[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1568 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1568

To reauthorize the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, 
    to reauthorize and rename the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974 (JJDPA) as the KIDS Act, to provide for funding 
     parity between COPS and the KIDS Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2009

  Mr. Schiff introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on 
   the Judiciary, 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 reauthorize the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, 
    to reauthorize and rename the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974 (JJDPA) as the KIDS Act, to provide for funding 
     parity between COPS and the KIDS Act, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community Oriented Policing Services 
and Key Investments in Developmental Services Act of 2009'' or the 
``COPS and KIDS Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF THE COPS GRANT PROGRAM.

    Section 1001(a)(11)(A) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3793(a)(11)(A)) is amended by striking 
``1,047,119,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2009'' and 
inserting ``$2,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 through 
2014''.

SEC. 3. KEY INVESTMENTS IN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES ACT (KIDS ACT).

    (a) Renaming JJDPA as the KIDS Act.--
            (1) Short title amended.--The matter before title I of 
        Public Law 93-415 is amended by striking the ``Juvenile Justice 
        and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974'' and inserting ``Key 
        Investments in Developmental Services Act''.
            (2) References to former short title.--Any reference in a 
        law, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
        States to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act 
        of 1974, shall be deemed to be a reference to the Key 
        Investments in Developmental Services Act.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations for the KIDS Act.--Section 299 
of the Key Investments in Developmental Services Act (as renamed by (42 
U.S.C. 5671) is amended--
            (1) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
    ``(a) Authorization of Appropriations for Title II and Title V.--
There are authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2010 through 2015 to carry out this title and title V of 
this Act.''; and
            (2) by striking subsections (b) and (c), and redesignating 
        subsection (d) as subsection (b).

SEC. 4. EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT APPROPRIATIONS FOR 
              COPS PROGRAM SHOULD BE MATCHED BY APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE 
              KIDS ACT.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds as follows:
            (1) The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act has 
        helped modernize the United States juvenile justice system by 
        incentivizing the establishment of juvenile courts premised on 
        best practices, reducing recidivism through evidence based 
        interventions, and by keeping kids out of trouble to begin with 
        by awarding prevention grants to community based efforts that 
        have a proven track record of success.
            (2) The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services has, 
        since its creation in 1994, provided expertise and funding to 
        local law enforcement as they invest in innovative policing 
        approaches that incorporate community involvement and 
        coordination with local stakeholders.
            (3) A successful national strategy to combat crime and 
        violence will include prevention, suppression, and enforcement 
        in a coordinated approach that works with young people to 
        provide them better options, suppresses crime through law 
        enforcement activities, and fairly punishes offenders.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress that--
            (1) the Congress has authorized appropriations of 
        $2,000,000,000 a year for programs under the COPS Office and 
        the KIDS Act; and
            (2) the yearly appropriations for grants administered by 
        the Office of Community Oriented Policing should be equal to 
        the yearly appropriations for grants for effective juvenile 
        courts, prevention, and intervention programs as authorized 
        under the Key Investments in Developmental Services Act (KIDS 
        Act).
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