[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 715 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 715

   To amend part Q of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 to authorize grant funds to be used for the Troops-
                            to-Cops Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 2011

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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend part Q of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 to authorize grant funds to be used for the Troops-
                            to-Cops 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 ``Let's Re-Up the Troops-to-Cops 
Program Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF TROOPS-TO-COPS PROGRAM.

    Section 1701(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd(b)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (17) as 
        subparagraphs (A) through (Q), respectively, and by moving the 
        margins of such subparagraphs (as so redesignated) two ems to 
        the right;
            (2) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) (as so 
        redesignated by paragraph (1) of this section), by striking 
        ``The purposes for which'' and inserting ``(1) in general.--The 
        purposes for which'';
            (3) in subparagraph (Q) (as so redesignated by paragraph 
        (1) of this section), by striking ``paragraphs (1) through 
        (16)'' and inserting ``subparagraphs (A) through (P)''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(2) Troops-to-cops program.--
                    ``(A) In general.--For grants made during the 3-
                year period beginning on the date of enactment of the 
                Let's Re-Up the Troops-to-Cops Program Act, in addition 
                to the purposes described in paragraph (1), grants made 
                under subsection (a) may be used to hire former members 
                of the Armed Forces (and to pay the full salary of such 
                former members) to serve as career law enforcement 
                officers for deployment in community-oriented policing, 
                particularly in communities that are adversely affected 
                by a recent military base closing.
                    ``(B) Definition.--In this paragraph, `former 
                member of the Armed Forces' means a member of the Armed 
                Forces of the United States who has been honorably 
                discharged from the Armed Forces of the United 
                States.''.
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