Second Chance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1934
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the Senate
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
Finance and Financial Sector
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
Personal budgets
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: 2005-10-27
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 for grants to: (1) provide structured post-release housing and transitional housing; and (2) establish or expand the use of reentry courts. Sets forth grant priorities and requirements, including that each applicant establish or empower 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 offender reentry programs. Authorizes 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 (2) the Secretary of Labor to implement a program to educate employers and one-stop center workforce development providers about existing incentives and tax credits for hiring former prisoners.
 
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 under age 16.
 
Requires: (1) the Department of Justice to modify existing procedures and policies to enhance case planning and improve the transition of persons from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons to the community, including placement of such individuals in community corrections facilities; and (2) the Bureau to establish reentry planning procedures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12014)
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in Senate