[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6363 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6363

   To require the Attorney General to establish a competitive grant 
   program for State and local law enforcement agencies to carry out 
         training programs based on lessons from the Holocaust.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 2010

  Mrs. McCarthy of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Attorney General to establish a competitive grant 
   program for State and local law enforcement agencies to carry out 
         training programs based on lessons from the Holocaust.

    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 ``Supporting Law Enforcement through 
Lessons of the Holocaust Act''.

SEC. 2. COMPETITIVE GRANT PROGRAM TO CARRY OUT LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING 
              PROGRAMS BASED ON LESSONS FROM THE HOLOCAUST.

    (a) In General.--Subject to the amount of funds appropriated to 
carry out this section pursuant to subsection (e), the Attorney General 
shall establish a competitive grant program under which the Attorney 
General may award grants to State and local law enforcement agencies to 
carry out training programs, which may be the model training program 
established under subsection (b) or a variation of such model program, 
on the implications of the Holocaust for modern day law enforcement 
professionals.
    (b) Model Program.--The Attorney General, in consultation with 
community-based groups, non-profit organizations, law enforcement 
organizations, academic institutions, and the United States Holocaust 
Memorial Museum, shall establish a model training program that examines 
each of the issues described in subsection (c) and which shall be made 
available for use by State and local law enforcement agencies to 
establish training programs described in subsection (a).
    (c) Program Described.--A program funded through a grant under this 
section shall examine the following:
            (1) The implications of the history of the Holocaust for 
        individuals who are active law enforcement professionals on or 
        after the date of the enactment of this Act.
            (2) The relationship of law enforcement professionals to 
        the community served by such professionals.
            (3) The role and responsibility of law enforcement 
        officials as protectors of the Constitution and civil 
        liberties.
            (4) The procedures and practices that prevent abuse of the 
        roles of such professionals within such community.
            (5) The core values of law enforcement and the connection 
        of those values to the principles of the Constitution.
    (d) Priority.--In making grants under this section, the Attorney 
General shall give priority to any application of a State or local law 
enforcement agency that provides assurances satisfactory to the 
Attorney General that the agency will incorporate a training program 
carried out by the agency pursuant to a grant received under this 
section for a period of at least 2 years.
    (e) Notice to State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies About 
Availability of Grant Program and Purpose.--The Attorney General shall 
make publicly available information on the grant program under this 
section, including with respect to the availability and purpose of 
grants provided under such program.
    (f) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
            (1) Holocaust.--The term ``Holocaust'' means the 
        systematic, state-sponsored, mass murder of 6,000,000 Jews, and 
        millions of other people, performed by the Nazi regime during 
        World War II, in the name of racial purity.
            (2) State.--The term ``State'' means each of the 50 States, 
        the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the 
        United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the 
        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any federally 
        recognized Indian tribe.
    (g) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section 
for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2014.
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