Rural Safety and Law Enforcement Improvement Act

Bill: 108-hr-4276
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Brad [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2004-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Aircraft
Authorization
Brain
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Community health services
Community policing
Computer crimes
Computer software
Computers
Consultants
Continuing education
Criminal justice information
DNA
Data banks
Department of Justice
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drug law enforcement
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Evidence (Law)
Families
Family violence
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Hate crimes
Hazardous wastes
Health
Health education
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Indian law enforcement
Informers
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Landowners
Law
Legal education
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Photography
Police
Police communication systems
Police training
Prosecution
Public prosecutors
Recruiting of employees
Refuse and refuse disposal
Rural crime
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Small towns
Telephone
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Victims of crimes
Video tape recording
Voiceprints
Wireless communication
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: 
Rural Safety and Law Enforcement Improvement Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to make grants to rural local and tribal governments for the retention for one additional year of police officers funded through the cops on the beat (or COPS) program; (2) authorize the use of COPS grants on a matching funds basis to assist the police departments of such units in improving police communications, and in developing and improving access to crime-solving technologies; and (3) hire personnel and purchase equipment for rural areas to assist in the enforcement and prosecution of methamphetamine offenses and the environmental cleanup of methamphetamine-affected areas.
 
Directs the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice to make grants to such units to establish or improve 911 service in those communities.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, to make grants to establish in rural areas substance abuse (particularly methamphetamine) prevention and treatment pilot programs and methamphetamine prevention education programs. 
Directs the Attorney General to provide for the cleanup of methamphetamine laboratories and related hazardous waste, and for the improvement of contract-related response time for cleanup of methamphetamine laboratories and related hazardous waste by providing additional contract personnel, equipment, and facilities, in rural areas. Makes funding available from the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund for payment for the costs of experts and consultants needed to clean up areas formerly used as methamphetamine laboratories. 
Establishes a Rural Policing Institute as part of the Small Town and Rural Training Program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Introduced in House