[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1218 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1218

    To provide seed money to States and communities to match, on a 
  volunteer basis, nonviolent criminal offenders and welfare families 
    with churches that volunteer to offer assistance, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            September 6 (legislative day, September 5), 1995

   Mr. Coats introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide seed money to States and communities to match, on a 
  volunteer basis, nonviolent criminal offenders and welfare families 
    with churches that volunteer to offer assistance, and for other 
                               purposes.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community Partnership Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Attorney General and the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services shall jointly establish and carry out a competitive 
grant program to provide funding to States and communities to--
            (1) establish an information network to enhance 
        coordination of matches between--
                    (A) churches, synagogues and other communities of 
                faith, and other community groups; and
                    (B)(i) families receiving aid to families with 
                dependent children under part A of title IV of the 
                Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) who 
                voluntarily elect to participate; or
                    (ii) nonviolent criminal offenders who elect to 
                participate, and are directed to such a program through 
                the judicial system;
            (2) hire staff to coordinate matches, recruit churches, 
        enhance coordination between the public welfare system, 
        judicial system, churches, synagogues and other communities of 
        faith, and other community groups; and
            (3) disseminate information, including training, to 
        Government agencies and interested community groups about 
        programs receiving funding under this Act.
    (b) Funding.--
            (1) In general.--A grant under this section shall not 
        exceed $1,000,000 in any fiscal year.
            (2) Sources.--There are authorized to be appropriated not 
        more than $50,000,000, of which--
                    (A) not more than $25,000,000 shall be available 
                from the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund; and
                    (B) not more than $25,000,000 shall be available 
                from funds appropriated to the Secretary of Health and 
                Human Services for administrative expenses.

SEC. 3. INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSES.

    Of the amount made available under section 2(b), not more than a 
total of $1,000,000 shall be available to the Attorney General and 
Secretary of Health and Human Services for each to establish a national 
information clearinghouse at the Department of Justice and the 
Department of Health and Human Services, respectively, to provide 
information and networking to assist States in establishing and 
carrying out programs under section 2.
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