Second Chance Act of 2005: Community Safety Through Recidivism Prevention

Bill: 109-hr-1704
Sponsor: Rep. Portman, Rob [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Alcoholism
Armed Forces and National Security
Arrest
Authorization
Caregivers
Cash welfare block grants
Child sexual abuse
Child support
Child welfare
Church and social problems
Commerce
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
Eviction
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
Income tax
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
Parole
Performance measurement
Prison administration
Prisoners
Probation
Public housing
Rape
Reading
Recidivists
Rehabilitation of criminals
Religion
Risk
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social security eligibility
Stalking
State laws
Strategic planning
Student employment
Student loan funds
Tax credits
Teleconferencing
Veterans' benefits
Victims of crimes
Violence
Welfare eligibility
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
Second Chance Act of 2005: Community Safety Through Recidivism Prevention or the Second Chance Act of 2005 - 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 specified collaboration to promote the employment of people released from prison and jail; (3) carry out programs that support children of incarcerated parents; and (4) establish or expand the use of reentry courts. Sets forth grant priorities and requirements, including that each state, territory, tribe, or local government recipient establish a Reentry Task Force or other 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 regarding 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 establish services for the preservation of families impacted by the incarceration of a family member; and (2) the Secretary of Labor to implement a program to educate employers about one-stop centers, existing incentives for the hiring of former prisoners, and tax credits, and to make grants to nonprofit organizations to provide transitional services.
 
Amends the federal criminal code to direct a court to revoke a term of supervised release or a sentence of probation for a defendant who commits a crime of violence against, or an offense of unlawful sexual contact with, a person who has not attained the age of 16 years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-26
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2006-07-26
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-02-15
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2006-02-15
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in House