Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2004
PL 108-414 (S.1194), enacted 10/30/2004

118 STAT. 2327
PUBLIC LAW 108–414—OCT. 30, 2004
Public Law 108–414
108th Congress
An Act
To foster local collaborations which will ensure that resources are effectively and
efficiently used within the criminal and juvenile justice systems.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mentally Ill Offender Treatment
and Crime Reduction Act of 2004’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, over 16
percent of adults incarcerated in United States jails and prisons
have a mental illness.
(2) According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delin-
quency Prevention, approximately 20 percent of youth in the
juvenile justice system have serious mental health problems,
and a significant number have co-occurring mental health and
substance abuse disorders.
(3) According to the National Alliance for the Mentally
Ill, up to 40 percent of adults who suffer from a serious mental
illness will come into contact with the American criminal justice
system at some point in their lives.
(4) According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delin-
quency Prevention, over 150,000 juveniles who come into
contact with the juvenile justice system each year meet the
diagnostic criteria for at least 1 mental or emotional disorder.
(5) A significant proportion of adults with a serious mental
illness who are involved with the criminal justice system are
homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness, and many of
these individuals are arrested and jailed for minor, nonviolent
offenses.
(6) The majority of individuals with a mental illness or
emotional disorder who are involved in the criminal or juvenile
justice systems are responsive to medical and psychological
interventions that integrate treatment, rehabilitation, and sup-
port services.
(7) Collaborative programs between mental health, sub-
stance abuse, and criminal or juvenile justice systems that
ensure the provision of services for those with mental illness
or co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse disorders
can reduce the number of such individuals in adult and juvenile
corrections facilities, while providing improved public safety.
42 USC 3797aa
note.
42 USC 3711
note.
Mentally Ill
Offender
Treatment and
Crime Reduction
Act of 2004.
Oct. 30, 2004
[S. 1194]
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SEC. 3. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to increase public safety by facili-
tating collaboration among the criminal justice, juvenile justice,
mental health treatment, and substance abuse systems. Such
collaboration is needed to—
(1) protect public safety by intervening with adult and
juvenile offenders with mental illness or co-occurring mental
illness and substance abuse disorders;
(2) provide courts, including existing and new mental
health courts, with appropriate mental health and substance
abuse treatment options;
(3) maximize the use of alternatives to prosecution through
graduated sanctions in appropriate cases involving nonviolent
offenders with mental illness;
(4) promote adequate training for criminal justice system
personnel about mental illness and substance abuse disorders
and the appropriate responses to people with such illnesses;
(5) promote adequate training for mental health and sub-
stance abuse treatment personnel about criminal offenders with
mental illness or co-occurring substance abuse disorders and
the appropriate response to such offenders in the criminal
justice system;
(6) promote communication among adult or juvenile justice
personnel, mental health and co-occurring mental illness and
substance abuse disorders treatment personnel, nonviolent
offenders with mental illness or co-occurring mental illness
and substance abuse disorders, and support services such as
housing, job placement, community, faith-based, and crime vic-
tims organizations; and
(7) promote communication, collaboration, and intergovern-
mental partnerships among municipal, county, and State
elected officials with respect to mentally ill offenders.
SEC. 4. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE MENTAL HEALTH AND CRIMINAL
JUSTICE COLLABORATION PROGRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3711 et seq.) is amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘PART HH—ADULT AND JUVENILE
COLLABORATION PROGRAM GRANTS
‘‘SEC. 2991. ADULT AND JUVENILE COLLABORATION PROGRAMS.
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following definitions
shall apply:
‘‘(1) APPLICANT.—The term ‘applicant’ means States, units
of local government, Indian tribes, and tribal organizations
that apply for a grant under this section.
‘‘(2) COLLABORATION
PROGRAM.—The term ‘collaboration
program’ means a program to promote public safety by ensuring
access to adequate mental health and other treatment services
for mentally ill adults or juveniles that is overseen cooperatively
by—
‘‘(A) a criminal or juvenile justice agency or a mental
health court; and
‘‘(B) a mental health agency.
42 USC 3797aa.
42 USC 3797aa
note.
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‘‘(3) CRIMINAL OR JUVENILE JUSTICE AGENCY.—The term
‘criminal or juvenile justice agency’ means an agency of a
State or local government or its contracted agency that is
responsible for detection, arrest, enforcement, prosecution,
defense, adjudication, incarceration, probation, or parole
relating to the violation of the criminal laws of that State
or local government.
‘‘(4) DIVERSION AND ALTERNATIVE PROSECUTION AND SEN-
TENCING.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The terms ‘diversion’ and ‘alter-
native prosecution and sentencing’ mean the appropriate
use of effective mental health treatment alternatives to
juvenile justice or criminal justice system institutional
placements for preliminarily qualified offenders.
‘‘(B) APPROPRIATE USE.—In this paragraph, the term
‘appropriate use’ includes the discretion of the judge or
supervising authority, the leveraging of graduated sanc-
tions to encourage compliance with treatment, and law
enforcement diversion, including crisis intervention teams.
‘‘(C) GRADUATED SANCTIONS.—In this paragraph, the
term ‘graduated sanctions’ means an accountability-based
graduated series of sanctions (including incentives, treat-
ments, and services) applicable to mentally ill offenders
within both the juvenile and adult justice system to hold
individuals accountable for their actions and to protect
communities by providing appropriate sanctions for
inducing law-abiding behavior and preventing subsequent
involvement in the criminal justice system.
‘‘(5) MENTAL HEALTH AGENCY.—The term ‘mental health
agency’ means an agency of a State or local government or
its contracted agency that is responsible for mental health
services or co-occurring mental health and substance abuse
services.
‘‘(6) MENTAL
HEALTH
COURT.—The term ‘mental health
court’ means a judicial program that meets the requirements
of part V of this title.
‘‘(7) MENTAL
ILLNESS.—The term ‘mental illness’ means
a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder—
‘‘(A) of sufficient duration to meet diagnostic criteria
within the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statis-
tical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the Amer-
ican Psychiatric Association; and
‘‘(B)(i) that, in the case of an adult, has resulted in
functional impairment that substantially interferes with
or limits 1 or more major life activities; or
‘‘(ii) that, in the case of a juvenile, has resulted in
functional impairment that substantially interferes with
or limits the juvenile’s role or functioning in family, school,
or community activities.
‘‘(8) NONVIOLENT OFFENSE.—The term ‘nonviolent offense’
means an offense that does not have as an element the use,
attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the
person or property of another or is not a felony that by its
nature involves a substantial risk that physical force against
the person or property of another may be used in the course
of committing the offense.
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‘‘(9) 
PRELIMINARILY
QUALIFIED
OFFENDER.—The 
term
‘preliminarily qualified offender’ means an adult or juvenile
accused of a nonviolent offense who—
‘‘(A)(i) previously or currently has been diagnosed by
a qualified mental health professional as having a mental
illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse
disorders; or
‘‘(ii) manifests obvious signs of mental illness or co-
occurring mental illness and substance abuse disorders
during arrest or confinement or before any court; and
‘‘(B) has faced, is facing, or could face criminal charges
for a misdemeanor or nonviolent offense and is deemed
eligible by a diversion process, designated pretrial
screening process, or by a magistrate or judge, on the
ground that the commission of the offense is the product
of the person’s mental illness.
‘‘(10) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ means the Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services.
‘‘(11) UNIT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.—The term ‘unit of local
government’ means any city, county, township, town, borough,
parish, village, or other general purpose political subdivision
of a State, including a State court, local court, or a govern-
mental agency located within a city, county, township, town,
borough, parish, or village.
‘‘(b) PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, in consultation
with the Secretary, may award nonrenewable grants to eligible
applicants to prepare a comprehensive plan for and implement
an adult or juvenile collaboration program, which targets
preliminarily qualified offenders in order to promote public
safety and public health.
‘‘(2) PURPOSES.—Grants awarded under this section shall
be used to create or expand—
‘‘(A) mental health courts or other court-based pro-
grams for preliminarily qualified offenders;
‘‘(B) programs that offer specialized training to the
officers and employees of a criminal or juvenile justice
agency and mental health personnel serving those with
co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse problems
in procedures for identifying the symptoms of preliminarily
qualified offenders in order to respond appropriately to
individuals with such illnesses;
‘‘(C) programs that support cooperative efforts by
criminal and juvenile justice agencies and mental health
agencies to promote public safety by offering mental health
treatment services and, where appropriate, substance
abuse treatment services for—
‘‘(i) preliminarily qualified offenders with mental
illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance
abuse disorders; or
‘‘(ii) adult offenders with mental illness during
periods of incarceration, while under the supervision
of a criminal justice agency, or following release from
correctional facilities; and
‘‘(D) programs that support intergovernmental coopera-
tion between State and local governments with respect
to the mentally ill offender.
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‘‘(3) APPLICATIONS.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—To receive a planning grant or an
implementation grant, the joint applicants shall prepare
and submit a single application to the Attorney General
at such time, in such manner, and containing such informa-
tion as the Attorney General and the Secretary shall
reasonably require. An application under part V of this
title may be made in conjunction with an application under
this section.
‘‘(B) COMBINED PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION GRANT
APPLICATION.—The Attorney General and the Secretary
shall develop a procedure under which applicants may
apply at the same time and in a single application for
a planning grant and an implementation grant, with receipt
of the implementation grant conditioned on successful
completion of the activities funded by the planning grant.
‘‘(4) PLANNING GRANTS.—
‘‘(A) APPLICATION.—The joint applicants may apply to
the Attorney General for a nonrenewable planning grant
to develop a collaboration program.
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—The Attorney General and the Sec-
retary may not approve a planning grant unless the
application for the grant includes or provides, at a min-
imum, for a budget and a budget justification, a description
of the outcome measures that will be used to measure
the effectiveness of the program in promoting public safety
and public health, the activities proposed (including the
provision of substance abuse treatment services, where
appropriate) and a schedule for completion of such activi-
ties, and the personnel necessary to complete such activi-
ties.
‘‘(C) PERIOD
OF
GRANT.—A planning grant shall be
effective for a period of 1 year, beginning on the first
day of the month in which the planning grant is made.
Applicants may not receive more than 1 such planning
grant.
‘‘(D) AMOUNT.—The amount of a planning grant may
not exceed $75,000, except that the Attorney General may,
for good cause, approve a grant in a higher amount.
‘‘(E) COLLABORATION SET ASIDE.—Up to 5 percent of
all planning funds shall be used to foster collaboration
between State and local governments in furtherance of
the purposes set forth in the Mentally Ill Offender Treat-
ment and Crime Reduction Act of 2004.
‘‘(5) IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS.—
‘‘(A) APPLICATION.—Joint applicants that have pre-
pared a planning grant application may apply to the
Attorney 
General 
for 
approval 
of 
a 
nonrenewable
implementation grant to develop a collaboration program.
‘‘(B) COLLABORATION.—To receive an implementation
grant, the joint applicants shall—
‘‘(i) document that at least 1 criminal or juvenile
justice agency (which can include a mental health
court) and 1 mental health agency will participate
in the administration of the collaboration program;
‘‘(ii) describe the responsibilities of each partici-
pating agency, including how each agency will use
Procedures.
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grant resources to provide supervision of offenders and
jointly ensure that the provision of mental health treat-
ment services and substance abuse services for individ-
uals with co-occurring mental health and substance
abuse disorders are coordinated, which may range from
consultation or collaboration to integration in a single
setting or treatment model;
‘‘(iii) in the case of an application from a unit
of local government, document that a State mental
health authority has provided comment and review;
and
‘‘(iv) involve, to the extent practicable, in devel-
oping the grant application—
‘‘(I) preliminarily qualified offenders;
‘‘(II) the families and advocates of such individ-
uals under subclause (I); and
‘‘(III) advocates for victims of crime.
‘‘(C) CONTENT.—To be eligible for an implementation
grant, joint applicants shall comply with the following:
‘‘(i) 
DEFINITION
OF
TARGET
POPULATION.—
Applicants for an implementation grant shall—
‘‘(I) describe the population with mental illness
or co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse
disorders that is targeted for the collaboration pro-
gram; and
‘‘(II) develop guidelines that can be used by
personnel of an adult or juvenile justice agency
to identify preliminarily qualified offenders.
‘‘(ii) SERVICES.—Applicants for an implementation
grant shall—
‘‘(I) 
ensure 
that 
preliminarily 
qualified
offenders who are to receive treatment services
under the collaboration program will first receive
individualized, validated, needs-based assessments
to determine, plan, and coordinate the most appro-
priate services for such individuals;
‘‘(II) specify plans for making mental health,
or mental health and substance abuse, treatment
services available and accessible to preliminarily
qualified offenders at the time of their release
from the criminal justice system, including outside
of normal business hours;
‘‘(III) ensure that there are substance abuse
personnel available to respond appropriately to the
treatment 
needs 
of 
preliminarily 
qualified
offenders;
‘‘(IV) determine eligibility for Federal benefits;
‘‘(V) 
ensure 
that 
preliminarily 
qualified
offenders served by the collaboration program will
have adequate supervision and access to effective
and appropriate community-based mental health
services, including, in the case of individuals with
co-occurring mental health and substance abuse
disorders, coordinated services, which may range
from consultation or collaboration to integration
in a single setting treatment model;
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‘‘(VI) make available, to the extent practicable,
other support services that will ensure the prelimi-
narily qualified offender’s successful reintegration
into the community (such as housing, education,
job placement, mentoring, and health care and
benefits, as well as the services of faith-based and
community organizations for mentally ill individ-
uals served by the collaboration program); and
‘‘(VII) include strategies, to the extent prac-
ticable, to address developmental and learning
disabilities and problems arising from a docu-
mented history of physical or sexual abuse.
‘‘(D) HOUSING AND JOB PLACEMENT.—Recipients of an
implementation grant may use grant funds to assist men-
tally ill offenders compliant with the program in seeking
housing or employment assistance.
‘‘(E) POLICIES
AND
PROCEDURES.—Applicants for an
implementation grant shall strive to ensure prompt access
to defense counsel by criminal defendants with mental
illness who are facing charges that would trigger a constitu-
tional right to counsel.
‘‘(F) FINANCIAL.—Applicants for an implementation
grant shall—
‘‘(i) explain the applicant’s inability to fund the
collaboration program adequately without Federal
assistance;
‘‘(ii) specify how the Federal support provided will
be used to supplement, and not supplant, State, local,
Indian tribe, or tribal organization sources of funding
that would otherwise be available, including billing
third-party resources for services already covered
under programs (such as Medicaid, Medicare, and the
State Children’s Insurance Program); and
‘‘(iii) outline plans for obtaining necessary support
and continuing the proposed collaboration program fol-
lowing the conclusion of Federal support.
‘‘(G) OUTCOMES.—Applicants for an implementation
grant shall—
‘‘(i) identify methodology and outcome measures,
as required by the Attorney General and the Secretary,
to be used in evaluating the effectiveness of the
collaboration program;
‘‘(ii) ensure mechanisms are in place to capture
data, consistent with the methodology and outcome
measures under clause (i); and
‘‘(iii) submit specific agreements from affected
agencies to provide the data needed by the Attorney
General and the Secretary to accomplish the evaluation
under clause (i).
‘‘(H) STATE PLANS.—Applicants for an implementation
grant shall describe how the adult or juvenile collaboration
program relates to existing State criminal or juvenile jus-
tice and mental health plans and programs.
‘‘(I) USE
OF
FUNDS.—Applicants that receive an
implementation grant may use funds for 1 or more of
the following purposes:
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‘‘(i) MENTAL HEALTH COURTS AND DIVERSION/ALTER-
NATIVE
PROSECUTION
AND
SENTENCING
PROGRAMS.—
Funds may be used to create or expand existing mental
health courts that meet program requirements estab-
lished by the Attorney General under part V of this
title, other court-based programs, or diversion and
alternative prosecution and sentencing programs
(including crisis intervention teams and treatment
accountability services for communities) that meet
requirements established by the Attorney General and
the Secretary.
‘‘(ii) TRAINING.—Funds may be used to create or
expand programs, such as crisis intervention training,
which offer specialized training to—
‘‘(I) criminal justice system personnel to iden-
tify and respond appropriately to the unique needs
of preliminarily qualified offenders; or
‘‘(II) mental health system personnel to
respond appropriately to the treatment needs of
preliminarily qualified offenders.
‘‘(iii) SERVICE DELIVERY.—Funds may be used to
create or expand programs that promote public safety
by providing the services described in subparagraph
(C)(ii) to preliminarily qualified offenders.
‘‘(iv) IN-JAIL AND TRANSITIONAL SERVICES.—Funds
may be used to promote and provide mental health
treatment and transitional services for those incarcer-
ated or for transitional re-entry programs for those
released from any penal or correctional institution.
‘‘(J) 
GEOGRAPHIC
DISTRIBUTION
OF
GRANTS.—The
Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary, shall
ensure that planning and implementation grants are equi-
tably distributed among the geographical regions of the
United States and between urban and rural populations.
‘‘(c) PRIORITY.—The Attorney General, in awarding funds under
this section, shall give priority to applications that—
‘‘(1) demonstrate the strongest commitment to ensuring
that such funds are used to promote both public health and
public safety;
‘‘(2) demonstrate the active participation of each co-
applicant in the administration of the collaboration program;
‘‘(3) document, in the case of an application for a grant
to be used in whole or in part to fund treatment services
for adults or juveniles during periods of incarceration or deten-
tion, that treatment programs will be available to provide
transition and re-entry services for such individuals; and
‘‘(4) have the support of both the Attorney General and
the Secretary.
‘‘(d) MATCHING REQUIREMENTS.—
‘‘(1) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of the cost of
a collaboration program carried out by a State, unit of local
government, Indian tribe, or tribal organization under this
section shall not exceed—
‘‘(A) 80 percent of the total cost of the program during
the first 2 years of the grant;
‘‘(B) 60 percent of the total cost of the program in
year 3; and
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‘‘(C) 25 percent of the total cost of the program in
years 4 and 5.
‘‘(2) NON-FEDERAL SHARE.—The non-Federal share of pay-
ments made under this section may be made in cash or in-
kind fairly evaluated, including planned equipment or services.
‘‘(e) FEDERAL USE OF FUNDS.—The Attorney General, in con-
sultation with the Secretary, in administering grants under this
section, may use up to 3 percent of funds appropriated to—
‘‘(1) research the use of alternatives to prosecution through
pretrial diversion in appropriate cases involving individuals
with mental illness;
‘‘(2) offer specialized training to personnel of criminal and
juvenile justice agencies in appropriate diversion techniques;
‘‘(3) provide technical assistance to local governments,
mental health courts, and diversion programs, including tech-
nical assistance relating to program evaluation;
‘‘(4) help localities build public understanding and support
for community reintegration of individuals with mental illness;
‘‘(5) develop a uniform program evaluation process; and
‘‘(6) conduct a national evaluation of the collaboration pro-
gram that will include an assessment of its cost-effectiveness.
‘‘(f) INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General and the Secretary
shall establish an interagency task force with the Secretaries
of Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Education, and
Veterans Affairs and the Commissioner of Social Security, or
their designees.
‘‘(2) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The task force established under
paragraph (1) shall—
‘‘(A) identify policies within their departments that
hinder or facilitate local collaborative initiatives for prelimi-
narily qualified offenders; and
‘‘(B) submit, not later than 2 years after the date
of enactment of this section, a report to Congress containing
recommendations 
for 
improved 
interdepartmental
collaboration regarding the provision of services to prelimi-
narily qualified offenders.
‘‘(g) MINIMUM ALLOCATION.—Unless all eligible applications
submitted by any State or unit of local government within such
State for a planning or implementation grant under this section
have been funded, such State, together with grantees within the
State (other than Indian tribes), shall be allocated in each fiscal
year under this section not less than 0.75 percent of the total
amount appropriated in the fiscal year for planning or implementa-
tion grants pursuant to this section.
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized
to be appropriated to the Department of Justice to carry out this
section—
‘‘(1) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2005; and
‘‘(2) such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2006
through 2009.’’.
(b) LIST OF ‘‘BEST PRACTICES’’.—The Attorney General, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall
Reports.
Deadline.
Establishment.
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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 1194:
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 108–732 (Comm. on the Judiciary).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
Vol. 149 (2003): Oct. 27, considered and passed Senate.
Vol. 150 (2004): Oct. 6, considered and passed House, amended.
Oct. 11, Senate concurred in House amendment.
develop a list of ‘‘best practices’’ for appropriate diversion from
incarceration of adult and juvenile offenders.
Approved October 30, 2004.
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