Rural Safety Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1951
Sponsor: Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-11-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Accident prevention
Administrative procedure
Aircraft
Authorization
Brain
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Community health services
Community policing
Compensation for victims of crime
Computer crimes
Computer software
Computers
Consumer education
Corrections
DNA
Data banks
Department of Justice
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drug law enforcement
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Evidence (Law)
Families
Family violence
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms
Firearms injuries
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Hate crimes
Hazardous wastes
Health
Health education
Housing and Community Development
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Income tax
Indian law enforcement
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Law
Licenses
Mediation
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Photography
Police
Police communication systems
Police training
Prison alternatives
Recruiting of employees
Retail trade
Rural crime
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Small towns
Storage
Tax credits
Taxation
Telephone
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Victims of crimes
Video tape recording
Voiceprints
Wireless communication
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Rural Safety Act of 2003 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize: (1) 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 (COPS) Program; and (2) the use of COPS grants on a matching funds basis to improve police communications and access to crime-solving technologies. 
Directs the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice to make grants to: (1) establish or improve 911 service in those communities; and (2) establish restorative justice programs for juveniles. 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to make grants to establish in rural areas substance abuse 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 response time by providing additional contract personnel, equipment, and facilities in rural areas. 
Establishes a Rural Policing Institute as part of the Small Town and Rural Training Program. 
Secure Storage of Firearms Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to carry out a demonstration program to make grants to assist qualified law enforcement officers in the acquisition and installation of gun safes or gun storage racks in their residences. 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a tax credit for certain gun safe or storage rack acquisition expenses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Introduced in Senate