I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 494 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
reauthorize the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant program, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 11, 2019 
Ms. JACKSON LEE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 to reauthorize the Juvenile Accountability 
Block 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, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Tiffany Joslyn Juve-
nile Accountability Block Grant Program Reauthorization 
Act of 2019’’. 
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SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF JUVENILE ACCOUNTABILITY 
BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM. 
Part R of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796ee et seq.) is 
amended— 
(1) in section 1801(b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘grad-
uated sanctions’’ and inserting ‘‘graduated 
sanctions and incentives’’; 
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘hiring 
juvenile court judges, probation officers, and 
court-appointed defenders and special advo-
cates, and’’; 
(C) by striking paragraphs (4) and (7), 
and redesignating paragraphs (5) through (17) 
as paragraphs (4) through (15), respectively; 
and 
(D) in paragraph (11), as so redesignated, 
by striking ‘‘research-based bullying, cyberbully-
ing, and gang prevention programs’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘interventions such as researched-based 
anti-bullying, anti-cyberbullying, and gang pre-
vention programs, as well as mental health 
services and trauma-informed practices’’; 
(2) in section 1802— 
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(A) in subsection (d)(3), by inserting after 
‘‘individualized sanctions’’ the following: ‘‘, in-
centives,’’; 
(B) in subsection (e)(1)(B), by striking 
‘‘graduated sanctions’’ and inserting ‘‘grad-
uated sanctions and incentives’’; and 
(C) in subsection (f)— 
(i) in paragraph (2)— 
(I) by inserting after ‘‘A sanction 
may include’’ the following: ‘‘a range 
of court-approved interventions, such 
as’’; and 
(II) by inserting after ‘‘a fine,’’ 
the following: ‘‘a restorative justice 
program,’’; and 
(ii) by inserting after paragraph (2) 
the following: 
‘‘(3) 
INCENTIVES.—The 
term 
‘incentives’ 
means individualized, goal-oriented, and graduated 
responses to a juvenile offender’s compliance with 
court orders and case disposition terms designed to 
reinforce or modify the skills and behaviors of the 
juvenile offender. An incentive may include a certifi-
cate of achievement, a letter of recommendation, a 
family or program activity, a meeting or special out-
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ing with a community leader, a reduction in commu-
nity service hours, a reduced curfew or home restric-
tion, a decrease in required court appearances, or a 
decrease in the term of court-ordered supervision.’’; 
(3) 
in 
section 
1810(a), 
by 
striking 
‘‘$350,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 
2009’’ and inserting ‘‘$30,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2019 through 2023’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 1811. GRANT ACCOUNTABILITY. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITION OF APPLICABLE COMMITTEES.—In 
this section, the term ‘applicable committees’ means— 
‘‘(1) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
Senate; and 
‘‘(2) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives. 
‘‘(b) ACCOUNTABILITY.—All grants awarded by the 
Attorney General under this part shall be subject to the 
following accountability provisions: 
‘‘(1) AUDIT REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(A) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the 
term ‘unresolved audit finding’ means a finding 
in the final audit report of the Inspector Gen-
eral of the Department of Justice that the au-
dited grantee has utilized grant funds for an 
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unauthorized expenditure or otherwise unallow-
able cost that is not closed or resolved within 
12 months after the date on which the final 
audit report is issued. 
‘‘(B) AUDIT.—Beginning in the first fiscal 
year beginning after the date of enactment of 
this section, and in each fiscal year thereafter, 
the Inspector General of the Department of 
Justice shall conduct audits of recipients of 
grants awarded by the Attorney General under 
this part to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of 
funds by grantees. The Inspector General shall 
determine the appropriate number of grantees 
to be audited each year. 
‘‘(C) MANDATORY EXCLUSION.—A recipi-
ent of grant funds under this part that is found 
to have an unresolved audit finding shall not be 
eligible to receive grant funds under this part 
during the first 2 fiscal years beginning after 
the end of the 12-month period described in 
subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(D) 
PRIORITY.—In 
awarding 
grants 
under this part, the Attorney General shall give 
priority to eligible applicants that did not have 
an unresolved audit finding during the 3 fiscal 
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