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[H.R. 2816 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.2816

                       One Hundred Sixth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
             the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand


                                 An Act


 
 To establish a grant program to assist State and local law enforcement 
      in deterring, investigating, and prosecuting computer crimes.

    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 ``Computer Crime Enforcement Act''.

SEC. 2. STATE GRANT PROGRAM FOR TRAINING AND PROSECUTION OF COMPUTER 
              CRIMES.

    (a) In General.--Subject to the availability of amounts provided in 
advance in appropriations Acts, the Office of Justice Programs shall 
make a grant to each State, which shall be used by the State, in 
conjunction with units of local government, State and local courts, 
other States, or combinations thereof in accordance with subsection 
(b).
    (b) Use of Grant Amounts.--Grants under this section may be used to 
establish and develop programs to--
        (1) assist State and local law enforcement agencies in 
    enforcing State and local criminal laws relating to computer crime;
        (2) assist State and local law enforcement agencies in 
    educating the public to prevent and identify computer crime;
        (3) educate and train State and local law enforcement officers 
    and prosecutors to conduct investigations and forensic analyses of 
    evidence and prosecutions of computer crime;
        (4) assist State and local law enforcement officers and 
    prosecutors in acquiring computer and other equipment to conduct 
    investigations and forensic analysis of evidence of computer 
    crimes; and
        (5) facilitate and promote the sharing of Federal law 
    enforcement expertise and information about the investigation, 
    analysis, and prosecution of computer crimes with State and local 
    law enforcement officers and prosecutors, including the use of 
    multijurisdictional task forces.
    (c) Assurances.--To be eligible to receive a grant under this 
section, a State shall provide assurances to the Attorney General that 
the State--
        (1) has in effect laws that penalize computer crime, such as 
    criminal laws prohibiting--
            (A) fraudulent schemes executed by means of a computer 
        system or network;
            (B) the unlawful damaging, destroying, altering, deleting, 
        removing of computer software, or data contained in a computer, 
        computer system, computer program, or computer network; or
            (C) the unlawful interference with the operation of or 
        denial of access to a computer, computer program, computer 
        system, or computer network;
        (2) an assessment of the State and local resource needs, 
    including criminal justice resources being devoted to the 
    investigation and enforcement of computer crime laws; and
        (3) a plan for coordinating the programs funded under this 
    section with other federally funded technical assistant and 
    training programs, including directly funded local programs such as 
    the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant program (described under the 
    heading ``Violent Crime Reduction Programs, State and Local Law 
    Enforcement Assistance'' of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, 
    and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
    1998 (Public Law 105-119)).
    (d) Matching Funds.--The Federal share of a grant received under 
this section may not exceed 90 percent of the costs of a program or 
proposal funded under this section unless the Attorney General waives, 
wholly or in part, the requirements of this subsection.
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--
        (1) In general.--There is authorized to be appropriated to 
    carry out this section $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 
    through 2004.
        (2) Limitations.--Of the amount made available to carry out 
    this section in any fiscal year not more than 3 percent may be used 
    by the Attorney General for salaries and administrative expenses.
        (3) Minimum amount.--Unless all eligible applications submitted 
    by any State or unit of local government within such State for a 
    grant under this section have been funded, such State, together 
    with grantees within the State (other than Indian tribes), shall be 
    allocated in each fiscal year under this section not less than 0.75 
    percent of the total amount appropriated in the fiscal year for 
    grants pursuant to this section, except that the United States 
    Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana 
    Islands each shall be allocated 0.25 percent.
    (f) Grants to Indian Tribes.--Notwithstanding any other provision 
of this section, the Attorney General may use amounts made available 
under this section to make grants to Indian tribes for use in 
accordance with this section.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.