[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2410 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2410

To amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 to 
 earmark not less than $150,000,000 for grants to reduce drug-related 
transactions and drug use in the one-mile areas surrounding elementary 
                         and secondary schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 30, 1999

 Mr. Rogan (for himself, Mr. Traficant, Mr. Armey, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. 
    Hilleary, Mr. Graham, Mrs. Bono, and Mr. Cannon) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 to 
 earmark not less than $150,000,000 for grants to reduce drug-related 
transactions and drug use in the one-mile areas surrounding elementary 
                         and secondary schools.

    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 ``Drug-Free School Zone Enforcement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. RESERVATION OF FUNDS.

    (a) In General.--Section 4004(1) of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools 
and Communities Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. 7104(1)) is amended by striking 
``1;'' and inserting ``1, except that, from the amount made available 
under this paragraph for each fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 
2000), the Secretary shall reserve not less than $150,000,000 for 
grants under subpart 2;''.
    (b) Conforming Redesignation.--Subparts 2 and 3 of the Safe and 
Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 are redesignated as 
subparts 3 and 4, respectively.
    (c) Additional Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Subpart 4.--Sections 4131 through 4134 of the Safe and 
        Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. 7141 
        et seq.) are redesignated as sections 4141 through 4144, 
        respectively.
            (2) Subpart 3.--Sections 4121 and 4123 of the Safe and 
        Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. 7131 
        and 7133) are redesignated as sections 4131 and 4132, 
        respectively.
            (3) Funding.--Section 4004(2) of the Safe and Drug-Free 
        Schools and Communities Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. 7104(2)) is 
        amended by striking ``2.'' and inserting ``3.''.

SEC. 3. GRANTS TO REDUCE DRUG USE AND TRANSACTIONS IN SCHOOL ZONES.

    The Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 (20 
U.S.C. 7111 et seq.) is amended by inserting after subpart 1 the 
following:

             ``Subpart 2--Drug-Free School Zone Enforcement

``SEC. 4121. STATE ALLOTMENTS.

    ``(a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), for the 
purpose of carrying out section 4122, the Secretary shall, for each 
fiscal year, allot among the States--
            ``(1) one-half of the amount reserved under section 4004(1) 
        to carry out this subpart according to the ratio between the 
        school-aged population of each State and the school-aged 
        population of all the States; and
            ``(2) one-half of such amount according to the ratio 
        between the amount each State received under part A of title I 
        for the preceding year and the sum of such amounts received by 
        all the States.
    ``(b) Minimum.--For any fiscal year, no State shall be allotted 
under this section an amount that is less than one-half of 1 percent of 
the total amount allotted to all the States under this section.
    ``(c) Reallotment.--The Secretary may reallot any amount of any 
allotment to a State if the Secretary determines that the State will be 
unable to use such amount within two years of such allotment. Such 
reallotments shall be made on the same basis as allotments are made 
under subsection (a).

``SEC. 4122. STATE GRANTS FOR DRUG-FREE SCHOOL ZONE ENFORCEMENT.

    ``(a) Applications.--In order to receive the allotment for its 
State under section 4121 for any fiscal year, the head of a State's 
Department of Justice (or, in the case of a State that does not have a 
Department of Justice, the head of the equivalent department or agency 
of the State that is responsible for crime reduction) shall submit to 
the Secretary, at such time as the Secretary may require, an 
application that--
            ``(1) contains assurances consistent with subsection (b); 
        and
            ``(2) otherwise includes any other information that the 
        Secretary may require.
    ``(b) Use of Funds.--
            ``(1) Subgrants.--
                    ``(A) Percentage.--A State agency that receives the 
                allotment for its State under this subpart for a fiscal 
                year shall use not less than 95 percent of such 
                allotment to make subgrants to units of local 
                government.
                    ``(B) Use of funds by subgrantees.--A unit of local 
                government that receives a subgrant under this 
                paragraph shall use the funds for the purpose of 
                reducing drug-related transactions and drug use in the 
                one-mile areas surrounding elementary and secondary 
                schools by--
                            ``(i) hiring additional law enforcement 
                        officers to be deployed for this purpose;
                            ``(ii) hiring additional prosecutors to 
                        prosecute criminal cases involving such drug-
                        related transactions or drug use; and
                            ``(iii) facilitating coordination with 
                        State and Federal drug enforcement agencies.
            ``(2) Administrative costs.--Not more than 5 percent of the 
        total amount allotted for a State under section 4121 for each 
        fiscal year may be used for administrative costs of the State 
        agency incurred in carrying out the activities described in 
        paragraph (1).

``SEC. 4123. DEFINITIONS.

    ``For purposed of this subpart--
            ``(1) the term `State' means each of the 50 States, the 
        District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and
            ``(2) the term `unit of local government' has the meaning 
        given such term in section 901(a)(3) of the Omnibus Crime 
        Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3791(a)(3)).''.
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