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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Networking Electronically To Connect
Our Police Act of 2001'' or the ''NET COP Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES.

(a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(1) Internet-based crime-fighting, investigatory, and
information-sharing technologies have proven to be extremely
useful to the law enforcement agencies that use them;
(2) the sharing of information and the dissemination of
criminal intelligence between and among Federal, State, and
local law enforcement agencies benefit the society at large by
making criminal investigations more inclusive and effective;
(3) the sharing of information between and among Federal,
State, and local law enforcement agencies allows these agencies
to find missing, neglected, abused, or abducted children, as
well as non-custodial parents seeking to evade their legal or
financial responsibilities; and
(4) police departments in rural areas of the country tend
to be underserved by these Internet-based technologies.
(b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are--
(1) to authorize the Department of Justice to make grants
to rural police departments for the purchase or upgrade of
computer equipment, and to pay for Internet access for crime-
fighting, investigatory, or information-sharing purposes;
(2) to reimburse police department officials or members
who, acting on behalf of their rural police departments and
using personal funds, have purchased computer equipment or paid
for Internet access for crime-fighting, investigatory, or
information-sharing purposes; and
(3) to require annual reports to Congress on the
concentration of police departments that have Internet access,
particularly those departments serving rural areas.

SEC. 3. GRANTS AUTHORIZED.

The Attorney General is authorized to award grants to rural police
departments to--
(1) enable those departments to gain access to the various
crime-fighting, investigatory, and information sharing
resources available on the Internet; and
(2) reimburse rural police department officials and members
for the cost of computer equipment or Internet access.

SEC. 4. USE OF FUNDS.

Grants awarded under this Act may be used--
(1) for the purchase of new or upgraded computer hardware
or software;
(2) to pay for Internet access; and
(3) to reimburse rural police departments that have paid
for computer equipment or Internet access out of the funds of
the department or department official or members, for some or
all of the costs associated with those purchases, as determined
by the Attorney General.

SEC. 5. APPLICATION.

Each eligible rural police department that desires a grant under
this Act shall submit an application to the Attorney General at such
time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the
Attorney General may reasonably require.

SEC. 6. GRANT PROGRAM CRITERIA.

(a) In General.--In awarding a grant under this Act, the Attorney
General shall--
(1) set criteria for determining which police departments
are currently underserved by crime-fighting, investigatory, or
information-sharing technologies available on the Internet, by
differentiating between police departments that do not have
Internet access, and those departments that have access but are
using outmoded, obsolete, or otherwise inadequate technology;
and
(2) determine what would constitute the minimum feasible
package of technologies required to enable those police
departments to use existing crime-fighting, investigatory, and
information-sharing technologies.
(b) Grant Limitations.--The Attorney General shall set limits for
maximum annual grants, based on determinations made under subsection
(a), for rural police departments that do not have Internet access, and
for those that do have access but are using inadequate technology.

SEC. 7. POLICE DEPARTMENT TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE DESK.

The Attorney General shall establish a Police Department Technology
Assistance Desk to offer advice to chiefs of police in rural police
departments regarding--
(1) the types of products to buy in order to achieve not
less than a minimum level of Internet service to access
existing crime-fighting, investigatory, and information-sharing
technologies; and
(2) technology upgrades for those police departments in
possession of outmoded or obsolete technology;
(3) preferred vendors; and
(4) any other information the Attorney General determines
to be necessary.

SEC. 8. REPORT TO CONGRESS.

The General Accounting Office, in consultation with the Attorney
General, shall annually report to Congress on the concentration of
police departments in the country that have Internet access, with
particular emphasis on the number and percentage of rural police
departments that lack Internet access, especially high-speed Internet
access.

SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

There is authorized to be appropriated $500,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2002 through 2007 to carry out this Act.
Networking Electronically To Connect Our Police Act of 2001 or NET COP Act - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to rural police departments to: (1) enable those departments to gain access to the various crime-fighting, investigatory, and information sharing resources available on the Internet; and (2) reimburse rural police department officials and members for the cost of computer equipment or Internet access.Allows grants awarded to be used: (1) for the purchase of new or upgraded computer hardware or software; (2) to pay for Internet access; and (3) to reimburse rural police departments that have paid for computer equipment or Internet access out of the funds of the department or department officials or members for some or all of the costs associated with those purchases, as determined by the Attorney General.Sets forth provisions regarding grant application requirements and grant program criteria.Directs the Attorney General to establish a Police Department Technology Assistance Desk to offer advice to chiefs of police in rural police departments.

SECTION 1. CONSERVATION FLEX PROGRAM OPTION.

(a) Establishment of Program.--The Agricultural Act of 1949 is
amended by inserting after section 115 (7 U.S.C. 1445k) the following
new section:
''SEC. 116. CONSERVATION FLEX PROGRAM OPTION.

''(a) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish a voluntary
conservation flex program option to assist producers of agricultural
commodities in adopting integrated, site-specific farm management plans
through the reduction of farm program barriers to resource stewardship
practices and systems.
''(b) Definitions.--For the purposes of this section:
''(1) The term 'program' means the conservation flex
program option established under this section.
''(2) The term 'plan' means a site-specific farm management
plan prepared by the producer and approved by the Secretary.
''(3) The term 'alternative crops' means experimental and
industrial crops which conserve soil and water.
''(4) The term 'breeding cattle' means bulls, dams, and
heifers held solely for the production of calves, but shall not
include weaned calves being grown for slaughter or dairy
cattle.
''(5) The term 'legume' means any legume, including
alfalfa, clover, lentils, lupine, medic, peas, soybeans, and
vetch grown for use as a forage, green manure, or biomass
feedstock, but not including any pulse crop from which the
seeds are harvested and sold for purposes other than use as
seed for planting.
''(6) The term 'resource-conserving crop' means legumes,
grasses, brassica cover crops and forages, alternative crops,
any interseeded or relay-planted combination of such crops, any
interseeded or relay-planted combination of such crops and
small grains, and such other crops as the Secretary may
designate.
''(7) The term 'resource-conserving crop rotation' means a
crop rotation which includes at least one resource-conserving
crop and that reduces erosion, maintains or improves soil
fertility, tilth and structure, interrupts pest cycles, or
conserves water.
''(8) The term 'rotational grazing' means planting forage,
dividing pastures into paddocks, and using grazing rotations to
increase forage quality and production, improve vegetative
cover, and reduce sediment and nutrient runoff.
''(9) The term 'small grains' means any small grain,
including barley, buckwheat, oats, rye, spelt, and triticale,
but not including wheat, except for wheat grown for nonhuman
consumption.
''(10) The term 'special conservation practices' means
field borders, contour grass strips, grass waterways, filter
strips, grass windbreaks, buffer areas, wildlife habitat
plantings, habitat plantings for beneficial organisms that aid
in the control of pests, and such other practices as the
Secretary may designate.
''(c) Eligible Producers.--To be eligible to participate in the
program, a producer must prepare and submit to the Secretary for
approval a site-specific farm management plan, which may at the
producer's option be integrated with any conservation plan developed
pursuant to section 1212 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C.
3812) and any other conservation or natural resource plan required for
producer participation in any program within the jurisdiction of the
Secretary.
''(d) Agreements.--Upon the approval of a plan submitted by a
producer under subsection (c), the Secretary shall enter into an
agreement with the producer that specifies the crop acreage bases being
enrolled in the program. The agreement shall be for a period of not
less than one year, nor more than seven years, as determined by the
producer. The agreement may be renewed upon the mutual agreement of the
Secretary and the producer.
''(e) Producer Responsibilities Under Agreement.--Under the terms
of an agreement entered into under subsection (d), a producer shall
agree--
''(1) to actively comply with the terms and conditions of
the applicable plan, as approved by the Secretary;
''(2) to devote to a resource-conserving crop--
''(A) not less than 15 percent of the crop acreage
bases of the producer enrolled under such program; or
''(B) not less than 15 percent of the producer's
total crop acres, if the sum of resource-conserving
crop acres on non-base acres and total crop acreage
bases on the farm does not exceed the county average
base-to-cropland ratio; and
''(3) to keep such records as the Secretary may reasonably
require for purposes of program evaluation.
''(f) Requirements of the Plan.--To be approved by the Secretary, a
plan submitted by a producer must--
''(1) specify the crop acreage bases the producer chooses
to enroll in the program;
''(2) describe the resource-conserving crop rotation,
special conservation practices, rotational grazing, or biomass
production operations and practices to be implemented and
maintained on such acreage during the agreement period which
fulfill the purposes of the program;
''(3) contain a schedule for the implementation,
improvement and maintenance of the resource-conserving crop
rotation, special conservation practices, rotational grazing,
or biomass operations and practices described in the plan; and
''(4) contain such other terms as the Secretary may
require.
''(g) Program Administration, Certification, and Termination.--
''(1) Program administration, technical assistance, and
flexibility.--
''(A) Administration.--The program shall be
administered by the Secretary.
''(B) Technical assistance.--In administering the
program, the Secretary, in consultation with the local
conservation districts and any State or local
authorities deemed appropriate by the Secretary, shall
provide technical assistance to a producer in
developing and implementing a plan, evaluating the
effectiveness of a plan, and assessing the costs and
benefits of farming operations and practices. If
requested by a producer, the Secretary shall provide
technical assistance to help the producer comply with
Federal, State, and local requirements designed to
protect soil, wetlands, wildlife habitat, the quality
of ground water and surface water, or other natural
resources.
''(C) Flexibility.--In administering the program,
the Secretary shall provide sufficient flexibility for
a producer to revise the producer's plan to respond to
changes in market conditions, weather, or technology or
to adjust and modify the farming operation, except that
such revisions must be consistent with the purposes of
the program and approved by the Secretary.
''(2) Certification.--The Secretary shall certify producer
compliance with the terms and conditions of the plan.
''(3) Termination.--The Secretary may terminate an
agreement entered into with a producer under this program if--
''(A) the producer agrees to such termination; or
''(B) the producer violates the terms and
conditions of such agreement.
''(h) Program Rules.--
''(1) Base and yield protection.--Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the Secretary shall not reduce crop acreage
bases or farm program payment yields as a result of the
planting of a resource-conserving crop.
''(2) Payment acres.--Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, the Secretary shall not reduce any farm program loans,
payments, or benefits of a program participant as a result of
the planting of a resource-conserving crop.
''(3) Payment rate.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Secretary shall provide deficiency payments on
resource-conserving crop acreage eligible for payments at a
rate not less than the projected deficiency payment rate, as
determined and announced each year by the Secretary prior to
the period during which producers may agree to participate in
the program.
''(4) Payment acre protection.--Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the Secretary shall not reduce the payment
acres or the established price for a program participant who
has entered into an agreement with the Secretary for a fixed
period of time.
''(5) Resource-conserving crops on normal flex acreage.--
Acreage devoted to resource-conserving crops under this program
may, at the discretion of the producer, be designated as normal
flex acreage.
''(6) Adjustments in production adjustment requirements.--
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall
make fair and equitable adjustments in acreage limitation
requirements applicable to a producer participating in the
program giving due consideration to crop rotation, special
conservation practices, rotational grazing, biomass production,
and other appropriate factors resulting from the implementation
of a plan. If the Secretary determines that the reduction in
program crop production on a participating farm referred to in
the preceding sentence will equal or exceed any reduction in
crop production which, in the absence of participation in the
program, would occur as a result of acreage limitation
requirements, the Secretary shall waive such acreage limitation
requirements for the farm. If the resource conserving crop
includes a farm program feed grain crop planted on the base
acres of another farm program feed grain crop, the Secretary
shall take into account the established or county average yield
of the two feed grains for the purposes of making the
adjustment or waiver.
''(7) Total base acreage flexibility.--Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, the Secretary shall allow participants
in this program to plant farm program crops and oilseeds in any
proportion on a producer's total acreage of farm program crop
base and historic oilseeds acreage without affecting farm
program payments.
''(8) Crop insurance.--Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, acreage devoted to resource-conserving crops under this
program shall be eligible for crop insurance pursuant to the
Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.).
''(9) Haying and grazing restriction.--
''(A) In general.--The Secretary shall not make any
farm program payments to a producer, who is otherwise
eligible to receive such payments, for acreage enrolled
in the program if the producer, during the consecutive
five month period in each State in which haying and
grazing of conserving use acres may be prohibited under
the provisions of this Act, grazes breeding cattle or
nursing calves or harvests and sells hay on payment
acres.
''(B) Transition option.--The restriction in
subparagraph (A) shall not apply in the case of a
producer who agrees to retire all base acreage enrolled
in the program at the end of the agreement period.
''(C) Emergency haying and grazing.--The Secretary
shall release acreage devoted to resource-conserving
crops for emergency haying and grazing as the result of
a natural disaster when the Secretary permits unlimited
haying and grazing on--
''(i) reduced acreage under this Act;
''(ii) acreage devoted to a conservation
use under this Act;
''(iii) acreage diverted from production
under a land diversion program established
under this Act; or
''(iv) acreage enrolled in the conservation
reserve program under the Food Security Act of
1985 (16 U.S.C. 3801 et seq.).''.
(b) Conforming Repeal.--Section 1451 of the Food, Agriculture,
Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5822) is repealed.
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a voluntary conservation flex program which will permit producers to adopt integrated site-specific farm management plans. Includes within such plans resource-conserving crops, crop rotation, and rotational grazing.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Special Government Employee Act of
1997''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO DEFINITION OF ''SPECIAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE''.

(a) Amendment to Section 202(a).--Subsection (a) of section 202 of
title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
''(a) For the purpose of sections 203, 205, 207, 208, and 209 of
this title the term 'special Government employee' shall mean--
''(1) an officer or employee as defined in subsection (c)
who is retained, designated, appointed, or employed in the
legislative or executive branch of the United States
Government, in any independent agency of the United States, or
in the government of the District of Columbia, and who, at the
time of retention, designation, appointment or employment, is
expected to perform temporary duties on a full-time or
intermittent basis for not to exceed one hundred and thirty
days during any period of three hundred and sixty five
consecutive days;
''(2) a part-time United States commissioner;
''(3) a part-time United States magistrate;
''(4) an independent counsel appointed under chapter 40 of
title 28 and any person appointed by that independent counsel
under section 594(c) of title 28;
''(5) a person serving as a part-time local representative
of a Member of Congress in the Member's home district or State;
and
''(6) a Reserve officer of the Armed Forces, or an officer
of the National Guard of the United States, who is not
otherwise an officer or employee as defined in subsection (c)
who is--
''(A) on active duty solely for training
(notwithstanding section 2105(d) of title 5);
''(B) serving voluntarily for not to exceed one
hundred and thirty days during any period of three
hundred and sixty five consecutive days; or
''(C) serving involuntarily.''.
(b) Amendment to Section 202(c).--Subsection (c) of 202 of title
18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
''(c) The terms 'officer' and 'employee' in sections 203, 205, 207
through 209, and 218 of this title shall include--
''(1) an individual who is retained, designated, appointed
or employed in the United States Government or in the
government of the District of Columbia, to perform, with or
without compensation and subject to the supervision of the
President, the Vice President, a Member of Congress, a Federal
judge or an officer or employee of the United States or of the
government of the District of Columbia, a Federal or District
of Columbia function under authority of law or an Executive
act. As used in this section, a Federal or District of Columbia
function shall include, but not be limited to--
''(A) supervising, managing, directing or
overseeing a Federal or District of Columbia officer or
employee in the performance of such officer's or
employee's official duties;
''(B) providing regular advice, counsel, or
recommendations to the President, the Vice President, a
Member of Congress, or any Federal or District of
Columbia officer or employee, or conducting meetings
involving any of those individuals, as part of the
Federal or District of Columbia government's internal
deliberative process; or
''(C) obligating funds of the United States or the
District of Columbia;
''(2) a Reserve officer of the Armed Forces or an officer
of the National Guard of the United States who is serving
voluntarily in excess of one hundred and thirty days during any
period of three hundred and sixty-five consecutive days; and
''(3) the President, the Vice President, a Member of
Congress or a Federal judge only if specified in the
section.''.
(c) New Section 202(f).--Section 202 of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
''(f) The terms 'officer or employee' and 'special Government
employee' as used in sections 203, 205, 207 through 209, and 218, shall
not include enlisted members of the Armed Forces, nor shall they
include an individual who is retained, designated or appointed without
compensation specifically to act as a representative of a non-Federal
(or non-District of Columbia) interest on an advisory committee
established pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act or any
similarly established committee whose meetings are generally open to
the public. The non-Federal interest to be represented must be
specifically set forth in the statute, charter, or Executive act
establishing the committee.''.
Special Government Employee Act of 1997 - Amends the Federal criminal code to include within the definition of "special Government employee" a reserve officer of the armed forces, or a National Guard officer, who is serving voluntarily for up to 130 days during any period of 365 consecutive days. (Such officers are currently considered officers of the United States.)
States that "officer and employee" and "special Government employee" shall not include enlisted military personnel or an individual retained, designated, or appointed without compensation specifically to act as a representative of a non-Federal interest on an advisory committee.