[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2818 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2818

 To provide demonstration grants to establish clearing houses for the 
    distribution to community-based organizations of information on 
                prevention of youth violence and crime.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 20, 1995

 Mr. Serrano introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
    Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
Economic and Educational Opportunities, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide demonstration grants to establish clearing houses for the 
    distribution to community-based organizations of information on 
                prevention of youth violence and crime.

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

SECTION 1. PROJECT AUTHORIZED.

    The Assistant Attorney General is authorized to make grants to 
units of local government, community-based organizations, and consortia 
of such organizations for the purpose of carrying out a demonstration 
project to establish information clearing houses for such entities to 
share information about the prevention of youth violence and crime.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION REQUIRED.

    (a) In General.--Each unit of local government, community-based 
organization or consortium of such organizations that desires to 
receive a grant under this Act shall submit an application to the 
Assistant Attorney General. Each such application shall--
            (1) assure that the information on the prevention of youth 
        violence and crime that is collected is made available to any 
        organization that requests such information; and
            (2) contain such additional assurances as the Assistant 
        Attorney General may reasonably require.
    (b) Approval of Applications; Number of Demonstration Sites.--In 
approving applications under this section, the Assistant Attorney 
shall--
            (1) ensure an equitable geographic distribution among the 
        regions of the United States and among urban, suburban, and 
        rural areas;
            (2) ensure, to the extent practicable, that recipients 
        coordinate efforts if more than 1 grant is awarded to the same 
        geographic area; and
            (3) ensure that a grant under this section shall not exceed 
        $500,000 for any fiscal year and that each recipient receives 
        not less than $75,000 in any fiscal year.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act, the following terms have the following 
meanings:
            (1) Assistant attorney general.--The term ``Assistant 
        Attorney General'' means the Assistant Attorney General who 
        heads the Office of Justice Programs within the Department of 
        Justice.
            (2) The term ``community-based organization'' has the same 
        meaning given such term in section 14101(4) of the Elementary 
        and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8801(4)).
            (3) Unit of local government.--The term ``unit of local 
        government'' means a city, county, town, township, parish, 
        village, or other general purpose political subdivision of a 
        State.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this part, 
$2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1997 through 2001.
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