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Calendar No. 92
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 162
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 28, 2013
Mr. Franken (for
himself, Mr. Johanns,
Mr. Leahy, Mr.
Graham, Mr. Durbin,
Ms. Ayotte, Mr.
Coons, Mr. Hatch,
Mr. Blunt, Ms.
Collins, Mr. Portman,
Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Wyden, Mrs.
Gillibrand, Mr. Brown,
Ms. Warren, Mr.
Reed, Mr. Schumer,
Mrs. Boxer, Mr.
Begich, Mr. Heller,
Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr.
Schatz, Mr. Whitehouse,
Mr. Grassley, Mr. Moran, Mr.
Roberts, Mr. Crapo,
Mr. Murphy, and Mr. Enzi) introduced the following bill; which was
read twice and referred to the
Committee on the
Judiciary
June 20, 2013
Reported by Mr. Leahy,
with an amendment
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert
the part printed in italic
A BILL
To reauthorize and improve the Mentally Ill Offender
Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2004.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the
Justice and Mental Health
Collaboration Act of 2013.
2.
Assisting
veterans
(a)
Redesignation
Section
2991 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C.
3797aa) is amended by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (l).
(b)
Assisting
veterans
Section 2991 of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa) is
amended by inserting after subsection (h) the following:
(i)
Assisting
veterans
(1)
Definitions
In
this subsection:
(A)
Peer to peer
services or programs
The term peer to peer services or
programs means services or programs that connect qualified veterans with
other veterans for the purpose of providing support and mentorship to assist
qualified veterans in obtaining treatment, recovery, stabilization, or
rehabilitation.
(B)
Qualified
veteran
The term qualified veteran means a
preliminarily qualified offender who—
(i) has served on
active duty in any branch of the Armed Forces, including the National Guard and
reserve components; and
(ii) was discharged or
released from such service under conditions other than dishonorable.
(C)
Veterans
treatment court program
The term veterans treatment court
program means a court program involving collaboration among criminal
justice, veterans, and mental health and substance abuse agencies that provides
qualified veterans with—
(i) intensive judicial
supervision and case management, which may include random and frequent drug
testing where appropriate;
(ii) a full continuum
of treatment services, including mental health services, substance abuse
services, medical services, and services to address trauma;
(iii) alternatives to
incarceration; and
(iv) other appropriate
services, including housing, transportation, mentoring, employment, job
training, education, and assistance in applying for and obtaining available
benefits.
(2)
Veterans
assistance program
(A)
In
general
The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary
of Veterans Affairs, may award grants under this subsection to applicants to
establish or expand—
(i) veterans treatment
court programs;
(ii) peer to peer
services or programs for qualified veterans;
(iii) practices that
identify and provide treatment, rehabilitation, legal, transitional, and other
appropriate services to qualified veterans who have been incarcerated;
and
(iv) training programs
to teach criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections, mental health, and
substance abuse personnel how to identify and appropriately respond to
incidents involving qualified veterans.
(B)
Priority
In
awarding grants under this subsection, the Attorney General shall give priority
to applications that—
(i) demonstrate
collaboration between and joint investments by criminal justice, mental health,
substance abuse, and veterans service agencies;
(ii) promote effective
strategies to identify and reduce the risk of harm to qualified veterans and
public safety; and
(iii) propose
interventions with empirical support to improve outcomes for qualified
veterans.
.
3.
Correctional
facilities
Section 2991 of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa) is
amended by inserting after subsection (i), as so added by section 2, the
following:
(j)
Correctional
facilities
(1)
Definitions
(A)
Correctional
facility
The term correctional facility means a
jail, prison, or other detention facility used to house people who have been
arrested, detained, held, or convicted by a criminal justice agency or a
court.
(B)
Eligible
inmate
The term eligible inmate means an individual
who—
(i) is being held,
detained, or incarcerated in a correctional facility; and
(ii) manifests obvious
signs of a mental illness or has been diagnosed by a qualified mental health
professional as having a mental illness.
(2)
Correctional
facility grants
The Attorney General may award grants to
applicants to enhance the capabilities of a correctional facility—
(A) to identify and
screen for eligible inmates;
(B) to plan and
provide—
(i) initial and
periodic assessments of the clinical, medical, and social needs of inmates;
and
(ii) appropriate
treatment and services that address the mental health and substance abuse needs
of inmates;
(C) to develop,
implement, and enhance—
(i) post-release
transition plans for eligible inmates that, in a comprehensive manner,
coordinate health, housing, medical, employment, and other appropriate services
and public benefits;
(ii) the availability
of mental health care services and substance abuse treatment services;
and
(iii) alternatives to
solitary confinement and segregated housing and mental health screening and
treatment for inmates placed in solitary confinement or segregated housing;
and
(D) to train each
employee of the correctional facility to identify and appropriately respond to
incidents involving inmates with mental health or co-occuring mental health and
substance abuse
disorders.
.
4.
High
utilizers
Section 2991 of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa) is
amended by inserting after subsection (j), as added by section 3, the
following:
(k)
Demonstration
grants responding to high utilizers
(1)
Definition
In
this subsection, the term high utilizer means an individual
who—
(A) manifests obvious
signs of mental illness or has been diagnosed by a qualified mental health
professional as having a mental illness; and
(B) consumes a
significantly disproportionate quantity of public resources, such as emergency,
housing, judicial, corrections, and law enforcement services.
(2)
Demonstration
grants responding to high utilizers
(A)
In
general
The Attorney General may award not more than 6 grants per
year under this subsection to applicants for the purpose of reducing the use of
public services by high utilizers.
(B)
Use of
grants
A recipient of a grant awarded under this subsection may
use the grant—
(i) to develop or
support multidisciplinary teams that coordinate, implement, and administer
community-based crisis responses and long-term plans for high utilizers;
(ii) to provide
training on how to respond appropriately to the unique issues involving high
utilizers for public service personnel, including criminal justice, mental
health, substance abuse, emergency room, healthcare, law enforcement,
corrections, and housing personnel;
(iii) to develop or
support alternatives to hospital and jail admissions for high utilizers that
provide treatment, stabilization, and other appropriate supports in the least
restrictive, yet appropriate, environment; or
(iv) to develop
protocols and systems among law enforcement, mental health, substance abuse,
housing, corrections, and emergency medical service operations to provide
coordinated assistance to high utilizers.
(C)
Report
Not
later than the last day of the first year following the fiscal year in which a
grant is awarded under this subsection, the recipient of the grant shall submit
to the Attorney General a report that—
(i) measures the
performance of the grant recipient in reducing the use of public services by
high utilizers; and
(ii) provides a model
set of practices, systems, or procedures that other jurisdictions can adopt to
reduce the use of public services by high
utilizers.
.
5.
Academy
training
Section 2991(h) of
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa(h)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1),
by adding at the end the following:
(F)
Academy
training
To provide support for academy curricula, law
enforcement officer orientation programs, continuing education training, and
other programs that teach law enforcement personnel how to identify and respond
to incidents involving persons with mental health disorders or co-occuring
mental health and substance abuse
disorders.
;
and
(2) by adding at the
end the following:
(4)
Priority
consideration
The Attorney General, in awarding grants under this
subsection, shall give priority to programs that law enforcement personnel and
members of the mental health and substance abuse professions develop and
administer
cooperatively.
.
6.
Evidence based
practices
Section 2991(c) of
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa(c)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (3),
by striking or at the end;
(2) by redesignating
paragraph (4) as paragraph (6); and
(3) by inserting after
paragraph (3), the following:
(4) propose
interventions that have been shown by empirical evidence to reduce
recidivism;
(5) when appropriate,
use validated assessment tools to target preliminarily qualified offenders with
a moderate or high risk of recidivism and a need for treatment and services;
or
.
7.
Safe
communities
(a)
In
general
Section 2991(a) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa(a)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph
(7)—
(A) in the heading, by
striking Mental
illness and inserting Mental illness; mental health
disorder; and
(B) by striking
term mental illness means and inserting
terms mental illness and mental health
disorder mean; and
(2) by striking
paragraph (9) and inserting the following:
(9)
Preliminarily qualified offender
(A)
In
general
The term
preliminarily qualified offender means an adult or juvenile
accused of an offense who—
(i)
(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;
(II) manifests obvious
signs of mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse
disorders during arrest or confinement or before any court; or
(III) in the case of a
veterans treatment court provided under subsection (i), has been diagnosed
with, or manifests obvious signs of, mental illness or a substance abuse
disorder or co-occuring mental illness and substance abuse disorder; and
(ii) has been
unanimously approved for participation in a program funded under this section
by, when appropriate, the relevant—
(I) prosecuting
attorney;
(II) defense
attorney;
(III) probation or
corrections official;
(IV) judge; and
(V) a representative
from the relevant mental health agency described in subsection
(b)(5)(B)(i).
(B)
Determination
In
determining whether to designate a defendant as a preliminarily qualified
offender, the relevant prosecuting attorney, defense attorney, probation or
corrections official, judge, and mental health or substance abuse agency
representative shall take into account—
(i) whether the
participation of the defendant in the program would pose a substantial risk of
violence to the community;
(ii) the criminal
history of the defendant and the nature and severity of the offense for which
the defendant is charged;
(iii) the views of any
relevant victims to the offense;
(iv) the extent to
which the defendant would benefit from participation in the program;
(v) the extent to
which the community would realize cost savings because of the defendant's
participation in the program; and
(vi) whether the
defendant satisfies the eligibility criteria for program participation
unanimously established by the relevant prosecuting attorney, defense attorney,
probation or corrections official, judge and mental health or substance abuse
agency
representative.
.
(b)
Technical and
conforming amendment
Section 2927(2) of the Omnibus Crime Control
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797s–6(2)) is amended by striking
has the meaning given that term in section 2991(a). and
inserting “means an offense that—
(A) does not have as
an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against
the person or property of another; or
(B) 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.
.
8.
Reauthorization
of appropriations
Subsection
(l) of section 2991 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
(42 U.S.C. 3797aa), as redesignated in section 2(a), is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking
and at the end;
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period
and inserting ; and; and
(C) by adding at the
end the following:
(D) $40,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 2015 through 2019.
;
and
(2) by adding at the
end the following:
(3)
Limitation
Not
more than 20 percent of the funds authorized to be appropriated under this
section may be used for purposes described in subsection (i) (relating to
veterans).
.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the
Justice and Mental Health
Collaboration Act of 2013.
2.
Assisting
veterans
(a)
Redesignation
Section
2991 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C.
3797aa) is amended by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (n).
(b)
Assisting
veterans
Section 2991 of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa) is
amended by inserting after subsection (h) the following:
(i)
Assisting
veterans
(1)
Definitions
In
this subsection:
(A)
Peer to peer services
or programs
The term peer to peer services or
programs means services or programs that connect qualified veterans with
other veterans for the purpose of providing support and mentorship to assist
qualified veterans in obtaining treatment, recovery, stabilization, or
rehabilitation.
(B)
Qualified
veteran
The term qualified veteran means a
preliminarily qualified offender who—
(i) has served on active duty
in any branch of the Armed Forces, including the National Guard and reserve
components; and
(ii) was discharged or
released from such service under conditions other than dishonorable.
(C)
Veterans treatment
court program
The term veterans treatment court
program means a court program involving collaboration among criminal
justice, veterans, and mental health and substance abuse agencies that provides
qualified veterans with—
(i) intensive judicial
supervision and case management, which may include random and frequent drug
testing where appropriate;
(ii) a full continuum of
treatment services, including mental health services, substance abuse services,
medical services, and services to address trauma;
(iii) alternatives to
incarceration; and
(iv) other appropriate
services, including housing, transportation, mentoring, employment, job
training, education, and assistance in applying for and obtaining available
benefits.
(2)
Veterans assistance
program
(A)
In
general
The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary
of Veterans Affairs, may award grants under this subsection to applicants to
establish or expand—
(i) veterans treatment court
programs;
(ii) peer to peer services or
programs for qualified veterans;
(iii) practices that identify
and provide treatment, rehabilitation, legal, transitional, and other
appropriate services to qualified veterans who have been incarcerated;
and
(iv) training programs to
teach criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections, mental health, and
substance abuse personnel how to identify and appropriately respond to
incidents involving qualified veterans.
(B)
Priority
In
awarding grants under this subsection, the Attorney General shall give priority
to applications that—
(i) demonstrate collaboration
between and joint investments by criminal justice, mental health, substance
abuse, and veterans service agencies;
(ii) promote effective
strategies to identify and reduce the risk of harm to qualified veterans and
public safety; and
(iii) propose interventions
with empirical support to improve outcomes for qualified
veterans.
.
3.
Correctional
facilities
Section 2991 of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa) is
amended by inserting after subsection (i), as so added by section 2, the
following:
(j)
Correctional
facilities
(1)
Definitions
(A)
Correctional
facility
The term correctional facility means a
jail, prison, or other detention facility used to house people who have been
arrested, detained, held, or convicted by a criminal justice agency or a
court.
(B)
Eligible
inmate
The term eligible inmate means an individual
who—
(i) is being held, detained,
or incarcerated in a correctional facility; and
(ii) manifests obvious signs
of a mental illness or has been diagnosed by a qualified mental health
professional as having a mental illness.
(2)
Correctional facility
grants
The Attorney General may award grants to applicants to
enhance the capabilities of a correctional facility—
(A) to identify and screen
for eligible inmates;
(B) to plan and
provide—
(i) initial and periodic
assessments of the clinical, medical, and social needs of inmates; and
(ii) appropriate treatment
and services that address the mental health and substance abuse needs of
inmates;
(C) to develop, implement,
and enhance—
(i) post-release transition
plans for eligible inmates that, in a comprehensive manner, coordinate health,
housing, medical, employment, and other appropriate services and public
benefits;
(ii) the availability of
mental health care services and substance abuse treatment services; and
(iii) alternatives to
solitary confinement and segregated housing and mental health screening and
treatment for inmates placed in solitary confinement or segregated housing;
and
(D) to train each employee of
the correctional facility to identify and appropriately respond to incidents
involving inmates with mental health or co-occuring mental health and substance
abuse
disorders.
.
4.
High
utilizers
Section 2991 of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa) is
amended by inserting after subsection (j), as added by section 3, the
following:
(k)
Demonstration grants
responding to high utilizers
(1)
Definition
In
this subsection, the term high utilizer means an individual
who—
(A) manifests obvious signs
of mental illness or has been diagnosed by a qualified mental health
professional as having a mental illness; and
(B) consumes a significantly
disproportionate quantity of public resources, such as emergency, housing,
judicial, corrections, and law enforcement services.
(2)
Demonstration grants
responding to high utilizers
(A)
In
general
The Attorney General may award not more than 6 grants per
year under this subsection to applicants for the purpose of reducing the use of
public services by high utilizers.
(B)
Use of
grants
A recipient of a grant awarded under this subsection may
use the grant—
(i) to develop or support
multidisciplinary teams that coordinate, implement, and administer
community-based crisis responses and long-term plans for high utilizers;
(ii) to provide training on
how to respond appropriately to the unique issues involving high utilizers for
public service personnel, including criminal justice, mental health, substance
abuse, emergency room, healthcare, law enforcement, corrections, and housing
personnel;
(iii) to develop or support
alternatives to hospital and jail admissions for high utilizers that provide
treatment, stabilization, and other appropriate supports in the least
restrictive, yet appropriate, environment; or
(iv) to develop protocols and
systems among law enforcement, mental health, substance abuse, housing,
corrections, and emergency medical service operations to provide coordinated
assistance to high utilizers.
(C)
Report
Not
later than the last day of the first year following the fiscal year in which a
grant is awarded under this subsection, the recipient of the grant shall submit
to the Attorney General a report that—
(i) measures the performance
of the grant recipient in reducing the use of public services by high
utilizers; and
(ii) provides a model set of
practices, systems, or procedures that other jurisdictions can adopt to reduce
the use of public services by high
utilizers.
.
5.
Academy
training
Section 2991(h) of
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa(h)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by
adding at the end the following:
(F)
Academy
training
To provide support for academy curricula, law
enforcement officer orientation programs, continuing education training, and
other programs that teach law enforcement personnel how to identify and respond
to incidents involving persons with mental health disorders or co-occuring
mental health and substance abuse
disorders.
;
and
(2) by adding at the end the
following:
(4)
Priority
consideration
The Attorney General, in awarding grants under this
subsection, shall give priority to programs that law enforcement personnel and
members of the mental health and substance abuse professions develop and
administer
cooperatively.
.
6.
Evidence based
practices
Section 2991(c) of
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa(c)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (3), by
striking or at the end;
(2) by redesignating
paragraph (4) as paragraph (6); and
(3) by inserting after
paragraph (3), the following:
(4) propose interventions
that have been shown by empirical evidence to reduce recidivism;
(5) when appropriate, use
validated assessment tools to target preliminarily qualified offenders with a
moderate or high risk of recidivism and a need for treatment and services;
or
.
7.
Safe
communities
(a)
In
general
Section 2991(a) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa(a)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (7)—
(A) in the heading, by
striking Mental
illness and inserting Mental illness; mental health
disorder; and
(B) by striking term
mental illness means and inserting terms
mental illness and mental health disorder
mean; and
(2) by striking paragraph (9)
and inserting the following:
(9)
Preliminarily qualified offender
(A)
In
general
The term
preliminarily qualified offender means an adult or juvenile
accused of an offense who—
(i)
(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;
(II) manifests obvious signs
of mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse disorders
during arrest or confinement or before any court; or
(III) in the case of a
veterans treatment court provided under subsection (i), has been diagnosed
with, or manifests obvious signs of, mental illness or a substance abuse
disorder or co-occuring mental illness and substance abuse disorder; and
(ii) has been unanimously
approved for participation in a program funded under this section by, when
appropriate, the relevant—
(I) prosecuting
attorney;
(II) defense attorney;
(III) probation or
corrections official;
(IV) judge; and
(V) a representative from the
relevant mental health agency described in subsection (b)(5)(B)(i).
(B)
Determination
In
determining whether to designate a defendant as a preliminarily qualified
offender, the relevant prosecuting attorney, defense attorney, probation or
corrections official, judge, and mental health or substance abuse agency
representative shall take into account—
(i) whether the participation
of the defendant in the program would pose a substantial risk of violence to
the community;
(ii) the criminal history of
the defendant and the nature and severity of the offense for which the
defendant is charged;
(iii) the views of any
relevant victims to the offense;
(iv) the extent to which the
defendant would benefit from participation in the program;
(v) the extent to which the
community would realize cost savings because of the defendant's participation
in the program; and
(vi) whether the defendant
satisfies the eligibility criteria for program participation unanimously
established by the relevant prosecuting attorney, defense attorney, probation
or corrections official, judge and mental health or substance abuse agency
representative.
.
(b)
Technical and
conforming amendment
Section 2927(2) of the Omnibus Crime Control
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797s–6(2)) is amended by striking
has the meaning given that term in section 2991(a). and
inserting “means an offense that—
(A) does not have as an
element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the
person or property of another; or
(B) 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.
.
8.
Grant
accountability
Section 2991 of
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa) is
amended by inserting after subsection (k), as so added by section 4, the
following:
(l)
Accountability
All
grants awarded by the Attorney General under this section shall be subject to
the following accountability provisions:
(1)
Audit
requirement
(A)
Definition
In
this paragraph, the term unresolved audit finding means a finding
in the final audit report of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice
that the audited grantee has utilized grant funds for an unauthorized
expenditure or otherwise unallowable cost that is not closed or resolved within
12 months from the date when the final audit report is issued.
(B)
Audits
Beginning
in the first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this
subsection, and in each fiscal year thereafter, the Inspector General of the
Department of Justice shall conduct audits of recipients of grants under this
section to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of funds by grantees. The Inspector
General shall determine the appropriate number of grantees to be audited each
year.
(C)
Mandatory
exclusion
A recipient of grant funds under this section that is
found to have an unresolved audit finding shall not be eligible to receive
grant funds under this section during the first 2 fiscal years beginning after
the end of the 12-month period described in subparagraph (A).
(D)
Priority
In
awarding grants under this section, the Attorney General shall give priority to
eligible applicants that did not have an unresolved audit finding during the 3
fiscal years before submitting an application for a grant under this
section.
(E)
Reimbursement
If
an entity is awarded grant funds under this section during the 2-fiscal-year
period during which the entity is barred from receiving grants under
subparagraph (C), the Attorney General shall—
(i) deposit an amount equal
to the amount of the grant funds that were improperly awarded to the grantee
into the General Fund of the Treasury; and
(ii) seek to recoup the costs
of the repayment to the fund from the grant recipient that was erroneously
awarded grant funds.
(2)
Nonprofit organization
requirements
(A)
Definition
For
purposes of this paragraph and the grant programs under this part, the term
nonprofit organization means an organization that is described in
section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and is exempt from
taxation under section 501(a) of such Code.
(B)
Prohibition
The
Attorney General may not award a grant under this part to a nonprofit
organization that holds money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding
paying the tax described in section 511(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986.
(C)
Disclosure
Each
nonprofit organization that is awarded a grant under this section and uses the
procedures prescribed in regulations to create a rebuttable presumption of
reasonableness for the compensation of its officers, directors, trustees, and
key employees, shall disclose to the Attorney General, in the application for
the grant, the process for determining such compensation, including the
independent persons involved in reviewing and approving such compensation, the
comparability data used, and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation
and decision. Upon request, the Attorney General shall make the information
disclosed under this subparagraph available for public inspection.
(3)
Conference
expenditures
(A)
Limitation
No
amounts made available to the Department of Justice under this section may be
used by the Attorney General, or by any individual or entity awarded
discretionary funds through a cooperative agreement under this section, to host
or support any expenditure for conferences that uses more than $20,000 in funds
made available by the Department of Justice, unless the head of the relevant
agency or department, provides prior written authorization that the funds may
be expended to host the conference.
(B)
Written
approval
Written approval under subparagraph (A) shall include a
written estimate of all costs associated with the conference, including the
cost of all food, beverages, audio-visual equipment, honoraria for speakers,
and entertainment.
(C)
Report
The
Deputy Attorney General shall submit an annual report to the Committee on the
Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of
Representatives on all conference expenditures approved under this
paragraph.
(4)
Annual
certification
Beginning in the first fiscal year beginning after
the date of enactment of this subsection, the Attorney General shall submit, to
the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives, an annual certification—
(A) indicating
whether—
(i) all audits issued by the
Office of the Inspector General under paragraph (1) have been completed and
reviewed by the appropriate Assistant Attorney General or Director;
(ii) all mandatory exclusions
required under paragraph (1)(C) have been issued; and
(iii) all reimbursements
required under paragraph (1)(E) have been made; and
(B) that includes a list of
any grant recipients excluded under paragraph (1) from the previous
year.
(m)
Preventing duplicative
grants
(1)
In
general
Before the Attorney General awards a grant to an
applicant under this section, the Attorney General shall compare potential
grant awards with other grants awarded under this Act to determine if duplicate
grant awards are awarded for the same purpose.
(2)
Report
If
the Attorney General awards duplicate grants to the same applicant for the same
purpose the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of
the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a
report that includes—
(A) a list of all duplicate
grants awarded, including the total dollar amount of any duplicate grants
awarded; and
(B) the reason the Attorney
General awarded the duplicate
grants.
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9.
Reauthorization of
appropriations
Subsection (n)
of section 2991 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42
U.S.C. 3797aa), as redesignated in section 2(a), is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking
and at the end;
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period
and inserting ; and; and
(C) by adding at the end the
following:
(D) $40,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2015 through 2019.
;
and
(2) by adding at the end the
following:
(3)
Limitation
Not
more than 20 percent of the funds authorized to be appropriated under this
section may be used for purposes described in subsection (i) (relating to
veterans).
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June 20, 2013
Reported with an amendment