[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2473 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2473

To strengthen and enhance the role of community antidrug coalitions by 
   providing for the establishment of a National Community Antidrug 
                          Coalition Institute.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 26, 2000

 Mr. Grassley introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To strengthen and enhance the role of community antidrug coalitions by 
   providing for the establishment of a National Community Antidrug 
                          Coalition Institute.

    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 ``National Community Antidrug 
Coalition Institute Act of 2000''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT.

    (a) In General.--The Director of the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy may make grants to an organization to provide for the 
establishment of a National Community Antidrug Coalition Institute.
    (b) Requirements.--The organization receiving a grant under 
subsection (a) shall--
            (1) be a national nonprofit organization that represents, 
        provides technical assistance and training to, and has special 
        expertise and broad, national-level experience in community 
        anti-drug coalitions; and
            (2) establish a National Community Antidrug Coalition 
        Institute that will--
                    (A) provide education, training, and technical 
                assistance for coalition leaders and community teams;
                    (B) conduct research, testing, and diffusion of 
                tools, mechanisms, and measures to better evaluate and 
                document coalition performance measures and outcomes; 
                and
                    (C) bridge the gap between research and practice by 
                translating knowledge from research into practical 
                information.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION.

    There are authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 for 2 years to 
make grants as provided in section 2.
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