109 HR 4828 IH: Cops for Kids Act
U.S. House of Representatives
2006-03-01
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1.This Act may be cited as the Cops for Kids Act
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(a)The Attorney General may make grants to States and units of local government to develop programs to hire personnel to monitor the activities of sex offenders in the community.
(b)In awarding a grant under this Act, the Attorney General shall give priority to a unit of local government or State with the greatest need as determined by the number of sex offenders in such unit of local government or State.
(c)To be eligible to receive a grant under this Act, A State or unit of local government shall contribute not less than 50 percent of the costs of developing a sex offender monitoring program, including hiring personnel and providing training.
3.A grant awarded under this Act may be used to develop a monitoring program of sex offenders, including—
(1)hiring personnel;
(2)developing training programs for such personnel; and
(3)purchasing equipment for the program.
4.For purposes of this Act—
(1)the term sex offender
means an individual required by law to register as a sex offender;
(2)the term State
means each of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa; and
(3)the term unit of local government
means any city, county, township, town, borough, parish, village, or other general purpose political subdivision of a State.
5.Authorization of appropriationsThere are authorized to be appropriated $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2012 to carry out this Act.