[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2616 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2616

To authorize the Attorney General to award grants to eligible entities 
  to prevent or alleviate community violence by providing education, 
mentoring, and counseling services to children, adolescents, teachers, 
   families, and community leaders on the principles and practice of 
                              nonviolence.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2009

 Mr. Lewis of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Filner, Ms. Lee of California, 
  Mr. Stark, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Meeks of New York, Ms. 
  Woolsey, Mr. Wexler, Mrs. Lowey, and Mr. McDermott) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                                 Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Attorney General to award grants to eligible entities 
  to prevent or alleviate community violence by providing education, 
mentoring, and counseling services to children, adolescents, teachers, 
   families, and community leaders on the principles and practice of 
                              nonviolence.

    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 ``Securing American Families by 
Educating and Training Youth (SAFETY) Through Nonviolence Act of 
2009''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS TO EDUCATE AMERICANS ABOUT THE PRINCIPLES OF 
              NONVIOLENCE.

    (a) Grants.--The Attorney General may make grants to eligible 
entities to prevent or alleviate the effects of community violence by 
providing education, mentoring, and counseling to youth regarding the 
principles and application of nonviolence in conflict resolution.
    (b) Priority.--In awarding grants under this section, the Secretary 
shall give priority to applicants that agree to use the grant in 1 or 
more eligible urban, rural, Tribal, and suburban communities that can 
certify--
            (1) an increase in community, especially youth violence; 
        and
            (2) lack the monetary or other resources to address 
        violence prevention.
    (c) Limitation.--The Secretary may not make a grant to an eligible 
entity under this section unless the entity agrees to use not more than 
40 percent of such grant for nonviolence-prevention education and 
program development.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``eligible entity'' means a State or local 
        government entity, educational institution, nonprofit, or 
        faith-based organization.
            (2) The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Health 
        and Human Services.
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section, 
there is authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years from 2010 through 2015.
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