[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1972 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1972

 To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
 1968 to authorize inclusion in a community policing grant of funds to 
 pay 25 percent of the cost of providing bulletproof vests for 100,000 
                            police officers.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             March 24 (legislative day, February 22), 1994

 Mr. Bingaman introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
 1968 to authorize inclusion in a community policing grant of funds to 
 pay 25 percent of the cost of providing bulletproof vests for 100,000 
                            police officers.

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

SECTION 1. BULLETPROOF VESTS FOR 100,000 POLICE OFFICERS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Bulletproof Vest 
Police Safety Act of 1994''.
    (b) Grant Authorization.--Section 1701(b) of title I of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as added by section 103(a) 
of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1993, is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (1);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (2) and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) pay 25 percent of the cost of providing a number of 
        bulletproof vests equal to the number of law enforcement 
        officers hired or rehired with grant monies (for use by those 
        officers or other officers whose duties may expose them to 
        gunfire).''.
    (c) Allocation of Appropriations.--Section 1001(a)(11)(B) of title 
I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as added 
by section 103(c) of the Violent Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1993, is amended in the third sentence by inserting ``(of which funds 
$14,000,000 shall be available to provide assistance in purchasing 
bulletproof vests under section 1701(b)(3))'' after ``specified in 
section 1701(b)''.

                                 <all>