Enhanced Second Chance Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2923
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Adult education
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Alcoholism
Armed Forces and National Security
Arrest
Authorization
Caregivers
Cash welfare block grants
Child safety
Child support
Child welfare
Church and social problems
Community-based corrections
Compensation for victims of crime
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corrections
Courts of special jurisdiction
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Criminology
Department of Justice
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug addiction
Drug testing
Drug therapy
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Ex-offenders
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Family violence
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Food stamps
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Group homes
Halfway houses
Health
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Job creation
Job hunting
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Medicaid
Medical tests
Medicare
Mental health services
Mental illness
Mentoring
Nonprofit organizations
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Parent and child
Parent-school relationships
Parole
Performance measurement
Prison administration
Prisoners
Probation
Public housing
Rape
Reading
Recidivists
Rehabilitation of criminals
Religion
Risk
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Social Welfare
Social security eligibility
Stalking
State laws
Strategic planning
Student employment
Student loan funds
Teleconferencing
Veterans' benefits
Victims of crimes
Welfare eligibility
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Enhanced Second Chance Act of 2004: Community Safety Through Recidivism Prevention or Enhanced Second Chance Act of 2004 - 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. Directs the Attorney General to establish an interagency task force on Federal programs and activities relating to offender reentry. Authorizes the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics to conduct research on offender reentry.
 
Directs: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review the role of State child protective services at the time of arrest and to establish services for the preservation of families impacted by the incarceration of a family member; (2) the Secretary of Labor to implement a program to educate employers about existing incentives to the hiring of former prisoners; and (3) the Department of Justice to modify existing procedures and policies to improve the transition of Federal prisoners into their communities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10718-10724)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10717-10718)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate