[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4234 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4234

   To make grants to local educational agencies and community-based 
    organizations to provide assistance to localities most directly 
                        affected by hate crimes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 14, 1994

Ms. Velazquez introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
   To make grants to local educational agencies and community-based 
    organizations to provide assistance to localities most directly 
                        affected by hate crimes.

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

SECTION 1. HATE CRIME PREVENTION.

    (a) Grant Authorization.--The Secretary of Education may make 
grants to local educational agencies and community-based organizations 
for the purpose of providing assistance to localities most directly 
affected by hate crimes.
    (b) Use of Funds.--
            (1) Program development.--Grants under this section may be 
        used to improve elementary and secondary educational efforts, 
        including--
                    (A) development of education and training programs 
                designed to prevent and to reduce the incidence of 
                crimes and conflicts motivated by hate;
                    (B) development of curricula for the purpose of 
                improving conflict or dispute resolution skills of 
                students, teachers, and administrators;
                    (C) development and acquisition of equipment and 
                instructional materials to meet the needs of, or 
                otherwise be part of, hate crime or conflict programs; 
                and
                    (D) professional training and development for 
                teachers and administrators on the causes, effects, and 
                resolutions of hate crimes or hate-based conflicts.
            (2) In general.--In order to be eligible to receive a grant 
        under this section for any fiscal year, a local educational 
        agency or a local educational agency in conjunction with a 
        community-based organization shall submit an application to the 
        Secretary in such form and containing such information as the 
        office may reasonably require.
            (3) Requirements.--Each application under subsection (a) 
        shall include--
                    (A) a request for funds for the purposes described 
                in this section;
                    (B) a description of the schools and communities to 
                be served by the grants; and
                    (C) assurances that Federal funds received under 
                this section shall be used to supplement, not supplant, 
                non-Federal funds.
            (4) Comprehensive plan.--Each application shall include a 
        comprehensive plan that contains--
                    (A) a description of the hate crime or conflict 
                problems within the schools or the community targeted 
                for assistance;
                    (B) a description of the program to be developed or 
                augmented by these Federal and matching funds;
                    (C) assurances that such program or activity shall 
                be administered by or under the supervision of the 
                applicant;
                    (D) proper and efficient administration of such 
                program; and
                    (E) fiscal control and fund accounting procedures 
                as may be necessary to ensure prudent use, proper 
                disbursement, and accurate accounting of funds received 
                under this section.
    (c) Allocation of Funds.--From the funds authorized under this Act. 
The Secretary of Education may carry out programs under this section.
    (d) Award of Grants.--
            (1) Selection of recipients.--The Secretary shall consider 
        the incidence of crimes and conflicts motivated by bias in the 
        targeted schools and communities in awarding grants under this 
        section.
            (2) Geographic distribution.--The Secretary shall attempt, 
        to the extent practicable, to achieve an equitable geographic 
        distribution of grant awards.
            (3) Dissemination of information.--The Secretary shall 
        attempt, to the extent practicable, to make available 
        information regarding successful hate crime prevention 
        programs, including programs established or expanded with 
        grants under this section.
    (e) Reports.--The Secretary shall submit to the Congress a report 
every 2 years which shall contain a detailed statement regarding grants 
and awards, activities of grant recipients and an evaluation of 
programs established under this section.
    (f) Definitions.--For the purposes of this section--
            (1) the term `hate crime' means a crime as defined by the 
        Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990;
            (2) the term `local educational agency' means a public 
        board of education or other public authority legally 
        constituted within a State for either administrative control or 
        direction of, or to perform a service function for, public 
        elementary and secondary schools in a city, county, township, 
        school district, or other political subdivision of a State, or 
        such combination of school districts or counties as are 
        recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its 
        public elementary and secondary schools and includes any other 
        public institution or agency having administrative control and 
        direction of a public elementary or secondary school; and
            (3) the term `community-based organization' means a private 
        nonprofit organization which is representative of a community 
        or significant segments of a community and which provides 
        educational or related services to individuals in the 
        community.

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