsection 
(c)(1), by striking ‘‘and reflects consideration of the state-
wide strategy under section 503(a)(1)’’; and 
(J) in section 1902 (42 U.S.C. 3796ff–1), in subsection 
(e), by striking ‘‘The Office designated under section 507’’ 
and inserting ‘‘The office responsible for the trust fund 
required by section 507’’. 
(d) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by this section shall 
apply with respect to the first fiscal year beginning after the date 
of the enactment of this Act and each fiscal year thereafter.
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SEC. 1112. CLARIFICATION OF NUMBER OF RECIPIENTS WHO MAY BE 
SELECTED IN A GIVEN YEAR TO RECEIVE PUBLIC SAFETY 
OFFICER MEDAL OF VALOR. 
Section 3(c) of the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor Act 
of 2001 (42 U.S.C. 15202(c)) is amended by striking ‘‘more than 
5 recipients’’ and inserting ‘‘more than 5 individuals, or groups 
of individuals, as recipients’’. 
SEC. 1113. CLARIFICATION OF OFFICIAL TO BE CONSULTED BY 
ATTORNEY GENERAL IN CONSIDERING APPLICATION 
FOR EMERGENCY FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSIST-
ANCE. 
Section 609M(b) of the Justice Assistance Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 
10501(b)) is amended by striking ‘‘the Director of the Office of 
Justice Assistance’’ and inserting ‘‘the Assistant Attorney General 
for the Office of Justice Programs’’. 
SEC. 1114. CLARIFICATION OF USES FOR REGIONAL INFORMATION 
SHARING SYSTEM GRANTS. 
Section 1301(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796h(b)), as most recently amended by 
section 701 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Public Law 107–56; 115 
Stat. 374), is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘regional’’ before ‘‘informa-
tion sharing systems’’; 
(2) by amending paragraph (3) to read as follows: 
‘‘(3) establishing and maintaining a secure telecommuni-
cations system for regional information sharing between Fed-
eral, State, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies;’’; and 
(3) by striking ‘‘(5)’’ at the end of paragraph (4). 
SEC. 1115. INTEGRITY AND ENHANCEMENT OF NATIONAL CRIMINAL 
RECORD DATABASES. 
(a) DUTIES OF DIRECTOR.—Section 302 of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3732) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), by inserting after the third sentence 
the following new sentence: ‘‘The Director shall be responsible 
for the integrity of data and statistics and shall protect against 
improper or illegal use or disclosure.’’; 
(2) by amending paragraph (19) of subsection (c) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(19) provide for improvements in the accuracy, quality, 
timeliness, immediate accessibility, and integration of State 
criminal history and related records, support the development 
and enhancement of national systems of criminal history and 
related records including the National Instant Criminal Back-
ground Check System, the National Incident-Based Reporting 
System, and the records of the National Crime Information 
Center, facilitate State participation in national records and 
information systems, and support statistical research for critical 
analysis of the improvement and utilization of criminal history 
records;’’; and 
(3) in subsection (d)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph (4); 
(B) by striking the period at the end of paragraph 
(5) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following:
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‘‘(6) confer and cooperate with Federal statistical agencies 
as needed to carry out the purposes of this part, including 
by entering into cooperative data sharing agreements in con-
formity with all laws and regulations applicable to the disclo-
sure and use of data.’’. 
(b) USE OF DATA.—Section 304 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3735) 
is amended by striking ‘‘particular individual’’ and inserting ‘‘private 
person or public agency’’. 
(c) CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION.—Section 812(a) of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 3789g(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘Except as provided 
by Federal law other than this title, no’’ and inserting ‘‘No’’. 
SEC. 1116. EXTENSION OF MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM FOR LAW 
ENFORCEMENT ARMOR VESTS. 
Section 1001(a)(23) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3793(a)(23)) is amended 
by striking ‘‘2007’’ and inserting ‘‘2009’’. 
CHAPTER 2—BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY TO 
PREVENT, REDUCE, AND CONTROL CRIME 
SEC. 1121. OFFICE OF WEED AND SEED STRATEGIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part A of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 is amended by inserting after section 
102 (42 U.S.C. 3712) the following new sections: 
‘‘SEC. 103. OFFICE OF WEED AND SEED STRATEGIES. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established within the Office 
an Office of Weed and Seed Strategies, headed by a Director 
appointed by the Attorney General. 
‘‘(b) ASSISTANCE.—The Director may assist States, units of local 
government, and neighborhood and community-based organizations 
in developing Weed and Seed strategies, as provided in section 
104. 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is authorized 
to be appropriated to carry out this section $60,000,000 for fiscal 
year 2006, and such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal 
years 2007, 2008, and 2009, to remain available until expended. 
‘‘SEC. 104. WEED AND SEED STRATEGIES. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—From amounts made available under section 
103(c), the Director of the Office of Weed and Seed Strategies 
may implement strategies, to be known as Weed and Seed strate-
gies, to prevent, control, and reduce violent crime, criminal drug-
related activity, and gang activity in designated Weed-and-Seed 
communities. Each such strategy shall involve both of the following 
activities: 
‘‘(1) WEEDING.—Activities, to be known as Weeding activi-
ties, which shall include promoting and coordinating a broad 
spectrum of community efforts (especially those of law enforce-
ment agencies and prosecutors) to arrest, and to sanction or 
incarcerate, persons in that community who participate or 
engage in violent crime, criminal drug-related activity, and 
other crimes that threaten the quality of life in that community. 
‘‘(2) SEEDING.—Activities, to be known as Seeding activities, 
which shall include promoting and coordinating a broad spec-
trum of community efforts (such as drug abuse education, men-
toring, and employment counseling) to provide—
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‘‘(A) human services, relating to prevention, interven-
tion, or treatment, for at-risk individuals and families; 
and 
‘‘(B) 
community 
revitalization 
efforts, 
including 
enforcement of building codes and development of the 
economy. 
‘‘(b) GUIDELINES.—The Director shall issue guidelines for the 
development and implementation of Weed and Seed strategies under 
this section. The guidelines shall ensure that the Weed and Seed 
strategy for a community referred to in subsection (a) shall— 
‘‘(1) be planned and implemented through and under the 
auspices of a steering committee, properly established in the 
community, comprised of— 
‘‘(A) in a voting capacity, representatives of— 
‘‘(i) appropriate law enforcement agencies; and 
‘‘(ii) other public and private agencies, and 
neighborhood and community-based organizations, 
interested in criminal justice and community-based 
development and revitalization in the community; and 
‘‘(B) in a voting capacity, both— 
‘‘(i) the Drug Enforcement Administration’s special 
agent in charge for the jurisdiction encompassing the 
community; and 
‘‘(ii) the United States Attorney for the District 
encompassing the community; 
‘‘(2) describe how law enforcement agencies, other public 
and private agencies, neighborhood and community-based 
organizations, and interested citizens are to cooperate in imple-
menting the strategy; and 
‘‘(3) incorporate a community-policing component that shall 
serve as a bridge between the Weeding activities under sub-
section (a)(1) and the Seeding activities under subsection (a)(2). 
‘‘(c) DESIGNATION.—For a community to be designated as a 
Weed-and-Seed community for purposes of subsection (a)— 
‘‘(1) the United States Attorney for the District encom-
passing the community must certify to the Director that— 
‘‘(A) the community suffers from consistently high 
levels of crime or otherwise is appropriate for such designa-
tion; 
‘‘(B) the Weed and Seed strategy proposed, adopted, 
or implemented by the steering committee has a high prob-
ability of improving the criminal justice system within 
the community and contains all the elements required by 
the Director; and 
‘‘(C) the steering committee is capable of implementing 
the strategy appropriately; and 
‘‘(2) the community must agree to formulate a timely and 
effective plan to independently sustain the strategy (or, at 
a minimum, a majority of the best practices of the strategy) 
when assistance under this section is no longer available. 
‘‘(d) APPLICATION.—An application for designation as a Weed-
and-Seed community for purposes of subsection (a) shall be sub-
mitted to the Director by the steering committee of the community 
in such form, and containing such information and assurances, 
as the Director may require. The application shall propose— 
‘‘(1) a sustainable Weed and Seed strategy that includes—
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‘‘(A) the active involvement of the United States 
Attorney for the District encompassing the community, the 
Drug Enforcement Administration’s special agent in charge 
for the jurisdiction encompassing the community, and other 
Federal law enforcement agencies operating in the vicinity; 
‘‘(B) a significant community-oriented policing compo-
nent; and 
‘‘(C) demonstrated coordination with complementary 
neighborhood and community-based programs and initia-
tives; and 
‘‘(2) a methodology with outcome measures and specific 
objective indicia of performance to be used to evaluate the 
effectiveness of the strategy. 
‘‘(e) GRANTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In implementing a strategy for a commu-
nity under subsection (a), the Director may make grants to 
that community. 
‘‘(2) USES.—For each grant under this subsection, the 
community receiving that grant may not use any of the grant 
amounts for construction, except that the Assistant Attorney 
General may authorize use of grant amounts for incidental 
or minor construction, renovation, or remodeling. 
‘‘(3) LIMITATIONS.—A community may not receive grants 
under this subsection (or fall within such a community)— 
‘‘(A) for a period of more than 10 fiscal years; 
‘‘(B) for more than 5 separate fiscal years, except that 
the Assistant Attorney General may, in single increments 
and only upon a showing of extraordinary circumstances, 
authorize grants for not more than 3 additional separate 
fiscal years; or 
‘‘(C) in an aggregate amount of more than $1,000,000, 
except that the Assistant Attorney General may, upon a 
showing of extraordinary circumstances, authorize grants 
for not more than an additional $500,000. 
‘‘(4) DISTRIBUTION.—In making grants under this sub-
section, the Director shall ensure that— 
‘‘(A) to the extent practicable, the distribution of such 
grants is geographically equitable and includes both urban 
and rural areas of varying population and area; and 
‘‘(B) priority is given to communities that clearly and 
effectively coordinate crime prevention programs with other 
Federal programs in a manner that addresses the overall 
needs of such communities. 
‘‘(5) FEDERAL SHARE.—(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), the 
Federal share of a grant under this subsection may not exceed 
75 percent of the total costs of the projects described in the 
application for which the grant was made. 
‘‘(B) The requirement of subparagraph (A)— 
‘‘(i) may be satisfied in cash or in kind; and 
‘‘(ii) may be waived by the Assistant Attorney General 
upon a determination that the financial circumstances 
affecting the applicant warrant a finding that such a waiver 
is equitable. 
‘‘(6) SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT.—To receive a grant under 
this subsection, the applicant must provide assurances that 
the amounts received under the grant shall be used to supple-
ment, not supplant, non-Federal funds that would otherwise
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be available for programs or services provided in the commu-
nity. 
‘‘SEC. 105. INCLUSION OF INDIAN TRIBES. 
‘‘For purposes of sections 103 and 104, the term ‘State’ includes 
an Indian tribal government.’’. 
(b) ABOLISHMENT OF EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF WEED AND SEED; 
TRANSFERS OF FUNCTIONS.— 
(1) ABOLISHMENT.—The Executive Office of Weed and Seed 
is abolished. 
(2) TRANSFER.—There are hereby transferred to the Office 
of Weed and Seed Strategies all functions and activities per-
formed immediately before the date of the enactment of this 
Act by the Executive Office of Weed and Seed Strategies. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section and the amendments made 
by this section take effect 90 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
CHAPTER 3—ASSISTING VICTIMS OF CRIME 
SEC. 1131. GRANTS TO LOCAL NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TO 
IMPROVE OUTREACH SERVICES TO VICTIMS OF CRIME. 
Section 1404(c) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 
10603(c)), as most recently amended by section 623 of the USA 
PATRIOT Act (Public Law 107–56; 115 Stat. 372), is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
striking the comma after ‘‘Director’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(C) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following new subpara-
graph: 
‘‘(C) for nonprofit neighborhood and community-based 
victim service organizations and coalitions to improve outreach 
and services to victims of crime.’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘paragraph (1)(A)’’ and inserting 
‘‘paragraphs (1)(A) and (1)(C)’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new subpara-
graph: 
‘‘(C) not more than $10,000 shall be used for any single 
grant under paragraph (1)(C).’’. 
SEC. 1132. CLARIFICATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF CERTAIN AUTHORI-
TIES RELATING TO CRIME VICTIMS FUND. 
Section 1402 of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 
10601) is amended as follows: 
(1) AUTHORITY TO ACCEPT GIFTS.—Subsection (b)(5) of such 
section is amended by striking the period at the end and 
inserting the following: ‘‘, which the Director is hereby author-
ized to accept for deposit into the Fund, except that the Director 
is not hereby authorized to accept any such gift, bequest, or 
donation that—
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‘‘(A) attaches conditions inconsistent with applicable 
laws or regulations; or 
‘‘(B) is conditioned upon or would require the expendi-
ture of appropriated funds that are not available to the 
Office for Victims of Crime.’’. 
(2) AUTHORITY TO REPLENISH ANTITERRORISM EMERGENCY 
RESERVE.—Subsection (d)(5)(A) of such section is amended by 
striking ‘‘expended’’ and inserting ‘‘obligated’’. 
(3) AUTHORITY
TO
MAKE
GRANTS
TO
INDIAN
TRIBES
FOR 
VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.—Subsection (g) of such section 
is amended— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘, acting through 
the Director,’’; 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); 
and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) The Attorney General may use 5 percent of the funds 
available under subsection (d)(2) (prior to distribution) for grants 
to Indian tribes to establish child victim assistance programs, as 
appropriate.’’. 
SEC. 1133. AMOUNTS RECEIVED UNDER CRIME VICTIM GRANTS MAY 
BE USED BY STATE FOR TRAINING PURPOSES. 
(a) CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION.—Section 1403(a)(3) of the 
Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10602(a)(3)) is amended 
by inserting after ‘‘may be used for’’ the following: ‘‘training pur-
poses and’’. 
(b) CRIME VICTIM ASSISTANCE.—Section 1404(b)(3) of such Act 
(42 U.S.C. 10603(b)(3)) is amended by inserting after ‘‘may be 
used for’’ the following: ‘‘training purposes and’’. 
SEC. 1134. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITIES RELATING TO VIOLENCE 
AGAINST WOMEN FORMULA AND DISCRETIONARY GRANT 
PROGRAMS. 
(a) CLARIFICATION
OF STATE GRANTS.—Section 2007 of the 
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
3796gg–1) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)(3)(A), by striking ‘‘police’’ and inserting 
‘‘law enforcement’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d)— 
(A) in the second sentence, by inserting after ‘‘each 
application’’ the following: ‘‘submitted by a State’’; and 
(B) in the third sentence, by striking ‘‘An application’’ 
and inserting ‘‘In addition, each application submitted by 
a State or tribal government’’. 
(b) CHANGE FROM ANNUAL TO BIENNIAL REPORTING.—Section 
2009(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3796gg–3) is amended by striking 
‘‘Not later than’’ and all that follows through ‘‘the Attorney General 
shall submit’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘Not later than one 
month after the end of each even-numbered fiscal year, the Attorney 
General shall submit’’. 
SEC. 1135. CHANGE OF CERTAIN REPORTS FROM ANNUAL TO 
BIENNIAL. 
(a) STALKING AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.—Section 40610 of the 
Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (title IV of the Violent Crime 
Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994; 42 U.S.C. 14039) is
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amended by striking ‘‘The Attorney General shall submit to the 
Congress an annual report, beginning one year after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, that provides’’ and inserting ‘‘Each even-
numbered fiscal year, the Attorney General shall submit to the 
Congress a biennial report that provides’’. 
(b) SAFE HAVENS FOR CHILDREN.—Subsection 1301(d)(l) of the 
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (42 
U.S.C. 10420(d)(l)) is amended in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A) by striking ‘‘Not later than 1 year after the last day 
of the first fiscal year commencing on or after the date of enactment 
of this Act, and not later than 180 days after the last day of 
each fiscal year thereafter,’’ and inserting ‘‘Not later than 1 month 
after the end of each even-numbered fiscal year,’’. 
(c) STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN FORMULA GRANTS.—Sub-
section 2009(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg–3), is amended by striking ‘‘Not 
later than’’ and all that follows through ‘‘the Attorney General 
shall submit’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘Not later than 1 month 
after the end of each even-numbered fiscal year, the Attorney Gen-
eral shall submit’’. 
(d) GRANTS TO COMBAT VIOLENT CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN ON 
CAMPUS.—Subsection 826(d)(3) of the Higher Education Amend-
ments Act of 1998 (20 U.S.C. 1152 (d)(3)) is amended by striking 
from ‘‘Not’’ through and including ‘‘under this section’’ and inserting 
‘‘Not later than 1 month after the end of each even-numbered 
fiscal year’’. 
(e) TRANSITIONAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR CHILD VIC-
TIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, STALKING, OR SEXUAL ASSAULT.—
Subsection 40299(f) of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 
(42 U.S.C. 13975(f)) is amended by striking ‘‘shall annually prepare 
and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate 
a report that contains a compilation of the information contained 
in the report submitted under subsection (e) of this section.’’ and 
inserting ‘‘shall prepare and submit to the Committee on the 
Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
the Judiciary of the Senate a report that contains a compilation 
of the information contained in the report submitted under sub-
section (e) of this section not later than one month after the end 
of each even-numbered fiscal year.’’. 
SEC. 1136. GRANTS FOR YOUNG WITNESS ASSISTANCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, acting through the 
Bureau of Justice Assistance, may make grants to State and local 
prosecutors and law enforcement agencies in support of juvenile 
and young adult witness assistance programs. 
(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Grants made available under this section 
may be used— 
(1) to assess the needs of juvenile and young adult wit-
nesses; 
(2) to develop appropriate program goals and objectives; 
and 
(3) to develop and administer a variety of witness assist-
ance services, which includes— 
(A) counseling services to young witnesses dealing with 
trauma associated in witnessing a violent crime;