[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1223 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1223

 To make grants to States for providing information regarding parolees 
       to local law enforcement agencies, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 27, 2001

   Mr. Baca introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To make grants to States for providing information regarding parolees 
       to local law enforcement agencies, 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 ``Parolee LEADS Public Safety Grant 
Program Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF GRANTS.

    (a) Authorization of Grants.--From amounts made available to carry 
out this section, the Attorney General may make grants to eligible 
States for use by the State to carry out an automated data system to 
provide information regarding parolees to local law enforcement 
agencies within the State.
    (b) Eligibility.--For a State to be eligible to receive a grant 
under this section, the chief executive officer of the State shall 
submit to the Attorney General an application in such form and 
containing such information as the Attorney General may require.
    (c) Required Elements of System.--An automated data system referred 
to in subsection (a) shall include the following elements:
            (1) Information about parolees.--For each person 
        incarcerated by that State who is to be released from 
        incarceration by reason of probation or parole, the system 
        shall, to the extent available, include the following 
        information:
                    (A) Last, first, and middle name.
                    (B) Date of birth.
                    (C) Sex, race, height, weight, hair color, and eye 
                color.
                    (D) Date of release from custody.
                    (E) Whether the person is required to register as a 
                result of a State or Federal law and, if so, the status 
                of that registration.
                    (F) Social Security number, driver's license 
                number, and any identification number assigned to the 
                person by the State criminal justice system or the 
                Federal Bureau of Investigation.
                    (G) Place of incarceration.
                    (H) Whether the person has any distinctive scar, 
                mark, or tattoo and, if so, a description.
                    (I) The offense or offenses by reason of which the 
                person is incarcerated.
                    (J) Place of residence, including street name and 
                number (not a post office box), city or town, and zip 
                code, and the date on which that place of residence is 
                to become effective.
                    (K) A geographic coordinate for that place of 
                residence, in a format for use with a geographic 
                information system or comparable satellite location 
                system.
                    (L) Contact officer, including name and telephone 
                number, and an identification of that officer's unit.
                    (M) A digitized picture of the person.
                    (N) A digitized fingerprint of the person.
            (2) Computer database.--The information shall be maintained 
        in a database that can be accessed and processed by a local law 
        enforcement agency using a remote desktop computer system.
            (3) Access to information upon release.--Each local law 
        enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the place of 
        residence of a person referred to in paragraph (1) shall--
                    (A) upon the release from incarceration of that 
                person by reason of probation or parole, be provided 
                the information included in the system with respect to 
                that person; and
                    (B) thereafter, on a continuing basis, have access 
                to such information upon request of that agency.
    (d) Restrictions on Use of Funds.--
            (1) Matching.--The Federal share of a grant made under this 
        section may not exceed 50 percent of the total costs of the 
        system for the fiscal year for which the system receives that 
        grant.
            (2) Nonsupplanting.--Funds made available pursuant to this 
        section shall not be used to supplant State funds, but shall be 
        used to increase the amount of funds that would, in the absence 
        of Federal funds, be made available from State sources for the 
        purposes of this Act.
            (3) Administrative costs.--A State may not use more than 
        five percent of the funds it receives from this section for 
        administrative expenses.
    (e) Reports to the Attorney General.--Each State which receives a 
grant under this section shall submit to the Attorney General, for each 
fiscal year in which funds from a grant received under this section are 
expended, a report at such time and in such manner as the Attorney 
General may reasonably require.
    (f) Reports to Congress.--Not later than 90 days after the end of 
each fiscal year for which grants are made under this section, the 
Attorney General shall submit to the Congress a report that includes--
            (1) the aggregate amount of grants made under this section 
        to each State for such fiscal year; and
            (2) a summary of the information provided by States 
        receiving grants under this section.
    (g) Expenditure Records.--
            (1) In general.--Each State which receives a grant under 
        this section shall keep records as the Attorney General may 
        require to facilitate an effective audit of the receipt and use 
        of grant funds received under this section.
            (2) Access.--Each State which receives a grant under this 
        section shall make available, for the purpose of audit and 
        examination, such records as are related to the receipt or use 
        of any such grant.
    (h) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term ``State'' 
means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American 
Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
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