[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5752 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5752

To provide for making grants to expand the capacity of the Big Brothers 
            Big Sisters mentoring program for at-risk youth.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 10, 2006

     Mr. Simmons (for himself and Mr. Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                      Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for making grants to expand the capacity of the Big Brothers 
            Big Sisters mentoring program for at-risk youth.

    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 ``Mentoring Matches for Youth Act of 
2006''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, which was founded 
        in 1904 and chartered by Congress in 1958, is the oldest and 
        largest mentoring organization in the United States.
            (2) There are over 450 Big Brothers Big Sisters of America 
        local agencies providing mentoring programs for at-risk 
        children in over 5,000 communities throughout every State, 
        Guam, and Puerto Rico.
            (3) Over the last decade, Big Brother Big Sisters of 
        America has raised a minimum of 75 percent of its annual 
        operating budget from private sources and is continually 
        working to grow private sources of funding to maintain this 
        ratio of private to Federal funds.
            (4) In 2005, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America provided 
        mentors for over 235,000 children.
            (5) Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has a goal to 
        provide mentors for 1 million children per year.

SEC. 3. GRANT PROGRAM FOR EXPANDING BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MENTORING 
              PROGRAM.

    In each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012, the Administrator of the 
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (hereinafter in 
this Act referred to as the ``Administrator'') may make grants to Big 
Brothers Big Sisters of America to use for expanding the capacity of 
and carrying out the Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring programs for 
at-risk youth.

SEC. 4. BIANNUAL REPORT.

    (a) In General.--Big Brothers Big Sisters of America shall submit 2 
reports to the Administrator in each of fiscal years 2008 through 2013. 
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America shall submit the first report in a 
fiscal year not later than April 1 of that fiscal year and the second 
report in a fiscal year not later than September 30 of that fiscal 
year.
    (b) Required Content.--Each such report must include the following:
            (1) A detailed statement of the progress made by Big 
        Brothers Big Sisters of America in expanding the capacity of 
        and carrying out mentoring programs for at-risk youth.
            (2) A detailed statement of how the amounts received under 
        this Act have been used.
            (3) A detailed assessment of the effectiveness of the 
        mentoring programs.
            (4) Recommendations for continued grants and the 
        appropriate amounts for such grants.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act--
            (1) $8,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 and 2009;
            (2) $8,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 and 2011; and
            (3) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2012.
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