[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4688 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4688

   To amend the Second Chance Act of 2007 to reauthorize the grants 
program carried out by the Secretary of Labor to provide mentoring, job 
     training and job placement services, and other comprehensive 
  transitional services to assist eligible offenders in obtaining and 
   retaining employment, and to require a study on best practices by 
      nonprofit organization participating in such grants program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 2010

  Mr. Sestak introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Second Chance Act of 2007 to reauthorize the grants 
program carried out by the Secretary of Labor to provide mentoring, job 
     training and job placement services, and other comprehensive 
  transitional services to assist eligible offenders in obtaining and 
   retaining employment, and to require a study on best practices by 
      nonprofit organization participating in such grants program.

    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 Reintegration and Crime 
Prevention Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF REINTEGRATION OF OFFENDERS GRANTS PROGRAM.

            (1) Best practices reports.--Section 212 of the Second 
        Chance Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17532) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the 
                following new sentence: ``For grants awarded for 
                periods beginning on or after January 1, 2012, a grant 
                recipient under this section shall comply with the best 
                practices identified pursuant to subsection (g).''; and
                    (B) by inserting after subsection (f) the following 
                new subsection (and redesignating subsections (g) and 
                (h) as subsections (h) and (i), respectively):
    ``(g) Best Practice Report.--Not later than January 1, 2011, the 
Attorney General, in coordination with the Secretary of Labor, shall 
prepare a report identifying, based on the information submitted 
pursuant to subsection (f), best practices of nonprofit organizations 
under this section. The Attorney General shall make such report 
publicly available.''.
            (2) Program reauthorized through 2012.--Subsection (i) of 
        section 212 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 17532), as redesignated by 
        paragraph (1), is amended by inserting at the end before the 
        period the following: ``and $30,000,000 for each of fiscal 
        years 2011 and 2012''.
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