I 111th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4688 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 24, 2010 Mr. Sestak introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 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.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Community Reintegration and Crime Prevention Act of 2010.

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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.