3.0.0 2789 2023-01-14T22:48:46Z 2023-01-14T22:48:46Z Senate S S 2004-09-10 108 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2004-09-10T17:31:41Z Re-Entry Enhancement Act 108 5075 HR 2004-11-05 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Related document Senate Related bill CRS Second Chance Act of 2004: Community Safety Through Recidivism Prevention 108 4676 HR 2004-08-04 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Related bill CRS Enhanced Second Chance Act of 2004 108 2923 S 2004-10-07 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10718-10724) Related bill CRS 2004-09-10 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2004-09-10 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9076-9077) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2004-09-10 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B000953 Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS] SAM BROWNBACK R KS N S000059 Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA] RICK SANTORUM R PA 2004-09-10 True S000709 Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] ARLEN SPECTER R PA 2004-09-24 False D000294 Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH] MICHAEL DEWINE R OH 2004-09-30 False B000444 Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE] JOSEPH BIDEN D DE ROBINETTE 2004-10-08 False B000468 Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] JESSE BINGAMAN D NM FRANCIS 2004-11-16 False L000261 Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI] CARL LEVIN D MI MILTON 2004-11-20 False Crime and Law Enforcement Adult education Agriculture and Food Aid to dependent children Alcoholism Armed Forces and National Security Arrest Authorization Caregivers Cash welfare block grants Child safety Child support Child welfare Church and social problems 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 Ex-offenders Executive reorganization Families Family services Family violence Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to education Federal aid to law enforcement 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 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 Parent-school relationships Parole Performance measurement Prison administration Prisoners Probation Public housing Rape Reading Recidivists Rehabilitation of criminals Religion Risk Scholarships Science, Technology, Communications Sentences (Criminal procedure) Social Welfare Social security eligibility Stalking State laws Strategic planning Student employment Student loan funds Teleconferencing Veterans' benefits Victims of crimes Welfare eligibility Women Crime and Law Enforcement 00 2004-09-10 Introduced in Senate 2004-12-13T20:02:07Z Second Chance Act of 2004: Community Safety Through Recidivism Prevention or Second Chance Act of 2004 - 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 to: (1) provide structured post-release housing and transitional housing; (2) facilitate specified collaboration to promote the employment of people released from prison; and (3) establish or expand the use of reentry courts. Sets forth grant priorities and requirements, including that each State or local government recipient establish a Reentry Task Force or other relevant convening 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 programs and activities relating to offender reentry. Authorizes the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics to conduct 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 to establish services for the preservation of families impacted by the incarceration of a family member; and (2) the Secretary of Labor to implement a program to educate employers about existing incentives to the hiring of former prisoners and to make grants to community-based organizations to provide mentoring and other transitional services essential to reintegrating ex-offenders and incarcerated persons into society.

]]> Second Chance Act of 2004 Display Title Second Chance Act of 2004 Official Title as Introduced A bill to reauthorize the grant program of the Department of Justice for reentry of offenders into the community, to establish a task force on Federal programs and activities relating to the reentry of offenders into the community, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Second Chance Act of 2004 Short Titles as Introduced Second Chance Act of 2004: Community Safety Through Recidivism Prevention Introduced in Senate 2004-09-10T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-108s2789is/xml/BILLS-108s2789is.xml 2004-09-10 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.