(A) deposit an amount equal to the grant 
funds that were improperly awarded to the 
grantee into the General Fund of the Treasury; 
and 
(B) seek to recoup the costs of the repay-
ment to the fund from the grant recipient that 
was erroneously awarded grant funds. 
(5) DEFINED TERM.—In this section, the term 
‘‘unresolved audit finding’’ means an audit report 
finding in the final audit report of the Inspector 
General of the Department of Justice that the 
grantee has utilized grant funds for an unauthorized 
expenditure or otherwise unallowable cost that is not 
closed or resolved within a 12-month period begin-
ning on the date when the final audit report is 
issued. 
(6) 
NONPROFIT
ORGANIZATION
REQUIRE-
MENTS.— 
(A) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this 
section and the grant programs described in 
this Act, the term ‘‘nonprofit organization’’ 
means an organization that is described in sec-
tion 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 and is exempt from taxation under section 
501(a) of such Code. 
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(B) PROHIBITION.—The Attorney General 
shall not award a grant under any grant pro-
gram described in this Act to a nonprofit orga-
nization that holds money in offshore accounts 
for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax de-
scribed in section 511(a) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986. 
(C) DISCLOSURE.—Each nonprofit organi-
zation that is awarded a grant under a grant 
program described in this Act and uses the pro-
cedures prescribed in regulations to create a re-
buttable presumption of reasonableness for the 
compensation of its officers, directors, trustees 
and key employees, shall disclose to the Attor-
ney General, in the application for the grant, 
the process for determining such compensation, 
including the independent persons involved in 
reviewing and approving such compensation, the 
comparability data used, and contemporaneous 
substantiation of the deliberation and decision. 
Upon request, the Attorney General shall make 
the information disclosed under this subsection 
available for public inspection. 
(7) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Unless oth-
erwise explicitly provided in authorizing legislation, 
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not more than 7.5 percent of the amounts author-
ized to be appropriated under this Act may be used 
by the Attorney General for salaries and administra-
tive expenses of the Department of Justice. 
(8) CONFERENCE EXPENDITURES.— 
(A) LIMITATION.—No amounts authorized 
to be appropriated to the Department of Justice 
under this Act may be used by the Attorney 
General or by any individual or organization 
awarded discretionary funds through a coopera-
tive agreement under this Act, to host or sup-
port any expenditure for conferences that uses 
more than $20,000 in Department funds, un-
less the Deputy Attorney General or the appro-
priate Assistant Attorney General, Director, or 
principal deputy as the Deputy Attorney Gen-
eral may designate, provides prior written au-
thorization that the funds may be expended to 
host a conference. 
(B) WRITTEN
APPROVAL.—Written ap-
proval under subparagraph (A) shall include a 
written estimate of all costs associated with the 
conference, including the cost of all food and 
beverages, audio/visual equipment, honoraria 
for speakers, and any entertainment. 
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(C) REPORT.—The Deputy Attorney Gen-
eral shall submit an annual report to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the 
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives on all conference expenditures 
approved by operation of this paragraph. 
(9) PROHIBITION ON LOBBYING ACTIVITY.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Amounts authorized to 
be appropriated under this Act may not be uti-
lized by any grant recipient to— 
(i) lobby any representative of the De-
partment of Justice regarding the award of 
grant funding; or 
(ii) lobby any representative of a Fed-
eral, State, local, or tribal government re-
garding the award of grant funding. 
(B) PENALTY.—If the Attorney General 
determines that any recipient of a grant under 
this Act has violated subparagraph (A), the At-
torney General shall— 
(i) require the grant recipient to repay 
the grant in full; and 
(ii) prohibit the grant recipient from 
receiving another grant under this Act for 
not less than 5 years. 
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SEC. 17. NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF FORENSIC LABORA-
TORIES. 
(a) STUDY AND REPORT.—Not later than October 1, 
2018, the Attorney General shall conduct a study and sub-
mit a report to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Sen-
ate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives on the status and needs of the forensic 
science community. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The report required under 
subsection (a) shall— 
(1) examine the status of current workload, 
backlog, personnel, equipment, and equipment needs 
of public crime laboratories and medical examiner 
and coroner offices; 
(2) include an overview of academic forensic 
science resources and needs, from a broad forensic 
science perspective, including nontraditional crime 
laboratory disciplines such as forensic anthropology, 
forensic entomology, and others as determined ap-
propriate by the Attorney General; 
(3) consider— 
(A) the National Institute of Justice study, 
Forensic Sciences: Review of Status and Needs, 
published in 1999; 
(B) the Bureau of Justice Statistics census 
reports on Publicly Funded Forensic Crime 
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