[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5770 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5770

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
enhance the use of Juvenile Accountability Block Grants for programs to 
  prevent and address occurrences of bullying and to reauthorize the 
             Juvenile Accountability Block Grants program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 15, 2012

   Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas (for herself, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Ms. 
   Norton, and Mr. Rangel) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
enhance the use of Juvenile Accountability Block Grants for programs to 
  prevent and address occurrences of bullying and to reauthorize the 
             Juvenile Accountability Block 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 ``Juvenile Accountability Block Grant 
Reauthorization and the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act''.

SEC. 2. BULLYING PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION PROGRAMS; REAUTHORIZATION 
              OF JUVENILE ACCOUNTABILITY BLOCK GRANTS.

    (a) Bullying Prevention and Intervention.--Paragraph (13) of 
section 1801(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796ee(b)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(13)(A) establishing and maintaining accountability-based 
        programs that are designed to enhance school safety, which 
        programs may include research to prevent bullying, the 
        prevention of cyberbullying, and gang prevention programs, as 
        well as intervention programs regarding bullying; and
            ``(B) educating students, adult personnel (including school 
        administrators, teachers, staff, and child care providers), and 
        law enforcement officers about how to identify occurrences of 
        bullying or harassment and how to address such occurrences 
        through developmentally appropriate intervention and prevention 
        techniques, based on evidence-based models and best practices 
        that rely on school-based and community-based alternatives to 
        law enforcement and justice system involvement;''.
    (b) Reauthorization of Juvenile Accountability Block Grants.--
Section 1810(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3796ee-10(a)) is amended by 
inserting before the period at the end the following: ``and $45,559,000 
for each of fiscal years 2013 through 2017''.
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