[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
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[S. 4028 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4028

                        To fight criminal gangs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 29, 2006

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

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                                 A BILL


 
                        To fight criminal gangs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Fighting Gangs and 
Empowering Youth Act of 2006''.
    (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as 
follows:

Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents.
              TITLE I--PREVENTION AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

Sec. 101. Reauthorization of certain after-school programs.
Sec. 102. Reauthorization of Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities 
                            Act.
Sec. 103. Public and assisted housing gang elimination.
Sec. 104. Demonstration grants to encourage creative approaches to gang 
                            activity and after-school programs.
Sec. 105. Reauthorization of adult and juvenile offender State and 
                            local reentry demonstration projects.
Sec. 106. Children of incarcerated parents and families.
Sec. 107. Encouragement of employment of former prisoners.
Sec. 108. Federal resource center for children of prisoners.
Sec. 109. Use of violent offender truth-in-sentencing grant funding for 
                            demonstration project activities.
Sec. 110. Grants to study parole or post-incarceration supervision 
                            violations and revocations.
Sec. 111. Improvement of the residential substance abuse treatment for 
                            State prisoners program.
Sec. 112. Residential drug abuse program in Federal prisons.
Sec. 113. Removal of limitation on amount of funds available for 
                            corrections education programs under the 
                            Adult Education and Family Literacy Act.
Sec. 114. Technical amendment to drug-free student loans provision to 
                            ensure that it applies only to offenses 
                            committed while receiving Federal aid.
Sec. 115. Mentoring grants to nonprofit organizations.
Sec. 116. Clarification of authority to place prisoner in community 
                            corrections.
Sec. 117. Grants to States for improved workplace and community 
                            transition training for incarcerated youth 
                            offenders.
Sec. 118. Improved reentry procedures for Federal prisoners.
Sec. 119. Reauthorization of Learn and Serve America.
Sec. 120. Job Corps.
Sec. 121. Workforce Investment Act youth activities.
Sec. 122. Expansion and reauthorization of the mentoring initiative for 
                            system involved youth.
Sec. 123. Strategic community planning program.
Sec. 124. Reauthorization of the Gang Resistance Education and Training 
                            Projects Program and increase funding for 
                            the national youth gang survey.
       TITLE II--SUPPRESSION AND COMMUNITY ANTI-GANG INITIATIVES

               Subtitle A--Gang Activity Policing Program

Sec. 201. Authority to make gang activity policing grants.
Sec. 202. Eligible activities.
Sec. 203. Preferential consideration of applications for certain 
                            grants.
Sec. 204. Utilization of components.
Sec. 205. Minimum amount.
Sec. 206. Matching funds.
Sec. 207. Authorization of appropriations.
       Subtitle B--High Intensity Interstate Gang Activity Areas

Sec. 211. Designation of and assistance for ``high intensity'' 
                            interstate gang activity areas.
                     Subtitle C--Additional Funding

Sec. 221. Additional resources needed by the Federal Bureau of 
                            Investigation to investigate and prosecute 
                            violent criminal street gangs.
Sec. 222. Grants to prosecutors and law enforcement to combat violent 
                            crime and to protect witnesses and victims 
                            of crimes.
Sec. 223. Enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative to 
                            improve enforcement of criminal laws 
                            against violent gangs.
             TITLE III--PUNISHMENT AND IMPROVED CRIME DATA

Sec. 301. Criminal street gangs.
Sec. 302. Violent crimes in furtherance or in aid of criminal street 
                            gangs.
Sec. 303. Interstate and foreign travel or transportation in aid of 
                            racketeering enterprises and criminal 
                            street gangs.
Sec. 304. Amendments relating to violent crime in areas of exclusive 
                            Federal jurisdiction.
Sec. 305. Increased penalties for use of interstate commerce facilities 
                            in the commission of murder-for-hire and 
                            other felony crimes of violence.
Sec. 306. Increased penalties for violent crimes in aid of racketeering 
                            activity.
Sec. 307. Violent crimes committed during and in relation to a drug 
                            trafficking crime.
Sec. 308. Expansion of rebuttable presumption against release of 
                            persons charged with firearms offenses.
Sec. 309. Statute of limitations for violent crime.
Sec. 310. Predicate crimes for authorization of interception of wire, 
                            oral, and electronic communications.
Sec. 311. Clarification to hearsay exception for forfeiture by 
                            wrongdoing.
Sec. 312. Clarification of venue for retaliation against a witness.
Sec. 313. Amendment of sentencing guidelines relating to certain gang 
                            and violent crimes.
Sec. 314. Solicitation or recruitment of persons in criminal street 
                            gang activity.
Sec. 315. Increased penalties for criminal use of firearms in crimes of 
                            violence and drug trafficking.
Sec. 316. Possession of firearms by dangerous felons.
Sec. 317. Standardization of crime reporting.
Sec. 318. Providing additional forensic examiners.
Sec. 319. Study on expanding Federal authority for juvenile offenders.

              TITLE I--PREVENTION AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

SEC. 101. REAUTHORIZATION OF CERTAIN AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS.

    (a) 21st Century Community Learning Centers.--Section 4206 of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7176) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (5), by striking ``$2,250,000,000'' and 
        inserting ``$2,500,000,000''; and
            (2) in paragraph (6), by striking ``$2,500,000,000'' and 
        inserting ``$2,750,000,000''.
    (b) Carol M. White Physical Education Program.--Section 5401 of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7241) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``There are'' and inserting ``(a) In 
        General.--There are''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Physical Education.--In addition to the amounts authorized to 
be appropriated by subsection (a), there are authorized to be 
appropriated $73,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 and 2008 to 
carry out subpart 10.''.
    (c) Federal TRIO Programs.--Section 402A(f) of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a-11(f)) is amended by striking 
``$700,000,000 for fiscal year 1999, and such sums as may be necessary 
for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years'' and inserting 
``$883,000,000 for fiscal year 2007 and such sums as may be necessary 
for each of the 5 succeeding fiscal years''.
    (d) GEARUP.--Section 404H of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1070a-28) is amended by striking ``$200,000,000 for fiscal year 
1999 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding 
fiscal years'' and inserting ``$325,000,000 for fiscal year 2007 and 
such sums as may be necessary for each of the 5 succeeding fiscal 
years''.

SEC. 102. REAUTHORIZATION OF SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES 
              ACT.

    (a) Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities.--Section 4003 of 
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7103) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``$650,000,000 for fiscal 
        year 2002'' and inserting ``$700,000,000 for fiscal year 
        2007''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``such sums for fiscal 
        year 2002, and'' and inserting ``$400,000,000 for fiscal year 
        2007''.
    (b) National Coordinator Initiative.--Section 4125 of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7135(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``From funds made available to 
                carry out this subpart under section 4003(2), the 
                Secretary may provide'' and inserting ``From amounts 
                made available to carry out this subpart under section 
                4003(2) for each fiscal year, the Secretary shall 
                reserve not less than $40,000,000 to provide''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``, gang prevention,'' after 
                ``drug prevention''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in the first sentence--
                            (i) by inserting ``, gang prevention,'' 
                        after ``serve as drug prevention''; and
                            (ii) by inserting ``, gang,'' after 
                        ``significant drug''; and
                    (B) in the second sentence, by inserting ``, 
                gang,'' after ``analyzing assessments of drug''.
    (c) Mentoring Program.--Section 4130(b) of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7140(b)) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) of paragraph 
        (1), by striking ``The Secretary may award grants from funds 
        made available to carry out this subpart under section 
        4003(2)'' and inserting ``From amounts made available to carry 
        out this subpart under section 4003(2) for each fiscal year, 
        the Secretary shall reserve not less than $50,000,000 to award 
        grants'';
            (2) in paragraph (5)(B)(i), by inserting ``elementary 
        school and middle school'' after ``serves''; and
            (3) in paragraph (5)(C)(ii)(IV), by striking ``4th'' and 
        inserting ``kindergarten''.
    (d) Anti-Gang Discretionary Grants.--Subpart 2 of part A of title 
IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
7131 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 4131. ANTI-GANG DISCRETIONARY GRANTS.

    ``(a) Authority To Make Grants.--From amounts made available to 
carry out this subpart under section 4003(2) for each fiscal year, the 
Secretary shall reserve not less than $50,000,000 to award grants, on a 
competitive basis, to nonprofit organizations to enable the nonprofit 
organizations to establish programs to assist a public elementary 
school or middle school in providing an innovative approach--
            ``(1) to combat gang activity in the school and the 
        community surrounding the school; and
            ``(2) to heighten awareness of, and provide tools to 
        reduce, gang violence in the school and the community 
        surrounding the school.
    ``(b) Application.--To be eligible to receive a grant under this 
section, a nonprofit organization shall submit an application to the 
Secretary.
    ``(c) Priority Consideration.--In awarding grants under this 
section, the Secretary shall give priority consideration to 
applications describing programs that target youth living in a 
community with a crime level above the average crime level of the State 
in which the community is located.''.

SEC. 103. PUBLIC AND ASSISTED HOUSING GANG ELIMINATION.

    (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``Public and 
Assisted Housing Gang Elimination Act of 2006''.
    (b) Public and Assisted Housing.--Title V of Public Law 100-690 is 
amended by adding at the end the following:

       ``Subtitle H--Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination

``SEC. 5401. AUTHORITY TO MAKE GRANTS.

    ``The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in accordance 
with the provisions of this subtitle, may make grants to public housing 
agencies (including Indian Housing Authorities) and private, for-profit 
and nonprofit owners of federally assisted low-income housing for use 
in eliminating gang related crime.

``SEC. 5402. ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.

    ``Grants under this subtitle may be used in public housing or other 
federally assisted low-income housing projects for--
            ``(1) the employment of security personnel;
            ``(2) reimbursement of local law enforcement agencies for 
        additional security and protective services;
            ``(3) physical improvements which are specifically designed 
        to enhance security;
            ``(4) the employment of 1 or more individuals--
                    ``(A) to investigate gang related crime on or about 
                the real property comprising any public or other 
                federally assisted low-income housing project; and
                    ``(B) to provide evidence relating to such crime in 
                any administrative or judicial proceeding;
            ``(5) the provision of training, communications equipment, 
        and other related equipment for use by voluntary tenant patrols 
        acting in cooperation with local law enforcement officials;
            ``(6) programs designed to reduce gang activity in and 
        around public or other federally assisted low-income housing 
        projects, including encouraging teen-driven approaches to gang 
        activity prevention; and
            ``(7) providing funding to nonprofit public housing 
        resident management corporations and resident councils to 
        develop security and gang prevention programs involving site 
        residents.

``SEC. 5403. APPLICATIONS.

    ``(a) In General.--To receive a grant under this subtitle, a public 
housing agency or an owner of federally assisted low-income housing 
shall submit an application to the Secretary, at such time, in such 
manner, and accompanied by such additional information as the Secretary 
may reasonably require. Such application shall include a plan for 
addressing the problem of gang related crime on the premises of the 
housing administered or owned by the applicant for which the 
application is being submitted.
    ``(b) Criteria.--Except as provided by subsections (c) and (d) the 
Secretary shall approve applications under this subtitle based 
exclusively on--
            ``(1) the extent of the gang related crime problem in the 
        public or federally assisted low-income housing project or 
        projects proposed for assistance;
            ``(2) the quality of the plan to address the crime problem 
        in the public or federally assisted low-income housing project 
        or projects proposed for assistance, including the extent to 
        which the plan includes initiatives that can be sustained over 
        a period of several years;
            ``(3) the capability of the applicant to carry out the 
        plan; and
            ``(4) the extent to which tenants, the local government, 
        and the local community support and participate in the design 
        and implementation of the activities proposed to be funded 
        under the application.
    ``(c) Federally Assisted Low-Income Housing.--In addition to the 
selection criteria specified in subsection (b), the Secretary may 
establish other criteria for the evaluation of applications submitted 
by owners of federally assisted low-income housing, except that such 
additional criteria shall be designed only to reflect--
            ``(1) relevant differences between the financial resources 
        and other characteristics of public housing authorities and 
        owners of federally assisted low-income housing; or
            ``(2) relevant differences between the problem of gang 
        related crime in public housing and the problem of gang related 
        crime in federally assisted low-income housing.
    ``(d) High Intensity Interstate Gang Activity Areas.--In evaluating 
the extent of the gang related crime problem pursuant to subsection 
(b), the Secretary may consider whether housing projects proposed for 
assistance are located in a high intensity interstate gang activity 
area designated pursuant to section 211 of the Fighting Gangs and 
Empowering Youth Act of 2006.

``SEC. 5404. DEFINITIONS.

    ``For the purposes of this subtitle, the following definitions 
shall apply:
            ``(1) Secretary.--The term ```Secretary''' means the 
        Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
            ``(2) Federally assisted low-income housing.--The term 
        `federally assisted low-income housing' means housing assisted 
        under--
                    ``(A) section 221(d)(3), section 221(d)(4), or 236 
                of the National Housing Act;
                    ``(B) section 101 of the Housing and Urban 
                Development Act of 1965; or
                    ``(C) section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 
                1937.

``SEC. 5405. IMPLEMENTATION.

    ``The Secretary shall issue regulations to implement this subtitle 
within 180 days after the date of enactment of the Fighting Gangs and 
Empowering Youth Act of 2006.

``SEC. 5406. REPORTS.

    ``The Secretary shall require grantees to provide periodic reports 
that include the obligation and expenditure of grant funds, the 
progress made by the grantee in implementing the plan described in 
section 5403(a), and any change in the incidence of gang related crime 
in projects assisted under this chapter.

``SEC. 5407. MONITORING.

    ``The Secretary shall audit and monitor the programs funded under 
this subtitle to ensure that assistance provided under this subtitle is 
administered in accordance with the provisions of this subtitle.

``SEC. 5408. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    ``(a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated to carry 
out this subtitle $200,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2007 
through 2011. Any amount appropriated under this section shall remain 
available until expended.
    ``(b) Set-Aside for Assisted Housing.--Of any amount made available 
in any fiscal year to carry out this subtitle, not more than 6.25 
percent of such amount shall be available for grants for federally 
assisted low-income housing.''.
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--The table of contents for title V of 
Public Law 100-690 is amended by inserting the following new items:

       ``Subtitle H--Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination

``Sec. 5401. Authority to make grants.
``Sec. 5402. Eligible activities.
``Sec. 5403. Applications.
``Sec. 5404. Definitions.
``Sec. 5405. Implementation.
``Sec. 5406. Reports.
``Sec. 5407. Monitoring.
``Sec. 5408. Authorization of appropriations.''.

SEC. 104. DEMONSTRATION GRANTS TO ENCOURAGE CREATIVE APPROACHES TO GANG 
              ACTIVITY AND AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--The Attorney General may make grants to public or 
nonprofit private entities (including faith-based organizations) for 
the purpose of assisting the entities in demonstrating innovative 
approaches to combat gang activity.
    (b) Certain Approaches.--Approaches under subsection (a) may 
include the following:
            (1) Encouraging teen-driven approaches to gang activity 
        prevention.
            (2) Educating parents to recognize signs of problems and 
        potential gang involvement in their children.
            (3) Teaching parents the importance of a nurturing family 
        and home environment to keep children out of gangs.
            (4) Facilitating communication between parents and 
        children, especially programs that have been evaluated and 
        proven effective.
    (c) Matching Funds.--
            (1) In general.--With respect to the costs of the project 
        to be carried out under subsection (a) by an applicant, a grant 
        may be made under such subsection only if the applicant agrees 
        to make available (directly or through donations from public or 
        private entities) non-Federal contributions toward such costs 
        in an amount that is not less than 25 percent of such costs ($1 
        for each $3 of Federal funds provided in the grant).
            (2) Determination of amount contributed.--Non-Federal 
        contributions required in paragraph (1) may be in cash or in 
        kind, fairly evaluated, including plant, equipment, or 
        services. Amounts provided by the Federal Government, or 
        services assisted or subsidized to any significant extent by 
        the Federal Government, may not be included in determining the 
        amount of such non-Federal contributions.
    (d) Evaluation of Projects.--The Attorney General shall establish 
criteria for the evaluation of projects under subsection (a). A grant 
may be made under such subsection only if the applicant involved--
            (1) agrees to conduct evaluations of the project in 
        accordance with such criteria;
            (2) agrees to submit to the Attorney General such reports 
        describing the results of the evaluations as the Attorney 
        General determines to be appropriate; and
            (3) submits to the Attorney General, in the application 
        under subsection (e), a plan for conducting the evaluations.
    (e) Application for Grant.--A grant may be made under subsection 
(a) only if an application for the grant is submitted to the Attorney 
General and the application is in such form, is made in such manner, 
and contains such agreements, assurances, and information, including 
the agreements under subsections (c) and (d) and the plan under 
subsection (d)(3), as the Attorney General determines to be necessary 
to carry out this section.
    (f) Report to Congress.--Not later than October 1, 2011, the 
Attorney General shall submit to Congress a report describing the 
extent to which projects under subsection (a) have been successful in 
reducing the rate of gang activity in the communities in which the 
projects have been carried out. Such reports shall describe the various 
approaches used under subsection (a) and the effectiveness of each of 
the approaches.
    (g) Authorization of Appropriations.--For the purpose of carrying 
out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for 
each of the fiscal years 2007 through 2011.

SEC. 105. REAUTHORIZATION OF ADULT AND JUVENILE OFFENDER STATE AND 
              LOCAL REENTRY DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.

    (a) Adult and Juvenile Offender Demonstration Projects 
Authorized.--Section 2976(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797w(b)) is amended by striking 
paragraphs (1) through (4) and inserting the following:
            ``(1) establishing or improving the system or systems under 
        which--
                    ``(A) the correctional agency of the State or local 
                government develops and carries out plans to facilitate 
                the reentry into the community of each offender in 
                State or local custody;
                    ``(B) the supervision and services provided to 
                offenders in State or local custody are coordinated 
                with the supervision and services provided to offenders 
                after reentry into the community;
                    ``(C) the efforts of various public and private 
                entities to provide supervision and services to 
                offenders after reentry into the community, and to 
                family members of such offenders, are coordinated; and
                    ``(D) offenders awaiting reentry into the community 
                are provided with documents (such as identification 
                papers, referrals to services, medical prescriptions, 
                job training certificates, apprenticeship papers, and 
                information on obtaining public assistance) useful in 
                achieving a successful transition from prison, jail, or 
                detention;
            ``(2) carrying out programs and initiatives by units of 
        local government to strengthen reentry services for individuals 
        released from local jails;
            ``(3) enabling jail or prison mentors of offenders to 
        remain in contact with those offenders, including through the 
        use of such technology as videoconferencing, during 
        incarceration and after reentry into the community and 
        encouraging the involvement of prison or jail mentors in the 
        reentry process;
            ``(4) providing structured post-release housing and 
        transitional housing, including group homes for recovering 
        substance abusers, through which offenders are provided 
        supervision and services immediately following reentry into the 
        community;
            ``(5) assisting offenders in securing permanent housing 
        upon release or following a stay in transitional housing;
            ``(6) providing continuity of health services (including 
        screening, assessment, and aftercare for mental health 
        services, substance abuse treatment and aftercare, and 
        treatment for contagious diseases) to offenders in custody and 
        after reentry into the community;
            ``(7) providing offenders with education, job training, 
        responsible parenting and healthy relationship skills training 
        designed specifically for addressing the needs of incarcerated 
        and transitioning fathers and mothers, English as a second 
        language programs, work experience programs, self-respect and 
        life skills training, and other skills useful in achieving a 
        successful transition from prison;
            ``(8) facilitating collaboration among corrections and 
        community corrections, technical schools, community colleges, 
        and the workforce development and employment service sectors 
        to--
                    ``(A) promote, where appropriate, the employment of 
                people released from prison and jail, through efforts 
                such as educating employers about existing financial 
                incentives, and facilitate the creation of job 
                opportunities, including transitional jobs and time 
                limited subsidized work experience (where appropriate), 
                for this population that will benefit communities;
                    ``(B) connect inmates to employment, including 
                supportive employment and employment services, before 
                their release to the community, to provide work 
                supports, including transportation and retention 
                services, as appropriate, and identify labor market 
                needs to ensure that education and training are 
                appropriate; and
                    ``(C) address barriers to employment, including 
                licensing that are not directly connected to the crime 
                committed and the risk that the ex-offender presents to 
                the community, and provide case management services as 
                necessary to prepare offenders for jobs that offer the 
                potential for advancement and growth;
            ``(9) assessing the literacy and educational needs of 
        offenders in custody and identifying and providing services 
        appropriate to meet those needs, including follow-up 
        assessments and long-term services;
            ``(10) systems under which family members of offenders are 
        involved in facilitating the successful reentry of those 
        offenders into the community, including removing obstacles to 
        the maintenance of family relationships while the offender is 
        in custody, strengthening the family's capacity to function as 
        a stable living situation during reentry where appropriate, and 
        involving family members in the planning and implementation of 
        the reentry process;
            ``(11) programs under which victims are included, on a 
        voluntary basis, in the reentry process;
            ``(12) identifying and addressing barriers to collaborating 
        with child welfare agencies in the provision of services 
        jointly to offenders in custody and to the children of such 
        offenders;
            ``(13) carrying out programs that support children of 
        incarcerated parents, including those in foster care and those 
        cared for by grandparents or other relatives, commonly referred 
        to as kinship care, including mentoring children of prisoners 
        programs;
            ``(14) carrying out programs for the entire family unit, 
        including the coordination of service delivery across agencies;
            ``(15) implementing programs in correctional agencies to 
        include the collection of information regarding any dependent 
        children of an incarcerated person as part of intake 
        procedures, including the number of children, age, and location 
        or jurisdiction, and connect identified children with services 
        as appropriate and needed;
            ``(16) addressing barriers to the visitation of children 
        with an incarcerated parent, and maintenance of the parent-
        child relationship as appropriate to the safety and well-being 
        of the children, such as the location of facilities in remote 
        areas, telephone costs, mail restrictions, and visitation 
        policies;
            ``(17) creating, developing, or enhancing prisoner and 
        family assessments curricula, policies, procedures, or programs 
        (including mentoring programs) to help prisoners with a history 
        or identified risk of domestic violence, dating violence, 
        sexual assault, or stalking reconnect with their families and 
        communities, as appropriate (or when it is safe to do so), and 
        become mutually respectful, nonabusive parents or partners, 
        under which particular attention is paid to the safety of 
        children affected and the confidentiality concerns of victims, 
        and efforts are coordinated with existing victim service 
        providers;
            ``(18) developing programs and activities that support 
        parent-child relationships, such as--
                    ``(A) using telephone conferencing to permit 
                incarcerated parents to participate in parent-teacher 
                conferences;
                    ``(B) using videoconferencing to allow virtual 
                visitation when incarcerated persons are more than 100 
                miles from their families;
                    ``(C) the development of books on tape programs, 
                through which incarcerated parents read a book into a 
                tape to be sent to their children;
                    ``(D) the establishment of family days, which 
                provide for longer visitation hours or family 
                activities;
                    ``(E) the creation of children's areas in 
                visitation rooms with parent-child activities;
                    ``(F) the implementation of programs to help 
                incarcerated fathers and mothers stay connected to 
                their children and learn responsible parenting and 
                healthy relationship skills; or
                    ``(G) mentoring children of prisoners program;
            ``(19) expanding family-based treatment centers that offer 
        family-based comprehensive treatment services for parents and 
        their children as a complete family unit;
            ``(20) conducting studies to determine who is returning to 
        prison or jail and which of those returning prisoners represent 
        the greatest risk to community safety;
            ``(21) developing or adopting procedures to ensure that 
        dangerous felons are not released from prison prematurely;
            ``(22) developing and implementing procedures to assist 
        relevant authorities in determining when release is appropriate 
        and in the use of data to inform the release decision;
            ``(23) developing and implementing procedures to identify 
        efficiently and effectively those violators of probation, 
        parole, or post incarceration supervision who should be 
        returned to prison or jail;
            ``(24) utilizing validated assessment tools to assess the 
        risk factors of returning inmates and prioritizing services 
        based on risk;
            ``(25) facilitating and encouraging timely and complete 
        payment of restitution and fines by ex-offenders to victims and 
        the community;
            ``(26) establishing or expanding the use of reentry courts 
        and other programs to--
                    ``(A) monitor offenders returning to the community;
                    ``(B) provide returning offenders with--
                            ``(i) drug and alcohol testing and 
                        treatment; and
                            ``(ii) mental and medical health assessment 
                        and services;
                    ``(C) facilitate restorative justice practices and 
                convene family or community impact panels, family 
                impact educational classes, victim impact panels, or 
                victim impact educational classes;
                    ``(D) provide and coordinate the delivery of other 
                community services to offenders, including--
                            ``(i) housing assistance;
                            ``(ii) education;
                            ``(iii) employment training;
                            ``(iv) children and family support to 
                        include responsible parenting and healthy 
                        relationship skill training designed 
                        specifically to address the needs of 
                        incarcerated and transitioning fathers and 
                        mothers;
                            ``(v) conflict resolution skills training;
                            ``(vi) family violence intervention 
                        programs;
                            ``(vii) culturally and linguistically 
                        competent services, as appropriate; and
                            ``(viii) other appropriate services; and
                    ``(E) establish and implement graduated sanctions 
                and incentives; and
            ``(27) providing technology and other tools to advance post 
        release supervision.''.
    (b) Juvenile Offender Demonstration Projects Reauthorized.--Section 
2976(c) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 
U.S.C. 3797w(c)) is amended by striking ``may be expended for'' and all 
that follows through the period at the end and inserting ``may be 
expended for any activity referred to in subsection (b).''.
    (c) Applications; Requirements; Priorities; Performance 
Measurements.--Section 2976 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797w) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (o); and
            (2) by striking subsections (d) through (g) and inserting 
        the following:
    ``(d) Applications.--A State, unit of local government, territory, 
or Indian tribe, or combination thereof desiring a grant under this 
section shall submit an application to the Attorney General that--
            ``(1) contains a reentry strategic plan, as referenced in 
        subsection (h), which describes the long-term strategy, and a 
        detailed implementation schedule, including the jurisdiction's 
        plans to pay for the program after the Federal funding is 
        discontinued;
            ``(2) identifies the local government role and the role of 
        governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations that will be 
        coordinated by, and that will collaborate on, the applicant's 
        prisoner reentry strategy and certifies their involvement; and
            ``(3) describes the methodology and outcome measures that 
        will be used in evaluating the program.
    ``(e) Requirements.--The Attorney General may make a grant to an 
applicant under this section only if the application--
            ``(1) reflects explicit support of the chief executive 
        officer of the State, unit of local government, territory, or 
        Indian tribe applying for a grant under this section;
            ``(2) provides extensive discussion of the role of State 
        corrections departments, community corrections agencies, 
        juvenile justice systems, or local jail systems in ensuring 
        successful reentry of ex-offenders into their communities;
            ``(3) provides extensive evidence of collaboration with 
        State and local government agencies overseeing health, housing, 
        child welfare, education, substance abuse, and employment 
        services, and local law enforcement;
            ``(4) provides a plan for analysis of the applicant's 
        existing statutory, regulatory, rules-based, and practice-based 
        hurdles to a prisoner's reintegration into the community that--
                    ``(A) takes particular note and makes 
                recommendations with respect to laws, regulations, 
                rules, and practices that disqualify former prisoners 
                from obtaining professional licenses or other 
                requirements necessary for certain types of employment, 
                and that hinder full civic participation;
                    ``(B) identifies and makes recommendations with 
                respect to those laws, regulations, rules, or practices 
                that are not directly connected to the crime committed 
                and the risk that the ex-offender presents to the 
                community; and
                    ``(C) affords members of the public an opportunity 
                to participate in the process described in this 
                subsection; and
            ``(5) includes the use of a State, local, territorial, or 
        tribal task force, as referenced in subsection (i), to carry 
        out the activities funded under the grant.
    ``(f) Priority Consideration.--The Attorney General shall give 
priority to grant applications under this section that best--
            ``(1) focus initiative on geographic areas with a high 
        population of ex-offenders;
            ``(2) include partnerships with nonprofit organizations;
            ``(3) provide consultations with crime victims and former 
        incarcerated prisoners and their families;
            ``(4) review the process by which the State and local 
        governments adjudicate violations of parole, probation, or post 
        incarceration supervision and consider reforms to maximize the 
        use of graduated, community-based sanctions for minor and 
        technical violations of parole, probation, or post 
        incarceration supervision;
            ``(5) establish prerelease planning procedures for 
        prisoners to ensure that a prisoner's eligibility for Federal 
        or State benefits (including Medicaid, Medicare, Social 
        Security, and Veterans benefits) upon release is established 
        prior to release, subject to any limitations in law, and to 
        ensure that prisoners are provided with referrals to 
        appropriate social and health services or are linked to 
        appropriate nonprofit organizations;
            ``(6) include an agreement that the applicant, in 
        consultation with the National Institute of Justice, will 
        modify the project design, initially and during the project, in 
        order to facilitate the evaluation of outcomes by means, 
        including (to the maximum extent feasible) random assignment of 
        offenders and ex-offenders (or entities working with such 
        persons) to program delivery and control groups; and
            ``(7) target high-risk offenders for reentry programs 
        through validated assessment tools.
    ``(g) Uses of Grant Funds.--
            ``(1) Federal share.--The Federal share of a grant received 
        under this section may not exceed 75 percent of the project 
        funded under the grant, unless the Attorney General--
                    ``(A) waives, in whole or in part, the requirement 
                of this paragraph; and
                    ``(B) publicly delineates the rationale for the 
                waiver.
            ``(2) Supplement not supplant.--Federal funds received 
        under this section shall be used to supplement, not supplant, 
        non-Federal funds that would otherwise be available for the 
        activities funded under this section.
    ``(h) Reentry Strategic Plan.--
            ``(1) In general.--As a condition of receiving financial 
        assistance under this section, each applicant shall develop a 
        comprehensive strategic reentry plan that contains measurable 
        annual and 5 year performance outcomes. The plan shall have as 
        a goal to reduce the rate of recidivism of incarcerated persons 
        served with funds from this section by 50 percent over a period 
        of 5 years.
            ``(2) Coordination.--In developing reentry plans under this 
        subsection, applicants shall coordinate with communities and 
        stakeholders, including persons in the fields of public safety, 
        corrections, housing, health, education, substance abuse, 
        children and families, employment, business and members of 
        nonprofit organizations that provide reentry services.
            ``(3) Measurements of progress.--Each reentry plan 
        developed under this subsection shall measure the applicant's 
        progress toward increasing public safety by reducing rates of 
        recidivism and enabling released offenders to transition 
        successfully back into their communities.
    ``(i) Reentry Task Force.--
            ``(1) In general.--As a condition of receiving financial 
        assistance under this section, each applicant shall establish 
        or empower a Reentry Task Force, or other relevant convening 
        authority, to examine ways to pool existing resources and 
        funding streams to promote lower recidivism rates for returning 
        ex-offenders and to minimize the harmful effects of 
        incarceration on families and communities by collecting data 
        and best practices in offender reentry from demonstration 
        grantees and other agencies and organizations, and to provide a 
        plan, as described in subsection (e)(4).
            ``(2) Membership.--The task force or other authority shall 
        be comprised of relevant--
                    ``(A) State, tribal, territorial, or local leaders;
                    ``(B) agencies;
                    ``(C) service providers;
                    ``(D) nonprofit organizations; and
                    ``(E) stakeholders.
    ``(j) Strategic Performance Outcomes.--
            ``(1) In general.--Each applicant shall identify in their 
        reentry strategic plan, as referenced in subsection (h), 
        specific performance outcomes related to the long-term goals of 
        increasing public safety and reducing recidivism.
            ``(2) Performance outcomes.--The performance outcomes 
        identified under paragraph (1) shall include, with respect to 
        offenders released back into the community--
                    ``(A) reduction in recommitment rates;
                    ``(B) reduction in crime;
                    ``(C) increased employment and education 
                opportunities;
                    ``(D) reduction in violations of conditions of 
                supervised release;
                    ``(E) increased child support;
                    ``(F) increased housing opportunities;
                    ``(G) reduction in drug and alcohol abuse; and
                    ``(H) increased participation in substance abuse 
                and mental health services.
            ``(3) Other outcomes.--States may include in their reentry 
        strategic plan other performance outcomes that increase the 
        success rates of offenders who transition from prison.
            ``(4) Coordination.--Applicants should coordinate with 
        communities and stakeholders about the selection of performance 
        outcomes identified by the applicant, and should consult with 
        the Department of Justice for assistance with data collection 
        and measurement activities.
            ``(5) Report.--Each grantee under this section shall submit 
        an annual report to the Department of Justice that--
                    ``(A) identifies the grantee's progress toward 
                achieving its strategic performance outcomes; and
                    ``(B) describes other activities conducted by the 
                grantee to increase the success rates of the reentry 
                population, such as programs that foster effective risk 
                management and treatment programming, offender 
                accountability, and community and victim participation.
    ``(k) Performance Measurement.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Department of Justice, in 
        consultation with the grantees, shall--
                    ``(A) identify primary and secondary sources of 
                information to support the measurement of the 
                performance indicators identified under this section;
                    ``(B) identify sources and methods of data 
                collection in support of performance measurement 
                required under this section;
                    ``(C) provide to all grantees technical assistance 
                and training on performance measures and data 
                collection for purposes of this section; and
                    ``(D) coordinate with the Substance Abuse and 
                Mental Health Services Administration on strategic 
                performance outcome measures and data collection for 
                purposes of this section relating to substance abuse 
                and mental health.
            ``(2) Coordination.--The Department of Justice shall 
        coordinate with other Federal agencies to identify national and 
        other sources of information to support grantee's performance 
        measurement.
            ``(3) Standards for analysis.--Any statistical analysis of 
        population data conducted pursuant to this section shall be 
        conducted in accordance with the Federal Register Notice dated 
        October 30, 1997, relating to classification standards.
    ``(l) Future Eligibility.--To be eligible to receive a grant under 
this section for fiscal years after the first receipt of such a grant, 
a grantee shall submit to the Attorney General such information as is 
necessary to demonstrate that--
            ``(1) the grantee has adopted a reentry plan that reflects 
        input from nonprofit organizations;
            ``(2) the grantee's reentry plan includes performance 
        measures to assess the grantee's progress toward increasing 
        public safety by reducing by 10 percent over the 2-year period 
        the rate at which individuals released from prison who 
        participate in the reentry system supported by Federal funds 
        are recommitted to prison; and
            ``(3) the grantee will coordinate with the Department of 
        Justice, nonprofit organizations, and other experts regarding 
        the selection and implementation of the performance measures 
        described in subsection (k).
    ``(m) National Adult and Juvenile Offender Reentry Resource 
Center.--
            ``(1) Authority.--The Attorney General may, using amounts 
        made available to carry out this subsection, make a grant to an 
        eligible organization to provide for the establishment of a 
        National Adult and Juvenile Offender Reentry Resource Center.
            ``(2) Eligible organization.--An organization eligible for 
        the grant under paragraph (1) is any national nonprofit 
        organization approved by the Federal task force established 
        under subsection (o) that provides technical assistance and 
        training to, and has special expertise and broad, national-
        level experience in offender reentry programs, training, and 
        research.
            ``(3) Use of funds.--The organization receiving the grant 
        shall establish a National Adult and Juvenile Offender Reentry 
        Resource Center to--
                    ``(A) provide education, training, and technical 
                assistance for States, tribes, territories, local 
                governments, service providers, nonprofit 
                organizations, and corrections institutions;
                    ``(B) collect data and best practices in offender 
                reentry from demonstration grantees and others agencies 
                and organizations;
                    ``(C) develop and disseminate evaluation tools, 
                mechanisms, and measures to better assess and document 
                coalition performance measures and outcomes;
                    ``(D) disseminate knowledge to States and other 
                relevant entities about best practices, policy 
                standards, and research findings;
                    ``(E) develop and implement procedures to assist 
                relevant authorities in determining when release is 
                appropriate and in the use of data to inform the 
                release decision;
                    ``(F) develop and implement procedures to identify 
                efficiently and effectively those violators of 
                probation, parole, or post incarceration supervision 
                who should be returned to prison and those who should 
                receive other penalties based on defined, graduated 
                sanctions;
                    ``(G) collaborate with the Federal task force 
                established under subsection (o) and the Federal 
                Resource Center for Children of Prisoners;
                    ``(H) develop a national research agenda; and
                    ``(I) bridge the gap between research and practice 
                by translating knowledge from research into practical 
                information.
            ``(4) Limit.--Of amounts made available to carry out this 
        section, not more than 4 percent shall be available to carry 
        out this subsection.
    ``(n) Administration.--Of amounts made available to carry out this 
section--
            ``(1) not more than 2 percent shall be available for 
        administrative expenses in carrying out this section; and
            ``(2) not more than 2 percent shall be made available to 
        the National Institute of Justice to evaluate the effectiveness 
        of the demonstration projects funded under section 2976 of the 
        Omnibus Crime and Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 
        U.S.C. 3797w) as amended by this section, using a methodology 
        that--
                    ``(A) includes, to the maximum extent feasible, 
                random assignment of offenders or ex-offenders (or 
                entities working with such persons) to program delivery 
                and control groups; and
                    ``(B) generates evidence on which reentry 
                approaches and strategies are most effective.
    ``(o) Task Force on Federal Programs and Activities Relating to 
Reentry of Offenders.--
            ``(1) Task force required.--The Attorney General, in 
        consultation with the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
        Development, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of 
        Education, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the 
        Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the Secretary of Agriculture, 
        and the heads of such other elements of the Federal Government 
        as the Attorney General considers appropriate, and in 
        collaboration with stakeholders, service providers, nonprofit 
        organizations, States, tribes, territories, and local 
        governments, shall establish an interagency task force on 
        Federal programs and activities relating to the reentry of 
        offenders into the community.
            ``(2) Duties.--The task force required by paragraph (1) 
        shall--
                    ``(A) identify such programs and activities that 
                may be resulting in overlapping or duplication of 
                services, the scope of such overlapping or duplication, 
                and the relationship of such overlapping and 
                duplication to public safety, public health, and 
                effectiveness and efficiency;
                    ``(B) identify methods to improve collaboration and 
                coordination of such programs and activities;
                    ``(C) identify areas of responsibility in which 
                improved collaboration and coordination of such 
                programs and activities would result in increased 
                effectiveness or efficiency;
                    ``(D) develop innovative interagency or 
                intergovernmental programs, activities, or procedures 
                that would improve outcomes of reentering offenders and 
                children of offenders;
                    ``(E) develop methods for increasing regular 
                communication that would increase interagency program 
                effectiveness;
                    ``(F) identify areas of research that can be 
                coordinated across agencies with an emphasis on 
                applying science-based practices to support, treatment, 
                and intervention programs for reentering offenders;
                    ``(G) identify funding areas that should be 
                coordinated across agencies and any gaps in funding; 
                and
                    ``(H) in collaboration with the National Adult and 
                Juvenile Offender Reentry Resources Center identify 
                successful programs currently operating and collect 
                best practices in offender reentry from demonstration 
                grantees and other agencies and organizations, 
                determine the extent to which such programs and 
                practices can be replicated, and make information on 
                such programs and practices available to States, 
                localities, nonprofit organizations, and others.
            ``(3) Report.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the 
                date of enactment of this Act, the task force 
                established under paragraph (1) shall submit a report, 
                including recommendations, to Congress on barriers to 
                reentry. The task force shall provide for public input 
                in preparing the report.
                    ``(B) Contents.--The report required by 
                subparagraph (A) shall identify Federal and other 
                barriers to successful reentry of offenders into the 
                community and analyze the effects of such barriers on 
                offenders and on children and other family members of 
                offenders, including barriers relating to--
                            ``(i) child support obligations and 
                        procedures;
                            ``(ii) Social Security benefits, including 
                        barriers in timely restoration of suspended 
                        disability benefits immediately upon release, 
                        Veterans benefits, food stamps, and other forms 
                        of Federal public assistance;
                            ``(iii) Medicaid and Medicare laws, 
                        regulations, guidelines or procedures, 
                        including barriers in timely restoration of 
                        benefits caused by delay in reinstatement of 
                        suspended Social Security disability benefits;
                            ``(iv) education programs, financial 
                        assistance, and full civic participation;
                            ``(v) TANF program funding criteria and 
                        other welfare benefits;
                            ``(vi) sustainable employment and career 
                        advancement, that are not directly connected to 
                        the crime committed and the risk that the ex-
                        offender presents to the community;
                            ``(vii) laws, regulations, rules, and 
                        practices that restrict Federal employment 
                        licensure and participation in Federal 
                        contracting programs;
                            ``(viii) admissions to and evictions from 
                        Federal housing programs, including--
                                    ``(I) examining the number and 
                                characteristics of ex-offenders who are 
                                evicted from or denied eligibility for 
                                Federal housing programs;
                                    ``(II) the effect of eligibility 
                                denials and evictions on homelessness, 
                                family stability and family 
                                reunification;
                                    ``(III) the extent to which arrest 
                                records are the basis for denying 
                                applications;
                                    ``(IV) the implications of 
                                considering misdemeanors 5 or more 
                                years old and felonies 10 or more years 
                                old and the appropriateness of taking 
                                into account rehabilitation and other 
                                mitigating factors; and
                                    ``(V) the feasibility of using 
                                probationary or conditional eligibility 
                                based on participation in a supervised 
                                rehabilitation program or other 
                                appropriate social services;
                            ``(ix) reentry procedures, case planning, 
                        and transitions of persons from the custody of 
                        the Federal Bureau of Prisons to a Federal 
                        parole or probation program or community 
                        corrections;
                            ``(x) laws, regulations, rules, and 
                        practices that may require a parolee to return 
                        to the same county that the parolee was living 
                        in prior to his or her arrest, and the 
                        potential for changing such laws, regulations, 
                        rules, and practices so that the parolee may 
                        change his or her location upon release, and 
                        not settle in the same location with persons 
                        who may be a negative influence; and
                            ``(xi) prerelease planning procedures for 
                        prisoners to ensure that a prisoner's 
                        eligibility for Federal or State benefits 
                        (including Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security 
                        and Veterans benefits) upon release is 
                        established prior to release, subject to any 
                        limitations in law; and to ensure that 
                        prisoners are provided with referrals to 
                        appropriate social and health services or are 
                        linked to appropriate nonprofit organizations.
            ``(4) Annual reports.--On an annual basis, the task force 
        required by paragraph (1) shall submit to Congress a report on 
        the activities of the task force, including specific 
        recommendations of the task force on matters referred to in 
        paragraph (2). Any statistical analysis of population data 
        pursuant to this section shall be conducted in accordance with 
        the Federal Register Notice dated October 30, 1997, relating to 
        classification standards.''.
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 2976 of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797w) is amended 
in subsection (o)(1), as so redesignated by subsection (c) of this 
section, by striking ``and $16,000,000 for fiscal year 2005'' and 
inserting ``$100,000,000 for fiscal year 2007, and $100,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2008''.
    (e) Grant Authorization.--Section 2976(a) of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797w(a)) is amended by 
striking ``States, Territories'' and all that follows through the 
period at the end and inserting ``States, local governments, 
territories, or Indian tribes, or any combination thereof, in 
partnership with stakeholders, service providers, and nonprofit 
organizations, for purpose of establishing adult and juvenile offender 
reentry demonstration projects.''.

SEC. 106. CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTS AND FAMILIES.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services may--
            (1) review, and make available to States, a report on any 
        recommendations regarding the role of State child protective 
        services at the time of the arrest of a person; and
            (2) by regulation, establish such services as the Secretary 
        determines necessary for the preservation of families that have 
        been impacted by the incarceration of a family member with 
        special attention given to the impact on children.

SEC. 107. ENCOURAGEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT OF FORMER PRISONERS.

    The Secretary of Labor shall take such steps as are necessary to 
implement a program, including the Employment and Training 
Administration, to educate employers and 1-stop center workforce 
development providers about existing incentives, including the Federal 
bonding program and tax credits for hiring former Federal, State, or 
local prisoners.

SEC. 108. FEDERAL RESOURCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN OF PRISONERS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services for fiscal years 2007 and 2008, such sums as may be 
necessary for the continuing activities of the Federal Resource Center 
for Children of Prisoners, including conducting a review of the 
policies and practices of State and Federal corrections agencies to 
support parent-child relationships.

SEC. 109. USE OF VIOLENT OFFENDER TRUTH-IN-SENTENCING GRANT FUNDING FOR 
              DEMONSTRATION PROJECT ACTIVITIES.

    Section 20102(a) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement 
Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13702(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) to carry out any activity referred to in subsections 
        (b) and (c) of section 2976 of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
        Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797w (b), (c)).''.

SEC. 110. GRANTS TO STUDY PAROLE OR POST-INCARCERATION SUPERVISION 
              VIOLATIONS AND REVOCATIONS.

    (a) Grants Authorized.--From amounts made available to carry out 
this section, the Attorney General may award grants to States to study 
and to improve the collection of data with respect to individuals whose 
parole or post incarceration supervision is revoked and which such 
individuals represent the greatest risk to community safety.
    (b) Application.--As a condition of receiving a grant under this 
section, a State shall--
            (1) certify that the State has, or intends to establish, a 
        program that collects comprehensive and reliable data with 
        respect to individuals described in subsection (a), including 
        data on--
                    (A) the number and type of parole or post 
                incarceration supervision violations that occur with 
                the State;
                    (B) the reasons for parole or post-incarceration 
                supervision revocation;
                    (C) the underlying behavior that led to the 
                revocation; and
                    (D) the term of imprisonment or other penalty that 
                is imposed for the violation; and
            (2) provide the data described in paragraph (1) to the 
        Bureau of Justice Statistics, in a form prescribed by the 
        Bureau. Any statistical analysis of population data pursuant to 
        this section shall be conducted in accordance with the Federal 
        Register Notice dated October 30, 1997, relating to 
        classification standards.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $1,000,000 for each fiscal years 
2007 and 2008.

SEC. 111. IMPROVEMENT OF THE RESIDENTIAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT FOR 
              STATE PRISONERS PROGRAM.

    (a) Definition.--Section 1902 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796ff-1) is amended by--
            (1) redesignating subsections (c) through (f) as 
        subsections (d) through (g), respectively; and
            (2) inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Residential Substance Abuse Treatment.--In this section, the 
term `residential substance abuse treatment'--
            ``(1) means a course of individual and group activities and 
        treatment, lasting at least 6 months, in residential treatment 
        facilities set apart from the general prison population; and
            ``(2) can include the use of pharmacotherapies where 
        appropriate, that may extend beyond the 6-month period.''.
    (b) Requirement for After Care Component.--Subsection (d) of 
section 1902 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 
(42 U.S.C. 3796ff-1), as so redesignated by subsection (a) of this 
section, is amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``Eligibility 
        for Preference With After Care Component'' and inserting 
        ``Requirement for After Care Component'';
            (2) by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:
            ``(1) To be eligible for funding under this part, a State 
        shall ensure that individuals who participate in the substance 
        abuse treatment program established or implemented with 
        assistance provided under this part will be provided with after 
        care services.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) After care services required by this subsection shall 
        be funded by the funding provided in this part.''.

SEC. 112. RESIDENTIAL DRUG ABUSE PROGRAM IN FEDERAL PRISONS.

    Section 3621(e)(5)(A) of title 18, United States Code, is amended 
by striking ``means a course of'' and all that follows through the 
semicolon at the end and inserting the following: ``means a course of 
individual and group activities and treatment, lasting at least 6 
months, in residential treatment facilities set apart from the general 
prison population, which may include the use of pharmacotherapies, 
where appropriate, that may extend beyond the 6-month period;''.

SEC. 113. REMOVAL OF LIMITATION ON AMOUNT OF FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR 
              CORRECTIONS EDUCATION PROGRAMS UNDER THE ADULT EDUCATION 
              AND FAMILY LITERACY ACT.

    (a) In General.--Section 222(a)(1) of the Adult Education and 
Family Literacy Act (20 U.S.C. 9222(a)(1)) is amended by striking ``, 
of which not more than 10 percent of the 82.5 percent shall be 
available to carry out section 225''.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Education shall submit to 
Congress a report--
            (1) on the use of literacy funds to correctional 
        institutions as defined in section 225(d)(2) of the Adult 
        Education and Family Literacy Act (20 U.S.C. 9224); and
            (2) that specifies the amount of literacy funds that are 
        provided to each category of correctional institution in each 
        State, and identify whether funds are being sufficiently 
        allocated among the various types of institutions.

SEC. 114. TECHNICAL AMENDMENT TO DRUG-FREE STUDENT LOANS PROVISION TO 
              ENSURE THAT IT APPLIES ONLY TO OFFENSES COMMITTED WHILE 
              RECEIVING FEDERAL AID.

    Section 484(r)(1) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1091(r)(1)) is amended by striking ``A student'' and all that follows 
through ``table:'' and inserting the following: ``A student who is 
convicted of any offense under any Federal or State law involving the 
possession or sale of a controlled substance for conduct that occurred 
during a period of enrollment for which the student was receiving any 
grant, loan, or work assistance under this title shall not be eligible 
to receive any grant, loan, or work assistance under this title from 
the date of that conviction for the period of time specified in the 
following table:''.

SEC. 115. MENTORING GRANTS TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.

    (a) Authority To Make Grants.--From amounts made available to carry 
out this section, the Attorney General of the United States, in 
collaboration with the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development, shall make grants to nonprofit organizations for 
the purpose of providing mentoring and other transitional services 
essential to reintegrating ex-offenders.
    (b) Use of Funds.--Grant funds awarded under subsection (a) may be 
used for--
            (1) mentoring adult and juvenile offenders during 
        incarceration, through transition back to the community, and 
        post release; and
            (2) transitional services to assist in the reintegration of 
        ex-offenders into the community.
    (c) Application; Priority Consideration.--To be eligible to receive 
a grant under this section, a nonprofit organization shall submit an 
application to the Attorney General based on criteria developed by the 
Attorney General in consultation with the Secretary of Labor and the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Applicants will be given 
priority consideration if the application--
            (1) includes a plan to implement activities that have been 
        demonstrated effective in facilitating the successful reentry 
        of offenders; and
            (2) provides for an independent evaluation that includes, 
        to the maximum extent feasible, random assignment of offenders 
        or ex-offenders to program delivery and control groups.
    (d) Strategic Performance Outcomes.--The Attorney General shall 
require each applicant under this section to identify specific 
performance outcomes related to the long-term goal of stabilizing 
communities by reducing recidivism and re-integrating ex-offenders into 
society.
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Department of Justice to carry out this section 
$25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 and 2008.

SEC. 116. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY TO PLACE PRISONER IN COMMUNITY 
              CORRECTIONS.

    Section 3624(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read 
as follows:
    ``(c) Prerelease Custody.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Bureau of Prisons shall, to the 
        extent practicable, assure that a prisoner serving a term of 
        imprisonment spends 20 percent of the final portion of the 
        term, not to exceed 12 months, to be served under conditions 
        that will afford the prisoner a reasonable opportunity to 
        adjust to and prepare for the prisoner's reentry into the 
        community. Such conditions may include a community correctional 
        facility.
            ``(2) Authority.--This subsection authorizes the Bureau of 
        Prisons to place a prisoner in home confinement for the last 10 
        percent of the term to be served, not to exceed 6 months.
            ``(3) Assistance.--The United States Probation System 
        shall, to the extent practicable, offer assistance to a 
        prisoner during such prerelease custody.
            ``(4) No limitations.--Nothing in this subsection shall be 
        construed to limit or restrict the authority of the Bureau of 
        Prisons granted under section 3621 of this title.''.

SEC. 117. GRANTS TO STATES FOR IMPROVED WORKPLACE AND COMMUNITY 
              TRANSITION TRAINING FOR INCARCERATED YOUTH OFFENDERS.

    Section 821 of the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 (20 U.S.C. 
1151) is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 821. GRANTS TO STATES FOR IMPROVED WORKPLACE AND COMMUNITY 
              TRANSITION TRAINING FOR INCARCERATED YOUTH OFFENDERS.

    ``(a) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term `youth 
offender' means a male or female offender under the age of 35, who is 
incarcerated in a State prison, including a prerelease facility.
    ``(b) Grant Program.--The Secretary of Education (in this section 
referred to as the `Secretary')--
            ``(1) shall establish a program in accordance with this 
        section to provide grants to the State correctional education 
        agencies in the States, from allocations for the States under 
        subsection (h), to assist and encourage youth offenders to 
        acquire functional literacy, life, and job skills, through--
                    ``(A) the pursuit of a postsecondary education 
                certificate, or an associate or bachelor's degree while 
                in prison; and
                    ``(B) employment counseling and other related 
                services which start during incarceration and end not 
                later than 1 year after release from confinement; and
            ``(2) may establish such performance objectives and 
        reporting requirements for State correctional education 
        agencies receiving grants under this section as the Secretary 
        determines are necessary to assess the effectiveness of the 
        program under this section.
    ``(c) Application.--To be eligible for a grant under this section, 
a State correctional education agency shall submit to the Secretary a 
proposal for a youth offender program that--
            ``(1) identifies the scope of the problem, including the 
        number of youth offenders in need of postsecondary education 
        and vocational training;
            ``(2) lists the accredited public or private educational 
        institution or institutions that will provide postsecondary 
        educational services;
            ``(3) lists the cooperating agencies, public and private, 
        or businesses that will provide related services, such as 
        counseling in the areas of career development, substance abuse, 
        health, and parenting skills;
            ``(4) describes specific performance objectives and 
        evaluation methods (in addition to, and consistent with, any 
        objectives established by the Secretary under subsection 
        (b)(2)) that the State correctional education agency will use 
        in carrying out its proposal, including--
                    ``(A) specific and quantified student outcome 
                measures that are referenced to outcomes for non-
                program participants with similar demographic 
                characteristics; and
                    ``(B) measures, consistent with the data elements 
                and definitions described in subsection (d)(1)(A), of--
                            ``(i) program completion, including an 
                        explicit definition of what constitutes a 
                        program completion within the proposal;
                            ``(ii) knowledge and skill attainment, 
                        including specification of instruments that 
                        will measure knowledge and skill attainment;
                            ``(iii) attainment of employment both prior 
                        to and subsequent to release;
                            ``(iv) success in employment indicated by 
                        job retention and advancement; and
                            ``(v) recidivism, including such 
                        subindicators as time before subsequent offense 
                        and severity of offense;
            ``(5) describes how the proposed programs are to be 
        integrated with existing State correctional education programs 
        (such as adult education, graduate education degree programs, 
        and vocational training) and State industry programs;
            ``(6) describes how the proposed programs will have 
        considered or will utilize technology to deliver the services 
        under this section; and
            ``(7) describes how students will be selected so that only 
        youth offenders eligible under subsection (e) will be enrolled 
        in postsecondary programs.
    ``(d) Program Requirements.--Each State correctional education 
agency receiving a grant under this section shall--
            ``(1) annually report to the Secretary regarding--
                    ``(A) the results of the evaluations conducted 
                using data elements and definitions provided by the 
                Secretary for the use of State correctional education 
                programs;
                    ``(B) any objectives or requirements established by 
                the Secretary pursuant to subsection (b)(2); and
                    ``(C) the additional performance objectives and 
                evaluation methods contained in the proposal described 
                in subsection (c)(4), as necessary to document the 
                attainment of project performance objectives; and
            ``(2) expend on each participating eligible student for an 
        academic year, not more than the maximum Federal Pell Grant 
        funded under section 401 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
        for such academic year, which shall be used for--
                    ``(A) tuition, books, and essential materials; and
                    ``(B) related services such as career development, 
                substance abuse counseling, parenting skills training, 
                and health education.
    ``(e) Student Eligibility.--A youth offender shall be eligible for 
participation in a program receiving a grant under this section if the 
youth offender--
            ``(1) is eligible to be released within 5 years (including 
        a youth offender who is eligible for parole within such time); 
        and
            ``(2) is 35 years of age or younger.
    ``(f) Length of Participation.--A State correctional education 
agency receiving a grant under this section shall provide educational 
and related services to each participating youth offender for a period 
not to exceed 5 years, 1 year of which may be devoted to study in a 
graduate education degree program or to remedial education services for 
students who have obtained a secondary school diploma or its recognized 
equivalent. Educational and related services shall start during the 
period of incarceration in prison or prerelease, and the related 
services may continue for not more than 1 year after release from 
confinement.
    ``(g) Education Delivery Systems.--State correctional education 
agencies and cooperating institutions shall, to the extent practicable, 
use high-tech applications in developing programs to meet the 
requirements and goals of this section.
    ``(h) Allocation of Funds.--From the funds appropriated pursuant to 
subsection (i) for each fiscal year, the Secretary shall allot to each 
State an amount that bears the same relationship to such funds as the 
total number of students eligible under subsection (e) in such State 
bears to the total number of such students in all States.
    ``(i) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $30,000,000 for fiscal years 
2007 and 2008.''.

SEC. 118. IMPROVED REENTRY PROCEDURES FOR FEDERAL PRISONERS.

    (a) General Reentry Procedures.--The Department of Justice shall 
take such steps as are necessary to modify existing procedures and 
policies to enhance case planning and to improve the transition of 
persons from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons to the community, 
including placement of such individuals in community corrections 
facilities.
    (b) Procedures Regarding Benefits.--
            (1) In general.--The Bureau of Prisons shall establish 
        reentry planning procedures within the Release Preparation 
        Program that include providing Federal inmates with information 
        in the following areas:
                    (A) Health and nutrition.
                    (B) Employment.
                    (C) Personal finance and consumer skills.
                    (D) Information and community resources.
                    (E) Release requirements and procedures.
                    (F) Personal growth and development.
            (2) Format.--Any written information that the Bureau of 
        Prisons provides to inmates for reentry planning purposes shall 
        use common terminology and language. The Bureau of Prisons 
        shall provide the United States Probation and Pretrial Services 
        System with relevant information on the medical care needs and 
        the mental health treatment needs of releasing inmates. The 
        United States Probation and Pretrial Services System shall take 
        this information into account when developing supervision plans 
        in an effort to address the medical care and mental health care 
        needs of these individuals. The Bureau of Prisons shall provide 
        inmates with a sufficient amount of all necessary medications 
        upon release from custody.

SEC. 119. REAUTHORIZATION OF LEARN AND SERVE AMERICA.

    Section 501(a)(1)(A) of the National and Community Service Act of 
1990 (42 U.S.C. 12681(a)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ``fiscal year 
1994 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 
1995 through 1996'' and inserting ``fiscal year 2007 and each of the 5 
succeeding fiscal years''.

SEC. 120. JOB CORPS.

    Section 161 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 
2901) is amended by striking ``such sums as may be necessary'' and 
inserting ``$1,800,000,000 (of which $300,000,000 shall be designated 
to create additional Job Corps centers, especially in high gang 
activity areas)''.

SEC. 121. WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT YOUTH ACTIVITIES.

    Section 137(a) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 
2872(a)) is amended by striking ``such sums as may be necessary'' and 
inserting ``$1,000,000''.

SEC. 122. EXPANSION AND REAUTHORIZATION OF THE MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR 
              SYSTEM INVOLVED YOUTH.

    (a) Expansion.--Section 261(a) of the Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 5665) is amended by 
inserting at the end the following: ``The Administrator shall expand 
the number of sites receiving such grants from 4 to 12.''.
    (b) Reauthorization.--Section 12213(c) of the Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 5671) is amended by 
striking subsection (c) and inserting the following:
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations for Part E.--There are 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out part E, and authorized to 
remain available until expended, $4,800,000 for fiscal years 2007, 
2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.''.

SEC. 123. STRATEGIC COMMUNITY PLANNING PROGRAM.

    Section 30701 of the Violent Crime Control Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 
13801) is amended by inserting the following:

``SEC. 30701. GRANT AUTHORITY.

    ``(a) Grants.--
            ``(1) In general.--In order to prevent gang activity by 
        juveniles, the Attorney General may award grants on a 
        competitive basis to eligible local entities to pay for the 
        Federal share of assisting eligible communities to develop and 
        carry out programs that target at-risk youth and juvenile 
        offenders aged 11 to 19, who--
                    ``(A) have dropped out of school;
                    ``(B) have come into contact with the juvenile 
                justice system; or
                    ``(C) are at risk of dropping out of school or 
                coming into contact with the juvenile justice system.
            ``(2) Limitation.--No local entity shall receive a grant of 
        less than $250,000 in a fiscal year. Amounts made available 
        through such grants shall remain available until expended.
    ``(b) Program Requirements.--
            ``(1) Programs.--A local entity that receives funds under 
        this section shall develop or expand community programs in 
        eligible communities that are designed to target at-risk youths 
        and juvenile offenders through prevention, early intervention, 
        and graduated sanctions.
            ``(2) Optional activities.--A local entity that receives 
        funds under this section may develop a variety of programs to 
        serve the comprehensive needs of at-risk youth and juvenile 
        offenders, including--
                    ``(A) homework assistance and after-school 
                programs, including educational, social, and athletic 
                activities;
                    ``(B) mentoring programs;
                    ``(C) family counseling; and
                    ``(D) parental training programs.
    ``(c) Eligible Community Identification.--The Attorney General 
through regulation shall define the criteria necessary to qualify as an 
eligible community as defined in subsection (g)(3).
    ``(d) Grant Eligibility.--To be eligible to receive a grant under 
this section, a local entity shall--
            ``(1) identify an eligible community to be assisted;
            ``(2) develop a community planning process that includes--
                    ``(A) parents and family members;
                    ``(B) local school officials;
                    ``(C) teachers employed at schools within the 
                eligible community;
                    ``(D) local public officials;
                    ``(E) law enforcement officers and officials;
                    ``(F) ministers and faith-based organizations;
                    ``(G) public housing authorities;
                    ``(H) public housing resident organization members, 
                where applicable; and
                    ``(I) public and private nonprofit organizations 
                that provide education, child protective services, or 
                other human services to low-income, at-risk youth and 
                juvenile offenders, and their families; and
            ``(3) develop a concentrated strategy for implementation of 
        the community planning process developed under paragraph (2) 
        that targets clusters of at-risk youth and juvenile offenders 
        in the eligible community.
    ``(e) Applications.--
            ``(1) Application required.--To be eligible to receive a 
        grant under this section, a local entity shall submit an 
        application to the Attorney General at such time, in such 
        manner, and accompanied by such information, as the Attorney 
        General may reasonably require, and obtain approval of such 
        application.
            ``(2) Contents of application.--Each application submitted 
        under paragraph (1) shall--
                    ``(A) contain a comprehensive plan for the program 
                that is designed to improve the academic and social 
                development of at-risk youths and juvenile offenders in 
                the eligible community;
                    ``(B) provide evidence of support for accomplishing 
                the objectives of such plan from--
                            ``(i) community leaders;
                            ``(ii) a school district;
                            ``(iii) local officials; and
                            ``(iv) other organizations that the local 
                        entity determines to be appropriate;
                    ``(C) provide an assurance that the local entity 
                will use grant funds received under this subsection to 
                implement the program requirements listed in subsection 
                (b);
                    ``(D) include an estimate of the number of children 
                in the eligible community expected to be served under 
                the program;
                    ``(E) provide an assurance that the local entity 
                shall prepare and submit to the Attorney General an 
                annual report regarding any program conducted under 
                this section; and
                    ``(F) provide an assurance that the local entity 
                will maintain separate accounting records for the 
                program.
            ``(3) Priority.--In awarding grants to carry out programs 
        under this section, the Attorney General shall give priority to 
        local entities which submit applications that demonstrate the 
        greatest effort in generating local support for the programs.
    ``(f) Federal Share.--
            ``(1) Payments.--The Attorney General shall, subject to the 
        availability of appropriations, pay to each local entity having 
        an application approved under subsection (e) the Federal share 
        of the costs of developing and carrying out programs referred 
        to in subsection (b).
            ``(2) Federal share.--The Federal share of such costs shall 
        be 70 percent.
            ``(3) Non-federal share.--The non-Federal share of such 
        costs may be in cash or in kind, fairly evaluated, including 
        personnel, plant, equipment, and services.
    ``(g) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
            ``(1) the term `Attorney General' means the Attorney 
        General of the United States;
            ``(2) the term `local entity' means--
                    ``(A) a local educational agency, or
                    ``(B) a community-based organization as defined in 
                section 1471(3) of the Elementary and Secondary 
                Education Act of 1965;
            ``(3) the term `eligible community' means an area which 
        meets criteria with respect to significant poverty and 
        significant violent crime, and such additional criteria, as the 
        Attorney General may by regulation require.
    ``(h) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated for grants under this section--
            ``(1) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2007;
            ``(2) $11,000,000 for fiscal year 2008;
            ``(3) $12,000,000 for fiscal year 2009;
            ``(4) $13,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and
            ``(5) $14,000,000 for fiscal year 2011.''.

SEC. 124. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE GANG RESISTANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING 
              PROJECTS PROGRAM AND INCREASE FUNDING FOR THE NATIONAL 
              YOUTH GANG SURVEY.

    Section 32401 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act 
of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13921) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking paragraphs (1) through 
        (6) and inserting the following:
                    ``(A) $21,000,000 for fiscal year 2007;
                    ``(B) $21,000,000 for fiscal year 2008;
                    ``(C) $21,000,000 for fiscal year 2009;
                    ``(D) $21,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and
                    ``(E) $21,000,000 for fiscal year 2011;''; and
            (2) adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Use of Funds.--Up to $1,000,000 annually of such funds 
authorized under this Section shall be used to increase the number of 
samples collected by the National Youth Gang Center for its annual 
National Youth Gang Survey.''.

       TITLE II--SUPPRESSION AND COMMUNITY ANTI-GANG INITIATIVES

               Subtitle A--Gang Activity Policing Program

SEC. 201. AUTHORITY TO MAKE GANG ACTIVITY POLICING GRANTS.

    The Attorney General may make grants to States, units of local 
government, Indian tribal governments, other public and private 
entities, and multi-jurisdictional or regional consortia thereof to 
increase police presence, to expand and improve cooperative efforts 
between law enforcement agencies and members of the community to 
address gang activity problems, and otherwise to enhance public safety.

SEC. 202. ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.

    Grants made under this subtitle may include programs, projects, and 
other activities to--
            (1) rehire law enforcement officers who have been laid off 
        as a result of State and local budget reductions for deployment 
        to reduce gang activity;
            (2) hire and train new, additional career law enforcement 
        officers for deployment to reduce gang activity across the 
        Nation;
            (3) procure equipment, technology, or support systems, or 
        pay overtime, to increase the number of officers deployed in 
        gang activity policing;
            (4) award grants to pay for officers hired to perform 
        intelligence in reducing gang activity;
            (5) increase the number of law enforcement officers 
        involved in activities that are focused on interaction with 
        members of the community on proactive gang control and 
        prevention by redeploying officers to such activities;
            (6) establish and implement innovative programs to increase 
        and enhance proactive crime control and gang prevention 
        programs involving law enforcement officers and young persons 
        in the community;
            (7) establish school-based partnerships between local law 
        enforcement agencies and local school systems by using school 
        resource officers who operate in and around elementary and 
        secondary schools to combat gangs;
            (8) develop new technologies, including interoperable 
        communications technologies, modernized criminal record 
        technology, and forensic technology, to assist State and local 
        law enforcement agencies in reducing gang activity and to train 
        law enforcement officers to use such technologies; and
            (9) support the purchase by a law enforcement agency of no 
        more than 1 service weapon per officer, upon hiring for 
        deployment in gang activity policing or, if necessary, upon 
        existing officers' initial redeployment to gang activity 
        policing.

SEC. 203. PREFERENTIAL CONSIDERATION OF APPLICATIONS FOR CERTAIN 
              GRANTS.

    In awarding grants under this subtitle, the Attorney General may 
give preferential consideration, where feasible, to applications--
            (1) for hiring and rehiring additional career law 
        enforcement officers that involve a non-Federal contribution 
        exceeding the 25 percent minimum under this subtitle; and
            (2) that are located in a high intensity interstate gang 
        activity area designated pursuant to section 211.

SEC. 204. UTILIZATION OF COMPONENTS.

    The Attorney General may utilize any component or components of the 
Department of Justice in carrying out this subtitle.

SEC. 205. MINIMUM AMOUNT.

    Unless all applications submitted by any State and grantee within 
the State pursuant to this subtitle have been funded, each qualifying 
State, together with grantees within the State, shall receive in each 
fiscal year pursuant to this subtitle not less than 0.5 percent of the 
total amount appropriated in the fiscal year for grants pursuant to 
that section. In this section, ``qualifying State'' means any State 
which has submitted an application for a grant, or in which an eligible 
entity has submitted an application for a grant, which meets the 
requirements prescribed by the Attorney General and the conditions set 
out in this subtitle.

SEC. 206. MATCHING FUNDS.

    The portion of the costs of a program, project, or activity 
provided by this subtitle may not exceed 75 percent, unless the 
Attorney General waives, wholly or in part, the requirement under this 
section of a non-Federal contribution to the costs of a program, 
project, or activity. In relation to a grant for a period exceeding 1 
year for hiring or rehiring career law enforcement officers, the 
Federal share shall decrease from year to year for up to 5 years, 
looking toward the continuation of the increased hiring level using 
State or local sources of funding following the conclusion of Federal 
support.

SEC. 207. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subtitle 
$700,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2007 through 2011. Any amount 
appropriated under this section shall remain available until expended.

       Subtitle B--High Intensity Interstate Gang Activity Areas

SEC. 211. DESIGNATION OF AND ASSISTANCE FOR ``HIGH INTENSITY'' 
              INTERSTATE GANG ACTIVITY AREAS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section the following definitions shall 
apply:
            (1) Governor.--The term ``Governor'' means a Governor of a 
        State or the Mayor of the District of Columbia.
            (2) High intensity interstate gang activity area.--The term 
        ``high intensity interstate gang activity area'' means an area 
        within a State that is designated as a high intensity 
        interstate gang activity area under subsection (b)(1).
            (3) State.--The term ``State'' means a State of the United 
        States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, 
        territory, or possession of the United States. The term 
        ``State'' shall include an ``Indian tribe'', as defined by 
        section 102 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act 
        of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 479a).
    (b) High Intensity Interstate Gang Activity Areas.--
            (1) Designation.--The Attorney General, after consultation 
        with the Governors of appropriate States, may designate as high 
        intensity interstate gang activity areas, specific areas that 
        are located within 1 or more States. To the extent that the 
        goals of a high intensity interstate gang activity area 
        (HIIGAA) overlap with the goals of a high intensity drug 
        trafficking area (HIDTA), the Attorney General may merge the 2 
        areas to serve as a dual-purpose entity. The Attorney General 
        may not make the final designation of a high intensity 
        interstate gang activity area without first consulting with and 
        receiving comment from local elected officials representing 
        communities within the State of the proposed designation.
            (2) Assistance.--In order to provide Federal assistance to 
        high intensity interstate gang activity areas, the Attorney 
        General shall--
                    (A) establish criminal street gang enforcement 
                teams, consisting of Federal, State, and local law 
                enforcement authorities, for the coordinated 
                investigation, disruption, apprehension, and 
                prosecution of criminal street gangs and offenders in 
                each high intensity interstate gang activity area;
                    (B) direct the reassignment or detailing from any 
                Federal department or agency (subject to the approval 
                of the head of that department or agency, in the case 
                of a department or agency other than the Department of 
                Justice) of personnel to each criminal street gang 
                enforcement team; and
                    (C) provide all necessary funding for the operation 
                of the criminal street gang enforcement team in each 
                high intensity interstate gang activity area.
            (3) Composition of criminal street gang enforcement team.--
        The team established pursuant to paragraph (2)(A) shall consist 
        of agents and officers, where feasible, from--
                    (A) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and 
                Explosives;
                    (B) the Department of Homeland Security;
                    (C) the Department of Housing and Urban 
                Development;
                    (D) the Drug Enforcement Administration;
                    (E) the Internal Revenue Service;
                    (F) the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
                    (G) the United States Marshal's Service;
                    (H) the United States Postal Service;
                    (I) State and local law enforcement; and
                    (J) Federal, State and local prosecutors.
            (4) Criteria for designation.--In considering an area for 
        designation as a high intensity interstate gang activity area 
        under this section, the Attorney General shall consider--
                    (A) the current and predicted levels of gang crime 
                activity in the area;
                    (B) the extent to which violent crime in the area 
                appears to be related to criminal street gang activity, 
                such as drug trafficking, murder, robbery, assaults, 
                carjacking, arson, kidnapping, extortion, and other 
                criminal activity;
                    (C) the extent to which State and local law 
                enforcement agencies have committed resources to--
                            (i) respond to the gang crime problem; and
                            (ii) participate in a gang enforcement 
                        team;
                    (D) the extent to which a significant increase in 
                the allocation of Federal resources would enhance local 
                response to the gang crime activities in the area; and
                    (E) any other criteria that the Attorney General 
                considers to be appropriate.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) In general.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
        $100,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2007 to 2011 to carry 
        out this section.
            (2) Use of funds.--Of amounts made available under 
        paragraph (1) in each fiscal year--
                    (A) 50 percent shall be used to carry out 
                subsection (b)(2); and
                    (B) 50 percent shall be used to make grants 
                available for community-based programs to provide crime 
                prevention, research, and intervention services that 
                are designed for gang members and at-risk youth in 
                areas designated pursuant to this section as high 
                intensity interstate gang activity areas.
            (3) Reporting requirements.--By February 1st of each year, 
        the Attorney General shall provide a report to Congress which 
        describes, for each designated high intensity interstate gang 
        activity area--
                    (A) the specific long-term and short-term goals and 
                objectives;
                    (B) the measurements used to evaluate the 
                performance of the high intensity interstate gang 
                activity area in achieving the long-term and short-term 
                goals;
                    (C) the age, composition, and membership of 
                ``gangs'';
                    (D) the number and nature of crimes committed by 
                ``gangs''; and
                    (E) the definition of the term ``gang'' used to 
                compile this report.

                     Subtitle C--Additional Funding

SEC. 221. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES NEEDED BY THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF 
              INVESTIGATION TO INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE VIOLENT 
              CRIMINAL STREET GANGS.

    (a) Responsibilities of Attorney General.--The Attorney General is 
authorized to require the Federal Bureau of Investigation to--
            (1) increase funding for the Safe Streets Program; and
            (2) support the criminal street gang enforcement teams, 
        established under section 211(b), in designated high intensity 
        interstate gang activity areas.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) In general.--In addition to amounts otherwise 
        authorized, there are authorized to be appropriated to the 
        Attorney General $5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2007 
        through 2011 to carry out the Safe Streets Program.
            (2) Availability.--Any amounts appropriated pursuant to 
        paragraph (1) shall remain available until expended.

SEC. 222. GRANTS TO PROSECUTORS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT TO COMBAT VIOLENT 
              CRIME AND TO PROTECT WITNESSES AND VICTIMS OF CRIMES.

    (a) In General.--Section 31702 of the Violent Crime Control and Law 
Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13862) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) to hire additional prosecutors to--
                    ``(A) allow more cases to be prosecuted; and
                    ``(B) reduce backlogs;
            ``(6) to fund technology, equipment, and training for 
        prosecutors and law enforcement in order to increase accurate 
        identification of gang members and violent offenders, and to 
        maintain databases with such information to facilitate 
        coordination among law enforcement and prosecutors; and
            ``(7) to create and expand witness and victim protection 
        programs to prevent threats, intimidation, and retaliation 
        against victims of, and witnesses to, violent crimes.''.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 31707 of the Violent 
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13867) is 
amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 31707. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    ``(a) In General.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
$20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2007 through 2011 to carry out 
this subtitle.
    ``(b) Use of Funds.--Of the amounts made available under subsection 
(a), in each fiscal year 60 percent shall be used to carry out section 
31702(7) to create and expand witness and victim protection programs to 
prevent threats, intimidation, and retaliation against victims of, and 
witnesses to, violent crimes.''.

SEC. 223. ENHANCEMENT OF PROJECT SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS INITIATIVE TO 
              IMPROVE ENFORCEMENT OF CRIMINAL LAWS AGAINST VIOLENT 
              GANGS.

    (a) In General.--While maintaining the focus of Project Safe 
Neighborhoods as a comprehensive, strategic approach to reducing gun 
violence in America, the Attorney General is authorized to expand the 
Project Safe Neighborhoods program to require each United States 
attorney to--
            (1) identify, investigate, and prosecute significant 
        criminal street gangs operating within their district;
            (2) coordinate the identification, investigation, and 
        prosecution of criminal street gangs among Federal, State, and 
        local law enforcement agencies; and
            (3) coordinate and establish criminal street gang 
        enforcement teams, established under section 110(b), in high 
        intensity interstate gang activity areas within a United States 
        attorney's district.
    (b) Additional Staff for Project Safe Neighborhoods.--
            (1) In general.--The Attorney General may hire Assistant 
        United States attorneys, non-attorney coordinators, or 
        paralegals to carry out the provisions of this section.
            (2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are authorized 
        to be appropriated $7,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 2007 
        through 2011 to carry out this section.

             TITLE III--PUNISHMENT AND IMPROVED CRIME DATA

SEC. 301. CRIMINAL STREET GANGS.

    (a) Criminal Street Gang Prosecutions.--Section 521 of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 521. Criminal street gang prosecutions
    ``(a) Definitions.--As used in this chapter:
            ``(1) Criminal street gang.--The term `criminal street 
        gang' means a formal or informal group, club, organization, or 
        association of 3 or more individuals, who individually, 
        jointly, or in combination, have committed or attempted to 
        commit for the direct or indirect benefit of, at the direction 
        of, in furtherance of, or in association with the group, club 
        organization, or association at least 2 separate acts, each of 
        which is a predicate gang crime, 1 of which occurs after the 
        date of enactment of the Gang Prevention and Effective 
        Deterrence Act of 2004 and the last of which occurs not later 
        than 10 years (excluding any period of imprisonment) after the 
        commission of a prior predicate gang crime, and 1 predicate 
        gang crime is a crime of violence or involves manufacturing, 
        importing, distributing, possessing with intent to distribute, 
        or otherwise dealing in a controlled substance or listed 
        chemicals (as those terms are defined in section 102 of the 
        Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)) provided that the 
        activities of the criminal street gang affect interstate or 
        foreign commerce, or involve the use of any facility of, or 
        travel in, interstate or foreign commerce.
            ``(2) Predicate gang crime.--The term `predicate gang 
        crime' means--
                    ``(A) any act, threat, conspiracy, or attempted 
                act, which is chargeable under Federal or State law and 
                punishable by imprisonment for more than 1 year 
                involving--
                            ``(i) murder;
                            ``(ii) manslaughter;
                            ``(iii) maiming;
                            ``(iv) assault with a dangerous weapon;
                            ``(v) assault resulting in serious bodily 
                        injury;
                            ``(vi) gambling;
                            ``(vii) kidnapping;
                            ``(viii) robbery;
                            ``(ix) extortion;
                            ``(x) arson;
                            ``(xi) obstruction of justice;
                            ``(xii) tampering with or retaliating 
                        against a witness, victim, or informant;
                            ``(xiii) burglary;
                            ``(xiv) sexual assault (which means any 
                        offense that involves conduct that would 
                        violate chapter 109A if the conduct occurred in 
                        the special maritime and territorial 
                        jurisdiction);
                            ``(xv) carjacking; or
                            ``(xvi) manufacturing, importing, 
                        distributing, possessing with intent to 
                        distribute, or otherwise dealing in a 
                        controlled substance or listed chemicals (as 
                        those terms are defined in section 102 of the 
                        Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802));
                    ``(B) any act punishable by imprisonment for more 
                than 1 year under--
                            ``(i) section 844 (relating to explosive 
                        materials);
                            ``(ii) section 922(g)(1) (where the 
                        underlying conviction is a violent felony (as 
                        defined in section 924(e)(2)(B) of this title) 
                        or is a serious drug offense (as defined in 
                        section 924(e)(2)(A) of this title));
                            ``(iii) subsection (a)(2), (b), (c), (g), 
                        or (h) of section 924 (relating to receipt, 
                        possession, and transfer of firearms);
                            ``(iv) sections 1028 and 1029 (relating to 
                        fraud and related activity in connection with 
                        identification documents or access devices);
                            ``(v) section 1503 (relating to obstruction 
                        of justice);
                            ``(vi) section 1510 (relating to 
                        obstruction of criminal investigations);
                            ``(vii) section 1512 (relating to tampering 
                        with a witness, victim, or informant), or 
                        section 1513 (relating to retaliating against a 
                        witness, victim, or informant);
                            ``(viii) section 1708 (relating to theft of 
                        stolen mail matter);
                            ``(ix) section 1951 (relating to 
                        interference with commerce, robbery or 
                        extortion);
                            ``(x) section 1952 (relating to 
                        racketeering);
                            ``(xi) section 1956 (relating to the 
                        laundering of monetary instruments);
                            ``(xii) section 1957 (relating to engaging 
                        in monetary transactions in property derived 
                        from specified unlawful activity);
                            ``(xiii) section 1958 (relating to use of 
                        interstate commerce facilities in the 
                        commission of murder-for-hire); or
                            ``(xiv) sections 2312 through 2315 
                        (relating to interstate transportation of 
                        stolen motor vehicles or stolen property); or
                    ``(C) any act involving the Immigration and 
                Nationality Act, section 274 (relating to bringing in 
                and harboring certain aliens), section 277 (relating to 
                aiding or assisting certain aliens to enter the United 
                States), or section 278 (relating to importation of 
                alien for immoral purpose).
            ``(3) State.--The term `State' means each of the several 
        States of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any 
        commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.
    ``(b) Participation in Criminal Street Gangs.--It shall be 
unlawful--
            ``(1) to commit, or conspire or attempt to commit a 
        predicate crime--
                    ``(A) in furtherance or in aid of the activities of 
                a criminal street gang;
                    ``(B) for the purpose of gaining entrance to or 
                maintaining or increasing position in such a gang; or
                    ``(C) for the direct or indirect benefit of the 
                criminal street gang, or in association with the 
                criminal street gang; or
            ``(2) to employ, use, command, counsel, persuade, induce, 
        entice, or coerce any individual to commit, cause to commit, or 
        facilitate the commission of, a predicate gang crime--
                    ``(A) in furtherance or in aid of the activities of 
                a criminal street gang;
                    ``(B) for the purpose of gaining entrance to or 
                maintaining or increasing position in such a gang; or
                    ``(C) for the direct or indirect benefit or the 
                criminal street gang, or in association with the 
                criminal street gang.
    ``(c) Penalties.--Whoever violates paragraph (1) or (2) of 
subsection (b)--
            ``(1) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not 
        more than 30 years, or both; and
            ``(2) if the violation is based on a predicate gang crime 
        for which the maximum penalty includes life imprisonment, shall 
        be fined under this title, imprisoned for any term of years or 
        for life, or both.
    ``(d) Forfeiture.--
            ``(1) In general.--The court, in imposing sentence on a 
        person who is convicted of an offense under this section, shall 
        order that the defendant forfeit to the United States--
                    ``(A) any property, real or personal, constituting 
                or traceable to gross proceeds obtained from such 
                offense; and
                    ``(B) any property used or intended to be used, in 
                any manner or part, to commit or to facilitate the 
                commission of such violation.
            ``(2) Criminal procedures.--The procedures set forth in 
        section 413 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 853), 
        other than subsection (d) of that section, and in rule 32.2 of 
        the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall apply to all 
        stages of a criminal forfeiture proceeding under this section.
            ``(3) Civil procedures.--Property subject to forfeiture 
        under paragraph (1) may be forfeited in a civil case pursuant 
        to the procedures set forth in chapter 46 of this title.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 26 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows:

``521. Criminal street gang prosecutions.''.

SEC. 302. VIOLENT CRIMES IN FURTHERANCE OR IN AID OF CRIMINAL STREET 
              GANGS.

    (a) Violent Crimes and Criminal Street Gang Recruitment.--Chapter 
26 of title 18, United States Code, as amended by section 301, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 523. Violent crimes in furtherance or in aid of a criminal 
              street gang
    ``(a) Any person who, for the purpose of gaining entrance to or 
maintaining or increasing position in, or in furtherance or in aid of, 
or for the direct or indirect benefit of, or in association with a 
criminal street gang, or as consideration for the receipt of, or as 
consideration for a promise or agreement to pay, anything of pecuniary 
value to or from a criminal street gang, murders, kidnaps, sexually 
assaults (which means any offense that involved conduct that would 
violate chapter 109A if the conduct occurred in the special maritime 
and territorial jurisdiction), maims, assaults with a dangerous weapon, 
commits assault resulting in serious bodily injury upon, commits any 
other crime of violence or threatens to commit a crime of violence 
against any individual, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be 
punished, in addition and consecutive to the punishment provided for 
any other violation of this chapter--
            ``(1) for murder, by imprisonment for any term of years or 
        for life, a fine under this title, or both;
            ``(2) for kidnapping or sexual assault, by imprisonment for 
        any term of years or for life, a fine under this title, or 
        both;
            ``(3) for maiming, by imprisonment for any term of years or 
        for life, a fine under this title, or both;
            ``(4) for assault with a dangerous weapon or assault 
        resulting in serious bodily injury, by imprisonment for not 
        more than 30 years, a fine under this title, or both;
            ``(5) for any other crime of violence, by imprisonment for 
        not more than 20 years, a fine under this title, or both;
            ``(6) for threatening to commit a crime of violence 
        specified in paragraphs (1) through (4), by imprisonment for 
        not more than 10 years, a fine under this title, or both;
            ``(7) for attempting or conspiring to commit murder, 
        kidnapping, maiming, or sexual assault, by imprisonment for not 
        more than 30 years, a fine under this title, or both; and
            ``(8) for attempting or conspiring to commit a crime 
        involving assault with a dangerous weapon or assault resulting 
        in serious bodily injury, by imprisonment for not more than 20 
        years, a fine under this title, or both.
    ``(b) Definition.--In this section, the term `criminal street gang' 
has the same meaning as in section 521 of this title.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 26 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following:

``522. Recruitment of persons to participate in a criminal street gang.
``523. Violent crimes in furtherance of a criminal street gang.''.

SEC. 303. INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN TRAVEL OR TRANSPORTATION IN AID OF 
              RACKETEERING ENTERPRISES AND CRIMINAL STREET GANGS.

    Section 1952 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``and thereafter performs or 
                attempts to perform'' and inserting ``and thereafter 
                performs, or attempts or conspires to perform''; and
                    (B) by striking ``5 years'' and inserting ``10 
                years'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as subsections 
        (c) and (d), respectively;
            (3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses the 
mail or any facility in interstate or foreign commerce, with the intent 
to kill, assault, bribe, force, intimidate, or threaten any person, to 
delay or influence the testimony of, or prevent from testifying, a 
witness in a State criminal proceeding and thereafter performs, or 
attempts or conspires to perform, an act described in this subsection, 
shall--
            ``(1) be fined under this title, imprisoned for any term of 
        years, or both; and
            ``(2) if death results, imprisoned for any term of years or 
        for life.''; and
            (4) in subsection (c)(2), as redesignated under 
        subparagraph (B), by inserting ``intimidation of, or 
        retaliation against, a witness, victim, juror, or informant,'' 
        after ``extortion, bribery,''.

SEC. 304. AMENDMENTS RELATING TO VIOLENT CRIME IN AREAS OF EXCLUSIVE 
              FEDERAL JURISDICTION.

    (a) Assault Within Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction of United 
States.--Section 113(a)(3) of title 18, United States Code, is amended 
by striking ``with intent to do bodily harm, and without just cause or 
excuse,''.
    (b) Manslaughter.--Section 1112(b) of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended by--
            (1) striking ``ten years'' and inserting ``20 years''; and
            (2) striking ``six years'' and inserting ``10 years''.
    (c) Offenses Committed Within Indian Country.--Section 1153(a) of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting ``an offense for 
which the maximum statutory term of imprisonment under section 1363 is 
greater than 5 years,'' after ``a felony under chapter 109A,''.
    (d) Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations.--Section 
1961(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``, or would have 
        been so chargeable if the act or threat (other than lawful 
        forms of gambling) had not been committed in Indian country (as 
        defined in section 1151) or in any other area of exclusive 
        Federal jurisdiction,'' after ``chargeable under State law''; 
        and
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``section 1123 
        (relating to multiple interstate murder),'' after ``section 
        1084 (relating to the transmission of wagering information),''.
    (e) Carjacking.--Section 2119 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ``, with the intent to cause death or serious 
bodily harm''.
    (f) Clarification of Illegal Gun Transfers To Commit Drug 
Trafficking Crime or Crimes of Violence.--Section 924(h) of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
    ``(h) Illegal Transfers.--Whoever knowingly transfers a firearm, 
knowing that the firearm will be used to commit, or possessed in 
furtherance of, a crime of violence (as defined in subsection (c)(3)) 
or drug trafficking crime (as defined in subsection (c)(2)), shall be 
imprisoned for not more than 10 years, fined under this title, or 
both.''.
    (g) Amendment of Special Sentencing Provision.--Section 3582(d) of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``chapter 95 (racketeering) or 96 
        (racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations) of this 
        title'' and inserting ``section 521 (criminal street gangs) or 
        522 (violent crimes in furtherance or in aid of criminal street 
        gangs), in chapter 95 (racketeering) or 96 (racketeer 
        influenced and corrupt organizations),''; and
            (2) by inserting ``a criminal street gang or'' before ``an 
        illegal enterprise''.
    (h) Conforming Amendment Relating to Orders for Restitution.--
Section 3663(c)(4) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``chapter 46 or chapter 96 of this title'' and inserting 
``section 521, under chapter 46 or 96,''.
    (i) Special Provision for Indian Country.--No person subject to the 
criminal jurisdiction of an Indian tribal government shall be subject 
to section 3559(e) of title 18, United States Code, for any offense for 
which Federal jurisdiction is solely predicated on Indian country (as 
defined in section 1151 of such title 18) and which occurs within the 
boundaries of such Indian country unless the governing body of such 
Indian tribe elects to subject the persons under the criminal 
jurisdiction of the tribe to section 3559(e) of such title 18.

SEC. 305. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR USE OF INTERSTATE COMMERCE FACILITIES 
              IN THE COMMISSION OF MURDER-FOR-HIRE AND OTHER FELONY 
              CRIMES OF VIOLENCE.

    Section 1958 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking the header and inserting the following:
``Sec. 1958. Use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of 
              murder-for-hire and other felony crimes of violence'';
            (2) in subsection (a), by striking ``Whoever'' through 
        ``conspires to do so'' and inserting the following:
    ``(a) Any person who travels in or causes another (including the 
intended victim) to travel in interstate or foreign commerce, or uses 
or causes another (including the intended victim) to use the mail or 
any facility in interstate or foreign commerce, with intent that a 
murder or other felony crime of violence be committed in violation of 
the laws of any State or the United States as consideration for the 
receipt of, or as consideration for a promise or agreement to pay, 
anything of pecuniary value, or who conspires to do so--''.
            (3) striking ``ten'' and inserting ``20''; and
            (4) by striking ``twenty'' and inserting ``30''.

SEC. 306. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR VIOLENT CRIMES IN AID OF RACKETEERING 
              ACTIVITY.

    Section 1959(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Whoever'' through ``punished'' and 
        inserting the following:
    ``(a) Any person who, as consideration for the receipt of, or as 
consideration for a promise or agreement to pay, anything of pecuniary 
value from an enterprise engaged in racketeering activity, or for the 
purpose of gaining entrance to or maintaining or increasing position in 
an enterprise engaged in racketeering activity, or in furtherance or in 
aid of an enterprise engaged in racketeering activity, murders, 
kidnaps, sexually assaults (which means any offense that involved 
conduct that would violate chapter 109A if the conduct occurred in the 
special maritime and territorial jurisdiction), maims, assaults with a 
dangerous weapon, commits assault resulting in serious bodily injury 
upon, or threatens to commit a crime of violence against any individual 
in violation of the laws of any State or the United States, or attempts 
or conspires to do so, shall be punished, in addition and consecutive 
to the punishment provided for any other violation of this chapter--''; 
and
            (2) by striking paragraphs (2) through (6) and inserting 
        the following:
            ``(2) for kidnapping or sexual assault, by imprisonment for 
        any term of years or for life, a fine under this title, or 
        both;
            ``(3) for maiming, by imprisonment for any term of years or 
        for life, a fine under this title, or both;
            ``(4) for assault with a dangerous weapon or assault 
        resulting in serious bodily injury, by imprisonment for not 
        more than 30 years, a fine under this title, or both;
            ``(5) for threatening to commit a crime of violence, by 
        imprisonment for not more than 10 years, a fine under this 
        title, or both;
            ``(6) for attempting or conspiring to commit murder, 
        kidnapping, maiming, or sexual assault, by imprisonment for not 
        more than 30 years, a fine under this title, or both; and
            ``(7) for attempting or conspiring to commit assault with a 
        dangerous weapon or assault which would result in serious 
        bodily injury, by imprisonment for not more than 20 years, a 
        fine under this title, or both.''.

SEC. 307. VIOLENT CRIMES COMMITTED DURING AND IN RELATION TO A DRUG 
              TRAFFICKING CRIME.

    (a) In General.--Part D of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
841 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``violent crimes committed during and in relation to a drug trafficking 
                                 crime

    ``Sec. 424.  (a) In General.--Any person who, during and in 
relation to any drug trafficking crime, murders, kidnaps, sexually 
assaults (which means any offense that involved conduct that would 
violate chapter 109A if the conduct occurred in the special maritime 
and territorial jurisdiction), maims, assaults with a dangerous weapon, 
commits assault resulting in serious bodily injury upon, commits any 
other crime of violence or threatens to commit a crime of violence 
against, any individual, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be 
punished, in addition and consecutive to the punishment provided for 
the drug trafficking crime--
            ``(1) in the case of murder, by imprisonment for any term 
        of years or for life, a fine under title 18, United States 
        Code, or both;
            ``(2) in the case of kidnapping or sexual assault by 
        imprisonment for any term of years or for life, a fine under 
        such title 18, or both;
            ``(3) in the case of maiming, by imprisonment for any term 
        of years or for life, a fine under such title 18, or both;
            ``(4) in the case of assault with a dangerous weapon or 
        assault resulting in serious bodily injury, by imprisonment not 
        more than 30 years, a fine under such title 18, or both;
            ``(5) in the case of committing any other crime of 
        violence, by imprisonment for not more than 20 years, a fine 
        under this title, or both;
            ``(6) in the case of threatening to commit a crime of 
        violence specified in paragraphs (1) through (4), by 
        imprisonment for not more than 10 years, a fine under such 
        title 18, or both;
            ``(7) in the case of attempting or conspiring to commit 
        murder, kidnapping, maiming, or sexual assault, by imprisonment 
        for not more than 30 years, a fine under such title 18, or 
        both; and
            ``(8) in the case of attempting or conspiring to commit a 
        crime involving assault with a dangerous weapon or assault 
        resulting in serious bodily injury, by imprisonment for not 
        more than 20 years, a fine under such title 18, or both.
    ``(b) Venue.--A prosecution for a violation of this section may be 
brought in--
            ``(1) the judicial district in which the murder or other 
        crime of violence occurred; or
            ``(2) any judicial district in which the drug trafficking 
        crime may be prosecuted.
    ``(c) Definitions.--As used in this section--
            ``(1) the term `crime of violence' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 16 of title 18, United States Code; and
            ``(2) the term `drug trafficking crime' has the meaning 
        given that term in section 924(c)(2) of title 18, United States 
        Code.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents for the Controlled 
Substances Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to 
section 423, the following:

``Sec. 424. Violent crimes committed during and in relation to a drug 
                            trafficking crime.''.

SEC. 308. EXPANSION OF REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION AGAINST RELEASE OF 
              PERSONS CHARGED WITH FIREARMS OFFENSES.

    Section 3142 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (e), in the matter following paragraph 
        (3)--
                    (A) by inserting ``an offense under section 
                922(g)(1) where the underlying conviction is a serious 
                drug offense as defined in section 924(e)(2)(A) of 
                title 18, United States Code, for which a period of not 
                more than 10 years has elapsed since the date of the 
                conviction or the release of the person from 
                imprisonment, whichever is later, or is a serious 
                violent felony as defined in section 3559(c)(2)(F) of 
                title 18, United States Code,'' after ``that the person 
                committed''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``or'' before ``the Maritime'';
            (2) in subsection (f)(1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``or'' at the 
                end; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) an offense under section 922(g); or''; and
            (3) in subsection (g), by amending paragraph (1) to read as 
        follows:
            ``(1) the nature and circumstances of the offense charged, 
        including whether the offense is a crime of violence, or 
        involves a drug, firearm, explosive, or destructive devise;''.

SEC. 309. STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR VIOLENT CRIME.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 214 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 3297. Violent crime offenses
    ``Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, no person shall be 
prosecuted, tried, or punished for any noncapital felony, crime of 
violence (as defined in section 16), including any racketeering 
activity or gang crime which involves any violent crime, unless the 
indictment is found or the information is instituted by the later of--
            ``(1) 10 years after the date on which the alleged 
        violation occurred;
            ``(2) 10 years after the date on which the continuing 
        offense was completed; or
            ``(3) 8 years after the date on which the alleged violation 
        was first discovered.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 214 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following:

``3296. Violent crime offenses.''.

SEC. 310. PREDICATE CRIMES FOR AUTHORIZATION OF INTERCEPTION OF WIRE, 
              ORAL, AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS.

    Section 2516(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (q), by striking ``or'.'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (r) as paragraph (u); and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (q) the following:
            ``(r) any violation of section 424 of the Controlled 
        Substances Act (relating to murder and other violent crimes in 
        furtherance of a drug trafficking crime);
            ``(s) any violation of 1123 of title 18, United States Code 
        (relating to multiple interstate murder);
            ``(t) any violation of section 521, 522, or 523 (relating 
        to criminal street gangs); or''.

SEC. 311. CLARIFICATION TO HEARSAY EXCEPTION FOR FORFEITURE BY 
              WRONGDOING.

    Rule 804(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Evidence is amended to read 
as follows:
            ``(6) Forfeiture by wrongdoing. A statement offered against 
        a party that has engaged, acquiesced, or conspired, in 
        wrongdoing that was intended to, and did, procure the 
        unavailability of the declarant as a witness.''.

SEC. 312. CLARIFICATION OF VENUE FOR RETALIATION AGAINST A WITNESS.

    Section 1513 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by--
            (1) redesignating subsection (e) beginning with ``Whoever 
        conspires'' as subsection (f); and
            (2) adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) A prosecution under this section may be brought in the 
district in which the official proceeding (whether or not pending, 
about to be instituted or was completed) was intended to be affected or 
was completed, or in which the conduct constituting the alleged offense 
occurred.''.

SEC. 313. AMENDMENT OF SENTENCING GUIDELINES RELATING TO CERTAIN GANG 
              AND VIOLENT CRIMES.

    (a) Directive to the United States Sentencing Commission.--Pursuant 
to its authority under section 994(p) of title 28, United States Code, 
and in accordance with this section, the United States Sentencing 
Commission shall review and, if appropriate, amend its guidelines and 
its policy statements to conform to the provisions of title I and this 
title.
    (b) Requirements.--In carrying out this section, the Sentencing 
Commission shall--
            (1) establish new guidelines and policy statements, as 
        warranted, in order to implement new or revised criminal 
        offenses created under this title;
            (2) ensure that the sentencing guidelines and policy 
        statements reflect the serious nature of the offenses and the 
        penalties set forth in this title, the growing incidence of 
        serious gang and violent crimes, and the need to modify the 
        sentencing guidelines and policy statements to deter, prevent, 
        and punish such offenses;
            (3) consider the extent to which the guidelines and policy 
        statements adequately address--
                    (A) whether the guideline offense levels and 
                enhancements for gang and violent crimes--
                            (i) are sufficient to deter and punish such 
                        offenses; and
                            (ii) are adequate in view of the statutory 
                        increases in penalties contained in the Act; 
                        and
                    (B) whether any existing or new specific offense 
                characteristics should be added to reflect 
                congressional intent to increase gang and violent crime 
                penalties, punish offenders, and deter gang and violent 
                crime;
            (4) assure reasonable consistency with other relevant 
        directives and with other sentencing guidelines;
            (5) account for any additional aggravating or mitigating 
        circumstances that might justify exceptions to the generally 
        applicable sentencing ranges;
            (6) make any necessary conforming changes to the sentencing 
        guidelines; and
            (7) assure that the guidelines adequately meet the purposes 
        of sentencing under section 3553(a)(2) of title 18, United 
        States Code.

SEC. 314. SOLICITATION OR RECRUITMENT OF PERSONS IN CRIMINAL STREET 
              GANG ACTIVITY.

    Chapter 26 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
``Sec. 522. Recruitment of persons to participate in a criminal street 
              gang
    ``(a) Prohibited Acts.--It shall be unlawful for any person to 
recruit, employ, solicit, induce, command, or cause another person to 
be or remain as a member of a criminal street gang, or conspire to do 
so, with the intent to cause that person to participate in an offense 
described in section 521(a).
    ``(b) Definition.--In this section:
            ``(1) Criminal street gang.--The term `criminal street 
        gang' shall have the same meaning as in section 521(a) of this 
        title.
            ``(2) Minor.--The term `minor' means a person who is less 
        than 18 years of age.
    ``(c) Penalties.--Any person who violates subsection (a) shall--
            ``(1) be imprisoned not more than 5 years, fined under this 
        title, or both; or
            ``(2) if the person recruited, solicited, induced, 
        commanded, or caused to participate or remain in a criminal 
        street gang is under the age of 18--
                    ``(A) be imprisoned for not more than 10 years, 
                fined under this title, or both; and
                    ``(B) at the discretion of the sentencing judge, be 
                liable for any costs incurred by the Federal 
                Government, or by any State or local government, for 
                housing, maintaining, and treating the person until the 
                person attains the age of 18 years.''.

SEC. 315. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR CRIMINAL USE OF FIREARMS IN CRIMES OF 
              VIOLENCE AND DRUG TRAFFICKING.

    (a) In General.--Section 924(c)(1)(A) of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``shall'' and inserting ``or conspires to 
        commit any of the above acts, shall, for each instance in which 
        the firearm is used, carried, or possessed'';
            (2) in clause (i), by striking ``5 years'' and inserting 
        ``7 years''; and
            (3) by striking clause (ii).
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 924 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c), by striking paragraph (4); and
            (2) by striking subsection (o).

SEC. 316. POSSESSION OF FIREARMS BY DANGEROUS FELONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 924(e) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting after ``violates section 
        922(g) of this title'' and before ``and has three previous 
        convictions'' the following: ``and has previously been 
        convicted by any court referred to in section 922(g)(1) for a 
        violent felony or a serious drug offense shall, in the case of 
        1 such prior conviction, where a period of not more than 10 
        years has elapsed since the date of the conviction or release 
        of the person from imprisonment for that conviction, be subject 
        to imprisonment for not more than 15 years a fine under this 
        title, or both; in the case of 2 such prior convictions, 
        committed on occasions different from one another, and where a 
        period of not more than 10 years has elapsed since the date of 
        the conviction or release of the person from imprisonment for 
        that conviction, be subject to imprisonment for not more than 
        20 years a fine under this title, or both; and in the case of 
        an individual who''; and
            (2) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
    ``(2) As used in this subsection--
            ``(A) the term `serious drug offense' means--
                    ``(i) an offense under the Controlled Substances 
                Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), the Controlled Substances 
                Import and Export Act (21 U.S.C. 951 et seq.), or the 
                Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. App. 1901 
                et seq.), punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment 
                of not less than 10 years; or
                    ``(ii) an offense under State law, involving 
                manufacturing, distributing, or possessing with intent 
                to manufacture or distribute, a controlled substance 
                (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances 
                Act (21 U.S.C. 802)), punishable by a maximum term of 
                imprisonment of not less than 10 years;
            ``(B) the term `violent felony' means any crime punishable 
        by a term of imprisonment exceeding 1 year, or any act of 
        juvenile delinquency involving the use or carrying of a 
        firearm, knife, or destructive device that would be punishable 
        by a maximum term of imprisonment for such term if committed by 
        an adult, that--
                    ``(i) has, as an element of the crime or act, the 
                use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force 
                against the person of another; or
                    ``(ii) is burglary, arson, or extortion, involves 
                the use of explosives, or otherwise involves conduct 
                that presents a serious potential risk of physical 
                injury to another; and
            ``(C) the term `conviction' includes a finding that a 
        person has committed an act of juvenile delinquency involving a 
        violent felony.''.
    (b) Amendment to Sentencing Guidelines.--Pursuant to its authority 
under section 994(p) of title 28, United States Code, the United States 
Sentencing Commission shall amend the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to 
provide for an appropriate increase in the offense level for violations 
of section 922(g) of title 18, United States Code, in accordance with 
section 924(e) of such title 18, as amended by subsection (a).
    (c) Conforming Amendment.--The matter before paragraph (1) in 
section 922(d) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
``, transfer,'' after ``sell''.

SEC. 317. STANDARDIZATION OF CRIME REPORTING.

    (a) Expanding Uniform Crime Reporting.--Section 7332(c) of the 
Uniform Federal Crime Reporting Act of 1988 (28 U.S.C. 534 note) is 
amended by--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by--
                    (A) inserting ``along with all municipality police 
                departments'' after ``which routinely investigate 
                complaints of criminal activity,''; and
                    (B) adding at the end the following: ``The Attorney 
                General shall create a separate category in the Uniform 
                Crime Reports to distinguish crimes committed by 
                juveniles.''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``, officials of 
        municipalities,'' after ``State governments''.
    (b) Consolidating and Standardizing All Crime Data.--Section 150008 
of the Violent Crime Control and law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 
14062) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by--
                    (A) inserting ``, consolidate, and standardize 
                all'' after ``strategy to coordinate'';
                    (B) inserting ``and crime (that would be included 
                in the Uniform Crime Reports) related'' after ``gang-
                related'';
                    (C) striking ``and'' after ``shall acquire'' and 
                inserting ``, consolidate, and standardize all'' after 
                ``shall acquire, collect''; and
                    (D) inserting ``and other crimes that would be 
                included in the Uniform Crime Reports'' after 
                ``incidents of gang violence'';
            (2) in subsection (c), by--
                    (A) inserting ``the efforts and strategy of the 
                Department of Justice in consolidating and 
                standardizing data on all crime and'' after ``prepare a 
                report on'';
                    (B) striking ``violence'' after ``national gang'' 
                and inserting ``offenses''; and
                    (C) striking ``1996'' after ``January 1,'' and 
                inserting ``2008''; and
            (3) in subsection (d), by--
                    (A) striking ``$1,000,000'' after ``carry out this 
                section'' and substituting ``$2,000,000''; and
                    (B) striking ``1996'' after ``fiscal year,'' and 
                inserting ``2007''.

SEC. 318. PROVIDING ADDITIONAL FORENSIC EXAMINERS.

    Section 816 of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing 
Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 
2001 (28 U.S.C. 509) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraph (5) as (6) and 
                inserting after paragraph (4) the following:
            ``(5) to hire additional forensic examiners to help with 
        forensic work and to fight gang activity; and''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking paragraph (1) and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(1) Authorization.--There is hereby authorized to be 
        appropriated in each fiscal year $55,000,000 for purposes of 
        carrying out this section.''.

SEC. 319. STUDY ON EXPANDING FEDERAL AUTHORITY FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 9 months after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States 
shall submit to the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives a report on the costs and benefits associated 
with expanding Federal authority to prosecute offenders under the age 
of 18 who are gang members who commit criminal offenses.
    (b) Contents.--The report submitted under subsection (a) shall--
            (1) examine the ability of the judicial systems of the 
        States to respond effectively to juveniles who are members of 
        ``criminal street gangs'', as defined under section 521 of 
        title 18, United States Code;
            (2) examine the extent to which offenders who are 16 and 17 
        years old are members of criminal street gangs, and are accused 
        of committing violent crimes and prosecuted in the adult 
        criminal justice systems of the individual States;
            (3) determine the percentage of crimes committed by members 
        of ``criminal street gangs'' that are committed by offenders 
        who are 16 and 17 years old;
            (4) examine the extent to which United States attorneys 
        currently bring criminal indictments and prosecute offenders 
        under the age of 18, and the extent to which United States 
        attorneys' offices include prosecutors with experience 
        prosecuting juveniles for adult criminal violations;
            (5) examine the extent to which the Bureau of Prisons 
        houses offenders under the age of 18, and has the ability and 
        experience to meet the needs of young offenders;
            (6) estimate the cost to the Federal Government of 
        prosecuting and incarcerating 16 and 17 year olds who are 
        members of criminal street gangs and are accused of violent 
        crimes; and
            (7) detail any benefits for Federal prosecutions that would 
        be realized by expanding Federal authority to bring charges 
        against 16 and 17 year olds who are members of criminal street 
        gangs and are accused of violent crimes.
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