Second Chance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1060
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Alcoholism
Case management
Child welfare
Commerce
Community-based corrections
Compensatory education
Congressional reporting requirements
Corrections
Courts of special jurisdiction
Criminology
Data banks
Department of Justice
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug therapy
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Ex-offenders
Families
Family services
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Halfway houses
Health
Heroin
Identification devices
Income tax
Indian law enforcement
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Law
Mental health services
Mentoring
Minorities
Native Americans
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Parents
Parole
Performance measurement
Prison alternatives
Prisoners
Recidivists
Rehabilitation of criminals
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Taxation
Technical education
Vocational and technical education
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Recidivism Reduction and Second Chance Act of 2007 or the Second Chance Act of 2007 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize, rewrite, and expand provisions for adult and juvenile offender state and local reentry demonstration projects to provide expanded services to offenders and their families for reentry into society.

Directs the Attorney General to award grants for: (1) state and local reentry courts; (2) Comprehensive and Continuous Offender Reentry Task Forces; (3) pharmacological drug treatment services to incarcerated offenders; (4) technology career training for offenders; and (5) mentoring services for reintegrating offenders into the community.

Amends the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 to require the Secretary of Education to establish a program for education and employment counseling for youth offenders.

Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants for: (1) the establishment of a National Adult and Juvenile Offender Reentry Resource Center; (2) drug treatment programs as an alternative to imprisonment; (3) evaluation of methods to improve academic and vocational education for incarcerated offenders; (4) demonstration programs to reduce the use of alcohol and other drugs in long-term substance abusers; (5) incentive grants to improve drug treatment to offenders in prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities; (6) pharmacological drug treatment services to incarcerated offenders; (7) prison-based family treatment programs for incarcerated parents of minor children; and (8) a study of parole or post-incarceration supervision violations and revocations.

Requires the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to establish: (1) a prisoner reentry program; and (2) a pilot program for the release of elderly nonviolent offenders (age 60 or older).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4191-4203)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4191)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate