[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1550 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 1550


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 2, 2012

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To direct the Attorney General to give priority in the allocation of 
  Federal law enforcement personnel and resources to States and local 
 jurisdictions that have a high incidence of homicide or other violent 
                                 crime.

    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 ``Federal Law Enforcement Personnel 
and Resources Allocation Improvement Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. PRIORITY FOR ALLOCATION OF FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL 
              AND RESOURCES.

    (a) Requirement.--In the allocation of Federal law enforcement 
personnel and resources, the Attorney General shall give priority to 
placing and retaining those personnel and resources in States and local 
jurisdictions that have a high incidence of homicide or other violent 
crime, based on records of crime acquired under section 534 of title 
28, United States Code, including reports of crime under the system 
known as the National Uniform Crime Reports, or on the best and most 
current information otherwise available to the Attorney General.
    (b) Designation of Existing Federal Official.--Not later than 30 
days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General 
shall designate an existing official within the Department of Justice--
            (1) to develop practices and procedures to carry out the 
        requirement established in subsection (a); and
            (2) to monitor compliance with those practices and 
        procedures by the bureaus, agencies, and other subdivisions of 
        the Department.

SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORT.

    Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and 
annually thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit to the 
Committees on Appropriations and the Committees on the Judiciary of the 
Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the implementation 
of the requirement established in section 2. The report shall, for the 
year it covers--
            (1) specify which States and local jurisdictions have a 
        high incidence of homicide or other violent crime;
            (2) identify the specific steps taken by the Attorney 
        General to implement the requirement with respect to each of 
        those States and local jurisdictions; and
            (3) provide a description of the methodology (including any 
        changes made in that methodology) that the Attorney General has 
        used to determine the total number of authorized Federal law 
        enforcement positions, to allocate those authorized positions 
        among States and local jurisdictions, and to assign personnel 
        to fill those authorized positions.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act, the following definitions apply:
            (1) Federal law enforcement personnel.--The term ``Federal 
        law enforcement personnel'' means law enforcement personnel 
        employed by the Department of Justice, including law 
        enforcement personnel in any of the following agencies of the 
        Department:
                    (A) The Drug Enforcement Administration.
                    (B) The Federal Bureau of Investigation.
                    (C) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and 
                Explosives.
                    (D) The United States Marshals Service.
            (2) Local jurisdiction.--The term ``local jurisdiction'' 
        has the meaning given the term ``unit of local government'' in 
        section 901(3) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
        Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3791(3)).
            (3) State.--The term ``State'' means any State of the 
        United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the 
        United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, or the 
        Northern Mariana Islands.

            Passed the House of Representatives August 1, 2012.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.