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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4027
To provide grants for law enforcement training and equipment to combat
methamphetamine labs.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 20, 2002
Mr. BAIRD (for himself, Mr. BEREUTER, Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. CALVERT, Mr.
CANNON, Mr. CARSON of Oklahoma, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. DICKS, Mr.
DOOLEY of California, Ms. DUNN of Washington, Mr. FARR of California,
Mr. INSLEE, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Mr. OSE, Mr. SMITH of Wash-
ington, and Mrs. WILSON of New Mexico) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To provide grants for law enforcement training and
equipment to combat methamphetamine labs.
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 ‘‘Methamphetamine
Protective Equipment and Training Partnership Grant
Act of 2002’’.
SEC. 2. MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM FOR LAW ENFORCE-
MENT TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT TO COM-
BAT METHAMPHETAMINE LABS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title I of the Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3711
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following
new part:
‘‘PART CC—MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM FOR
LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING AND EQUIP-
MENT 
TO 
COMBAT 
METHAMPHETAMINE
LABS
‘‘SEC. 2901. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Bureau of
Justice Assistance is authorized to make grants to States,
units of local government, and Indian tribes to provide,
to State, local, and tribal law enforcement officers, protec-
tive equipment and training for use in investigating and
responding to offenses related to methamphetamine clan-
destine drug laboratories.
‘‘(b) USES OF FUNDS.—Grants awarded under this
section shall be—
‘‘(1) distributed directly to the State, unit of
local government, or Indian tribe; and
‘‘(2) used to provide, to law enforcement offi-
cers in the jurisdiction of the grantee—
‘‘(A) protective equipment specified in sub-
section (a); or
‘‘(B) training specified in subsection (a),
but only if such training is carried out by a pro-
gram certified by the Federal Government or by
the grantee’s State.
‘‘(c) MATCHING FUNDS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The portion of the costs of
a program provided by a grant under subsection
(a)—
‘‘(A) may not exceed 50 percent; and
‘‘(B) shall equal 50 percent, if such grant
is to a unit of local government with fewer than
100,000 residents.
‘‘(d) ALLOCATION TO SMALL JURISDICTIONS.—Not
less than 50 percent of the amounts granted under this
section in a fiscal year shall be granted in a manner that
provides such training or equipment to law enforcement
officers of communities with fewer than 100,000 residents.
‘‘(e) PREFERENTIAL CONSIDERATION.—In awarding
grants under this part, the Director of the Bureau of Jus-
tice Assistance may give preferential consideration, if fea-
sible, to an application from a jurisdiction that—
the Bureau of Justice Assistance shall promulgate regula-
tions to implement this section (including the information
that must be included and the requirements that the
States, units of local government, and Indian tribes must
meet) in submitting the applications required under this
section.
‘‘SEC. 2903. DEFINITIONS.
‘‘For purposes of this part—
‘‘(1) the term ‘State’ means each of the 50
States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands,
American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana
Islands;
‘‘(2) the term ‘unit of local government’ means
a county, municipality, town, township, village, par-
ish, borough, or other unit of general government
below the State level;
‘‘(3) the term ‘Indian tribe’ has the same mean-
ing as in section 4(e) of the Indian Self-Determina-
tion and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C.
450b(e)); and
‘‘(4) the term ‘law enforcement officer’ means
any officer, agent, or employee of a State, unit of
local government, or Indian tribe authorized by law
or by a government agency to engage in or supervise
the prevention, detection, or investigation of any vio-
lation of criminal law, or authorized by law to super-
vise sentenced criminal offenders.’’.
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section
1001(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3793) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(25) There are authorized to be appropriated to
carry out part CC, $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years
2003 through 2005.’’.
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