Title: Keeping Communities Safe through Treatment Act of 2017
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Keeping Communities Safe through Treatment Act of 2017
This bill directs the Department of Justice to establish a pilot program to provide grants to law enforcement agencies in designated high intensity drug trafficking areas for pre-booking diversion programs to divert low-level drug offenders to drug treatment programs.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1763 Introduced in House (IH)]

<DOC>






115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1763

To direct the Attorney General to carry out a pilot program to provide 
 grants to eligible entities to divert individuals with low-level drug 
   offenses to prebooking diversion programs, and for other purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 28, 2017

  Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Attorney General to carry out a pilot program to provide 
 grants to eligible entities to divert individuals with low-level drug 
   offenses to prebooking diversion programs, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Keeping Communities Safe through 
Treatment Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. PILOT PROGRAM.

    (a) Establishment.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall establish 
        a pilot program to provide grants to eligible entities for 
        prebooking diversion programs to divert individuals with low-
        level drug offenses to a case manager for an immediate needs 
        assessment, crisis intervention, and to schedule an in-depth 
        intake interview.
            (2) Duration of pilot program.--The pilot program shall 
        terminate 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
            (3) Grants awarded under pilot program.--The Attorney 
        General shall award grants under the pilot program to not fewer 
        than 10 eligible entities.
    (b) Limitation on Use of Funds.--Grant funds awarded under the 
pilot program may not be used to divert an individual with a low-level 
drug offense to a drug treatment program if criminal charges have been 
filed and are pending against such individual.
    (c) Application.--
            (1) In general.--To be selected to receive a grant under 
        the pilot program, an eligible entity shall submit to the 
        Attorney General an application at such time, in such manner, 
        and containing such information as the Attorney General may 
        require.
            (2) Other requirements.--Each application for a grant under 
        the pilot program shall include a description of how the 
        eligible entity--
                    (A) coordinates with drug treatment programs that 
                provide medication-assisted treatment;
                    (B) plans to coordinate with local prosecutors;
                    (C) plans to divert individuals with low-level drug 
                offenses to such programs;
                    (D) plans to monitor and record the progress of 
                such individuals in such programs;
                    (E) plans to assess such individuals to ensure that 
                they have an appropriate individualized intervention; 
                and
                    (F) will provide case management for such 
                individuals.
    (d) Reports.--
            (1) Quarterly reports.--Each quarter during the duration of 
        the pilot program, an eligible entity that receives a grant 
        under the pilot program shall submit a report to the Attorney 
        General that includes--
                    (A) the number of individuals diverted to programs 
                by the diversion program for which the grant funds are 
                used;
                    (B) any subsequent arrest records of such 
                individuals, when such records are publicly available;
                    (C) any subsequent criminal charges filed against 
                such individuals; and
                    (D) the cost of such programs.
            (2) Annual reports.--Not less than once each year during 
        the duration of the pilot program, the Attorney General shall 
        submit a report to Congress that includes--
                    (A) the number of grants awarded under the pilot 
                program;
                    (B) the number of individuals diverted to programs 
                by the diversion program for which the grant funds are 
                used;
                    (C) any subsequent arrest records of such 
                individuals, when such records are publicly available;
                    (D) any subsequent criminal charges filed against 
                such individuals; and
                    (E) the amount of funds used to provide grants 
                under the pilot program.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Eligible entity.--The term ``eligible entity'' means a 
        law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over a high-intensity 
        drug trafficking area, as designated pursuant to section 707(b) 
        of the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization 
        Act of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1706(b)).
            (2) Low-level drug offense.--The term ``low-level drug 
        offense'' does not include a serious violent felony.
            (3) Medication-assisted treatment.--The term ``medication-
        assisted treatment'' means treatment of substance use disorders 
        through the use of a drug (or a combination of drugs) approved 
        or licensed under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
        Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 355) or section 351 of the Public 
        Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262), in combination with 
        evidence-based behavioral therapies.
            (4) Serious violent felony.--The term ``serious violent 
        felony'' has the meaning given such term in section 3559(c)(2) 
        of title 18, United States Code.
    (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated such funds as may be necessary to carry out the pilot 
program, to be derived from the funds made available to the Office of 
Justice Programs.
                                 <all>