[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
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[H.R. 1064 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1064

   To provide for evidence-based and promising practices related to 
 juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and 
 intervention to help build individual, family, and community strength 
  and resiliency to ensure that youth lead productive, safe, healthy, 
                   gang-free, and law-abiding lives.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2009

     Mr. Scott of Virginia (for himself, Mr. Castle, Mr. Larson of 
Connecticut, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Connolly 
  of Virginia, Mr. Cao, Ms. Corrine Brown of Florida, Ms. Watson, Mr. 
 Weiner, Mr. Sestak, Mr. Kennedy, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. 
   McGovern, Mr. Cummings, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Markey of 
 Massachusetts, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. Fattah, Mr. Nadler of New 
 York, Ms. Kilpatrick of Michigan, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Honda, Ms. Sutton, 
 Mr. Clay, Ms. Waters, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Norton, Ms. Jackson-
 Lee of Texas, Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California, Ms. Hirono, Mrs. Capps, 
  Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. McDermott, Ms. Woolsey, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. 
   Cohen, Mr. Meeks of New York, Mr. Ellison, Ms. Loretta Sanchez of 
 California, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mr. 
Sarbanes, Mr. Tierney, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Brady of 
 Pennsylvania, Mr. Davis of Alabama, Mr. Faleomavaega, Ms. Clarke, Mr. 
  Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Rush, Mr. 
 Payne, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Stark, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Al Green 
 of Texas, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Scott of Georgia, Mr. Cleaver, 
 Mr. Hinojosa, Mr. Watt, Mr. Filner, Mr. Miller of North Carolina, Mr. 
Ruppersberger, and Mr. Rangel) introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the 
 Committees on Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Financial 
Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for evidence-based and promising practices related to 
 juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and 
 intervention to help build individual, family, and community strength 
  and resiliency to ensure that youth lead productive, safe, healthy, 
                   gang-free, and law-abiding lives.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Youth Prison Reduction through 
Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education Act'' or 
the ``Youth PROMISE Act''.

SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. Definitions.
Sec. 4. Findings.
  TITLE I--FEDERAL COORDINATION OF LOCAL AND TRIBAL JUVENILE JUSTICE 
                        INFORMATION AND EFFORTS

Sec. 101. PROMISE Advisory Panel.
Sec. 102. Geographic assessment of resource allocation.
                        TITLE II--PROMISE GRANTS

Sec. 200. Purposes.
           Subtitle A--PROMISE Assessment and Planning Grants

Sec. 201. PROMISE Assessment and Planning grants authorized.
Sec. 202. PROMISE Coordinating Councils.
Sec. 203. Needs and strengths assessment.
Sec. 204. PROMISE Plan components.
Sec. 205. Authorization of appropriations.
               Subtitle B--PROMISE Implementation Grants

Sec. 211. PROMISE Implementation grants authorized.
Sec. 212. PROMISE Implementation grant application requirements.
Sec. 213. Grant award guidelines.
Sec. 214. Reports.
Sec. 215. Authorization of appropriations.
              Subtitle C--General PROMISE Grant Provisions

Sec. 221. Non-supplanting clause.
Sec. 222. Grant application review panel.
Sec. 223. Evaluation of PROMISE grant programs.
                  TITLE III--PROMISE RESEARCH CENTERS

Sec. 301. Establishment of the National Research Center for Proven 
                            Juvenile Justice Practices.
Sec. 302. Grants for Regional Research Proven Practices Partnerships.
               TITLE IV--YOUTH-ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES

Sec. 401. Purpose.
Sec. 402. Definitions.
Sec. 403. Grants to State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies 
                            to hire and train youth-oriented policing 
                            officers.
Sec. 404. Establishment of Center for Youth-oriented Policing.
Sec. 405. Authorization of appropriations.
       TITLE V--ENHANCED FEDERAL SUPPORT OF LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT

          Subtitle A--Comprehensive Gang Prevention and Relief

Sec. 501. Short title.
Sec. 502. Findings.
Sec. 503. Designation as a comprehensive gang prevention and relief 
                            area.
Sec. 504. Interagency Gang Prevention Task Force.
Sec. 505. Authorization of appropriations.
             Subtitle B--Community and Police Collaboration

Sec. 511. Gang prevention grants.
                Subtitle C--City Youth Violence Recovery

Sec. 521. Findings.
Sec. 522. Grants to prevent or alleviate the effects of youth violence.
                        TITLE VI--PRECAUTION ACT

Sec. 601. Short title.
Sec. 602. Purposes.
Sec. 603. Definitions.
Sec. 604. National Commission on Public Safety Through Crime and 
                            Delinquency Prevention.
Sec. 605. Innovative crime and delinquency prevention and intervention 
                            strategy grants.
         TITLE VII--ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS TO JUVENILE JUSTICE

Sec. 701. Youth Victim and Witness Assistance Program.
        ``Sec. 31707. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 702. Expansion and reauthorization of the Mentoring Initiative for 
                            system-involved youth.
Sec. 703. Study on adolescent development and sentences in the Federal 
                            system.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
        Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
        Prevention.
            (2) Community.--The term ``community'' means a unit of 
        local government or an Indian Tribe, or part of such a unit or 
        Tribe, as determined by such a unit or Tribe for the purpose of 
        applying for a grant under this Act.
            (3) Designated geographic area.--The term ``designated 
        geographic area'' means a 5-digit postal ZIP Code assigned to a 
        geographic area by the United States Postal Service.
            (4) Evidence-based.--The term ``evidence-based'', when used 
        with respect to a practice relating to juvenile delinquency and 
        criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention, 
        means a practice (including a service, program, or strategy) 
        that has statistically significant juvenile delinquency and 
        criminal street gang activity reduction outcomes when evaluated 
        by--
                    (A) an experimental trial, in which participants 
                are randomly assigned to participate in the practice 
                that is the subject of the trial; or
                    (B) a quasi-experimental trial, in which the 
                outcomes for participants are compared with outcomes 
                for a control group that is made up of individuals who 
                are similar to such participants.
            (5) Intervention.--The term ``intervention'' means the 
        provision of programs and services that are supported by 
        research, are evidence-based or promising practices, and are 
        provided to youth who are involved in, or who are identified by 
        evidence-based risk assessment methods as being at high risk of 
        continued involvement in, juvenile delinquency or criminal 
        street gangs, as a result of indications that demonstrate 
        involvement with problems such as truancy, substance abuse, 
        mental health treatment needs, or siblings who have had 
        involvement with juvenile or criminal justice systems.
            (6) Juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity 
        prevention.--The term ``juvenile delinquency and criminal 
        street gang activity prevention'' means the provision of 
        programs and resources to children and families who have not 
        yet had substantial contact with criminal justice or juvenile 
        justice systems, that--
                    (A) are designed to reduce potential juvenile 
                delinquency and criminal street gang activity risks; 
                and
                    (B) are evidence-based or promising educational, 
                health, mental health, school-based, community-based, 
                faith-based, parenting, job training, social 
                opportunities and experiences, or other programs, for 
                youth and their families, that have been demonstrated 
                to be effective in reducing juvenile delinquency and 
                criminal street gang activity risks.
            (7) Promising.--The term ``promising'', when used with 
        respect to a practice relating to juvenile delinquency and 
        criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention, 
        means a practice that is not evidence-based, but--
                    (A) that has outcomes from an evaluation that 
                demonstrate that such practice reduces juvenile 
                delinquency and criminal street gang activity; and
                    (B) about which a study is being conducted to 
                determine if such practice is evidence-based.
            (8) Youth.--The term ``youth'' means--
                    (A) an individual who is 18 years of age or 
                younger; or
                    (B) in any State in which the maximum age at which 
                the juvenile justice system of such State has 
                jurisdiction over individuals exceeds 18 years of age, 
                an individual who is such maximum age or younger.

SEC. 4. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds as follows:
            (1) Youth gang crime has taken a toll on a number of urban 
        communities, and senseless acts of gang-related violence have 
        imposed economic, social, and human costs.
            (2) The use of a wide range of evidence-based and promising 
        programs, integrated into a youth-oriented community system of 
        care, has been demonstrated to reduce youth violence, 
        delinquency, and crime risks, as well as criminal justice, 
        public assistance, victim assistance, and other costs.
            (3) Coordinated efforts of stakeholders in the juvenile 
        justice system in a local community, together with other 
        organizations and community members concerned with the safety 
        and welfare of children, have a strong record of demonstrated 
        success in reducing the impact of youth and gang-related crime 
        and violence, as demonstrated in Boston, Massachusetts, 
        Chicago, Illinois, Richmond, Virginia, Los Angeles, California, 
        and other communities.
            (4) Investment in prevention and intervention programs for 
        children and youth, including quality early childhood programs, 
        comprehensive evidence-based school, after school, and summer 
        school programs, mentoring programs, mental health and 
        treatment programs, evidence-based job training programs, and 
        alternative intervention programs, has been shown to lead to 
        decreased youth arrests, decreased delinquency, lower 
        recidivism, and greater financial savings from an educational, 
        economic, social, and criminal justice perspective.
            (5) Criminal justice costs have become burdensome in many 
        States and cities, requiring reductions in vital educational, 
        social, welfare, mental health, and related services.
            (6) Targeting interventions at special youth risk groups 
        and focusing upon relatively low-cost interventions increases 
        the probability of fiscal benefit.
            (7) Savings achieved through early intervention and 
        prevention are significant, especially when non-criminal 
        justice social, educational, mental health, and economic 
        outcomes are considered.
            (8) Evidence-based intervention treatment facilities have 
        been shown to reduce youth delinquency and to be cost-
        effective.
            (9) The prevention of child abuse and neglect can help stop 
        a cycle of violence and save up to $5.00 for every $1.00 
        invested in preventing such abuse and neglect.
            (10) Quality early childhood education programs have been 
        demonstrated to help children start school ready to learn and 
        to reduce delinquency and criminal street gang activity risks.
            (11) Evidence-based mentoring programs have been shown to 
        prevent youth drug abuse and violence.
            (12) Evidence-based school-based comprehensive 
        instructional programs that pair youth with responsible adult 
        mentors have been shown to have a strong impact upon 
        delinquency prevention.
            (13) After-school programs that connect children to caring 
        adults and that provide constructive activities during the peak 
        hours of juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang 
        activity, between 3:00 and 6:00 in the afternoon, have been 
        shown to reduce delinquency and the attendant costs imposed on 
        the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
            (14) States with higher levels of educational attainment 
        have been shown to have crime rates lower than the national 
        average. Researchers have found that a 5 percent increase in 
        male high school graduation rates would produce an annual 
        savings of almost $5,000,000,000 in crime-related expenses.
            (15) Therapeutic programs that engage and motivate high-
        risk youth and their families to change behaviors that often 
        result in criminal activity have been shown to significantly 
        reduce recidivism among juvenile offenders, and significantly 
        reduce the attendant costs of crime and delinquency imposed 
        upon the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
            (16) Comprehensive programs that target kids who are 
        already serious juvenile offenders by addressing the multiple 
        factors in peer, school, neighborhood, and family environments 
        known to be related to delinquency can reduce recidivism among 
        juvenile offenders and save the public significant economic 
        costs.
            (17) There are many alternatives to incarceration of youth 
        that have been proven to be more effective in reducing crime 
        and violence at the National, State, local, and tribal levels, 
        and the failure to provide for such effective alternatives is a 
        pervasive problem that leads to increased youth, and later 
        adult, crime and violence.
            (18) Drug- and alcohol-dependent youth, and youth dually 
        diagnosed with addiction and mental health disorders, are more 
        likely to become involved with the juvenile justice system than 
        youth without such risk factors, absent appropriate prevention 
        and intervention services.
            (19) Research funded by the Department of Justice indicates 
        that gang-membership is short-lived among adolescents. With 
        very few youth remaining gang-involved throughout their 
        adolescent years, ongoing opportunities for intervention exist.
            (20) Excessively punitive juvenile justice policies, 
        including over-reliance on incarceration and confinement of 
        youth, particularly in the early stages of delinquent behavior 
        and for non-violent delinquent behavior, have been shown to 
        increase long-term crime risks.
            (21) Children of color are over-represented relative to the 
        general population at every stage of the juvenile justice 
        system.
            (22) The rise in homicides in several cities in recent 
        years followed declines in Federal funding provided for law 
        enforcement, educational, health and mental health, social 
        services, and other support to localities for youth, their 
        families, and other community-oriented programs and approaches.
            (23) Direct expenditures for jails and prisons, 
        correctional personnel, prosecution, and law enforcement 
        strategies that lead to increased incarceration have been 
        steadily increasing. In fiscal year 2005, Federal, State, and 
        local governments spent an estimated $204,000,000,000 for law 
        enforcement, incarceration, corrections, judicial, and 
        attendant criminal justice expenses, a 5.5 percent increase 
        over the previous year.

  TITLE I--FEDERAL COORDINATION OF LOCAL AND TRIBAL JUVENILE JUSTICE 
                        INFORMATION AND EFFORTS

SEC. 101. PROMISE ADVISORY PANEL.

    (a) Organization of State Advisory Group Member Representatives.--
Section 223(f) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act 
of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5633(f)) is amended--
            (1) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
            ``(1) Organization of state advisory group member 
        representatives.--The Administrator shall provide technical and 
        financial assistance to a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization 
        that is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue 
        Code of 1986, to assist such organization in carrying out the 
        functions specified in paragraph (2). To receive such 
        assistance, an organization shall--
                    ``(A) be governed by individuals who--
                            ``(i) have been appointed by a chief 
                        executive of a State to serve as a State 
                        advisory group member under subsection (a)(3); 
                        and
                            ``(ii) are elected to serve as a governing 
                        officer of such organization by a majority of 
                        the Chairs (or Chair-designees) of all such 
                        State advisory groups;
                    ``(B) include member representatives from a 
                majority of such State advisory groups, who shall be 
                representative of regionally and demographically 
                diverse States and jurisdictions; and
                    ``(C) annually seek appointments by the chief 
                executive of each State of one State advisory group 
                member and one alternate State advisory group member 
                from each such State to implement the advisory 
                functions specified in subparagraphs (D) and (E) of 
                paragraph (2), including serving on the PROMISE 
                Advisory Panel, and make a record of any such 
                appointments available to the public.''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by amending subparagraph (D) to read 
        as follows:
                    ``(D) advising the Administrator with respect to 
                particular functions or aspects of the work of the 
                Office, and appointing a representative, diverse group 
                of members of such organization under paragraph (1) to 
                serve as an advisory panel of State juvenile justice 
                advisors (referred to as the `PROMISE Advisory Panel') 
                to carry out the functions specified in subsection (g); 
                and''.
    (b) PROMISE Advisory Panel.--Section 223 of the Juvenile Justice 
and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5633) is further 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(g) PROMISE Advisory Panel.--
            ``(1) Functions.--The PROMISE Advisory Panel required under 
        subsection (f)(2)(D) shall--
                    ``(A) assess successful evidence-based and 
                promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and 
                criminal street gang activity prevention and 
                intervention carried out by PROMISE Coordinating 
                Councils under such Act;
                    ``(B) provide the Administrator with a list of 
                individuals who have experience in administering or 
                evaluating practices that serve youth involved in, or 
                at risk of involvement in, juvenile delinquency and 
                criminal street gang activity, from which the 
                Administrator shall select individuals who shall--
                            ``(i) provide to the Administrator peer 
                        reviews of applications submitted by units of 
                        local government and Indian tribes pursuant to 
                        title II of such Act, to ensure that such 
                        applications demonstrate a clear plan to--
                                    ``(I) serve youth as part of an 
                                entire family unit; and
                                    ``(II) coordinate the delivery of 
                                service to youth among agencies; and
                            ``(ii) advise the Administrator with 
                        respect to the award and allocation of PROMISE 
                        Planning grants to local and tribal governments 
                        that develop PROMISE Coordinating Councils, and 
                        of PROMISE Implementation grants to such 
                        PROMISE Coordinating Councils, pursuant to 
                        title II of such Act;
                    ``(C) develop performance standards to be used to 
                evaluate programs and activities carried out with 
                grants under title II of the Youth PROMISE Act, 
                including the evaluation of changes achieved as a 
                result of such programs and activities related to 
                decreases in juvenile delinquency and criminal street 
                gang activity, including--
                            ``(i) prevention of involvement by at-risk 
                        youth in juvenile delinquency or criminal 
                        street gang activity;
                            ``(ii) diversion of youth with a high risk 
                        of continuing involvement in juvenile 
                        delinquency or criminal street gang activity; 
                        and
                            ``(iii) financial savings from deferred or 
                        eliminated costs, or other benefits, as a 
                        result of such programs and activities, and the 
                        reinvestment by the unit or Tribe of any such 
                        savings; and
                    ``(D) provide the Center for Youth-oriented 
                Policing with a list of individuals the Panel 
                recommends for membership on the Youth-oriented 
                Policing Services Advisory Board, pursuant to section 
                403(c) of the Youth PROMISE Act.
            ``(2) Annual report.--Not later than 18 months after the 
        date of the enactment of the Youth PROMISE Act, and annually 
        thereafter, the PROMISE Advisory Panel shall prepare a report 
        containing the findings and determinations under paragraph 
        (1)(A) and shall submit such report to Congress, the President, 
        the Attorney General, and the chief executive and chief law 
        enforcement officer of each State, unit of local government, 
        and Indian Tribe.''.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 299(a)(1) of the 
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 
5671(a)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
        this title--
                    ``(A) $6,800,000 for fiscal year 2010;
                    ``(B) $7,800,000 for fiscal year 2011;
                    ``(C) $8,800,000 for fiscal year 2012;
                    ``(D) $11,000,000 for fiscal year 2013; and
                    ``(E) $13,600,000 for fiscal year 2014.''.

SEC. 102. GEOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION.

    (a) Grant for Collection of Data To Determine Need.--Subject to the 
availability of appropriations, the Administrator shall award a grant, 
on a competitive basis, to an organization to--
            (1) collect and analyze data related to the existing 
        juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity 
        prevention and intervention needs and resources in each 
        designated geographic area;
            (2) use the data collected and analyzed under paragraph (1) 
        to compile a list of designated geographic areas that are in 
        need of resources to carry out juvenile delinquency and 
        criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention;
            (3) use the data collected and analyzed under paragraph (1) 
        to rank such areas in descending order by the amount of need 
        for resources to carry out juvenile delinquency and criminal 
        street gang activity prevention and intervention, ranking the 
        area with the greatest need for such resources highest; and
            (4) periodically update the list under paragraph (2) and 
        the rankings under paragraph (3) as the Administrator 
        determines to be appropriate.
    (b) Data Sources.--In compiling such list and determining such 
rankings, the organization shall collect and analyze data relating to 
juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and 
intervention--
            (1) using the geographic information system and web-based 
        mapping application known as the Socioeconomic Mapping and 
        Resource Topography (SMART) system;
            (2) from the Department of Health and Human Services, the 
        Department of Labor, the Department of Housing and Urban 
        Development, and the Department of Education; and
            (3) from the annual KIDS Count Data Book and other data 
        made available by the KIDS Count initiative of the Annie E. 
        Casey Foundation.
    (c) Use of Data by the Administrator.--The list and rankings 
required by this section shall be provided to the Administrator to be 
used to provide funds under this Act in the most strategic and 
effective manner to ensure that resources and services are provided to 
youth in the communities with the greatest need for such resources and 
services.
    (d) Limitation on Use of Collected Data.--The information collected 
and analyzed under this section may not be used for any purpose other 
than to carry out the purposes of this Act. Such information may not be 
used for any purpose related to the investigation or prosecution of any 
person, or for profiling of individuals based on race, ethnicity, 
socio-economic status, or any other characteristic.
    (e) Authorization and Limitation of Appropriations.--Of the amount 
appropriated for fiscal year 2010 to carry out this section and 
subtitle A of title II of this Act (as authorized under section 205), 
not more than one percent of such amount, or $1,000,000, whichever is 
less, shall be available to carry out this section.

                        TITLE II--PROMISE GRANTS

SEC. 200. PURPOSES.

    The purposes of the grant programs established under this title are 
to--
            (1) enable local and tribal communities to assess the unmet 
        needs of youth who are involved in, or are at risk of 
        involvement in, juvenile delinquency or criminal street gangs;
            (2) develop plans appropriate for a community to address 
        those unmet needs with juvenile delinquency and gang prevention 
        and intervention practices; and
            (3) implement and evaluate such plans in a manner 
        consistent with this Act.

           Subtitle A--PROMISE Assessment and Planning Grants

SEC. 201. PROMISE ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING GRANTS AUTHORIZED.

    (a) Grants Authorized.--The Administrator is authorized to award 
grants to units of local government and Indian Tribes to assist PROMISE 
Coordinating Councils with planning and assessing evidence-based and 
promising practices relating to juvenile delinquency and criminal 
street gang activity prevention and intervention, especially for youth 
who are involved in, or who are at risk of involvement in, juvenile 
delinquency and criminal street gang activity. Such PROMISE 
Coordinating Councils shall--
            (1) conduct an objective needs and strengths assessment in 
        accordance with section 203; and
            (2) develop a PROMISE Plan in accordance with section 204, 
        based on the assessment conducted in accordance with section 
        203.
    (b) Grant Duration, Amount, and Allocation.--
            (1) Duration.--A grant awarded under this section shall be 
        for a period not to exceed one year.
            (2) Maximum grant amount.--A grant awarded under this 
        section shall not exceed $300,000.
    (c) Allocation.--
            (1) Minimum allocation.--Subject to the availability of 
        appropriations, the Administrator shall ensure that the total 
        funds allocated under this section to units of local 
        governments and Indian tribes in a State shall not be less than 
        $1,000,000.
            (2) Ratable reduction.--If the amount made available for 
        grants under this section for any fiscal year is less than the 
        amount required to provide the minimum allocation of funds 
        under paragraph (1) to units of local government and Indian 
        tribes in each State, then the amount of such minimum 
        allocation shall be ratably reduced.

SEC. 202. PROMISE COORDINATING COUNCILS.

    To be eligible to receive a grant under this subtitle, a unit of 
local government or an Indian Tribe shall establish a PROMISE 
Coordinating Council for each community of such unit or Tribe, 
respectively, for which such unit or Tribe is applying for a grant 
under this subtitle. Each such community shall include one or more 
designated geographic areas identified on the list required under 
section 102(a)(2). The members of such a PROMISE Coordinating Council 
shall be representatives of public and private sector entities and 
individuals that--
            (1) shall include, to the extent possible, at least one 
        representative from each of the following:
                    (A) the local chief executive's office;
                    (B) a local educational agency;
                    (C) a local health agency or provider;
                    (D) a local mental health agency or provider, 
                unless the representative under subparagraph (C) also 
                meets the requirements of this subparagraph;
                    (E) a local public housing agency;
                    (F) a local law enforcement agency;
                    (G) a local child welfare agency;
                    (H) a local juvenile court;
                    (I) a local juvenile prosecutor's office;
                    (J) a private juvenile residential care entity;
                    (K) a local juvenile public defender's office;
                    (L) a State juvenile correctional entity;
                    (M) a local business community representative; and
                    (N) a local faith-based community representative;
            (2) shall include two representatives from each of the 
        following:
                    (A) parents who have minor children, and who have 
                an interest in the local juvenile or criminal justice 
                systems;
                    (B) youth between the ages of 15 and 24 who reside 
                in the jurisdiction of the unit or Tribe; and
                    (C) members from nonprofit community-based 
                organizations that provide effective delinquency 
                prevention and intervention to youth in the 
                jurisdiction of the unit or Tribe; and
            (3) may include other members, as the unit or Tribe 
        determines to be appropriate.

SEC. 203. NEEDS AND STRENGTHS ASSESSMENT.

    (a) Assessment.--Each PROMISE Coordinating Council receiving funds 
from a unit of local government or Indian tribe under this subtitle 
shall conduct an objective strengths and needs assessment of the 
resources of the community for which such PROMISE Coordinating Council 
was established, to identify the unmet needs of youth in the community 
with respect to evidence-based and promising practices related to 
juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and 
intervention. The PROMISE Coordinating Council shall consult with a 
research partner receiving a grant under section 302 for assistance 
with such assessment. Such assessment shall include, with respect to 
the community for which such PROMISE Coordinating Council was 
established--
            (1) the number of youth who are at-risk of involvement in 
        juvenile delinquency or street gang activity;
            (2) the number of youth who are involved in juvenile 
        delinquency or criminal street gang activity, including the 
        number of such youth who are at high-risk of continued 
        involvement;
            (3) youth unemployment rates during the summer;
            (4) the number of individuals on public financial 
        assistance (including a breakdown of the numbers of men, women, 
        and children on such assistance), the estimated number of youth 
        who are chronically truant, and the number of youth who have 
        dropped out of school in the previous year; and
            (5) for the year before such assessment, the estimated 
        total amount expended (by the community and other entities) for 
        the incarceration of offenders who were convicted or 
        adjudicated delinquent for an offense that was committed in 
        such community, including amounts expended for the 
        incarceration of offenders in prisons, jails, and juvenile 
        facilities that are located in the United States but are not 
        located in such community;
            (6) a comparison of the amount under paragraph (5) with an 
        estimation of the amount that would be expended for the 
        incarceration of offenders described in such paragraph if the 
        number of offenders described in such paragraph was equal to 
        the national average incarceration rate per 100,000 population; 
        and
            (7) a description of evidence-based and promising practices 
        related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang 
        activity prevention available for youth in the community, 
        including school-based programs, after school programs 
        (particularly programs that have activities available for youth 
        between 3:00 and 6:00 in the afternoon), weekend activities and 
        programs, youth mentoring programs, faith and community-based 
        programs, summer activities, and summer jobs, if any; and
            (8) a description of evidence-based and promising 
        intervention practices available for youth in the community.
    (b) Limitation on Use of Assessment Information.--Information 
gathered pursuant to this section may be used for the sole purpose of 
developing a PROMISE Plan in accordance with this subtitle.

SEC. 204. PROMISE PLAN COMPONENTS.

    (a) In General.--Each PROMISE Coordinating Council receiving funds 
from a unit of local government or Indian tribe under this subtitle 
shall develop a PROMISE Plan to provide for the coordination of, and, 
as appropriate, to support the delivery of, evidence-based and 
promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street 
gang activity prevention and intervention to youth and families who 
reside in the community for which such PROMISE Coordinating Council was 
established. Such a PROMISE Plan shall--
            (1) include the strategy by which the PROMISE Coordinating 
        Council plans to prioritize and allocate resources and services 
        toward the unmet needs of youth in the community, consistent 
        with the needs and available resources of communities with the 
        greatest need for assistance, as determined pursuant to section 
        102;
            (2) include a combination of evidence-based and promising 
        prevention and intervention practices that are responsive to 
        the needs of the community;
            (3) take into account the cultural and linguistic needs of 
        the community; and
            (4) use approaches that have been shown to be effective at 
        reducing the rates of juvenile delinquency and criminal street 
        gang activity in communities.
    (b) Mandatory Components.--Each PROMISE Plan shall--
            (1) include a plan to connect youth identified in 
        paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 203(a) to evidence-based and 
        promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and 
        criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention;
            (2) identify the amount or percentage of local funds that 
        are available to the PROMISE Coordinating Council to carry out 
        the PROMISE Plan;
            (3) provide strategies to improve indigent defense delivery 
        systems, with particular attention given to groups of children 
        who are disproportionately represented in the State delinquency 
        system and Federal criminal justice system, as compared to the 
        representation of such groups in the general population of the 
        State;
            (4) provide for training (which complies with the American 
        Bar Association Juvenile Justice Standards for the 
        representation and care of youth in the juvenile justice 
        system) of prosecutors, defenders, probation officers, judges 
        and other court personnel related to issues concerning the 
        developmental needs, challenges, and potential of youth in the 
        juvenile justice system, (including training related to 
        adolescent development and mental health issues, and the 
        expected impact of evidence-based practices and cost reduction 
        strategies);
            (5) ensure that the number of youth involved in the 
        juvenile delinquency and criminal justice systems does not 
        increase as a result of the activities undertaken with the 
        funds provided under this subtitle;
            (6) describe the coordinated strategy that will be used by 
        the PROMISE Coordinating Council to provide at-risk youth with 
        evidenced-based and promising practices related to juvenile 
        delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and 
        intervention;
            (7) propose the performance evaluation process to be used 
        to carry out section 211(d), which shall include performance 
        measures to assess efforts to address the unmet needs of youth 
        in the community with evidence-based and promising practices 
        related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang 
        activity prevention and intervention; and
            (8) identify the research partner the PROMISE Coordinating 
        Council will use to obtain information on evidenced-based and 
        promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and 
        criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention, and 
        for the evaluation under section 211(d) of the results of the 
        activities carried out with funds under this subtitle.
    (c) Voluntary Components.--In addition to the components under 
subsection (b), a PROMISE Plan may include evidence-based or promising 
practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang 
activity prevention and intervention in the following categories:
            (1) Early childhood development services (such as pre-natal 
        and neo-natal health services), early childhood prevention, 
        voluntary home visiting programs, nurse-family partnership 
        programs, parenting and healthy relationship skills training, 
        child abuse prevention programs, Early Head Start, and Head 
        Start.
            (2) Child protection and safety services (such as foster 
        care and adoption assistance programs), family stabilization 
        programs, child welfare services, and family violence 
        intervention programs.
            (3) Youth and adolescent development services, including 
        job training and apprenticeship programs, job placement and 
        retention training, education and after school programs (such 
        as school programs with shared governance by students, 
        teachers, and parents, and activities for youth between the 
        hours of 3:00 and 6:00 in the afternoon), mentoring programs, 
        conflict resolution skills training, sports, arts, life skills, 
        employment and recreation programs, summer jobs, and summer 
        recreation programs, and alternative school resources for youth 
        who have dropped out of school or demonstrate chronic truancy.
            (4) Heath and mental health services, including cognitive 
        behavioral therapy, play therapy, and peer mentoring and 
        counseling.
            (5) Substance abuse counseling and treatment services, 
        including harm-reduction strategies.
            (6) Emergency, transitional, and permanent housing 
        assistance (such as safe shelter and housing for runaway and 
        homeless youth).
            (7) Targeted gang prevention, intervention, and exit 
        services such as tattoo removal, successful models of anti-gang 
        crime outreach programs (such as ``street worker'' programs), 
        and other criminal street gang truce or peacemaking activities.
            (8) Training and education programs for pregnant teens and 
        teen parents.
            (9) Alternatives to detention and confinement programs 
        (such as mandated participation in community service, 
        restitution, counseling, and intensive individual and family 
        therapeutic approaches).
            (10) Pre-release, post-release, and reentry services to 
        assist detained and incarcerated youth with transitioning back 
        into and reentering the community.

SEC. 205. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Subject to the limitation under section 102(e), there are 
authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2010, $300,000,000 to 
carry out this subtitle and section 102.

               Subtitle B--PROMISE Implementation Grants

SEC. 211. PROMISE IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS AUTHORIZED.

    (a) PROMISE Implementation Grants Authorized.--The Administrator of 
the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is authorized 
to award grants to units of local government and Indian Tribes to 
assist PROMISE Coordinating Councils with implementing PROMISE Plans 
(developed pursuant to subtitle A).
    (b) Grant Duration and Amount.--
            (1) Duration.--A grant awarded under this section shall be 
        for a four-year period.
            (2) Maximum grant amount.--A grant awarded under this 
        section shall not be for more than $10,000,000 per year for 
        each year of the grant period.
    (c) Non-Federal Funds Required.--For each fiscal year during the 
four-year grant period for a grant under this subtitle, each unit of 
local government or Indian Tribe receiving such a grant for a PROMISE 
Coordinating Council shall provide, from non-Federal funds, in cash or 
in kind, 25 percent of the costs of the activities carried out with 
such grant.
    (d) Evaluation.--Of any funds provided to a unit of local 
government or an Indian Tribe for a grant under this subtitle, not more 
than $100,000 shall be used to provide a contract to a competitively 
selected organization to assess the progress of the unit or Tribe in 
addressing the unmet needs of youth in the community, in accordance 
with the performance measures under section 204(b)(7).

SEC. 212. PROMISE IMPLEMENTATION GRANT APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Application Required.--To be eligible to receive a PROMISE 
Implementation grant under this subtitle, a unit of local government or 
Indian Tribe that received a PROMISE Assessment and Planning grant 
under subtitle A shall submit an application to the Administrator of 
the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention not later 
than one year after the date such unit of local government or Indian 
Tribe was awarded such grant under subtitle A, in such manner, and 
accompanied by such information, as the Administrator, after 
consultation with the organization under section 223(f)(1) of the 
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 
5633(f)(1)), may require.
    (b) Contents of Application.--Each application submitted under 
subsection (a) shall--
            (1) identify potential savings from criminal justice costs, 
        public assistance costs, and other costs avoided by utilizing 
        evidence-based and promising practices related to juvenile 
        delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and 
        intervention;
            (2) document--
                    (A) investment in evidence-based and promising 
                practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal 
                street gang activity prevention and intervention to be 
                provided by the unit of local government or Indian 
                Tribe;
                    (B) the activities to be undertaken with the grants 
                funds;
                    (C) any expected efficiencies in the juvenile 
                justice or other local systems to be attained as a 
                result of implementation of the programs funded by the 
                grant; and
                    (D) outcomes from such activities, in terms of the 
                expected numbers related to reduced criminal activity;
            (3) describe how savings sustained from investment in 
        prevention and intervention practices will be reinvested in the 
        continuing implementation of the PROMISE Plan; and
            (4) provide an assurance that the local fiscal contribution 
        with respect to evidence-based and promising practices related 
        to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity 
        prevention and intervention in the community for which the 
        PROMISE Coordinating Council was established for each year of 
        the grant period will not be less than the local fiscal 
        contribution with respect to such practices in the community 
        for the year preceding the first year of the grant period.

SEC. 213. GRANT AWARD GUIDELINES.

    (a) Selection and Distribution.--Grants awarded under this subtitle 
shall be awarded on a competitive basis. The Administrator shall--
            (1) take such steps as may be necessary to ensure that 
        grants are awarded to units of local governments and Indian 
        Tribes in areas with the highest concentrations of youth who 
        are--
                    (A) at-risk of involvement in juvenile delinquency 
                or criminal street gang activity; and
                    (B) involved in juvenile delinquency or street gang 
                activity and who are at high-risk of continued 
                involvement; and
            (2) give consideration to the need for grants to be awarded 
        to units of local governments and Indian Tribes in each region 
        of the United States, and among urban, suburban, and rural 
        areas.
    (b) Extension of Grant Award.--The Administrator may extend the 
grant period under section 211(b)(1) for a PROMISE Implementation grant 
to a unit of local government or an Indian Tribe, in accordance with 
regulations issued by the Administrator.
    (c) Renewal of Grant Award.--Subject to the availability of 
appropriations, the Administrator may renew a PROMISE Implementation 
grant to a unit of local government or an Indian Tribe to provide such 
unit or Tribe with additional funds to continue implementation of a 
PROMISE Plan. Such a renewal--
            (1) shall be initiated by an application for renewal from a 
        unit of local government or an Indian Tribe;
            (2) shall be carried out in accordance with regulations 
        issued by the Administrator; and
            (3) shall not be granted unless the Administrator 
        determines such a renewal to be appropriate based on the 
        results of the evaluation conducted under section 223(a) with 
        respect to the community of such unit of Tribe for which a 
        PROMISE Coordinating Council was established, and for which 
        such unit or Tribe is applying for renewal.

SEC. 214. REPORTS.

    Not later than one year after the end of the grant period for which 
a unit of local government or an Indian Tribe receives a PROMISE 
Implementation grant, and annually thereafter for as long as such unit 
or Tribe continues to receive Federal funding for a PROMISE 
Coordinating Council, such unit or Tribe shall report to the 
Administrator regarding the use of Federal funds to implement the 
PROMISE Plan developed under subtitle A.

SEC. 215. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subtitle 
such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 
2014.

              Subtitle C--General PROMISE Grant Provisions

SEC. 221. NON-SUPPLANTING CLAUSE.

    A unit of local government or Indian Tribe receiving a grant under 
this title shall use such grant only to supplement, and not supplant, 
the amount of funds that, in the absence of such grant, would be 
available to address the needs of youth in the community with respect 
to evidence-based and promising practices related to juvenile 
delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and 
intervention.

SEC. 222. GRANT APPLICATION REVIEW PANEL.

    The Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention, in conjunction with the PROMISE Advisory Panel, shall 
establish and utilize a transparent, reliable, and valid system for 
evaluating applications for PROMISE Assessment and Planning grants and 
for PROMISE Implementation grants, and shall determine which applicants 
meet the criteria for funding, based primarily on a determination of 
greatest need (in accordance with section 102), with due consideration 
to other enumerated factors and the indicated ability of the applicant 
to successfully implement the program described in the application.

SEC. 223. EVALUATION OF PROMISE GRANT PROGRAMS.

    (a) Evaluation Required.--Subject to the availability of 
appropriations under this title, the Administrator shall, in 
consultation with the organization under section 223(f)(1) of the 
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 
5633(f)(1)), provide for an evaluation of the programs and activities 
carried out with grants under this title. In carrying out this section, 
the Administrator shall--
            (1) award grants to institutions of higher education 
        (including institutions that are eligible to receive funds 
        under part J of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
        (as amended by Public Law 110-84)) to facilitate the evaluation 
        process and measurement of achieved outcomes;
            (2) identify evidence-based and promising practices used by 
        Promise Coordinating Councils under PROMISE Implementation 
        grants that have proven to be effective in preventing 
        involvement in, or diverting further involvement in, juvenile 
        delinquency or criminal street gang activity; and
            (3) ensure--
                    (A) that such evaluation is based on the 
                performance standards that are developed by the PROMISE 
                Advisory Panel in accordance with section 223(g) of the 
                Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 
                (as added by section 101(b) of this Act);
                    (B) the development of longitudinal and clinical 
                trial evaluation and performance measurements with 
                regard to the evidence-based and promising practices 
                funded under this title; and
                    (C) the dissemination of the practices identified 
                in paragraph (2) to the National Research Center for 
                Proven Juvenile Justice Practices (established under 
                section 301), units of local government, and Indian 
                Tribes to promote the use of such practices by such 
                units and Tribes to prevent involvement in, or to 
                divert further involvement in, juvenile delinquency or 
                criminal street gang activity.
    (b) Results to the National Research Center for Proven Juvenile 
Justice Practices.--The Administrator shall provide the results of the 
evaluation under subsection (a) to the National Research Center for 
Proven Juvenile Justice Practices established under section 301.

                  TITLE III--PROMISE RESEARCH CENTERS

SEC. 301. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR PROVEN 
              JUVENILE JUSTICE PRACTICES.

    (a) Center Established.--Subject to the availability of 
appropriations, the Administrator shall award a grant to a nonprofit 
organization with a national reputation for expertise in operating or 
evaluating effective, evidenced-based practices related to juvenile 
delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention or 
intervention to develop a National Research Center for Proven Juvenile 
Justice Practices. Such Center shall--
            (1) collaborate with institutions of higher education as 
        regional partners to create a best practices juvenile justice 
        information-sharing network to support the programs and 
        activities carried out with grants under title II of this Act;
            (2) collect, and disseminate to PROMISE Coordinating 
        Councils, research and other information about evidence-based 
        and promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and 
        criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention to 
        inform the efforts of PROMISE Coordinating Councils and 
        regional research partners and to support the programs and 
        activities carried out with grants under title II of this Act;
            (3) increase the public's knowledge and understanding of 
        effective juvenile justice practices to prevent crime and 
        delinquency and reduce recidivism; and
            (4) develop, manage, and regularly update an Internet 
        website to disseminate proven practices for successful juvenile 
        delinquency prevention and intervention.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 2010 through 2014.

SEC. 302. GRANTS FOR REGIONAL RESEARCH PROVEN PRACTICES PARTNERSHIPS.

    (a) Grant Program Authorized.--The Administrator shall, subject to 
the availability of appropriations, establish a grant program to award 
grants to institutions of higher education to serve as regional 
research partners with PROMISE Coordinating Councils that are located 
in the same geographic region as an institution, in collaboration with 
the National Research Center for Proven Juvenile Justice Practices 
authorized under section 301. Regional research partners shall provide 
research support to such PROMISE Coordinating Councils, including--
            (1) assistance with preparing PROMISE grant applications 
        under title II, including collection of baseline data for such 
        applications;
            (2) assistance with the needs and strengths assessments 
        conducted under section 203; and
            (3) provision of support services to PROMISE grant 
        recipients for data collection and analysis to assess progress 
        under the PROMISE grant.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 2010 through 2012.

               TITLE IV--YOUTH-ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES

SEC. 401. PURPOSE.

    The purpose of this title is to prevent involvement by youth in, 
and to divert youth from further involvement in, juvenile delinquency 
and criminal street gang activity by providing funding for youth-
oriented community-based law enforcement, through coordination with 
PROMISE Coordinating Councils and other community-based organizations, 
to carry out evidenced-based and promising practices related to 
juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and 
intervention that are aimed at reducing--
            (1) the number of youth who are victims of crime;
            (2) the number of youth who lack proper education and 
        community-based resources, training, and support;
            (3) self-destructive behaviors in youth;
            (4) juvenile delinquency; and
            (5) criminal street gang activity.

SEC. 402. DEFINITIONS.

    In this title:
            (1) Youth-oriented policing service.--The term ``youth-
        oriented policing service'' means a strategic effort by a 
        State, local, or tribal law enforcement agency to--
                    (A) provide evidenced-based and promising practices 
                related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street 
                gang activity prevention and intervention; and
                    (B) use strategies based on the SARA model, in 
                collaboration with community-based public and private 
                organizations, to reduce--
                            (i) the number of youth who are victims of 
                        crime; and
                            (ii) the risks of juvenile delinquency and 
                        criminal street gang activity.
            (2) SARA model.--The term ``SARA model'' means a problem-
        solving technique used to organize approaches to recurring 
        problems, which requires action with respect to a problem that 
        includes scanning, analysis, response, and assessment.

SEC. 403. GRANTS TO STATE, LOCAL, AND TRIBAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES 
              TO HIRE AND TRAIN YOUTH-ORIENTED POLICING OFFICERS.

    (a) Hiring Grants Authorized.--Subject to the availability of 
appropriations, the Director of the Office of Community Oriented 
Policing Services shall award grants to State, local, and tribal law 
enforcement agencies--
            (1) to hire law enforcement officers as youth-oriented 
        police to work collaboratively with PROMISE Coordinating 
        Councils, other community-based organizations, and youth at 
        high risk of becoming involved in delinquent activities to 
        reduce such risks through specialized training related to--
                    (A) youth development;
                    (B) investigation of offenses committed by youth; 
                and
                    (C) the effectiveness of evidenced-based and 
                promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and 
                criminal street gang activity prevention and 
                intervention, as compared to the effectiveness of 
                traditional law enforcement approaches, when dealing 
                with youth; and
            (2) for training and capacity-building of law enforcement 
        agencies related to youth-oriented policing practices and 
        efforts, including--
                    (A) carrying out youth-oriented community-based 
                policing activities including systematic needs and 
                strengths assessment, coordination, technology 
                deployment, technical assistance, and problem solving 
                techniques (such as strategies based on the SARA 
                model); and
                    (B) working with PROMISE Coordinating Councils to 
                develop effective initiatives and practices that 
                promote healthy youth development and prevent 
                involvement by youth in, or divert further youth 
                involvement in, juvenile delinquency and criminal 
                street gang activity.
    (b) Duration.--A grant awarded to a law enforcement agency under 
this section shall be for a 4-year period.
    (c) Maximum Grant Amount.--A grant awarded to a law enforcement 
agency under this section shall not exceed $2,000,000.
    (d) Priority.--In awarding grants under this section, the Director 
of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services shall give 
priority to law enforcement agencies that serve designated geographic 
areas that are ranked highest in the rankings of such areas determined 
under section 102, and shall consider whether a law enforcement agency 
serves a community for which a PROMISE Coordinating Council was 
established.

SEC. 404. ESTABLISHMENT OF CENTER FOR YOUTH-ORIENTED POLICING.

    (a) Grant To Establish Center for Youth-Oriented Policing.--Subject 
to the availability of appropriations, the Director of the Office of 
Community Oriented Policing Services shall award a grant, on a 
competitive basis, to an eligible organization to establish a Center 
for Youth-oriented Policing to--
            (1) develop a model youth-oriented policing services 
        training program to train representatives from State, regional, 
        and local law enforcement training academies to provide youth-
        oriented policing services training to law enforcement 
        officers, which shall--
                    (A) be based on evidence-based and promising 
                practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal 
                street gang activity prevention and intervention; and
                    (B) include training related to specialized police 
                services for preventing youth at who are involved in, 
                or who are at high risk of becoming involved in, 
                juvenile delinquency or criminal street gang activity;
            (2) support the adoption of new technologies related to--
                    (A) the prioritization of risks related to juvenile 
                delinquency and criminal street gang activity;
                    (B) the safety of juveniles in custody; and
                    (C) the prevention of gun violence; and
            (3) develop, compile, and disseminate to youth-oriented 
        police information about evidence-based and promising practices 
        that are best practices for Youth-oriented Policing Services 
        for preventing and reducing involvement of youth in juvenile 
        delinquency and criminal street gang activity.
    (b) Eligible Organization.--In this section, the term ``eligible 
organization'' means a nonprofit organization that has demonstrated--
            (1) experience in providing training, advice, and support 
        to law enforcement agencies;
            (2) commitment to helping youth avoid delinquency, crime, 
        and involvement with the juvenile and criminal justice systems;
            (3) experience in providing law-abiding alternative life 
        styles to youth who are participating in delinquency and 
        criminal street gang activity, or who are involved with the 
        juvenile or criminal justice systems; and
            (4) ability and commitment to work in partnership with 
        community-based organizations that provide services to reduce 
        juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity.
    (c) YOPS Advisory Board.--
            (1) Board established.--The Center for Youth-oriented 
        Policing established pursuant to subsection (a) shall establish 
        a Youth-oriented Policing Services Advisory Board to develop an 
        annual work plan for the Center (in accordance with the 
        conditions and requirements of the grant provided under this 
        section). Such Board shall meet at least once each calendar 
        quarter to consider reports of the Center's activities 
        (including progress made toward accomplishing such work plan), 
        and to approve continuation of or amendment to such work plan.
            (2) Membership.--The membership of the Youth-oriented 
        Policing Services Advisory Board shall--
                    (A) be composed of--
                            (i) an appointee of the chief executive of 
                        the Center for Youth-oriented Policing, who 
                        shall serve in an ex-officio capacity;
                            (ii) an appointee of the PROMISE Advisory 
                        Panel established pursuant to section 223(g) of 
                        the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 
                        Act of 1974 (as added by section 101(b) of this 
                        Act), who shall serve in an ex-officio 
                        capacity; and
                            (iii) individuals who are selected by the 
                        Center for Youth-oriented Policing from a list 
                        of recommended individuals provided by the 
                        PROMISE Advisory Panel in accordance with such 
                        section 223(g), as follows:
                                    (I) 8 law enforcement officers from 
                                international, national, State, and 
                                local law enforcement organizations;
                                    (II) 4 juvenile justice 
                                administrators (including judges), 
                                including 2 administrators from the 
                                State level and 2 administrators from 
                                the local level;
                                    (III) 4 representatives of 
                                community-based organizations that 
                                advocate for juveniles, one each from a 
                                national, State, local, and tribal 
                                organization; and
                                    (IV) 4 individuals who research 
                                juvenile crime prevention issues; and
                    (B) to the greatest extent possible, have a 
                demographic composition that represents the demographic 
                composition of the population of the United States.
            (3) Term of membership.--Members of the Youth-oriented 
        Policing Services Advisory Board shall serve for 3-year 
        staggered terms.

SEC. 405. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this title 
$100,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2010 through 2014, to be made 
available as follows:
            (1) Such sums as may be necessary in each such fiscal year 
        to carry out the activities of the Center for Youth-oriented 
        Policing established pursuant to section 404, except that such 
        sums shall not exceed $5,000,000 or 10 percent of the total 
        amount appropriated to carry out this title, whichever is less.
            (2) Of the funds remaining for each such fiscal year after 
        sums are made available for under paragraph (1)--
                    (A) 80 percent shall be available to award grants 
                to carry out the activities in section 403(a)(1); and
                    (B) 20 percent shall be available to award grants 
                to carry out the activities in section 403(a)(2).

       TITLE V--ENHANCED FEDERAL SUPPORT OF LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT

          Subtitle A--Comprehensive Gang Prevention and Relief

SEC. 501. SHORT TITLE.

    This subtitle may be cited as ``Mynisha's Law''.

SEC. 502. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds as follows:
            (1) According to the 2008 National Gang Threat Assessment, 
        there are over 20,000 gangs operating within the United States, 
        and gang violence and drug trafficking remain serious problems 
        throughout the country, causing injury and death to innocent 
        victims, often children.
            (2) On November 13, 2005, a gang-related dispute broke out 
        in San Bernardino, California, and gunfire sprayed an apartment 
        building, killing 11-year old Mynisha Crenshaw and seriously 
        wounding her 14-year old sister as they ate Sunday dinner with 
        their family.
            (3) This tragic shooting symbolizes the struggle that so 
        many communities across the United States, like San Bernardino, 
        face in combating gang violence, and serves as a reminder of 
        the nationwide problem of protecting children from senseless 
        violence.
            (4) According to the National Drug Threat Assessment, 
        criminal street gangs are responsible for the distribution of a 
        significant amount of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and 
        other illegal drugs throughout the United States.
            (5) The Federal Government has made an increased commitment 
        to the suppression of gang violence through enhanced law 
        enforcement and criminal penalties.
            (6) More Federal resources and coordination are needed to 
        reduce gang violence through proven and proactive prevention 
        and intervention programs that focus on keeping at-risk youth 
        in school and out of the criminal justice system.

SEC. 503. DESIGNATION AS A COMPREHENSIVE GANG PREVENTION AND RELIEF 
              AREA.

    (a) In General.--Units of local government and Indian Tribes with a 
PROMISE Coordinating Council (established in accordance with subtitle A 
of title II of this Act) may submit an application to the Administrator 
for designation as a Comprehensive Gang Prevention and Relief Area in 
accordance with this section.
    (b) Criteria.--
            (1) In general.--The Administrator shall establish criteria 
        for reviewing applications submitted under subsection (a) and 
        for evaluating and selecting areas for designation as 
        Comprehensive Gang Prevention and Relief Areas.
            (2) Considerations.--In establishing criteria under 
        subsection (a) and evaluating an application for designation as 
        a Comprehensive Gang Prevention and Relief Area, the 
        Administrator shall consider--
                    (A) the current and predicted levels of gang crime 
                activity in the area, based on the information 
                collected and analyzed under section 102;
                    (B) the extent to which violent crime in the area 
                appears to be related to criminal gang activity;
                    (C) the extent to which the area is implementing a 
                PROMISE Plan, or is otherwise already engaged in local 
                or regional collaboration regarding, and coordination 
                of, gang prevention activities; and
                    (D) such other criteria as the Administrator 
                determines to be appropriate.

SEC. 504. INTERAGENCY GANG PREVENTION TASK FORCE.

    (a) In General.--In order to coordinate Federal assistance to 
Comprehensive Gang Prevention and Relief Areas, the Administrator shall 
establish an Interagency Gang Prevention Task Force (in this subtitle 
referred to as the ``Task Force''), consisting of a representative 
from--
            (1) the Department of Justice;
            (2) the Department of Education;
            (3) the Department of Labor;
            (4) the Department of Health and Human Services; and
            (5) the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
    (b) Coordination.--For each Comprehensive Gang Prevention and 
Relief Area designated by the Administrator under section 503, the Task 
Force shall--
            (1) coordinate the activities of the Federal Government to 
        create a comprehensive gang prevention response, focusing on 
        youth through early childhood intervention, at-risk youth 
        intervention, literacy, employment, community policing, and 
        comprehensive community-based programs such as Operation Cease 
        Fire or Homeboy Industries; and
            (2) coordinate such comprehensive gang prevention response 
        with local and regional gang prevention efforts, including 
        PROMISE Coordinating Councils and PROMISE Plans (where such 
        Plans are established).
    (c) Programs.--The Task Force shall prioritize the needs of 
Comprehensive Gang Prevention and Relief Areas for funding under--
            (1) the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 
        (42 U.S.C. 9858 et seq.);
            (2) the Even Start programs under subpart 3 of part B of 
        title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
        (20 U.S.C. 6381 et seq.);
            (3) the Healthy Start Initiative under section 330H of the 
        Public Health Services Act (42 U.S.C. 254c-8);
            (4) the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9831 et seq.);
            (5) the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program 
        under part B of title IV of the Elementary and Secondary 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7171 et seq.);
            (6) the Job Corps program under subtitle C of title I of 
        the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2881 et seq.);
            (7) the community development block grant program under 
        title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
        (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.);
            (8) the Gang Resistance Education and Training projects 
        under subtitle X of title III of the Violent Crime Control and 
        Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13921);
            (9) any program administered by the Office of Community 
        Oriented Policing Services;
            (10) the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant program under 
        part R of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
        Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796ee et seq.);
            (11) the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant 
        Program under subpart 1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus 
        Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et 
        seq.); and
            (12) any other program that the Task Force determines to be 
        appropriate.
    (d) Reporting Requirements.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than February 1 of each year, 
        the Task Force shall submit to Congress and the Administrator a 
        report on the funding needs and programmatic outcomes for each 
        area designated as a Comprehensive Gang Prevention and Relief 
        Area.
            (2) Contents.--Each report under paragraph (1) shall 
        include--
                    (A) an evidence-based analysis of the best 
                practices and outcomes among the areas designated as 
                Comprehensive Gang Prevention and Relief Areas; and
                    (B) an analysis of the adequacy of Federal funding 
                to meet the needs of each area designated as a 
                Comprehensive Gang Prevention and Relief Area and, if 
                the Task Force identifies any programmatic shortfalls 
                in addressing gang prevention, a request for new 
                funding or reprogramming of existing funds to meet such 
                shortfalls.

SEC. 505. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out the purposes of this subtitle, including any 
needs identified by the Task Force as necessary to carry out this 
subtitle.

             Subtitle B--Community and Police Collaboration

SEC. 511. GANG PREVENTION GRANTS.

    (a) Authority To Make Grants.--The Office of Community Oriented 
Policing Services of the Department of Justice may make grants, in 
accordance with such regulations as the Director may prescribe, to 
units of local government and Indian Tribes with a PROMISE Coordinating 
Council (established in accordance with subtitle A of title II of this 
Act) to enable such PROMISE Coordinating Council to develop community-
based programs that provide crime prevention, research, and 
intervention services that are designed to prevent violence and gang 
involvement by youthful offenders and at-risk youth.
    (b) Use of Grant Amounts.--A grant under this section may be used 
(including through subgrants) for--
            (1) preventing initial gang recruitment and involvement 
        among younger teenagers;
            (2) preventing violence and gang involvement through 
        nonviolent and constructive activities, such as community 
        service programs, development of nonviolent conflict resolution 
        skills, employment and legal assistance, family counseling, and 
        other safe, community-based alternatives for crime-involved or 
        high-risk youth;
            (3) developing in-school and after-school gang safety, 
        control, education, and resistance procedures and programs;
            (4) identifying and addressing early childhood risk factors 
        for violence and gang involvement, including parent training 
        and childhood skills development;
            (5) identifying and fostering protective factors that 
        buffer children and adolescents from violence, crime, and gang 
        involvement;
            (6) developing and identifying investigative programs 
        designed to deter gang recruitment, involvement, and activities 
        through effective intelligence gathering;
            (7) developing programs and youth centers for first-time, 
        non-violent offenders facing alternative penalties, such as 
        mandated participation in community service, restitution, 
        mentoring, counseling, job training, and education and 
        prevention programs;
            (8) implementing multidisciplinary approaches to combat 
        youth violence and gang involvement through coordinated 
        programs operated by law enforcement and other public, private, 
        and faith-based community organizations for prevention and 
        intervention (including street outreach programs and other 
        peacemaking activities) or coordinated law enforcement 
        activities (including crime mapping strategies that enhance 
        focused crime prevention, intervention, and reintegration 
        strategies for offender reentry); or
            (9) identifying at-risk and high-risk students through home 
        visits organized through joint collaborations between law 
        enforcement, faith-based organizations, schools, health and 
        mental health providers, other community based organizations, 
        and social workers.
    (c) Maximum Grant.--The amount of a grant under this section may 
not exceed $1,000,000.
    (d) Annual Report.--Each recipient of a grant under this section 
shall submit to the Director, for each year in which funds from a grant 
received under this section are expended, a report containing--
            (1) a summary of the activities carried out with grant 
        funds during that year;
            (2) an assessment of the effectiveness of the crime 
        prevention, research, and intervention activities of the 
        recipient, based on data collected by the grant recipient;
            (3) a strategic plan for the year following the year 
        described in paragraph (1);
            (4) evidence of consultation and cooperation with local, 
        State, or Federal law enforcement or, if the grant recipient is 
        a government entity, evidence of consultation with an 
        organization engaged in any activity described in subsection 
        (b); and
            (5) such other information as the Director may require.
    (e) Definition.--In this section, the term ``units of local 
government'' includes sheriffs departments, police departments, and 
local prosecutor offices.
    (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated for grants under this section $35,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 2010 through 2014.

                Subtitle C--City Youth Violence Recovery

SEC. 521. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The mental health of young people is essential to their 
        overall well-being. Mental health affects how young people 
        think, feel, and act; their ability to learn and engage in 
        relationships; their self-esteem; their ability to evaluate 
        situations and make choices; and their ability to handle 
        stress, relate to other people, and acquire the skills and 
        training needed for adulthood.
            (2) Each year many children and adolescents sustain 
        injuries from violence, lose friends or family members because 
        of violence, or are adversely affected by witnessing violence.
            (3) Youth violence, perpetrated both by and against young 
        people, results in enormous physical, emotional, social, and 
        economic consequences.
            (4) The National Institutes of Health has found that inner-
        city children experience the greatest exposure to violence, and 
        youngsters who have been exposed to community violence are more 
        likely to exhibit aggressive behavior or depression within the 
        following year.
            (5) Any event that can cause a person to feel fear, 
        helplessness, horror, and a sense that life or safety is in 
        danger puts a person, especially children, at risk for 
        posttraumatic stress.
            (6) Many cities lack the resources to provide the 
        appropriate youth counseling and therapy services to minimize 
        the long-term emotional harm of community violence.

SEC. 522. GRANTS TO PREVENT OR ALLEVIATE THE EFFECTS OF YOUTH VIOLENCE.

    (a) Grants.--The Attorney General, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, may award grants to eligible 
entities to prevent or alleviate the effects of youth violence in 
eligible urban communities by providing violence-prevention education, 
mentoring, counseling, and mental health services to children and 
adolescents in such communities.
    (b) Priority.--In awarding grants under this section, the Attorney 
General shall give priority to applicants that agree to use the grant 
in one or more eligible urban communities that lack the monetary or 
other resources to address youth violence.
    (c) Limitation.--The Attorney General may not make a grant to an 
eligible entity under this section unless the entity agrees to use not 
more than 15 percent of the funds provided through the grant for 
violence-prevention education.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``eligible entity'' means a partnership 
        between a State mental health authority and one or more local 
        public or private providers, such as a local agency, State 
        agency, educational institution, or nonprofit or for-profit 
        organization.
            (2) The term ``eligible urban community'' means an urban 
        community with a high or increasing incidence of youth 
        violence.
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section, 
there is authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2010 through 2014.

                        TITLE VI--PRECAUTION ACT

SEC. 601. SHORT TITLE.

    This title may be cited as the ``Prevention Resources for 
Eliminating Criminal Activity Using Tailored Interventions in Our 
Neighborhoods Act of 2009'', or the ``PRECAUTION Act of 2009''.

SEC. 602. PURPOSES.

    The purposes of this title are to--
            (1) establish a commitment on the part of the Federal 
        Government to provide leadership on successful crime prevention 
        and intervention strategies;
            (2) further the integration of crime prevention and 
        intervention strategies into traditional law enforcement 
        practices of State and local law enforcement offices around the 
        country;
            (3) develop a plain-language, implementation-focused 
        assessment of those current crime and delinquency prevention 
        and intervention strategies that are supported by rigorous 
        evidence;
            (4) provide additional resources to the National Institute 
        of Justice to administer research and development grants for 
        promising crime prevention and intervention strategies;
            (5) develop recommendations for Federal priorities for 
        crime and delinquency prevention and intervention research, 
        development, and funding that may augment important Federal 
        grant programs, including the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice 
        Assistance Grant Program under subpart 1 of part E of title I 
        of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 
        U.S.C. 3750 et seq.), grant programs administered by the Office 
        of Community Oriented Policing Services of the Department of 
        Justice, grant programs administered by the Office of Safe and 
        Drug-Free Schools of the Department of Education, and other 
        similar programs; and
            (6) reduce the costs that rising violent crime imposes on 
        interstate commerce.

SEC. 603. DEFINITIONS.

    In this title, the following definitions shall apply:
            (1) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the National 
        Commission on Public Safety Through Crime Prevention 
        established under section 604(a).
            (2) Rigorous evidence.--The term ``rigorous evidence'' 
        means evidence generated by scientifically valid forms of 
        outcome evaluation, particularly randomized trials (where 
        practicable).
            (3) Subcategory.--The term ``subcategory'' means 1 of the 
        following categories:
                    (A) Family and community settings (including public 
                health-based strategies).
                    (B) Law enforcement settings (including probation-
                based strategies).
                    (C) School settings (including anti-gang and 
                general anti-violence strategies).
            (4) Top-tier.--The term ``top-tier'' means any strategy 
        supported by rigorous evidence of the sizable, sustained 
        benefits to participants in the strategy or to society.

SEC. 604. NATIONAL COMMISSION ON PUBLIC SAFETY THROUGH CRIME AND 
              DELINQUENCY PREVENTION.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established a commission to be known 
as the National Commission on Public Safety Through Crime and 
Delinquency Prevention.
    (b) Members.--
            (1) In general.--The Commission shall be composed of 9 
        members, of whom--
                    (A) 3 shall be appointed by the President, 1 of 
                whom shall be the Assistant Attorney General for the 
                Office of Justice Programs or a representative of such 
                Assistant Attorney General;
                    (B) 2 shall be appointed by the Speaker of the 
                House of Representatives, unless the Speaker is of the 
                same party as the President, in which case 1 shall be 
                appointed by the Speaker of the House of 
                Representatives and 1 shall be appointed by the 
                minority leader of the House of Representatives;
                    (C) 1 shall be appointed by the minority leader of 
                the House of Representatives (in addition to any 
                appointment made under subparagraph (B));
                    (D) 2 shall be appointed by the majority leader of 
                the Senate, unless the majority leader is of the same 
                party as the President, in which case 1 shall be 
                appointed by the majority leader of the Senate and 1 
                shall be appointed by the minority leader of the 
                Senate; and
                    (E) 1 member appointed by the minority leader of 
                the Senate (in addition to any appointment made under 
                subparagraph (D)).
            (2) Persons eligible.--
                    (A) In general.--Each member of the Commission 
                shall be an individual who has knowledge or expertise 
                in matters to be studied by the Commission.
                    (B) Required representatives.--At least--
                            (i) 2 members of the Commission shall be 
                        social scientists with experience implementing 
                        or interpreting rigorous, outcome-based trials;
                            (ii) 2 members of the Commission shall be 
                        law enforcement practitioners; and
                            (iii) 2 members of the Commission shall be 
                        youth delinquency prevention or intervention 
                        practitioners.
            (3) Consultation required.--The President, the Speaker of 
        the House of Representatives, the minority leader of the House 
        of Representatives, and the majority leader and minority leader 
        of the Senate shall consult prior to the appointment of the 
        members of the Commission to achieve, to the maximum extent 
        possible, fair and equitable representation of various points 
        of view with respect to the matters to be studied by the 
        Commission.
            (4) Term.--Each member shall be appointed for the life of 
        the Commission.
            (5) Time for initial appointments.--The appointment of the 
        members shall be made not later than 60 days after the date of 
        enactment of this Act.
            (6) Vacancies.--A vacancy in the Commission shall be filled 
        in the manner in which the original appointment was made, and 
        shall be made not later than 60 days after the date on which 
        the vacancy occurred.
            (7) Ex officio members.--The Director of the National 
        Institute of Justice, the Administrator of the Office of 
        Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Director of 
        the Community Capacity Development Office, the Director of the 
        Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Director of the Bureau of 
        Justice Assistance, and the Director of Community Oriented 
        Policing Services (or a representative of each such director) 
        shall each serve in an ex officio capacity on the Commission to 
        provide advice and information to the Commission.
    (c) Operation.--
            (1) Chairperson.--At the initial meeting of the Commission, 
        the members of the Commission shall elect a chairperson from 
        among its voting members, by a vote of \2/3\ of the members of 
        the Commission. The chairperson shall retain this position for 
        the life of the Commission. If the chairperson leaves the 
        Commission, a new chairperson shall be selected, by a vote of 
        \2/3\ of the members of the Commission.
            (2) Meetings.--The Commission shall meet at the call of the 
        chairperson. The initial meeting of the Commission shall take 
        place not later than 30 days after the date on which all the 
        members of the Commission have been appointed.
            (3) Quorum.--A majority of the members of the Commission 
        shall constitute a quorum to conduct business, and the 
        Commission may establish a lesser quorum for conducting 
        hearings scheduled by the Commission.
            (4) Rules.--The Commission may establish by majority vote 
        any other rules for the conduct of Commission business, if such 
        rules are not inconsistent with this title or other applicable 
        law.
    (d) Public Hearings.--
            (1) In general.--The Commission shall hold public hearings. 
        The Commission may hold such hearings, sit and act at such 
        times and places, take such testimony, and receive such 
        evidence as the Commission considers advisable to carry out its 
        duties under this section.
            (2) Focus of hearings.--The Commission shall hold at least 
        3 separate public hearings, each of which shall focus on 1 of 
        the subcategories.
            (3) Witness expenses.--Witnesses requested to appear before 
        the Commission shall be paid the same fees as are paid to 
        witnesses under section 1821 of title 28, United States Code. 
        The per diem and mileage allowances for witnesses shall be paid 
        from funds appropriated to the Commission.
    (e) Comprehensive Study of Evidence-Based Crime and Delinquency 
Prevention and Intervention Strategies.--
            (1) In general.--The Commission shall carry out a 
        comprehensive study of the effectiveness of crime and 
        delinquency prevention and intervention strategies, organized 
        around the 3 subcategories.
            (2) Matters included.--The study under paragraph (1) shall 
        include--
                    (A) a review of research on the general 
                effectiveness of incorporating crime and delinquency 
                prevention and intervention strategies into an overall 
                law enforcement plan;
                    (B) an evaluation of how to more effectively 
                communicate the wealth of social science research to 
                practitioners;
                    (C) a review of evidence regarding the 
                effectiveness of specific crime prevention and 
                intervention strategies, focusing on those strategies 
                supported by rigorous evidence;
                    (D) an identification of--
                            (i) promising areas for further research 
                        and development; and
                            (ii) other areas representing gaps in the 
                        body of knowledge that would benefit from 
                        additional research and development;
                    (E) an assessment of the best practices for 
                implementing prevention and intervention strategies;
                    (F) an assessment of the best practices for 
                gathering rigorous evidence regarding the 
                implementation of intervention and prevention 
                strategies; and
                    (G) an assessment of those top-tier strategies best 
                suited for duplication efforts in a range of settings 
                across the country.
            (3) Initial report on top-tier crime and delinquency 
        prevention and intervention strategies.--
                    (A) Distribution.--Not later than 18 months after 
                the date on which all members of the Commission have 
                been appointed, the Commission shall submit a public 
                report on the study carried out under this subsection 
                to--
                            (i) the President;
                            (ii) Congress;
                            (iii) the Attorney General;
                            (iv) the Chief Federal Public Defender of 
                        each district;
                            (v) the chief executive of each State;
                            (vi) the Director of the Administrative 
                        Office of the Courts of each State;
                            (vii) the Director of the Administrative 
                        Office of the United States Courts; and
                            (viii) the attorney general of each State.
                    (B) Contents.--The report under subparagraph (A) 
                shall include--
                            (i) the findings and conclusions of the 
                        Commission;
                            (ii) a summary of the top-tier strategies, 
                        including--
                                    (I) a review of the rigorous 
                                evidence supporting the designation of 
                                each strategy as top-tier;
                                    (II) a brief outline of the keys to 
                                successful implementation for each 
                                strategy; and
                                    (III) a list of references and 
                                other information on where further 
                                information on each strategy can be 
                                found;
                            (iii) recommended protocols for 
                        implementing crime and delinquency prevention 
                        and intervention strategies generally;
                            (iv) recommended protocols for evaluating 
                        the effectiveness of crime and delinquency 
                        prevention and intervention strategies; and
                            (v) a summary of the materials relied upon 
                        by the Commission in preparation of the report.
                    (C) Consultation with outside authorities.--In 
                developing the recommended protocols for implementation 
                and rigorous evaluation of top-tier crime and 
                delinquency prevention and intervention strategies 
                under this paragraph, the Commission shall consult with 
                the Committee on Law and Justice at the National 
                Academy of Science and with national associations 
                representing the law enforcement and social science 
                professions, including the National Sheriffs' 
                Association, the Police Executive Research Forum, the 
                International Association of Chiefs of Police, the 
                Consortium of Social Science Associations, and the 
                American Society of Criminology.
    (f) Recommendations Regarding Dissemination of the Innovative Crime 
and Delinquency Prevention and Intervention Strategy Grants.--
            (1) Submission.--
                    (A) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the 
                date of the final hearing under subsection (d) relating 
                to a subcategory, the Commission shall provide the 
                Director of the National Institute of Justice with 
                recommendations on qualifying considerations relating 
                to that subcategory for selecting grant recipients 
                under section 605.
                    (B) Deadline.--Not later than 13 months after the 
                date on which all members of the Commission have been 
                appointed, the Commission shall provide all 
                recommendations required under this subsection.
            (2) Matters included.--The recommendations provided under 
        paragraph (1) shall include recommendations relating to--
                    (A) the types of strategies for the applicable 
                subcategory that would best benefit from additional 
                research and development;
                    (B) any geographic or demographic targets;
                    (C) the types of partnerships with other public or 
                private entities that might be pertinent and 
                prioritized; and
                    (D) any classes of crime and delinquency prevention 
                and intervention strategies that should not be given 
                priority because of a pre-existing base of knowledge 
                that would benefit less from additional research and 
                development.
    (g) Final Report on the Results of the Innovative Crime and 
Delinquency Prevention and Intervention Strategy Grants.--
            (1) In general.--Following the close of the 3-year 
        implementation period for each grant recipient under section 
        605, the Commission shall collect the results of the study of 
        the effectiveness of that grant under section 605(b)(3) and 
        shall submit a public report to the President, the Attorney 
        General, Congress, the chief executive of each State, and the 
        attorney general of each State describing each strategy funded 
        under section 605 and its results. This report shall be 
        submitted not later than 5 years after the date of the 
        selection of the chairperson of the Commission.
            (2) Collection of information and evidence regarding grant 
        recipients.--The Commission's collection of information and 
        evidence regarding each grant recipient under section 605 shall 
        be carried out by--
                    (A) ongoing communications with the grant 
                administrator at the National Institute of Justice;
                    (B) visits by representatives of the Commission 
                (including at least 1 member of the Commission) to the 
                site where the grant recipient is carrying out the 
                strategy with a grant under section 605, at least once 
                in the second and once in the third year of that grant;
                    (C) a review of the data generated by the study 
                monitoring the effectiveness of the strategy; and
                    (D) other means as necessary.
            (3) Matters included.--The report submitted under paragraph 
        (1) shall include a review of each strategy carried out with a 
        grant under section 605, detailing--
                    (A) the type of crime or delinquency prevention or 
                intervention strategy;
                    (B) where the activities under the strategy were 
                carried out, including geographic and demographic 
                targets;
                    (C) any partnerships with public or private 
                entities through the course of the grant period;
                    (D) the type and design of the effectiveness study 
                conducted under section 605(b)(3) for that strategy;
                    (E) the results of the effectiveness study 
                conducted under section 605(b)(3) for that strategy;
                    (F) lessons learned regarding implementation of 
                that strategy or of the effectiveness study conducted 
                under section 605(b)(3), including recommendations 
                regarding which types of environments might best be 
                suited for successful replication; and
                    (G) recommendations regarding the need for further 
                research and development of the strategy.
    (h) Personnel Matters.--
            (1) Travel expenses.--The members of the Commission shall 
        be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
        subsistence, at rates authorized for employees of agencies 
        under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States 
        Code, while away from their homes or regular places of business 
        in the performance of service for the Commission.
            (2) Compensation of members.--Members of the Commission 
        shall serve without compensation.
            (3) Staff.--
                    (A) In general.--The chairperson of the Commission 
                may, without regard to the civil service laws and 
                regulations, appoint and terminate an executive 
                director and such other additional personnel as may be 
                necessary to enable the Commission to perform its 
                duties. The employment of an executive director shall 
                be subject to confirmation by the Commission.
                    (B) Compensation.--The chairperson of the 
                Commission may fix the compensation of the executive 
                director and other personnel without regard to the 
                provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 
                53 of title 5, United States Code, relating to 
                classification of positions and General Schedule pay 
                rates, except that the rate of pay for the executive 
                director and other personnel may not exceed the rate 
                payable for level V of the Executive Schedule under 
                section 5316 of such title.
            (4) Detail of federal employees.--With the affirmative vote 
        of \2/3\ of the members of the Commission, any Federal 
        Government employee, with the approval of the head of the 
        appropriate Federal agency, may be detailed to the Commission 
        without reimbursement, and such detail shall be without 
        interruption or loss of civil service status, benefits, or 
        privileges.
    (i) Contracts for Research.--
            (1) National institute of justice.--With a \2/3\ 
        affirmative vote of the members of the Commission, the 
        Commission may select nongovernmental researchers and experts 
        to assist the Commission in carrying out its duties under this 
        title. The National Institute of Justice shall contract with 
        the researchers and experts selected by the Commission to 
        provide funding in exchange for their services.
            (2) Other organizations.--Nothing in this subsection shall 
        be construed to limit the ability of the Commission to enter 
        into contracts with other entities or organizations for 
        research necessary to carry out the duties of the Commission 
        under this section.
    (j) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated $5,000,000 to carry out this section.
    (k) Termination.--The Commission shall terminate on the date that 
is 30 days after the date on which the Commission submits the last 
report required by this section.
    (l) Exemption.--The Commission shall be exempt from the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act.

SEC. 605. INNOVATIVE CRIME AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION 
              STRATEGY GRANTS.

    (a) Grants Authorized.--The Director of the National Institute of 
Justice may make grants to public and private entities to fund the 
implementation and evaluation of innovative crime or delinquency 
prevention or intervention strategies. The purpose of grants under this 
section shall be to provide funds for all expenses related to the 
implementation of such a strategy and to conduct a rigorous study on 
the effectiveness of that strategy.
    (b) Grant Distribution.--
            (1) Period.--A grant under this section shall be made for a 
        period of not more than 3 years.
            (2) Amount.--The amount of each grant under this section--
                    (A) shall be sufficient to ensure that rigorous 
                evaluations may be performed; and
                    (B) shall not exceed $2,000,000.
            (3) Evaluation set-aside.--
                    (A) In general.--A grantee shall use not less than 
                $300,000 and not more than $700,000 of the funds from a 
                grant under this section for a rigorous study of the 
                effectiveness of the strategy during the 3-year period 
                of the grant for that strategy.
                    (B) Methodology of study.--
                            (i) In general.--Each study conducted under 
                        subparagraph (A) shall use an evaluator and a 
                        study design approved by the employee of the 
                        National Institute of Justice hired or assigned 
                        under subsection (c).
                            (ii) Criteria.--The employee of the 
                        National Institute of Justice hired or assigned 
                        under subsection (c) shall approve--
                                    (I) an evaluator that has 
                                successfully carried out multiple 
                                studies producing rigorous evidence of 
                                effectiveness; and
                                    (II) a proposed study design that 
                                is likely to produce rigorous evidence 
                                of the effectiveness of the strategy.
                            (iii) Approval.--Before a grant is awarded 
                        under this section, the evaluator and study 
                        design of a grantee shall be approved by the 
                        employee of the National Institute of Justice 
                        hired or assigned under subsection (c).
            (4) Date of award.--Not later than 6 months after the date 
        of receiving recommendations relating to a subcategory from the 
        Commission under section 604(f), the Director of the National 
        Institute of Justice shall award all grants under this section 
        relating to that subcategory.
            (5) Type of grants.--One-third of the grants made under 
        this section shall be made in each subcategory. In distributing 
        grants, the recommendations of the Commission under section 
        604(f) shall be considered.
            (6) Authorization of appropriations.--There are authorized 
        to be appropriated $18,000,000 to carry out this subsection.
    (c) Dedicated Staff.--
            (1) In general.--The Director of the National Institute of 
        Justice shall hire or assign a full-time employee to oversee 
        the grants under this section.
            (2) Study oversight.--The employee of the National 
        Institute of Justice hired or assigned under paragraph (1) 
        shall be responsible for ensuring that grantees adhere to the 
        study design approved before the applicable grant was awarded.
            (3) Liaison.--The employee of the National Institute of 
        Justice hired or assigned under paragraph (1) may be used as a 
        liaison between the Commission and the recipients of a grant 
        under this section. That employee shall be responsible for 
        ensuring timely cooperation with Commission requests.
            (4) Authorization of appropriations.--There are authorized 
        to be appropriated $150,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 
        through 2014 to carry out this subsection.
    (d) Applications.--A public or private entity desiring a grant 
under this section shall submit an application at such time, in such 
manner, and accompanied by such information as the Director of the 
National Institute of Justice may reasonably require.
    (e) Cooperation With the Commission.--Grant recipients shall 
cooperate with the Commission in providing them with full information 
on the progress of the strategy being carried out with a grant under 
this section, including--
            (1) hosting visits by the members of the Commission to the 
        site where the activities under the strategy are being carried 
        out;
            (2) providing pertinent information on the logistics of 
        establishing the strategy for which the grant under this 
        section was received, including details on partnerships, 
        selection of participants, and any efforts to publicize the 
        strategy; and
            (3) responding to any specific inquiries that may be made 
        by the Commission.

         TITLE VII--ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS TO JUVENILE JUSTICE

SEC. 701. YOUTH VICTIM AND WITNESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

    (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 ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(5) by a State, unit of local government, or Indian tribe 
        to create and expand witness and victim protection programs to 
        prevent threats, intimidation, and retaliation against juvenile 
        victims of, and witnesses to, violent crimes.''.
    (b) Expansion of Federal Witness Relocation and Protection 
Program.--Section 3521(a)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting ``criminal street gang, serious drug offense, 
homicide,'' after ``organized criminal activity''.
    (c) 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.

    ``There are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of 
the fiscal years 2010 through 2014 to carry out this subtitle.''.

SEC. 702. 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 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5665(a)) is amended by 
adding at the end the following: ``Within 6 months of the date of 
enactment of the Youth PROMISE Act, the Administrator shall expand the 
number of sites receiving such grants from 4 to 12.''.
    (b) Authorization of Program.--Section 299(c) of the Juvenile 
Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5671(c)) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``There are authorized'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) In general.--There are authorized''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Authorization of appropriations for mentoring 
        initiative.--There are authorized to be appropriated to carry 
        out the Mentoring Initiative for System-Involved Youth Program 
        under part E $4,800,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 
        2014.''.

SEC. 703. STUDY ON ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT AND SENTENCES IN THE FEDERAL 
              SYSTEM.

    (a) In General.--The United States Sentencing Commission shall 
conduct a study to examine the appropriateness of sentences for minors 
in the Federal system.
    (b) Contents.--The study conducted under subsection (a) shall--
            (1) incorporate the most recent research and expertise in 
        the field of adolescent brain development and culpability;
            (2) evaluate the toll of juvenile crime, particularly 
        violent juvenile crime, on communities;
            (3) consider the appropriateness of life sentences without 
        possibility for parole for minor offenders in the Federal 
        system; and
            (4) evaluate issues of recidivism by juveniles who are 
        released from prison or detention after serving determinate 
        sentences.
    (c) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the United States Sentencing Commission shall submit to 
Congress a report regarding the study conducted under subsection (a), 
which shall--
            (1) include the findings of the Commission;
            (2) describe significant cases reviewed as part of the 
        study; and
            (3) make recommendations, if any.
    (d) Revision of Guidelines.--If determined appropriate by the 
United States Sentencing Commission after completing the study under 
subsection (a), the Commission may, pursuant to its authority under 
section 994 of title 28, United States Code, establish or revise 
guidelines and policy statements, as warranted, relating to the 
sentencing of minors.
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