Re-Entry Enhancement Act

Bill: 108-hr-5075
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2004-09-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative remedies
Adult education
Age
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Alcoholism
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
Books
Caregivers
Cash welfare block grants
Child safety
Child welfare
Church and social problems
Citizen participation
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Civil rights enforcement
Commerce
Community colleges
Community-based corrections
Compensation for victims of crime
Congress
Congressional elections
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuum of care
Corrections
Courts of special jurisdiction
Criminal statistics
Criminology
Custody of children
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Disabled
Discrimination in employment
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug testing
Drug therapy
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee training
English language
Eviction
Evidence (Law)
Ex-offenders
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Family violence
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal employees
Fines (Penalties)
Food stamps
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Halfway houses
Health
Higher education
Households
Housing and Community Development
Housing authorities
Housing subsidies
Income tax
Information services
Injunctions
Job hunting
Judicial review
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Landlord and tenant
Law
Literacy programs
Low-income housing
Medicaid
Medical tests
Medicare
Mental health
Mental health services
Mental illness
Mentoring
Nonprofit organizations
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Parent and child
Parent-school relationships
Parole
Performance measurement
Planning
Presidential elections
Prison administration
Prisoners
Probation
Productivity in government
Public housing
Punishment
Rape
Reading
Recidivists
Rehabilitation of criminals
Religion
Rental housing
Risk
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Sentencing guidelines
Social Welfare
Special education
Stalking
State courts
State laws
Strategic planning
Student aid
Student loan funds
Support of dependents
Tax credits
Taxation
Technical education
Teleconferencing
Transportation and Public Works
Veterans' benefits
Victims of crimes
Violence
Vocational and technical education
Voting rights
Welfare eligibility
Welfare fraud
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: 
Reentry Enhancement Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize, rewrite, and expand provisions regarding adult and juvenile offender reentry demonstration projects, including by authorizing funds to: (1) provide structured post-release housing and transitional housing; (2) facilitate collaboration to promote the employment of people released from prison; and (3) establish or expand the use of reentry courts. Sets forth grant priorities and requirements, including that each State or local government recipient establish a Reentry Task Force or other relevant convening authority. 
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to make a grant to provide for the establishment of a National Adult and Juvenile Offender Reentry Resource Center. Establishes in the executive branch an interagency task force on Federal programs related to the reentry of former prisoners into the community, to be chaired by the Attorney General. Authorizes the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics to conduct research on offender reentry.
 
Declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for Federal office shall not be denied or abridged because that individual has been convicted of a crime unless such individual is serving a felony sentence at the time of the election. Sets forth enforcement provisions.
 
Requires the Bureau of Prisons to ensure that a prisoner serving a term of imprisonment spends a reasonable part of the final portion of that term preparing for reentry into the community.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2004-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2004-09-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, 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: 2004-09-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, 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: 2004-09-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, 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: 2004-09-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, 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: 2004-09-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, 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: 2004-09-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, 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: 2004-09-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, 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: 2004-09-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1618)
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Introduced in House