[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1206 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1206

   To amend title 28, United States Code, to make the Department of 
    Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund available for support of certain 
                community-based social service agencies.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 1993

 Mr. Reynolds introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 28, United States Code, to make the Department of 
    Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund available for support of certain 
                community-based social service agencies.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND TO BE AVAILABLE 
              FOR CERTAIN COMMUNITY-BASED SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES.

    Section 524(c) of title 28, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(13)(A) In addition to any other purpose set forth in this 
subsection, the Fund shall be available to the Attorney General, 
subject to appropriations Acts, for support of community-based social 
service agencies that provide programs for at-risk youth, drug abuse 
prevention, treatment, and control, and victim assistance.
    ``(B) Amounts paid under subparagraph (A) with respect to a fiscal 
year may not exceed 25 percent of the total of amounts paid from the 
Fund with respect to that fiscal year.
    ``(C) In providing support under this paragraph, the Attorney 
General shall, to the greatest extent practicable, give preference to 
social service agencies in communities in which forfeited property is 
located.''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 1 shall apply with respect to fiscal 
years beginning after the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted.

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