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(3) COOPERATIVE
PROGRAMS.—The establishment and 
expansion of cooperative efforts to promote public safety 
through the use of effective intervention with respect to men-
tally ill individuals encountered by members of the uniformed 
services. 
SEC. 14009. ADVANCING MENTAL HEALTH AS PART OF OFFENDER 
REENTRY. 
(a) REENTRY DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.—Section 2976(f) of 
title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797w(f)), as amended by section 14006, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (3)(C), by inserting ‘‘mental health serv-
ices,’’ before ‘‘drug treatment’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(8) target offenders with histories of homelessness, sub-
stance abuse, or mental illness, including a prerelease assess-
ment of the housing status of the offender and behavioral 
health needs of the offender with clear coordination with mental 
health, substance abuse, and homelessness services systems 
to achieve stable and permanent housing outcomes with appro-
priate support service.’’. 
(b) MENTORING
GRANTS.—Section 211(b)(2) of the Second 
Chance Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17531(b)(2)) is amended by inserting 
‘‘, including mental health care’’ after ‘‘community’’. 
SEC. 14010. SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAMS. 
Section 2701(b) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797a(b)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (4) and (5) as paragraphs 
(5) and (6), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following: 
‘‘(4) The development and operation of crisis intervention 
teams that may include coordination with law enforcement 
agencies and specialized training for school officials in 
responding to mental health crises.’’. 
SEC. 14011. ACTIVE-SHOOTER TRAINING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT. 
The Attorney General, as part of the Preventing Violence 
Against Law Enforcement and Ensuring Officer Resilience and 
Survivability Initiative (VALOR) of the Department of Justice, may 
provide safety training and technical assistance to local law enforce-
ment agencies, including active-shooter response training. 
SEC. 14012. CO-OCCURRING SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH 
CHALLENGES 
IN 
RESIDENTIAL 
SUBSTANCE 
ABUSE 
TREATMENT PROGRAMS. 
Section 1901(a) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796ff(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end 
and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) developing and implementing specialized residential 
substance abuse treatment programs that identify and provide 
appropriate treatment to inmates with co-occurring mental 
health and substance abuse disorders or challenges.’’.
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SEC. 14013. MENTAL HEALTH AND DRUG TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES 
TO INCARCERATION PROGRAMS. 
Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3711 et seq.) is amended by striking part CC 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘PART 
CC—MENTAL 
HEALTH 
AND 
DRUG 
TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCER-
ATION PROGRAMS 
‘‘SEC. 2901. MENTAL HEALTH AND DRUG TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES 
TO INCARCERATION PROGRAMS. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘eligible entity’ means a State, unit of local 
government, Indian tribe, or nonprofit organization; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘eligible participant’ means an individual 
who— 
‘‘(A) comes into contact with the criminal justice system 
or is arrested or charged with an offense that is not— 
‘‘(i) a crime of violence, as defined under applicable 
State law or in section 3156 of title 18, United States 
Code; or 
‘‘(ii) a serious drug offense, as defined in section 
924(e)(2)(A) of title 18, United States Code; 
‘‘(B) has a history of, or a current— 
‘‘(i) substance use disorder; 
‘‘(ii) mental illness; or 
‘‘(iii) co-occurring mental illness and substance use 
disorder; and 
‘‘(C) has been approved for participation in a program 
funded under this section by the relevant law enforcement 
agency, prosecuting attorney, defense attorney, probation 
official, corrections official, judge, representative of a 
mental health agency, or representative of a substance 
abuse agency, as required by law. 
‘‘(b) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—The Attorney General may make 
grants to eligible entities to develop, implement, or expand a treat-
ment alternative to incarceration program for eligible participants, 
including— 
‘‘(1) pre-booking treatment alternative to incarceration pro-
grams, including— 
‘‘(A) law enforcement training on substance use dis-
orders, mental illness, and co-occurring mental illness and 
substance use disorders; 
‘‘(B) receiving centers as alternatives to incarceration 
of eligible participants; 
‘‘(C) specialized response units for calls related to sub-
stance use disorders, mental illness, or co-occurring mental 
illness and substance use disorders; and 
‘‘(D) other arrest and pre-booking treatment alter-
natives to incarceration models; or 
‘‘(2) post-booking treatment alternative to incarceration pro-
grams, including— 
‘‘(A) specialized clinical case management;
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‘‘(B) pre-trial services related to substances use dis-
orders, mental illness, and co-occurring mental illness and 
substance use disorders; 
‘‘(C) prosecutor and defender based programs; 
‘‘(D) specialized probation; 
‘‘(E) treatment and rehabilitation programs; and 
‘‘(F) problem-solving courts, including mental health 
courts, drug courts, co-occurring mental health and sub-
stance abuse courts, DWI courts, and veterans treatment 
courts. 
‘‘(c) APPLICATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—An eligible entity desiring a grant under 
this section shall submit an application to the Attorney Gen-
eral— 
‘‘(A) that meets the criteria under paragraph (2); and 
‘‘(B) at such time, in such manner, and accompanied 
by such information as the Attorney General may require. 
‘‘(2) CRITERIA.—An eligible entity, in submitting an applica-
tion under paragraph (1), shall— 
‘‘(A) provide extensive evidence of collaboration with 
State and local government agencies overseeing health, 
community corrections, courts, prosecution, substance 
abuse, mental health, victims services, and employment 
services, and with local law enforcement agencies; 
‘‘(B) demonstrate consultation with the Single State 
Authority for Substance Abuse of the State (as that term 
is defined in section 201(e) of the Second Chance Act of 
2007); 
‘‘(C) demonstrate that evidence-based treatment prac-
tices will be utilized; and 
‘‘(D) demonstrate that evidence-based screening and 
assessment tools will be used to place participants in the 
treatment alternative to incarceration program. 
‘‘(d) REQUIREMENTS.—Each eligible entity awarded a grant for 
a treatment alternative to incarceration program under this section 
shall— 
‘‘(1) determine the terms and conditions of participation 
in the program by eligible participants, taking into consider-
ation the collateral consequences of an arrest, prosecution or 
criminal conviction; 
‘‘(2) ensure that each substance abuse and mental health 
treatment component is licensed and qualified by the relevant 
jurisdiction; 
‘‘(3) for programs described in subsection (b)(2), organize 
an enforcement unit comprised of appropriately trained law 
enforcement professionals under the supervision of the State, 
Tribal, or local criminal justice agency involved, the duties 
of which shall include— 
‘‘(A) the verification of addresses and other contact 
information of each eligible participant who participates 
or desires to participate in the program; and 
‘‘(B) if necessary, the location, apprehension, arrest, 
and return to custody of an eligible participant in the 
program who has absconded from the facility of a treatment 
provider or has otherwise significantly violated the terms 
and conditions of the program, consistent with Federal 
and State confidentiality requirements;
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‘‘(4) notify the relevant criminal justice entity if any eligible 
participant in the program absconds from the facility of the 
treatment provider or otherwise violates the terms and condi-
tions of the program, consistent with Federal and State con-
fidentiality requirements; 
‘‘(5) submit periodic reports on the progress of treatment 
or other measured outcomes from participation in the program 
of each eligible participant in the program to the relevant 
State, Tribal, or local criminal justice agency, including mental 
health courts, drug courts, co-occurring mental health and sub-
stance abuse courts, DWI courts, and veterans treatment courts; 
‘‘(6) describe the evidence-based methodology and outcome 
measurements that will be used to evaluate the program, and 
specifically explain how such measurements will provide valid 
measures of the impact of the program; and 
‘‘(7) describe how the program could be broadly replicated 
if demonstrated to be effective. 
‘‘(e) USE
OF FUNDS.—An eligible entity shall use a grant 
received under this section for expenses of a treatment alternative 
to incarceration program, including— 
‘‘(1) salaries, personnel costs, equipment costs, and other 
costs directly related to the operation of the program, including 
the enforcement unit; 
‘‘(2) payments for treatment providers that are approved 
by the relevant State or Tribal jurisdiction and licensed, if 
necessary, to provide needed treatment to eligible offenders 
participating in the program, including aftercare supervision, 
vocational training, education, and job placement; and 
‘‘(3) payments to public and nonprofit private entities that 
are approved by the State or Tribal jurisdiction and licensed, 
if necessary, to provide alcohol and drug addiction treatment 
to eligible offenders participating in the program. 
‘‘(f) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—An eligible entity shall use 
Federal funds received under this section only to supplement the 
funds that would, in the absence of those Federal funds, be made 
available from other Federal and non-Federal sources for the activi-
ties described in this section, and not to supplant those funds. 
The Federal share of a grant made under this section may not 
exceed 50 percent of the total costs of the program described in 
an application under subsection (d). 
‘‘(g) GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION.—The Attorney General shall 
ensure that, to the extent practicable, the geographical distribution 
of grants under this section is equitable and includes a grant 
to an eligible entity in— 
‘‘(1) each State; 
‘‘(2) rural, suburban, and urban areas; and 
‘‘(3) Tribal jurisdictions. 
‘‘(h) REPORTS
AND
EVALUATIONS.—Each fiscal year, each 
recipient of a grant under this section during that fiscal year 
shall submit to the Attorney General a report on the outcomes 
of activities carried out using that grant in such form, containing 
such information, and on such dates as the Attorney General shall 
specify. 
‘‘(i) ACCOUNTABILITY.—All grants awarded by the Attorney Gen-
eral under this section shall be subject to the following account-
ability provisions: 
‘‘(1) AUDIT REQUIREMENT.—
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‘‘(A) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the term ‘unre-
solved audit finding’ means a finding in the final audit 
report of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice 
that the audited grantee has utilized grant funds for an 
unauthorized expenditure or otherwise unallowable cost 
that is not closed or resolved within 12 months from the 
date on which the final audit report is issued. 
‘‘(B) AUDITS.—Beginning in the first fiscal year begin-
ning after the date of enactment of this subsection, and 
in each fiscal year thereafter, the Inspector General of 
the Department of Justice shall conduct audits of recipients 
of grants under this section 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 recipient of grant 
funds under this section that is found to have an unresolved 
audit finding shall not be eligible to receive grant funds 
under this section during the first 2 fiscal years beginning 
after the end of the 12-month period described in subpara-
graph (A). 
‘‘(D) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this section, 
the Attorney General shall give priority to eligible 
applicants that did not have an unresolved audit finding 
during the 3 fiscal years before submitting an application 
for a grant under this section. 
‘‘(E) REIMBURSEMENT.—If an entity is awarded grant 
funds under this section during the 2-fiscal-year period 
during which the entity is barred from receiving grants 
under subparagraph (C), the Attorney General shall— 
‘‘(i) deposit an amount equal to the amount of 
the grant funds that were improperly awarded to the 
grantee into the General Fund of the Treasury; and 
‘‘(ii) seek to recoup the costs of the repayment 
to the fund from the grant recipient that was erro-
neously awarded grant funds. 
‘‘(2) NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this paragraph and 
the grant programs under this part, the term ‘nonprofit 
organization’ means an organization that is described in 
section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
and is exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such 
Code. 
‘‘(B) PROHIBITION.—The Attorney General may not 
award a grant under this part to a nonprofit organization 
that holds money in offshore accounts for the purpose of 
avoiding paying the tax described in section 511(a) of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 
‘‘(C) DISCLOSURE.—Each nonprofit organization that is 
awarded a grant under this section and uses the procedures 
prescribed in regulations to create a rebuttable presump-
tion of reasonableness for the compensation of its officers, 
directors, trustees, and key employees, shall disclose to 
the Attorney 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,
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and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation 
and decision. Upon request, the Attorney General shall 
make the information disclosed under this subparagraph 
available for public inspection. 
‘‘(3) CONFERENCE EXPENDITURES.— 
‘‘(A) LIMITATION.—No amounts made available to the 
Department of Justice under this section may be used 
by the Attorney General, or by any individual or entity 
awarded discretionary funds through a cooperative agree-
ment under this section, to host or support any expenditure 
for conferences that uses more than $20,000 in funds made 
available by the Department of Justice, unless the head 
of the relevant agency or department, provides prior writ-
ten authorization that the funds may be expended to host 
the conference. 
‘‘(B) WRITTEN
APPROVAL.—Written approval under 
subparagraph (A) shall include a written estimate of all 
costs associated with the conference, including the cost 
of all food, beverages, audio-visual equipment, honoraria 
for speakers, and entertainment. 
‘‘(C) REPORT.—The Deputy Attorney General shall 
submit an annual report to the Committee on the Judiciary 
of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives on all conference expenditures 
approved under this paragraph. 
‘‘(4) ANNUAL CERTIFICATION.—Beginning in the first fiscal 
year beginning after the date of enactment of this subsection, 
the Attorney General shall submit, to the Committee on the 
Judiciary and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate 
and the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives, an annual 
certification— 
‘‘(A) indicating whether— 
‘‘(i) all audits issued by the Office of the Inspector 
General under paragraph (1) have been completed and 
reviewed by the appropriate Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral or Director; 
‘‘(ii) all mandatory exclusions required under para-
graph (1)(C) have been issued; and 
‘‘(iii) all reimbursements required under paragraph 
(1)(E) have been made; and 
‘‘(B) that includes a list of any grant recipients excluded 
under paragraph (1) from the previous year. 
‘‘(5) PREVENTING DUPLICATIVE GRANTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Before the Attorney General awards 
a grant to an applicant under this section, the Attorney 
General shall compare potential grant awards with other 
grants awarded under this Act to determine if duplicate 
grant awards are awarded for the same purpose. 
‘‘(B) REPORT.—If the Attorney General awards dupli-
cate grants to the same applicant for the same purpose 
the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on 
the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the 
Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report that 
includes—
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‘‘(i) a list of all duplicate grants awarded, including 
the total dollar amount of any duplicate grants 
awarded; and 
‘‘(ii) the reason the Attorney General awarded the 
duplicate grants.’’. 
SEC. 14014. NATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND MENTAL HEALTH 
TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE. 
Part HH of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa et seq.) is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 2992. NATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND MENTAL HEALTH 
TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE. 
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY.—The Attorney General may make grants to 
eligible organizations to provide for the establishment of a National 
Criminal Justice and Mental Health Training and Technical Assist-
ance Center. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE ORGANIZATION.—For purposes of subsection (a), 
the term ‘eligible organization’ means a national nonprofit organiza-
tion that provides technical assistance and training to, and has 
special expertise and broad, national-level experience in, mental 
health, crisis intervention, criminal justice systems, law enforce-
ment, translating evidence into practice, training, and research, 
and education and support of people with mental illness and the 
families of such individuals. 
‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.—Any organization that receives a grant 
under subsection (a) shall collaborate with other grant recipients 
to establish and operate a National Criminal Justice and Mental 
Health Training and Technical Assistance Center to— 
‘‘(1) provide law enforcement officer training regarding 
mental health and working with individuals with mental ill-
nesses, with an emphasis on de-escalation of encounters 
between law enforcement officers and those with mental dis-
orders or in crisis, which shall include support the development 
of in-person and technical information exchanges between sys-
tems and the individuals working in those systems in support 
of the concepts identified in the training; 
‘‘(2) provide education, training, and technical assistance 
for States, Indian tribes, territories, units of local government, 
service providers, nonprofit organizations, probation or parole 
officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys, emergency response 
providers, and corrections institutions to advance practice and 
knowledge relating to mental health crisis and approaches to 
mental health and criminal justice across systems; 
‘‘(3) provide training and best practices to mental health 
providers and criminal justice agencies relating to diversion 
initiatives, jail and prison strategies, reentry of individuals 
with mental illnesses into the community, and dispatch proto-
cols and triage capabilities, including the establishment of 
learning sites; 
‘‘(4) develop suicide prevention and crisis intervention 
training and technical assistance for criminal justice agencies; 
‘‘(5) develop a receiving center system and pilot strategy 
that provides, for a jurisdiction, a single point of entry into 
the mental health and substance abuse system for assessments 
and appropriate placement of individuals experiencing a crisis;
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‘‘(6) collect data and best practices in mental health and 
criminal health and criminal justice initiatives and policies 
from grantees under this part, other recipients of grants under 
this section, Federal, State, and local agencies involved in the 
provision of mental health services, and nongovernmental 
organizations involved in the provision of mental health serv-
ices; 
‘‘(7) develop and disseminate to mental health providers 
and criminal justice agencies evaluation tools, mechanisms, 
and measures to better assess and document performance meas-
ures and outcomes relating to the provision of mental health 
services; 
‘‘(8) disseminate information to States, units of local govern-
ment, criminal justice agencies, law enforcement agencies, and 
other relevant entities about best practices, policy standards, 
and research findings relating to the provision of mental health 
services; and 
‘‘(9) provide education and support to individuals with 
mental illness involved with, or at risk of involvement with, 
the criminal justice system, including the families of such 
individuals. 
‘‘(d) ACCOUNTABILITY.—Grants awarded under this section shall 
be subject to the following accountability provisions: 
‘‘(1) AUDIT REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(A) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the term ‘unre-
solved audit finding’ means a finding in the final audit 
report of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice 
under subparagraph (C) that the audited grantee has used 
grant funds for an unauthorized expenditure or otherwise 
unallowable cost that is not closed or resolved within 1 
year after the date on which the final audit report is 
issued. 
‘‘(B) AUDITS.—Beginning in the first fiscal year begin-
ning 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 grantees 
under this section 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) FINAL AUDIT REPORT.—The Inspector General of 
the Department of Justice shall submit to the Attorney 
General a final report on each audit conducted under 
subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(D) MANDATORY EXCLUSION.—Grantees under this sec-
tion about which there is an unresolved audit finding shall 
not be eligible to receive a grant under this section during 
the 2 fiscal years beginning after the end of the 1-year 
period described in subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(E) PRIORITY.—In making grants under this section, 
the Attorney General shall give priority to applicants that 
did not have an unresolved audit finding during the 3 
fiscal years before submitting an application for a grant 
under this section. 
‘‘(F) REIMBURSEMENT.—If an entity receives a grant 
under this section during the 2-fiscal-year period during
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which the entity is prohibited from receiving grants under 
subparagraph (D), the Attorney General shall— 
‘‘(i) deposit an amount equal to the amount of 
the grant that was improperly awarded to the grantee 
into the General Fund of the Treasury; and 
‘‘(ii) seek to recoup the costs of the repayment 
under clause (i) from the grantee that was erroneously 
awarded grant funds. 
‘‘(2) NONPROFIT AGENCY REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this paragraph and 
the grant program under this section, the term ‘nonprofit 
agency’ means an organization that is described in section 
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 
501(c)(3)) and is exempt from taxation under section 501(a) 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 501(a)). 
‘‘(B) PROHIBITION.—The Attorney General may not 
award a grant under this section to a nonprofit agency 
that holds money in an offshore account for the purpose 
of avoiding paying the tax described in section 511(a) of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 511(a)). 
‘‘(C) DISCLOSURE.—Each nonprofit agency that is 
awarded a grant under this section and uses the procedures 
prescribed in regulations to create a rebuttable presump-
tion of reasonableness for the compensation of its officers, 
directors, trustees, and key employees, shall disclose to 
the Attorney 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 subparagraph 
available for public inspection. 
‘‘(3) CONFERENCE EXPENDITURES.— 
‘‘(A) LIMITATION.—No amounts made available to the 
Department of Justice under this section may be used 
by the Attorney General, or by any individual or entity 
awarded discretionary funds through a cooperative agree-
ment under this section, to host or support any expenditure 
for conferences that uses more than $20,000 in funds made 
available by the Department of Justice, unless the head 
of the relevant agency or department, provides prior writ-
ten authorization that the funds may be expended to host 
the conference. 
‘‘(B) WRITTEN
APPROVAL.—Written approval under 
subparagraph (A) shall include a written estimate of all 
costs associated with the conference, including the cost 
of all food, beverages, audio-visual equipment, honoraria 
for speakers, and entertainment. 
‘‘(C) REPORT.—The Deputy Attorney General shall 
submit an annual report to the Committee on the Judiciary 
of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives on all conference expenditures 
approved under this paragraph. 
‘‘(4) ANNUAL CERTIFICATION.—Beginning in the first fiscal 
year beginning after the date of enactment of this subsection, 
the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the