[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3383 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3383

To amend title 10, United States Code, to establish a program to place 
members of the Armed Forces who are separated from the Armed Forces in 
employment positions with law enforcement agencies to relieve shortages 
  of law enforcement officers and to provide employment for displaced 
                          military personnel.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 27, 1993

Mr. Ackerman introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly 
         to the Committees on Armed Services and the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to establish a program to place 
members of the Armed Forces who are separated from the Armed Forces in 
employment positions with law enforcement agencies to relieve shortages 
  of law enforcement officers and to provide employment for displaced 
                          military personnel.

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

SECTION 1. PLACEMENT PROGRAM FOR SEPARATED MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES 
              IN EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.

    (a) Placement Program With Law Enforcement Agencies.--(1) Chapter 
58 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new section:
``Sec. 1152. Placement program for separated members to obtain 
              employment with law enforcement agencies
    ``(a) Placement Program.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish 
a placement program to assist eligible members of the armed forces to 
obtain employment by State and local law enforcement agencies upon 
their discharge or release from active duty.
    ``(b) Eligible Members.--A member of the armed forces shall be 
eligible for selection to participate in the placement program if the 
member--
            ``(1) is involuntary separated (as described in section 
        1141 of this title), is approved for separation under section 
        1174a or 1175 of this title, or is given early retirement under 
        section 4403 of the Defense Conversion, Reinvestment, and 
        Transition Assistance Act of 1992 (division D of Public Law 
        102-484; 10 U.S.C. 1293 note) during the four-year period 
        beginning on the date of the enactment of this section;
            ``(2) has a military occupational specialty, training, or 
        experience related to law enforcement, such as service as a 
        member of the military police; and
            ``(3) satisfies such other criteria for selection as the 
        Secretary of Defense may prescribe.
    ``(c) Selection of Participants.--(1) The Secretary of Defense 
shall select members to participate in the placement program on the 
basis of applications submitted to the Secretary before the date of the 
discharge or release of the members from active duty or as soon after 
such date as the Secretary may prescribe. An application shall be in 
such form and contain such information as the Secretary may require.
    ``(2) The Secretary may not select a member to participate in the 
placement program unless the Secretary has sufficient appropriations 
for the placement program available at the time of the selection to 
satisfy the obligations to be incurred by the United States under this 
section with respect to that member.
    ``(d) Agreements With Law Enforcement Agencies.--(1) The Secretary 
of Defense may enter into an agreement with a State or local law 
enforcement agencies to facilitate the placement of participants in law 
enforcement employment positions if the law enforcement agency agrees--
            ``(A) to select a participant in the placement program to 
        receive training as a law enforcement officer;
            ``(B) to offer the participant full-time employment with 
        the law enforcement agency as a law enforcement officer for a 
        period of at least three years; and
            ``(C) to treat the participant so employed in the same 
        manner (except with regard to tenure upon the completion of the 
        required employment period) as any other law enforcement 
        officer employed by the agency for purposes of determining 
        seniority, duty assignments, and eligibility for benefits.
    ``(2) Under an agreement referred to in paragraph (1), the 
Secretary shall agree to pay to the law enforcement agency for the 
first three years of employment of the participant an amount equal to 
100 percent of the basic salary paid (not to exceed $45,000 per year) 
by the law enforcement agency to the participant as a law enforcement 
officer.
    ``(3) Payments required under paragraph (2) shall be made by the 
Secretary in quarterly installments in advance. If the participant 
leaves the employment of the law enforcement agency before the end of 
the period covered by an advance payment, the law enforcement agency 
shall reimburse the Secretary for any portion of the advance payment 
that remains unpaid to the participant.
    ``(4) The Secretary may not enter into an agreement under this 
subsection with a law enforcement agency (and shall terminate any 
agreement so entered) if the Secretary determines that the agency--
            ``(A) terminated the employment of another law enforcement 
        officer in order to fill the vacancy so created with a 
        participant in the placement program; or
            ``(B) seeks a participant in the placement program so as to 
        avoid filling an existing employment vacancy with the agency.
    ``(5) The Secretary shall disseminate information and applications 
regarding the placement program to State and local law enforcement 
agencies eligible to enter into agreements under this subsection and 
may provide technical assistance to agencies seeking to enter into such 
an agreement.
    ``(e) Priority Given to High Crime Areas.--In entering into 
agreements with law enforcement agencies under subsection (d), the 
Secretary of Defense shall give priority to those law enforcement 
agencies performing law enforcement functions in high crime areas, as 
identified by the Attorney General.
    ``(f) Model Placement Agreements.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
endeavor to enter into agreements under subsection (d) with law 
enforcement agencies performing law enforcement functions in Atlanta, 
Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Los Angeles, California, and New York, New 
York, for the placement of participants as law enforcement officers in 
these four cities. To the extent participants in the placement program 
are available for placement with law enforcement agencies operating in 
these cities, the Secretary shall reserve 10 percent of the placements 
during each fiscal year for these cities. Placements made under the 
authority of this subsection shall be in addition to any placements 
made under the placement program in these cities pursuant to the State 
allocation made under subsection (g).
    ``(g) Number of Participants per State.--(1) Except as provided in 
paragraph (2), the number of participants in the placement program who 
are placed in law enforcement employment positions in a particular 
State during a fiscal year may not exceed the number that--
            ``(A) bears the same ratio to the total number of 
        participants placed in law enforcement employment positions in 
        that year (not counting participants placed under a model 
        agreement under subsection (f)); as
            ``(B) the population of that State bears to the total 
        population of all the States.
    ``(2) The Secretary of Defense may vary the placement ratios 
determined for States under paragraph (1) if the Secretary is unable to 
enter into a sufficient number of agreements under subsection (d) with 
law enforcement agencies in all States to permit compliance with the 
ratios.
    ``(h) Information Regarding Placement Program.--The Secretary of 
Defense shall provide information regarding the placement program to 
members of the armed forces as part of preseparation counseling 
provided under section 1142 of this title. The information provided 
shall include an up-to-date list of all law enforcement agencies with 
which the Secretary has entered into agreements under subsection (d).
    ``(i) Special Eligibility of Certain Persons Already Separated.--A 
member of the armed forces described in subsection (b) who was 
involuntary separated (as described in section 1141 of this title), 
approved for separation under section 1174a or 1175 of this title, or 
given early retirement under section 4403 of the Defense Conversion, 
Reinvestment, and Transition Assistance Act of 1992 (division D of 
Public Law 102-484; 10 U.S.C. 1293 note) during the period beginning on 
October 1, 1990, and ending on the date of the enactment of this 
section may be selected to participate in the placement program if the 
member is otherwise eligible to participate. Any selections made 
pursuant to this subsection shall be made not later than October 1, 
1994.
    ``(j) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) The term `State' means each of the several States, 
        the District of Columbia, American Samoa, the Federated States 
        of Micronesia, Guam, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the 
        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth 
        of Puerto Rico, Palau, and the Virgin Islands.
            ``(2) The term `law enforcement officer' means an 
        individual involved in crime and juvenile delinquency control 
        or reduction, or enforcement of the laws, including police, 
        corrections, probation, parole, and judicial officers.
            ``(3) The term `placement program' means the placement 
        program required to be established under this section.''.
    (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is 
amended by adding at the end the following new items:

``1152. Placement program for separated members to obtain employment 
                            with law enforcement agencies.''.
    (b) Attorney General Report.--Not later than two years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall submit to 
Congress a report evaluating the impact, if any, that the law 
enforcement placement program required by section 1152 of title 10, 
United States Code (as added by subsection (a)), has had on reducing 
the incidence of crime in the United States.

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