[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1046 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1046

To amend title V of the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend 
certain programs under the authority of the Substance Abuse and Mental 
         Health Service Administration, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 13, 1999

   Mr. Reed introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title V of the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend 
certain programs under the authority of the Substance Abuse and Mental 
         Health Service Administration, 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 ``Wrap Around Services for Detained or 
Incarcerated Youth Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Four million underage youth are arrested in the United 
        States every year and 30 percent of those arrested are likely 
        to relapse and commit a crime within 1 year of the arrest.
            (2) According to a Federal study, 60 percent of youth 
        offenders in the juvenile justice system who are in detention 
        programs have behavioral, mental, or emotional problems.
            (3) Over 60 percent of youth offenders in facilities in the 
        juvenile justice system have substance abuse disorders.
            (4) Academic studies repeatedly find that there is a higher 
        percentage of youth offenders in the juvenile justice system 
        who have mental disorders than in the youth population at 
        large.
            (5) Less than 13 percent of youth offenders in the juvenile 
        justice system who have been identified as in need of treatment 
        receive such treatment.

SEC. 3. WRAP AROUND GRANTS FOR YOUTH.

    Subpart 3 of part B of title V of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 290bb-31 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 520C. WRAP AROUND GRANTS FOR YOUTH.

    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary, acting through the Director of 
the Center for Mental Health Services, and in consultation with the 
Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, the Administrator 
of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the 
Director of the Special Education Programs, shall award grants on a 
competitive basis to State or local juvenile justice agencies to enable 
such agencies to provide aftercare services for youth offenders who 
have been discharged from facilities in the juvenile or criminal 
justice system and have serious emotional disturbances or are at risk 
of developing such disturbances.
    ``(b) Purpose.--The purposes of this section are--
            ``(1) to address the needs of youth offenders who have been 
        discharged from the juvenile or criminal justice system and 
        have serious emotional disturbances or are at risk of 
        developing such disturbances;
            ``(2) to provide a community-based system of care for such 
        youth offenders to prevent the youth from committing additional 
        or more serious criminal offenses;
            ``(3) to provide services for youth offenders after such 
        youth have been detained or incarcerated in facilities within 
        the juvenile or criminal justice system to decrease the 
        likelihood that the individuals will reoffend;
            ``(4) to enable State and local agencies that provide 
        services for youth to work together with juvenile justice 
        agencies to establish a plan for each youth offender to reduce 
        the likelihood of recidivism; and
            ``(5) to encourage involvement of the youth offender's 
        family members, significant persons in the youth offender's 
        life, and community agencies in the process of helping youth 
        offenders resist criminal activity and remain in the community.
    ``(c) Use of Funds.--A State or local juvenile justice agency 
receiving a grant under subsection (a) shall use the amounts provided 
under the grant--
            ``(1) to develop a plan describing the manner in which the 
        agency will provide services for each youth offender who has a 
        serious emotional disturbance and has come in contact with the 
        juvenile or criminal justice system;
            ``(2) to provide a network of core or aftercare services or 
        access to such services for each youth offender, including 
        diagnostic and evaluation services, substance abuse treatment 
        services, outpatient mental health care services, medication 
        management services, intensive home-based therapy, intensive 
        day treatment services, respite care, and therapeutic foster 
        care;
            ``(3) to establish a program that coordinates with other 
        State and local agencies providing recreational, social, 
        educational, vocational, or operational services for youth, to 
        enable the agency receiving a grant under this section to 
        provide community-based system of care services for each youth 
        offender that addresses the special needs of the youth and 
        helps the youth access all of the aforementioned services; and
            ``(4) using not more than 20 percent of funds received, to 
        provide planning and transition services as described in 
        paragraph (3) for youth offenders while such youth are 
        incarcerated or detained.
    ``(d) Application.--A State or local juvenile justice agency that 
desires a grant under subsection (a) shall submit an application to the 
Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such 
information as the Secretary may reasonably require.
    ``(e) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this section and annually thereafter, a State or local juvenile justice 
agency receiving a grant under subsection (a) shall submit to the 
Secretary a report describing the programs carried out pursuant to this 
section.
    ``(f) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Serious emotional disturbance.--The term `serious 
        emotional disturbance' with respect to a youth offender means 
        an offender who currently, or at any time within the 1-year 
        period ending on the day on which services are sought under 
        this section, has a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or 
        emotional disorder that functionally impairs the offender's 
        life by substantially limiting the offender's role in family, 
        school, or community activities, and interfering with the 
        offender's ability to achieve or maintain 1 or more 
        developmentally-appropriate social, behavior, cognitive, 
        communicative, or adaptive skills.
            ``(2) Community-based system of care.--The term `community-
        based system of care' means the provision of services for the 
        youth offender by various State or local agencies that in an 
        interagency fashion or operating as a network addresses the 
        recreational, social, educational, vocational, mental health, 
        substance abuse, and operational needs of the youth offender.
            ``(3) Youth offender.--The term `youth offender' means an 
        individual who is 21 years of age or younger who has been 
        discharged from a State or local juvenile or criminal justice 
        system, except that if the individual is between the ages of 18 
        and 21 years, such individual has had contact with the State or 
        local juvenile or criminal justice system prior to attaining 18 
        years of age and is under the jurisdiction of such a system at 
        the time services are sought.
    ``(g) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $40,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 2000 through 2004.
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