1.Short
title and table of contents
(a)This Act may be cited as the Fighting Gangs and Empowering Youth Act of
2011
.
(b)The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title and table
of contents.
TITLE I—Prevention and economic empowerment
Subtitle A—Prevention
Sec. 101. Demonstration grants to encourage creative approaches
to gang activity and after-school programs.
Sec. 102. Reauthorization of certain after-school
programs.
Sec. 103. Reauthorization of Safe and Drug-Free Schools and
Communities Act.
Sec. 104. Public and assisted housing gang
elimination.
Sec. 105. Municipal Alliances.
Sec. 106. Reauthorization of the gang resistance education and
training projects program and increased funding for the national youth gang
survey.
Sec. 107. Mentoring grants to nonprofit
organizations.
Subtitle B—Recidivism reduction and reentry
assistance
Sec. 111. Reauthorization of adult and juvenile offender State
and local reentry demonstration projects.
Sec. 112. Children of incarcerated parents and
families.
Sec. 113. Removal of limitation on amount of funds available
for corrections education programs under the Adult Education and Family
Literacy Act.
Sec. 114. Grants to States for improved workplace and community
transition training for incarcerated youth offenders.
Sec. 115. Improved reentry procedures for Federal
prisoners.
Subtitle C—Economic empowerment
Sec. 121. Expansion and reauthorization of the mentoring
initiative for system involved youth.
Sec. 122. Reauthorization of Learn and Serve
America.
TITLE II—Gang activity policing program
Sec. 201. Authority to make gang activity policing
grants.
Sec. 202. Eligible activities.
Sec. 203. Preferential consideration of applications for
certain grants.
Sec. 204. Designation of high-intensity interstate gang
activity areas.
Sec. 205. Use of components.
Sec. 206. Minimum amount.
Sec. 207. Matching funds.
Sec. 208. Providing additional forensic examiners.
Sec. 209. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 210. Performance evaluation.
TITLE III—Punishment and improved crime data
Subtitle A—Gang crimes
Sec. 301. Criminal street gangs.
Sec. 302. Solicitation or recruitment of persons and violent
crimes in furtherance or in aid of criminal street gangs.
Sec. 303. Interstate and foreign travel or transportation in
aid of racketeering enterprises and criminal street gangs.
Sec. 304. Amendments relating to violent crime in areas of
exclusive Federal jurisdiction.
Sec. 305. Increased penalties for use of interstate commerce
facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire and other felony crimes of
violence.
Sec. 306. Amendment of sentencing guidelines relating to
certain gang and violent crimes.
Sec. 307. Study on expanding Federal authority for juvenile
offenders.
Sec. 308. Study on examining the role of gangs in
prisons.
Subtitle B—Firearms offenses
Sec. 311. Increased penalties for use of firearm in crime of
violence or drug trafficking crime.
Subtitle C—Crime data
Sec. 321. Standardization of crime reporting and
investigation.
Sec. 322. Consolidating and standardizing gang-related crime
data.
<enum>I</enum><header>Prevention and
economic empowerment</header>
<subtitle id="idA1AFECE00ECC4EFF920F91ABFD0B3D25"><enum>A</enum><header>Prevention</header>
<section id="id536D3B5F57D34B43826F5F33B29E2B26"><enum>101.</enum><header>Demonstration
grants to encourage creative approaches to gang activity and after-school
programs</header>
<subsection id="IDf641e0f4b82a4beda38c557060d6ce54"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Attorney General may make grants to public or
nonprofit private entities (including faith-based organizations) for the
purpose of assisting the entities in carrying out projects involving innovative
approaches to combat gang activity.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDbba7fe0d7b7d4beda2b1b6781659c982"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Projects</header><text>Projects
described in subsection (a) shall target at-risk youth and juvenile offenders
who are ages 11 to 19 years, who—</text>
<paragraph id="ID7caae861fdab406faa4cc366e05c9472"><enum>(1)</enum><text>fail to
successfully complete secondary school;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID26dc24739e59420fb3f09fc43225659a"><enum>(2)</enum><text>have entered the
juvenile system;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDd43a63287459470993281f18e12811ec"><enum>(3)</enum><text>are at risk of
failing to successfully complete secondary school or entering the juvenile
system;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID7856aae665dd47ae8d463453f60b3a9f"><enum>(4)</enum><text>are truants or
runaways; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID2daf4586d462442aa7deb84c02493c7e"><enum>(5)</enum><text>have siblings or
family members who are members of a criminal street gang.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID7f902a5690154eee98fe70f28e1f4871"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Certain
approaches</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Approaches
described in subsection (a) may include—</text>
<paragraph id="IDf572e76cc1224d4384011e1a7349ae8a"><enum>(1)</enum><text>developing
after-school gang prevention programs, including programs that provide for
transportation to and from activities;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID6d80fc1b54614a4aad23ae2857f22d48"><enum>(2)</enum><text>encouraging
teen-driven approaches to gang activity prevention;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDdf6d48d0458642da8c9ba46c48619a35"><enum>(3)</enum><text>educating parents
to recognize signs of problems and potential gang involvement in their
children;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID759c872d53554a21965549d2bf656844"><enum>(4)</enum><text>teaching parents
the importance of a nurturing family and home environment to keep children out
of gangs; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID4f2a1852ddaf49238513d0bc33893295"><enum>(5)</enum><text>facilitating
communication between parents and children, especially programs that have been
evaluated and proven effective.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDadea3c5f92234fc59ddf65f4f5c548df"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Matching
funds</header>
<paragraph id="ID4b092146c77249fab8f02c881aadfe5d"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Attorney General may make a grant under this section
only if the entity receiving the grant agrees to make available (directly or
through donations from public or private entities) non-Federal contributions
toward the cost of activities to be performed with that grant in an amount that
is not less than 25 percent of such costs.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDca444a3456fb428685522da156dd9420"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Determination
of amount contributed</header><text>Non-Federal contributions required under
paragraph (1) may be in cash or in kind, fairly evaluated, including
facilities, equipment, or services. Amounts provided by the Federal Government,
or services assisted or subsidized to any significant extent by the Federal
Government, may not be included in determining the amount of such non-Federal
contributions.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID6ec6ddd344934f7fa47d57b57fb6ef4a"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Evaluation of
projects</header>
<paragraph id="ID2d7e78a28c424dfb8e10e104d3bed301"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Attorney General shall establish criteria for the
evaluation of projects involving innovative approaches under subsection
(a).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID40f2dfc5b88c436fbfb0af1d8621762a"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Grantees</header><text>A
grant may be made under this section only if the entity involved—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID6b78e11f822f4c8d9706208469e29f86"><enum>(A)</enum><text>agrees to conduct
evaluations of the approach in accordance with such criteria;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDec35fa4d1da94547a492ccbfa936f12c"><enum>(B)</enum><text>agrees to submit
to the Attorney General reports describing the results of the evaluations, as
the Attorney General determines to be appropriate; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDb8cf9c3a13644c96ad81c17056f2eda9"><enum>(C)</enum><text>submits to the
Attorney General, in the application under subsection (f), a plan for
conducting the evaluations.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID82079e2d5f1f4bea977816a15879f575"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Application for
grant</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General
may make a grant under subsection (a) only if an application for the grant is
submitted to the Attorney General and the application is in such form, is made
in such manner, and contains such agreements, assurances, and information
(including the agreements under subsections (d) and (e) and the plan under
subsection (e)(2)(C)) as the Attorney General determines to be necessary to
carry out this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID61acf45091d942449c533188b4bb74c6"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Report to
congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than
October 1, 2012, the Attorney General shall submit to Congress a report
describing the extent to which the approaches under subsection (a) have been
successful in reducing the rate of gang activity in the communities in which
the approaches have been carried out. That report shall describe the various
approaches used under subsection (a) and the effectiveness of each of the
approaches.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4228ab76f1364ef3b175ae3d3b9904e7"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Authorization
of appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the
purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated
$5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2012 through 2016.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="ID37cfaf03ce7d4a049b0bac1e7b28729a"><enum>102.</enum><header>Reauthorization
of certain after-school programs</header>
<subsection id="ID241e0746c236416eab3f7fae5893e9ba"><enum>(a)</enum><header>21st Century
Community Learning Centers</header><text>Section 4206 of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7176) is amended to read as
follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE8E80CC326974DC6A5696DCBEACB844B" style="OLC">
<section id="IDf615ab537999463daaf470e9e8bca833"><enum>4206.</enum><header>Authorization
of appropriations</header>
<subsection id="IDa921d412205447018fca0b93446eda0d"><enum></enum><text>There is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this part $300,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2012 through
2016.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="IDe463fee02ff34810a0a52ee1e1d210fb"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Carol M. White
physical education program</header><text>Section 5401 of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7241) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="IDdd06ebbe0291435f8cdedc0d2dc2e563"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>There are</quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">
<enum-in-header>(a)</enum-in-header> In
general.—</header-in-text>There are</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDe59d7e2539f24b7981c5cede607526a8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id99970185B4004795B1B9E264FAB927EB" style="OLC">
<subsection id="ID7d99223aacda415e9769384fd0b9c183"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Physical
education</header><text>In addition to the amounts authorized to be
appropriated under subsection (a), there are authorized to be appropriated
$100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2012 through 2016 to carry out subpart
10.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="IDa781dfd10efa47e2a42bedb11380c540"><enum>103.</enum><header>Reauthorization
of Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act</header>
<subsection id="IDba59754ce5314677b73889e4651e2dfd"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Safe and
drug-Free schools and communities</header><text>Section 4003 of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7103) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID163afd514b8c483d991f3a274682c9a2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by striking <quote>$650,000,000 for fiscal year 2002, and such sums as may be
necessary for each of the 5 succeeding fiscal years,</quote> and inserting
<quote>$700,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2012 through 2016,</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID562d3114e6f6487ab743ae5ea9dd4058"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>such sums for fiscal year 2002, and for each of the 5
succeeding fiscal years,</quote> and inserting <quote>$400,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2012 through 2016,</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDe7175fdf99334921b18a2f9f0e3a0de5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>National
coordinator initiative</header><text>Section 4125 of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7135) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="IDb9e0b0311c5844729d047a5bc120003f"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID9960436267644054aeecac5eb157c936"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>From funds made available to carry out this subpart under section
4003(2), the Secretary may provide</quote> and inserting <quote>From amounts
made available to carry out this subpart under section 4003(2) for each fiscal
year, the Secretary shall reserve for each fiscal year not less than
$40,000,000 to provide</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID83b89dc66e8348b4a71457a8d4f3c89c"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>, gang prevention,</quote> after <quote>drug prevention</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID626591347bd3420d8600f2cd40309967"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID1191a7f55d53482b9db077a96feded91"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the first
sentence—</text>
<clause id="ID2b103e22d63043ea842c2b87472c58fc"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
inserting <quote>, gang prevention,</quote> after <quote>serve as drug
prevention</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="ID7149c15212fd4f77bbb0a99ec09cd5a1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
inserting <quote>, gang,</quote> after <quote>significant drug</quote>;
and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd889e6d6e64f4198966ff617c45eeb60"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the second
sentence, by inserting <quote>, gang,</quote> after <quote>analyzing
assessments of drug</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id8F6720FA6C7A4D8FBD94A75A292CE4B6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF85273902F494F129BAFE40D0CBA3C50" style="OLC">
<subsection id="idDE4AEAE6E7A543FDA8903BA5EA93B0E5"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Authorization
of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to
carry out this section $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2012 through
2016.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDcb296b0e969b4779a3fc4e9fd6b5bfcc"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Mentoring
program</header><text>Section 4130(b) of the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7140(b)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID262c8d399fff493ebc593ef967a6cae1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter
preceding subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), by striking <quote>The Secretary
may award grants from funds made available to carry out this subpart under
section 4003(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>From amounts made available to
carry out this subpart under section 4003(2) for each fiscal year, the
Secretary shall reserve for each fiscal year not less than $50,000,000 to award
grants</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID88d4b84fd04944b58f10bcd8b1037305"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph
(5)(B)(i), by inserting <quote>elementary school and middle school</quote>
after <quote>serves</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID86bcaafa70a14b62af1278bbe5d60576"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph
(5)(C)(ii)(IV), by striking <quote>the 4th</quote> and inserting
<quote>kindergarten</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID9798dc70e47d4f4fafcf363fd9a92643"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Anti-Gang
discretionary grants</header><text>Subpart 2 of part A of title IV of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7131 et seq.) is
amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD7D9DDE520C6425F9736921932D13066" style="OLC">
<section id="ID2649c44b195046d3921d807b4e685ae9"><enum>4131.</enum><header>Anti-gang
discretionary grants</header>
<subsection id="IDe1effccc000745b1b005798b0b87e775"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authority To
make grants</header><text>From amounts made available to carry out this subpart
under section 4003(2) for each fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve for
each fiscal year not less than $50,000,000 to award grants, on a competitive
basis, to nonprofit organizations to enable the nonprofit organizations to
establish programs to assist a public elementary school or middle school in
providing an innovative approach—</text>
<paragraph id="ID96438da860a84f35b70d8241d1bdc686"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to combat gang
activity in the school and the community surrounding the school; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID433ad27f0f504452bb8cf92f6064b995"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to heighten
awareness of, and provide tools to reduce, gang violence in the school and the
community surrounding the school.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDa6a97d4c0b274c4aa9e8d145fea6c538"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application</header><text>To
be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a nonprofit organization
shall submit an application to the Secretary that includes a detailed plan to
combat gang activity and reduce gang violence in a school and the surrounding
community.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID6f4b1ab7d9544caca5c98871883f3ed9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Priority
consideration</header><text>In awarding grants under this section, the
Secretary shall give priority consideration to applications describing programs
that target youth living in a high-intensity interstate gang activity area
defined under section 204 of the Fighting Gangs and Empowering Youth Act of
2010.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID91ce7b3af1384523ab90bc16a7d7c9fe"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall require any recipient
of a grant under this section to provide periodic reports that include the
obligation and expenditure of grant funds, the progress made by the grantee in
implementing the plan described in subsection (b), and any change in the
incidence of gang-related crime in projects assisted under this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3bb42deb88d94b128b535fce4d7f9b1d"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Monitoring</header><text>The
Secretary shall audit and monitor the programs funded under this section to
ensure that assistance provided under this section is administered in
accordance with the provisions of this
section.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="ID2e7034541bf04b7d8e5bda285502f3d5"><enum>104.</enum><header>Public and
assisted housing gang elimination</header>
<subsection id="ID2c9b17199ab1439fb2c6978a97a6f683"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Public and
assisted housing</header><text>Title V of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988
(Public Law 100–690; 102 Stat. 4295) is amended by adding at the end the
following new subtitle:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4F2B1DDC5E394CFE951596ECF7CF88D1" style="OLC">
<subtitle id="id5F91E4FF97494B7A8CEAA269E4E14B34"><enum>H</enum><header>Public and
Assisted Housing Gang Elimination</header>
<section id="ID915b82b4f7324b30ad74406f0da3ce7d"><enum>5401.</enum><header>Short
title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This subtitle may be
cited as the <quote>Public and Assisted Housing Gang Elimination Act of
2010</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="ID12d67b3f0b75484cade291f4cf81daff"><enum>5402.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle—</text>
<paragraph id="ID6b29f957f8a7492480bd6688a2c9cbf0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term
<term>federally assisted low-income housing</term> means housing assisted
under—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDbb569f127ce340f0b1ef3d24e941d410"><enum>(A)</enum><text>section
221(d)(3), section 221(d)(4), or 236 of the National Housing Act;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID22739819b04a409ca9ff6a3b82b652a5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>section 101 of
the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDf9bd5f01350b4cdebd9af1458eb9e730"><enum>(C)</enum><text>section 8 of the
United States Housing Act of 1937; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID2a122c14969d4b83ae51bf38808955c8"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the Native
American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID29d47847f17c459e850a95191fb77fc2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term
<term>high-intensity interstate gang activity area</term> means an area
designated by the Attorney General under section 204 of the Fighting Gangs and
Empowering Youth Act of 2010; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id7C7F88AAE54943E4889EA4C4AD64690D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the term
<term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="IDfd62687506254447b9af55b06dc99f7f"><enum>5403.</enum><header>Authority to
make grants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary, in
accordance with the provisions of this subtitle, may make grants to public
housing agencies (including any Indian tribe or other recipient under the
Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25
U.S.C. 4101 et seq.)) and private, for-profit and nonprofit owners of federally
assisted low-income housing for use in eliminating gang-related crime.</text>
</section><section id="ID8b2a1822532c4a89867488408908205e"><enum>5404.</enum><header>Eligible
activities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Grants under this
subtitle may be used in public housing or other federally assisted low-income
housing projects for—</text>
<paragraph id="ID0f2e09cf37e24d3382ddbe5c63891ddd"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the employment of
security personnel;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDf09318dd7ea94867abfd20d120db67d2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>reimbursement of
local law enforcement agencies for additional security and protective
services;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID104c2f4959984b439e9e6867e28630e5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>physical
improvements which are specifically designed to enhance security;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID7bc403b04e3e4bfa95b727c300239863"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the employment of
1 or more individuals—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID62b85cecb3134c32b7753ffe3803a4ab"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to investigate
gang-related crime on or about the real property comprising any public or other
federally assisted low-income housing project; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID505a5698a02248839fd9abc88b7e7dce"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to provide
evidence relating to such crime in any administrative or judicial
proceeding;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID2a5776b52b294f2c8e52857cce55165c"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the provision of
training, communications equipment, and other related equipment for use by
voluntary tenant patrols acting in cooperation with local law enforcement
officials;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDf905d1eadb8e424e9240977be8552edd"><enum>(6)</enum><text>programs designed
to reduce gang activity in and around public or other federally assisted
low-income housing projects, including encouraging teen-driven approaches to
gang activity prevention; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDe54e211fefcb47c88eea60f54fd8bf09"><enum>(7)</enum><text>providing funding
to nonprofit public housing resident management corporations and resident
councils to develop security and gang prevention programs involving site
residents.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="ID89ff15145e5048b7aaf795c5a31ccd37"><enum>5405.</enum><header>Applications</header>
<subsection id="ID61b61b85131e4380b1a408812d3ef6c7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Required
submission</header>
<paragraph id="ID8a184711e2674b61bf70620d7124d55a"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>To receive a grant under this subtitle, a public housing
agency or an owner of federally assisted low-income housing shall submit an
application to the Secretary, at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by
such additional information as the Secretary may reasonably require.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID850e181d2e6540e9b72023304e728811"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Required
inclusions</header><text>Any application submitted under paragraph (1) shall
include a plan for addressing the problem of gang-related crime on the premises
of the housing administered or owned by the applicant for which the application
is being submitted.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDe1ea72f5145b4ad983298d494778110f"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Criteria</header><text>Except
as provided by subsections (c) and (d) the Secretary shall approve applications
under this subtitle based exclusively on—</text>
<paragraph id="ID2c375312dd7e49159d3e4639452324e0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the extent of the
gang-related crime problem in the public or federally assisted low-income
housing project or projects proposed for assistance;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDd0401ff9a7aa4c7792d5d776ac0b27e0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the quality of
the plan of the applicant to address the crime problem in the public or
federally assisted low-income housing project or projects proposed for
assistance, including the extent to which the plan includes initiatives that
can be sustained over a period of several years; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID5b0a98afe1944569b644c718c4ee7b62"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the extent to
which tenants, the local government, and the local community support and
participate in the design and implementation of the activities proposed to be
funded under the application.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID6194f1fb96c4456883df929e9534fb5b"><enum>(c)</enum><header>High-Intensity
interstate gang activity areas</header><text>In evaluating the extent of the
gang-related crime problem under subsection (b), the Secretary may consider
whether housing projects proposed for assistance are located in a
high-intensity interstate gang activity area as described in section 204 of
this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="idF430C5D31AC64A17AE95BA403487BBB4"><enum>5406.</enum><header>Implementation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary shall issue regulations to
implement this subtitle within 180 days after the date of enactment of this
subtitle.</text>
</section><section id="ID381d3b9d9f7e44f29fe24375b0fc04c0"><enum>5407.</enum><header>Reports</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary shall require any recipient of
a grant under this subtitle to provide periodic reports that include—</text>
<paragraph id="id0A6CC0D258C24FCFB2BF8DC3A24B0483"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the obligation and expenditure of grant
funds;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id1C7B8C3D388E4357A8B40028EF031272"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the progress made by the grantee in
implementing the plan described in section 5404(a); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idBB981B81CC5649588AFABCD758A3DAD2"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any change in the incidence of gang-related
crime in projects assisted under this subtitle.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="ID1d8f146b96f543ea85146ab13331daba"><enum>5408.</enum><header>Monitoring</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary shall audit and monitor the
programs funded under this subtitle to ensure that assistance provided under
this subtitle is administered in accordance with the provisions of this
subtitle.</text>
</section><section id="IDd8e5ba155f204088a6ce8bf2a680639f"><enum>5409.</enum><header>Authorization
of appropriations</header>
<subsection id="IDc8bfcb84881446c083252aaf9018b579"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this
subtitle $100,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2012 through 2016. Any
amount appropriated under this section shall remain available until
expended.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDb5360f22673648249fb72f6ff1508f7e"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 5001 of the Anti-Drug
Abuse Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–690; 102 Stat. 4295) is amended by adding at
the end the following new items:</text>
<toc>
<toc-entry idref="id5F91E4FF97494B7A8CEAA269E4E14B34" level="subtitle">Subtitle H—Public and Assisted Housing Gang
Elimination</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="ID915b82b4f7324b30ad74406f0da3ce7d" level="section">Sec. 5401. Short title.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="ID12d67b3f0b75484cade291f4cf81daff" level="section">Sec. 5402. Definitions.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="IDfd62687506254447b9af55b06dc99f7f" level="section">Sec. 5403. Authority to make grants.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="ID8b2a1822532c4a89867488408908205e" level="section">Sec. 5404. Eligible activities.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="ID89ff15145e5048b7aaf795c5a31ccd37" level="section">Sec. 5405. Applications.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idF430C5D31AC64A17AE95BA403487BBB4" level="section">Sec. 5406. Implementation.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="ID381d3b9d9f7e44f29fe24375b0fc04c0" level="section">Sec. 5407. Reports.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="ID1d8f146b96f543ea85146ab13331daba" level="section">Sec. 5408. Monitoring.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="IDd8e5ba155f204088a6ce8bf2a680639f" level="section">Sec. 5409. Authorization of appropriations.</toc-entry>
</toc>
</subsection></section></subtitle><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="IDe463b9b3ba9e4c4e811b93b968527bd1"><enum>105.</enum><header>Municipal
Alliances</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Violent Crime
Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13701 et seq.) is amended by
inserting after section 30403 the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDA5D0CA633C14744A2399FA16EF0088F" style="OLC">
<subtitle id="idD306E88EA0C04C0392443C636CA43E28"><enum>E</enum><header>Strategic
community planning program</header>
<section id="IDa4d48c0404774e5baf23b766774c9e72"><enum>30501.</enum><header>Grant
authority</header>
<subsection id="IDd8f5a2e6f1e64d2db64e4bc8931bbf35"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Grants</header>
<paragraph id="ID04e1c13c680940e3b68aa2e224cc6c4f"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Attorney General may award grants on a competitive
basis to eligible local entities to assist eligible communities in developing
and carrying out programs that target at-risk youth and juvenile offenders ages
11 to 19 years, who—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDd083f4cc079e483698a31ce1e1039fab"><enum>(A)</enum><text>fail to
successfully complete secondary school;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID49aceeb9783949788ccbb5a423e3104f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>have entered the
juvenile justice system;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDab93993839684e879e424960025d273c"><enum>(C)</enum><text>are at risk of
failing to successfully complete secondary school or entering the juvenile
justice system;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd11263de97404f2ca7e899937e7bb78a"><enum>(D)</enum><text>are truants or
runaways; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID495f3db1acbc4d959c0c6391ef0f1d42"><enum>(E)</enum><text>have siblings or
family members who are believed to be members of criminal street gangs.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID0533439043044b0296bf6986ceee4840"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Grant
amount</header><text>A grant awarded to an eligible local entity under this
subtitle shall be for not less than $250,000 for 1 fiscal year. Amounts made
available through such a grant shall remain available until expended.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID5b99bc83da204cf5ae07de816c78e9cb"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Program
requirements</header>
<paragraph id="ID5cd32016a0a74772baac68339527b224"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Programs</header><text>An
eligible local entity that receives funds under this subtitle shall develop or
expand community programs in eligible communities that are designed to target
at-risk youths and juvenile offenders through prevention, early intervention,
and graduated sanctions.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDc2b980bbfde14339b47617ca4c439f09"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Optional
activities</header><text>An eligible local entity that receives funds under
this subtitle may develop a variety of programs to serve the comprehensive
needs of at-risk youth and juvenile offenders, including—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID247d3ca1c2d54f51a6b034bbddd3ec65"><enum>(A)</enum><text>homework
assistance and after-school programs, including educational, social, and
athletic activities;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID1f95d965086b4d33a19e1d2bbb73d393"><enum>(B)</enum><text>mentoring
programs;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID77ca7bd7b285434381d846b797658683"><enum>(C)</enum><text>family
counseling; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDfb7bf7ea6b194948bffc6144803a9a60"><enum>(D)</enum><text>parental training
programs.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID06cd155e7da54a3b8b91a384774d43fa"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Eligible
community identification</header><text>The Attorney General shall establish by
regulation the criteria necessary to qualify as an eligible community, which
shall include criteria with respect to whether the community is located in a
high-intensity interstate gang activity area designated under section 204 of
the Fighting Gangs and Empowering Youth Act of 2010.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="ID34b7eda5d78a4ea99e4127d4b020f166"><enum>30502.</enum><header>Applications</header>
<subsection id="IDbb98362870b2497fb63a5db50d4b91b8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Application
required</header><text>To be eligible to receive a grant under this subtitle, a
local entity shall submit an application to the Attorney General at such time,
in such manner, and accompanied by such information, as the Attorney General
may reasonably require.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID38fbecacbee941da9deeb7d32cf35e4e"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents of
application</header><text>Each application submitted under subsection (a)
shall—</text>
<paragraph id="ID8c84930111e8496a9975c6aa4e359146"><enum>(1)</enum><text>contain a
comprehensive plan for the program that is designed to improve the academic and
social development of at-risk youths and juvenile offenders in the eligible
community, which—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID4dc870697a0c4226ae312b833aa0be91"><enum>(A)</enum><text>identifies an
eligible community to be assisted;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa1ef83a4ed32499eab306d7f81f636b0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>describes the
community planning process to be used by the local entity that includes—</text>
<clause id="ID859166b6321c4510a177a4cbe47c86fc"><enum>(i)</enum><text>parents and
family members;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDda95a77220024220bf69aa289ab655ff"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>local school
officials;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDa25a2f0d925e4249abc56e9aa3b09872"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>teachers
employed at schools within the eligible community;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID37cad6b9adf6451a8a7170ee20719063"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>local public
officials;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID957d32e36ec848ea989e672b22973118"><enum>(v)</enum><text>law enforcement
officers and officials;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID3da0fa5a9d924cde826c0dec78d1fa1a"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>clergy and
faith-based organizations;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDd255ffff97ce4e54ba3f5ba9c2911685"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>public housing
authorities;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID39038cee7c45401dafccf8b0006119ef"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>public housing
resident organization members, where applicable; and</text>
</clause><clause id="ID87429353fca6400798ae35ac72e5fb93"><enum>(ix)</enum><text>public and
private nonprofit organizations that provide education, child protective
services, or other human services to low-income, at-risk youth and juvenile
offenders, and their families; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID0ba2c2b6518d4cbca7fa32b1ab1c738e"><enum>(C)</enum><text>develops a
concentrated strategy for implementation of the community planning process
developed under subparagraph (B) that targets clusters of at-risk youth and
juvenile offenders in the eligible community;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID58e0b95cb83e4c67b17a2fffc671511c"><enum>(2)</enum><text>provide evidence
of support for accomplishing the objectives of such plan from—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDb55d5426022e4bde93c2b81aeda6b8fc"><enum>(A)</enum><text>community
leaders;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID303852841ea6433da4e0690b758fa681"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a school
district;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDcfae0fc511354241b5d1b7caac1bcd54"><enum>(C)</enum><text>local officials;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa67ff2a8d081488aa0fd4948b6518954"><enum>(D)</enum><text>other
organizations that the local entity determines to be appropriate;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDa4a8e1ecfdc24e7fba2e135fd192776e"><enum>(3)</enum><text>provide an
assurance that the local entity will use grant funds received under this
subsection to implement the program requirements listed in section
30701(b);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID80e6f817288c449e9c988fbc4abb39d6"><enum>(4)</enum><text>include an
estimate of the number of at-risk youth and juvenile offenders in the eligible
community expected to be served under the program;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID13b17f8736724a129d9409d801b7f51a"><enum>(5)</enum><text>provide an
assurance that the local entity will prepare and submit to the Attorney General
an annual report regarding any program conducted under this subtitle;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDcf225807bf71421fb479a0ea97d542b4"><enum>(6)</enum><text>provide an
assurance that the local entity will maintain separate accounting records for
the program.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID5fe4613d32ff482e847c37616e5a7382"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Priority</header><text>In
awarding grants under this subtitle, the Attorney General shall give priority
to eligible local entities that identify under subsection (b)(1)(A) an eligible
community that, when compared to other eligible communities, has a greater need
than such other eligible communities for assistance under this subtitle, as
determined by the Attorney General based on the criteria established under
section 30701(c).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID49621a05533b4ece8edd7f15f5385e18"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Federal
share</header><text>The Federal share of the costs of a program developed or
carried out with a grant under this section shall be not more than 70 percent.
The non-Federal share of such costs may be in cash or in kind, fairly
evaluated, including personnel, facilities, equipment, and services.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="ID0679669d24cb4d0d97895c5a1a41036a"><enum>30503.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For purposes of this subtitle—</text>
<paragraph id="ID7bcb8a57c96b40b483eb8e132cc48248"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term
<term>local entity</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID037df08af793444cbd77b73054d7e337"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a local
educational agency; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID7f8ed0884d334da08e59420d3e624166"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a community-based
organization, as defined in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801); and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDbae0d6048abe43e18848ad81703e96ae"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term
<term>eligible community</term> means an area which meets the criteria
established by the Attorney General in accordance with section 30701(c).</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="IDb8728635065e43ba832d199cbae26910"><enum>30504.</enum><header>Authorization
of appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated for grants under this subtitle—</text>
<paragraph id="ID2387a0d4ad1d4d889decb7d89a110037"><enum>(1)</enum><text>$10,000,000 for
fiscal year 2012;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDbae1cef447f84c6ea64ab07b7b4a13ce"><enum>(2)</enum><text>$11,000,000 for
fiscal year 2013;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID282b945f427c44729276ac568def2389"><enum>(3)</enum><text>$12,000,000 for
fiscal year 2014;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID2d3bfc9cb6824f59a689c113e210f15f"><enum>(4)</enum><text>$13,000,000 for
fiscal year 2015; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDdc261a85b97a476aacae2fb047c53a95"><enum>(5)</enum><text>$14,000,000 for
fiscal year
2016.</text>
</paragraph></section></subtitle><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="ID293d99c32e2f4c31bb2e1e5ec2642d82"><enum>106.</enum><header>Reauthorization
of the gang resistance education and training projects program and increased
funding for the national youth gang survey</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 32401 of the Violent Crime Control
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13921) is amended in subsection
(b)—</text>
<paragraph id="ID49adc59a572e4340b951b72e153b00d9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (4),
by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID869e8db7ef9a422a894314234d49aa52"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (5),
by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id157980D7313345EB87077729E4F370A9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4A3D078B1A5448BBA9223C2E821E2AA7" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="IDd47ce68020f84609a029332f6c18a6b3"><enum>(6)</enum><text>$21,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 2012 through 2016.</text>
</paragraph><subsection id="ID396e14a167e94ec4a1f4cfdccd7d3729"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Use of
funds</header><text>Not more than $1,000,000 of the funds authorized under this
section for a fiscal year shall be used to increase the number of samples
collected by the National Youth Gang Center for its annual National Youth Gang
Survey.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="ID8b7e2774c54d48a2acbc6b6c7af6107d"><enum>107.</enum><header>Mentoring
grants to nonprofit organizations</header>
<subsection id="IDccb0e880a10e42b3b52d616be2068426"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authority To
Make Grants</header><text>From amounts made available to carry out this
section, the Attorney General shall make grants, in consultation with the
Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to
nonprofit organizations for the purpose of providing mentoring and other
transitional services essential to the reentry of offenders into the
community.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID44b1e5c4bc1d49859b85c2eb8b3b5061"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Use of
Funds</header><text>A nonprofit organization that receives a grant under
subsection (a) may use the grant to—</text>
<paragraph id="ID5b049d366ac94507936a886872c6a92e"><enum>(1)</enum><text>mentor adult and
juvenile offenders during—</text>
<subparagraph id="id9D5ECAB5BD104CDCBBAD8D3EB0957EAF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>incarceration of
the offenders;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8C2A21227909455292CD7AAD5A1D9BCE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the transition of
the offenders back to the community; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id64448B6ED275444A956EAB9459640998"><enum>(C)</enum><text>post-incarceration
of the offenders; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDca0428e799da493b826a37307a88f322"><enum>(2)</enum><text>provide
transitional services to assist in the reentry of offenders into the
community.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID048841b45bf84c5687f88277b6c0f4a4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Application;
Priority Consideration</header>
<paragraph id="IDb1b499870cb4429091cc65127167937d"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a
nonprofit organization shall submit an application to the Attorney General
based on criteria developed by the Attorney General, in consultation with the
Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID761e34f9ef6d4fd7bd7887d79e89bb07"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Priority</header><text>The
Attorney General shall give priority consideration to applications that—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID91d0eb41927743499133d66db8fdde24"><enum>(A)</enum><text>include a plan to
implement activities that have been demonstrated to be effective in
facilitating the successful reentry of offenders into the community; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID52a1555ffa884a88b8aacda06e31e636"><enum>(B)</enum><text>provide for an
independent evaluation.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID01609b47da3f43d48a7fc978bda84efe"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Strategic
Performance Outcomes</header><text>The Attorney General shall require each
applicant under this section to identify specific performance outcomes related
to the long-term goal of stabilizing communities by reducing recidivism and
reintegrating offenders into the community.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID28b3a4c2fec94b1b9ba8aaff88003472"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authorization
of Appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to the
Attorney General to carry out this section $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years
2012 through 2016.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="id0216948CF7E44EFFA9C3218009392325"><enum>B</enum><header>Recidivism
reduction and reentry assistance</header>
<section id="IDea175558a3384714a978e30ca11f146c"><enum>111.</enum><header>Reauthorization
of adult and juvenile offender State and local reentry demonstration
projects</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 2976(b) of
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797w(b)) is
amended by striking paragraphs (1) through (4) and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6F94991017394338AA3D951C4E999BC3" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="ID6714b09a40fe4050acd1b8a9be40ce54"><enum>(1)</enum><text>establishing or
improving the system or systems under which offenders awaiting reentry into the
community are provided with documents useful in achieving a successful
transition from prison, jail, or detention (such as identification papers,
referrals to services, medical prescriptions, job training certificates,
apprenticeship papers, and information on obtaining public assistance);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID791dca1e75414f809659f5912ca3e8f3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>carrying out
programs and initiatives by units of local government to strengthen reentry
services for offenders released from local jails;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDf1c26ea6c5d94b8a8331f9cde9157cc8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>providing
structured post-release housing and transitional housing (including group homes
for recovering substance abusers) through which offenders are provided
supervision and services immediately following reentry into the
community;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDfd374c4ec9c14b069962442ebaefcd3f"><enum>(4)</enum><text>assisting
offenders in securing permanent housing upon release or following a stay in
transitional housing;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID8bdfb9266f11481eadecdd1a0bcd728e"><enum>(5)</enum><text>assisting
offenders in leaving a criminal street gang;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDec46351ba94e45dba3c3ecff8b3ebc6a"><enum>(6)</enum><text>providing
offenders who have left a criminal street gang with safety services upon
release from prison, jail, or detention;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID8e7f3b1c99ed4913a8ca0bbf8f13ebaf"><enum>(7)</enum><text>providing
offenders with education, job training, responsible parenting and healthy
relationship skills training designed specifically for addressing the needs of
incarcerated and transitioning fathers and mothers, English as a second
language programs, work experience programs, self-respect and life skills
training, and other skills useful in achieving a successful transition from
prison or jail;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDfe99656c6e5545b7b8453b9dd5b8b18c"><enum>(8)</enum><text>facilitating
collaboration among corrections and community corrections, technical schools,
community colleges, and the workforce development and employment service
sectors—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID7b0bcef67bb540e285706dddbb90cb2d"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to promote the
employment of offenders released from prison and jail, as appropriate, through
efforts such as educating employers about existing financial incentives;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID885c1761028a48ab802b0cb62e7bc00b"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to facilitate the
creation of job opportunities for offenders released from prison or jail,
including transitional jobs and time-limited subsidized work experience (as
appropriate); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID01b2d408834041d9b0a686e257a29361"><enum>(C)</enum><text>to connect
offenders to employment (including supportive employment and employment
services) before their release to the community, to provide work supports
(including transportation and retention services), as appropriate, and to
identify labor market needs to ensure that education and training are
appropriate;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID08db90803cb94e0585c4c18c56bb8b71"><enum>(9)</enum><text>developing
programs and activities that support parent-child relationships, such
as—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDdb9e95e56b7343ab9b5e15ac16d45542"><enum>(A)</enum><text>using
videoconferencing to allow virtual visitation when incarcerated offenders are
more than 100 miles from their families;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID1f4961b38b314debb3fc012169ad33f2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the establishment
of family days, which provide for longer visitation hours or family
activities;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa9450bbbf4f94048883f2cf33f5596c2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the
implementation of programs to help incarcerated parents stay connected to their
children and learn responsible parenting and healthy relationship skills;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID5c14a378703344eeae4ba62d318e3cc1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>programs for
mentoring children of incarcerated offenders;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID565cb5cf2a1d42e891d1941bbe7cc137"><enum>(10)</enum><text>expanding
family-based treatment centers that offer family-based comprehensive treatment
services for offenders reentering the community;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID82f28532125e4aeeb5ad374712d35ac8"><enum>(11)</enum><text>conducting
studies to determine the types of offenders who are returning to prison or
jail, and which of those returning offenders represent the greatest risk to
community safety;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDe0aba57fe6454165a4637efb1be89bf6"><enum>(12)</enum><text>developing and
implementing procedures to assist relevant authorities—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID84a54ba80a7d4b0284f7cdc2e89e208a"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in determining
when release is appropriate; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDb228fe5285e643f9bbf86497de6679ae"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the use of
data to inform the release decision;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID72f72623542a410eb9e05058d383b68f"><enum>(13)</enum><text>developing and
implementing procedures to identify efficiently and effectively those violators
of probation, parole, or post-incarceration supervision who should be returned
to prison or jail;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID20d78730ec034ae9b185f605d6b47d60"><enum>(14)</enum><text>establishing or
expanding the use of reentry courts and other programs to—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID914644a8f33146dca7f81da1b5d36184"><enum>(A)</enum><text>monitor offenders
returning to the community;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID07f5f63f47324f99b2483ce488233b2f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>provide offenders
reentering the community with—</text>
<clause id="ID747e0ee6a3ad47c6a00275cd5a671304"><enum>(i)</enum><text>drug and alcohol
testing and treatment; and</text>
</clause><clause id="ID64311bc99c8f438da2088cfdf92ae06b"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>mental and
medical health assessment and services;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID4aee7c3fddeb4a378ba3559f9a76787b"><enum>(C)</enum><text>facilitate
restorative justice practices and convene family or community impact panels,
family impact educational classes, victim impact panels, or victim impact
educational classes; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID9ffdb71ba8d34eea8aa7338bb47c605e"><enum>(D)</enum><text>provide and
coordinate the delivery of other community services to offenders,
including—</text>
<clause id="ID4e97dd5dbda040c6884b956b40cdfb10"><enum>(i)</enum><text>housing
assistance;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDe6a614e03658458995342a97e13c6fb0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>education;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID848c073a8f4348bfa2660c09950f953d"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>employment
training;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID51b74c95f5354c5cad6df8b41b4ed8e8"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>conflict
resolution skills training;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDeb34fb897832405d9187a37944e08cd4"><enum>(v)</enum><text>family violence
intervention programs;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID3969115a8ca1483db56f7c45bc286da6"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>culturally and
linguistically competent services, as appropriate; and</text>
</clause><clause id="ID339ce8e1d92d41d186779209a2e443a5"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>other
appropriate services, as determined by the Attorney General.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><subsection id="ID21724e96a45748a2b21b10bad536e057"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Task force on
Federal programs and activities relating to reentry of offenders</header>
<paragraph id="ID1aa74a0d3caf4ce0b063a6b1168e2113"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Task force
required</header><text>The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of
Education, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the heads of such other
elements of the Federal Government as the Attorney General considers
appropriate, and in collaboration with States, units of local government,
territories, tribes, stakeholders, service providers, and nonprofit
organizations, shall establish an interagency task force on Federal programs
and activities relating to the reentry of offenders into the community.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID1206d299fc254bf5a8f0af9318a96c7b"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Duties</header><text>The
task force established under paragraph (1) shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID0776e8b69b78482b929efc644f9bde7d"><enum>(A)</enum><text>identify any
reentry program or activity that may be resulting in overlapping or duplication
of reentry services, the scope of such overlapping or duplication, and the
relationship of such overlapping and duplication to public safety, public
health, and effectiveness and efficiency;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID0c62dc5ec8da43b5a5a03d40ea9c2705"><enum>(B)</enum><text>identify methods
to improve collaboration and coordination programs and activities identified in
subparagraph (A);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID250e7911a81f43f6b25f566766665d29"><enum>(C)</enum><text>identify areas of
responsibility in which improved collaboration and coordination of programs and
activities identified in subparagraph (A) would result in increased
effectiveness or efficiency;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID1d020ec22cc944f7af3e62af36ba1a74"><enum>(D)</enum><text>develop
innovative interagency or intergovernmental programs, activities, or procedures
that would improve outcomes of offenders reentering the community and the
children of offenders;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID0288cb5ffbbe43f89c3400172e378f4a"><enum>(E)</enum><text>develop methods
for increasing regular communication that would increase interagency program
effectiveness;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa1c29ee44753485fb1e4bf8e5fa15347"><enum>(F)</enum><text>identify areas of
research that can be coordinated across agencies with an emphasis on applying
science-based practices to support, treatment, and intervention programs for
offenders reentering the community;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID3514cbfcf1b9477b94c57e8190cf8af9"><enum>(G)</enum><text>identify funding
areas that should be coordinated across agencies, and any gaps in funding for
reentry services; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID38f0dcfa30d94f0288c13dcc913e27f5"><enum>(H)</enum><text>identify
successful reentry programs and collect best practices in offender reentry from
demonstration grantees and other agencies and organizations, determine the
extent to which such programs and practices can be replicated, and make
information on such programs and practices available to States, localities,
nonprofit organizations, and others.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDf1cff580977d4ac7a3bc243831a2003a"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Report</header>
<subparagraph id="IDb0ce5149c6924fdab658251fab8c90cb"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the
Fighting Gangs and Empowering Youth Act of 2010, the task force established
under paragraph (1) shall submit to Congress a report on barriers to reentry of
offenders to the community, including recommendations to overcome any barriers
identified.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8B0D96042062431792878B367FE2A39B"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Public
comment</header><text>The task force shall solicit and incorporate for public
comment in preparing the report required in subparagraph (A).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDdfce18352a97484caf113308fca9c554"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The
report required by subparagraph (A) shall identify Federal and other barriers
to successful reentry of offenders into the community and analyze the effects
of the barriers on offenders and on children and other family members of
offenders, including barriers relating to—</text>
<clause id="IDabd2931b3a0348f998d47e69d2f973b3"><enum>(i)</enum><text>child support
obligations and procedures;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID424c0cb3f5c04cb9ac8f8ebd617e0c2c"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Social Security
benefits (including barriers in timely restoration of suspended disability
benefits immediately upon release), veterans benefits, food stamps, and other
forms of Federal public assistance;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID2d67d11f3a2a42d5b8f5bcf865e3c0ff"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>Medicaid and
Medicare laws, regulations, guidelines or procedures (including barriers in
timely restoration of benefits caused by delay in reinstatement of suspended
Social Security disability benefits);</text>
</clause><clause id="ID4ea3a274f4114231a2df0e49b9958617"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>education
programs, financial assistance, and full civic participation;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDea61511325a9460987867673e2e30ade"><enum>(v)</enum><text>temporary
assistance to needy families (TANF) program funding criteria and other welfare
benefits;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDd59420f6307f4e63b5b4065fafe88a4f"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>sustainable
employment and career advancement, including barriers that are not directly
connected to the crime committed and the risk that the offender presents to the
community;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDf65b3bf6e3954e029667f9d863bc0b9b"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>laws,
regulations, rules, and practices that restrict Federal employment licensure
and participation in Federal contracting programs;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID5175d798155644eaa505d61769b3763e"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>admissions to
and evictions from Federal housing programs, including—</text>
<subclause id="ID9a609466b35f42d298450c28a2ffd80d"><enum>(I)</enum><text>examining the
number and characteristics of offenders who are evicted from or denied
eligibility for Federal housing programs;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="ID234d0f8709fb404d88effca287e8bda9"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the effect of
eligibility denials and evictions on homelessness, family stability, and family
reunification;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="ID1f24a374e791480aad415040986d5a9c"><enum>(III)</enum><text>the extent to
which arrest records are the basis for denying applications;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="IDe36e26d913b04f6eb70ac214e37ea90e"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>the implications
of considering misdemeanor convictions that occurred more than 5 years before
the date of an application and felony convictions that occurred more than 10
years before the date of an application, and the appropriateness of taking into
account rehabilitation and other mitigating factors; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="ID5fb4efa0225942628353b98e114cb1cc"><enum>(V)</enum><text>the feasibility
of using probationary or conditional eligibility based on participation in a
supervised rehabilitation program or other appropriate social services;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="IDbba7bd26ece44b43899f3892c102c5a1"><enum>(ix)</enum><text>reentry
procedures, case planning, and transitions of offenders from the custody of the
Bureau of Prisons to a Federal parole or probation program, or to community
corrections;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID6c367c430c6a4306afe0a509fe4470a0"><enum>(x)</enum><text>laws,
regulations, rules, and practices that may require a parolee to return to the
same county that the parolee was living in prior to being arrested, and the
potential for changing such laws, regulations, rules, and practices; and</text>
</clause><clause id="ID4b220183ca184edfa13cefbeec003b28"><enum>(xi)</enum><text>prerelease
planning procedures for offenders to ensure that the eligibility of an offender
for Federal or State benefits (including Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security
and veterans benefits) upon release is established prior to release, subject to
any limitations in law, and to ensure that offenders are provided with
referrals to appropriate social and health services or are linked to
appropriate nonprofit organizations.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID205a1d4a906442aeb8c9cc8b8e086d2e"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Annual
reports</header><text>On an annual basis, the task force established under
paragraph (1) shall submit to Congress a report on the activities of the task
force, including specific recommendations of the task force on the matters
described in paragraph (2).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID74f5e8341a6348be8a1ca3487c4fd57c"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Standards for
analysis</header><text>Any statistical analysis of population data under this
section shall be conducted in accordance with the Federal Register Notice dated
October 30, 1997, relating to classification standards.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id120D13BA240643A49A43AF7B80583064"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization
of appropriations</header><text>Section 2976 of the Omnibus Crime Control and
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797w) is amended in subsection (o)(1) by
striking <quote>$60,000,000</quote> and all that follows, and inserting
<quote>$60,000,000 for each fiscal years 2012 through
2016</quote></text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="ID3445789ddb264771998cbf3b142914fd"><enum>112.</enum><header>Children of
incarcerated parents and families</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of Health and Human Services
may—</text>
<paragraph id="ID673bff748e5343e2b31d983648c04963"><enum>(1)</enum><text>prepare and make
available to States a report on any recommendations regarding the role of State
child protective services at the time of the arrest of an individual;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDb406fb8800d049fe8cd10ba588a7b8a7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by regulation,
establish such services as the Secretary determines necessary for the
preservation of families that have been impacted by the incarceration of a
family member, with special attention given to the impact on children.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="ID926910c8d6f146e5b0d993de223ee328"><enum>113.</enum><header>Removal of
limitation on amount of funds available for corrections education programs
under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act</header>
<subsection id="ID2d1bcfd5c54542d18e4a8f492de2863b"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 222(a)(1) of the Adult Education and Family
Literacy Act (20 U.S.C. 9222(a)(1)) is amended by striking <quote>, of which
not more than 10 percent of the 82.5 percent shall be available to carry out
section 225</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDa775586ca33e4a71976a002b9042d14d"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not
later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of
Education shall submit to Congress a report—</text>
<paragraph id="IDc94b29d40fec46bdbea66f39c309e61e"><enum>(1)</enum><text>on the use of
literacy funds provided under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (20
U.S.C. 9201 et seq.) to correctional institutions, as defined in section
225(d)(2) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 9225(d)(2)); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID37f23cbb6a62417a90b9d23aa54db9d9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id87CC7726D91544A8867361BFA1CBF80E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>specifies the
amount of literacy funds that are provided to each category of correctional
institution in each State; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id429B05FDEDFA4D2086D29CB78548F83F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>identifies
whether funds are being sufficiently allocated among the various types of
institutions.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="ID154b6e25c5ba4fccbbf0b26f756fa4b2"><enum>114.</enum><header>Grants to
States for improved workplace and community transition training for
incarcerated youth offenders</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 821 of the Higher Education
Amendments of 1998 (20 U.S.C. 1151) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id20C621383DBB45E1B672F25FC9652289" style="OLC">
<section id="ID0a3702070e08455c930469b07f0b0b62"><enum>821.</enum><header>Grants to
States for improved workplace and community transition training for
incarcerated youth offenders</header>
<subsection id="IDf35a661e518f4a888ccb351a525c0c40"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In
this section, the term <term>youth offender</term> means a male or female
offender who is—</text>
<paragraph id="id75C3919AB9A14E0A84E0018CAEBBEFF0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>30 years of age
or younger; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id3F1F26C505054447BC6D32FAFDE40647"><enum>(2)</enum><text>incarcerated in a
State prison, including a prerelease facility.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID212193b51cd94c50a3f1e4d609258d4e"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Grant
program</header><text>The Secretary of Education (in this section referred to
as the <quote>Secretary</quote>)—</text>
<paragraph id="ID63dfdc0cbadd467fa584d062793a5ca1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall establish a
program in accordance with this section to provide grants to the State
correctional education agencies in the States, from allocations for the States
under subsection (h), to assist and encourage youth offenders to acquire
functional literacy, life, and job skills, through—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID97573aebb2fa44818d97e4de713218ac"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the pursuit of a
postsecondary education certificate, or an associate or bachelor’s degree while
in prison; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID374dbb5ebcd44b20bed5376c69542377"><enum>(B)</enum><text>employment
counseling and other related services which start during incarceration and end
not later than 1 year after release from confinement; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDa9f3fe06fecc418c90b2c69c174fd2ea"><enum>(2)</enum><text>may establish
such performance objectives and reporting requirements for State correctional
education agencies receiving grants under this section as the Secretary
determines are necessary to assess the effectiveness of the program under this
section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDb93370f8c9814a74937944f4df757f92"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Application</header><text>To
be eligible for a grant under this section, a State correctional education
agency shall submit to the Secretary a proposal for a youth offender program
that—</text>
<paragraph id="ID48a1d6e289a54c8ca4c283992938b741"><enum>(1)</enum><text>identifies the
scope of the problem, including the number of youth offenders in need of
postsecondary education and career and technical education;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID92f93b40c5d34ec7893f774160915653"><enum>(2)</enum><text>lists the
accredited public or private educational institution or institutions that will
provide postsecondary educational services;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDec4d8aa4b13d4e22b4a179914d8ec3a9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>lists the
cooperating agencies, public and private, or businesses that will provide
related services, such as counseling in the areas of career development,
substance abuse, health, and parenting skills;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID79aca894c835412d9f58daf1a20e3758"><enum>(4)</enum><text>describes how the
proposed program will educate youth offenders on how to withdraw themselves
from criminal street gangs;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDb777d8f0ccc94ea1b58eeb7c0a53553a"><enum>(5)</enum><text>describes
specific performance objectives and evaluation methods (in addition to, and
consistent with, any objectives established by the Secretary under subsection
(b)(2)) that the State correctional education agency will use in carrying out
its proposal, including—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDc5626cd8eead4a70b96f2627149e63bf"><enum>(A)</enum><text>specific and
quantified student outcome measures that are compared with outcomes for
non-program participants with similar demographic characteristics; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID8680047a428947b3a8500b45072f8049"><enum>(B)</enum><text>measures,
consistent with the data elements and definitions described in subsection
(d)(1)(A), of—</text>
<clause id="ID79df839d449c4705a12b0e13b9efbec4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>program
completion, including an explicit definition of what constitutes a program
completion within the proposal;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID4861db637884472f8857fdcc7edcd6f2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>knowledge and
skill attainment, including specification of instruments that will measure
knowledge and skill attainment;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDee86de319b824a6ca85d55cf8b6b7d28"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>attainment of
employment both before and after release;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID8746d92eaccb4d75935920b970c06250"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>success in
employment indicated by job retention and advancement; and</text>
</clause><clause id="ID3d501bac237445948fbdfe9d52b5a4d3"><enum>(v)</enum><text>recidivism,
including such subindicators as time before subsequent offense and severity of
subsequent offense;</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID03538fa829ef49b8bbf032d54ed568f1"><enum>(6)</enum><text>describes how the
proposed programs are to be integrated with existing State correctional
education programs (such as adult education, graduate education degree
programs, and career and technical education) and State industry
programs;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDeaf7768766f941fb8edab1bf654f1824"><enum>(7)</enum><text>describes how the
proposed programs will utilize technology to deliver the services under this
section; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDbbb67a14038a4347b5a1ccc7eda8aa05"><enum>(8)</enum><text>describes how
students will be selected so that only youth offenders eligible under
subsection (e) will be enrolled in a program receiving a grant under this
section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDe05ebe9816b94b6a8e4867ebcd27d309"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Program
requirements</header><text>Each State correctional education agency receiving a
grant under this section shall—</text>
<paragraph id="IDc845e1713b88498fa259658b1d8c7bee"><enum>(1)</enum><text>annually report
to the Secretary regarding—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID892339ba854d4512ba96dcc531587e1b"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the results of
the evaluations conducted using data elements and definitions provided by the
Secretary for the use of State correctional education programs;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDfcd2d5a793714c4e94a45804a6d444cd"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any objectives or
requirements established by the Secretary pursuant to subsection (b)(2);
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa194adfb9fb440b09ab2ff6d7ef922d9"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the additional
performance objectives and evaluation methods contained in the proposal
described in subsection (c)(4), as necessary to document the attainment of
project performance objectives; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDf97ae48b385c4064adde5955e2519cd7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>expend on each
participating eligible student for an academic year, not more than the maximum
Federal Pell Grant appropriated under section 401 of the Higher Education Act
of 1965 for such academic year, which shall be used for—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID9b42c7dbb49a423f96443a26ab60dc3e"><enum>(A)</enum><text>tuition, books,
and essential materials; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID023f49f720c446f0a876bbcc54797b6e"><enum>(B)</enum><text>related services
such as career development, substance abuse counseling, parenting skills
training, and health education.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID8a674a029769451f8a98a53cc9ca884f"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Student
eligibility</header><text>A youth offender shall be eligible for participation
in a program receiving a grant under this section if the youth offender is
eligible to be released within 5 years (including a youth offender who is
eligible for parole within such time).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDcf3d9204406641b7bdab203fd253b09a"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Length of
participation</header><text>A State correctional education agency receiving a
grant under this section shall provide educational and related services to each
participating youth offender for a period not to exceed 5 years, 1 year of
which may be devoted to study in a graduate education degree program or to
remedial education services for students who have obtained a secondary school
diploma or its recognized equivalent. Educational and related services shall
start during the period of incarceration in prison or prerelease, and the
related services may continue for not more than 1 year after release from
confinement.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDa1380b2a605045179b0f39521777b5b5"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Education
delivery systems</header><text>State correctional education agencies and
cooperating institutions shall, to the extent practicable, use high-tech
applications in developing programs to meet the requirements and goals of this
section.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID063df19db9074b8eaf05abd054ab0886"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Allocation of
funds</header><text>From the funds authorized to be appropriated under
subsection (i) for each fiscal year, the Secretary shall allot to each State an
amount that bears the same relationship to such funds as the total number of
youth offenders eligible under subsection (e) in such State bears to the total
number of such youth offenders in all States.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDe8d4566e88014ab781b6dacc98e80dfe"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Authorization
of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to
carry out this section $30,000,000 for fiscal years 2012 and
2013.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="ID8d6bb95a3a2745e2b6c16adbd6ed1bc3"><enum>115.</enum><header>Improved
reentry procedures for Federal prisoners</header>
<subsection id="ID5ba2c006cd3e4954a55d3001270f3b44"><enum>(a)</enum><header>General reentry
procedures</header><text>The Attorney General shall take such steps as are
necessary to modify existing procedures and policies to enhance case planning
and to improve the transition of offenders from the custody of the Bureau of
Prisons to the community, including placement of such individuals in community
corrections facilities.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDd77009fa5a2648d883e723cb2407df2f"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Procedures
regarding benefits</header>
<paragraph id="ID6ab6199a90134d41b3cc33a74b07b74a"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Bureau of Prisons shall establish reentry planning
procedures within the Release Preparation Program that include providing
Federal offenders with information relating to—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDec0bdcb4416c4ce5a731f7029df37755"><enum>(A)</enum><text>health and
nutrition;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDfd7dfd84646f468d9ec6043b16907747"><enum>(B)</enum><text>employment;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa2a22e47396c4779a852213cc7330268"><enum>(C)</enum><text>personal finance
and consumer skills;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID799b8728abdf4098b6b63cb8ec15ccba"><enum>(D)</enum><text>information and
community resources;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd6510633917c4ecfaaa5830f8e00f1b6"><enum>(E)</enum><text>release
requirements and procedures; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID9374cbc504c54539a64ca5949982bc03"><enum>(F)</enum><text>personal growth
and development.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDb11a54e824494d7a98f248801bce218c"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Format</header>
<subparagraph id="id234B2235667347EFA396B4C7C0204DB5"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Written
information provided to offenders</header><text>Any written information that
the Bureau of Prisons provides to offenders for reentry planning purposes shall
use common terminology and language.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id1C833A431A294DE196DC977AA4A363D6"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Medical
information</header>
<clause id="id7E60A2B736FE47C588E59592000DBB5C"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Bureau of Prisons shall provide the United States
Probation and Pretrial Services System with relevant information on the medical
care needs and the mental health treatment needs of offenders scheduled for
release and reentry into the community.</text>
</clause><clause id="idDE34F4919ECF40A99EF5BE1489C0058B"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Consideration
of information</header><text>The United States Probation and Pretrial Services
System shall take this information into account when developing supervision
plans in an effort to address the medical care and mental health care needs of
such offenders.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idC081872A587B46D581B0338BF8A49E6F"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Provision of
medications</header><text>The Bureau of Prisons shall provide offenders with a
sufficient amount of all necessary medications upon release from
custody.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="idAA678505DF894E3F83B6A5917CFF3890"><enum>C</enum><header>Economic
empowerment</header>
<section id="ID1306d7b923ed4ef4a9f6d4575239431b"><enum>121.</enum><header>Expansion and
reauthorization of the mentoring initiative for system involved youth</header>
<subsection id="ID8c7c4890eb594f9487ef9d284b8fa2d9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Expansion</header><text>Section
261(a) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42
U.S.C. 5665(a)) is amended by inserting at the end the following: <quote>The
Administrator shall expand the number of sites receiving such grants from 4 to
12.</quote></text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDd96b1d05cb5345cc8d06736c44365d5b"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Reauthorization</header><text>Section
299 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C.
5671) is amended by striking subsection (c) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id12CCF25AF030429DBF3220713E731144" style="OLC">
<subsection id="IDbc8e84fbb2c44a128e1852b7cb404d53"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Authorization
of Appropriations for Part E</header><text>There are authorized to be
appropriated to carry out part E $4,800,000 for each of the fiscal years 2012,
2013, 2014, 2015,
2016.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="ID1c931a5948684d82bdad30f955df8ab5"><enum>122.</enum><header>Reauthorization
of Learn and Serve America</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 501(a)(1)(A) of the National and
Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12681(a)(1)(A)) is amended by striking
<quote>subchapter I</quote> and all that follows and inserting
<quote>subchapter I $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2012 through
2016.</quote>.</text>
</section></subtitle><enum>II</enum><header>Gang activity
policing program</header>
<section id="IDfb34ed43fe304bd889d7b303a00036f7"><enum>201.</enum><header>Authority to
make gang activity policing grants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Attorney General may make grants to
States, units of local government, Indian tribes, other public and private
entities, and multi-jurisdictional or regional consortia thereof to—</text>
<paragraph id="idAEE3C47C56E8410C8D49D6EEDF20B472"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">increase police presence;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id392B73D97391422AAA73F11576D3AF13"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">expand and improve cooperative efforts
between law enforcement agencies and members of the community to address gang
activity problems; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id0573611547C148F89609623DFDA0F641"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">otherwise enhance public safety.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="IDaf2afaa77d794846afb7bd6d2d82da5b"><enum>202.</enum><header>Eligible
activities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Grants made under
this subtitle may include programs, projects, and other activities to—</text>
<paragraph id="ID322cf7712eca47a7ab92e53f0b60fe86"><enum>(1)</enum><text>rehire law
enforcement officers who have been laid off as a result of State and local
budget reductions for deployment to reduce gang activity;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID00ea06daa49340778cbbdd758ef312eb"><enum>(2)</enum><text>hire and train
additional career law enforcement officers for deployment to reduce gang
activity;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDca23067060ed46049e33cfd00f733e6d"><enum>(3)</enum><text>procure
equipment, technology, or support systems, or pay overtime, to increase the
number of officers deployed in gang activity policing;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDd60804c646ef4cd7b15bc83f8c4ea7c8"><enum>(4)</enum><text>hire officers to
perform intelligence activities to reduce gang activity;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID17ff59f0a33546b5a2e0d21db3e6c98a"><enum>(5)</enum><text>increase the
number of law enforcement officers involved in activities that are focused on
interaction with members of the community or on proactive gang control and
prevention by redeploying officers to such activities;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDa73e7d4d2d5f41caba33902a3a02983b"><enum>(6)</enum><text>establish and
implement innovative programs to increase and enhance proactive crime control
and gang prevention programs involving law enforcement officers and young
persons in the community;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDfa95e700ac93464a80a74f766feac037"><enum>(7)</enum><text>establish
school-based partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and local
school systems by using school resource officers who operate in and around
elementary and secondary schools to combat gangs;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDaf20a4de19d548089bcbcff440a7f246"><enum>(8)</enum><text>create and
disseminate anti-gang campaigns through broadcast advertisements and materials
to schools to highlight after school, educational, and recreational
activities;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID00749331d7fc4e3ba21f8046ec8dea93"><enum>(9)</enum><text>develop new
technologies, including interoperable communications technologies, modernized
criminal record technology, and forensic technology, to assist State and local
law enforcement agencies in reducing gang activity and to train law enforcement
officers to use such technologies; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDf0ea663a17094c6a87473f0ad9ad1942"><enum>(10)</enum><text>support the
purchase by law enforcement agencies of not more than 1 service weapon per
officer, upon hiring for deployment in gang activity policing or, if necessary,
upon the initial redeployment of an officer to gang activity policing.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="ID433d5a33c0a0433398b9ea04995f57d2"><enum>203.</enum><header>Preferential
consideration of applications for certain grants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In awarding grants under this subtitle, the
Attorney General may give preferential consideration to applicants—</text>
<paragraph id="IDd8c7d73854714404995e7bf825828bcc"><enum>(1)</enum><text>for the hiring
and rehiring of additional career law enforcement officers that involve a
non-Federal contribution exceeding the 25 percent minimum under this
subtitle;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID95c2cc7976354ae7b63dc1cba86a79fd"><enum>(2)</enum><text>that are located
in a high-intensity interstate gang activity area designated under section 204;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID2ffd16fb520f48eaa563641ed10aec6d"><enum>(3)</enum><text>that coordinate
with after-school programs, nonprofit organizations, schools, and community
organizations to create municipal-wide alliances to suppress gang
activity.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="id9159C2DD24CD4803B7FF680FFEDB3EFF"><enum>204.</enum><header>Designation of
high-intensity interstate gang activity areas</header>
<subsection id="id841ECC2609624A82A3D09C56FAA783B7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Attorney General may, after consultation with the
Governor of each affected State, designate a specific area that is located in
not less than 1 State as a high-intensity interstate gang activity area.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="idF6D8507AF38A457CAE6659A68B99971B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Factors for
consideration</header><text>In making a designation under subsection (a), the
Attorney General shall consider the extent to which—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="IDe7e31311305d4700809fc2f3427d1afa"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the area is a
significant center of gang activity;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="ID08d9e87f8e7140c0a2fc056ed2dbafc5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>State, local, and
tribal law enforcement agencies have committed resources to respond to the gang
crime problem in the area, thereby indicating a determination to respond
aggressively to the problem;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="IDb318cb10e0184b6382d6d8cbad182f99"><enum>(3)</enum><text>gang activities
in the area are having a significant harmful impact in the area, and in other
areas of the country;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="ID028846e816204ac5a1d76dc69397646c"><enum>(4)</enum><text>a significant
increase in allocation of Federal resources is necessary to respond adequately
to gang-related activities in the area; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="idBED008ED1A9140F4B958B977C8ED03AE"><enum>(5)</enum><text>any other
criteria as the Director determines to be appropriate.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id0C9A699EDF614058868BFEBFA3FC577E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Merging of
areas</header><text>To the extent that the goals of a high-intensity interstate
gang activity area overlap with the goals of a high-intensity drug trafficking
area designated under section 707 of the Office of the National Drug Control
Policy Reauthorization Act of 1988 (21 U.S.C. 1706), the Attorney General may
merge the 2 areas to serve both functions.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idD787C44C43C843AD9F36CD99C41B2B39"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Local
comment</header><text>The Attorney General may not make a final designation
under subsection (a) without consulting with and receiving comment from local
elected officials representing communities within the affected States.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="IDc95c9528925a4afdb814e59bb8ff3471"><enum>205.</enum><header>Use of
components</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Attorney
General may use any component of the Department of Justice in carrying out this
subtitle.</text>
</section><section id="ID3b4727b6baf744bf8b61d3dfba0b1b04"><enum>206.</enum><header>Minimum
amount</header>
<subsection id="idA60304396840492DBCC1DA38D85067C4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In
this section, the term <term>qualifying State</term> means any State that has
submitted an application for a grant, or in which a unit of local government,
Indian tribe, other public or private entity, or multijurisdictional or
regional consortia thereof has submitted an application for a grant, that meets
the requirements established by the Attorney General under this
subtitle.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id0D112CEC7BEC4D24862400B88CE470FC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Minimum
amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Unless all
applications submitted by any qualifying State and grantee within that State
under this subtitle have been funded, each qualifying State, together with
grantees within that State, shall receive in each fiscal year under this
subtitle an amount equal to not less than 0.5 percent of the total amount
appropriated in that fiscal year for grants under this subtitle.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="IDeead42e851b1430cbf622e832006fba5"><enum>207.</enum><header>Matching
funds</header>
<subsection id="ID1507136b80c84bc0a99f7eeba248cdea"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Federal share of the costs of a program, project, or
activity carried out with a grant under this subtitle shall be not more than 75
percent, unless the Attorney General waives, wholly or in part, the requirement
under this section of a non-Federal contribution to the costs of a program,
project, or activity.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDfd6fe2eb5a714344973f83a04b281c8d"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Hiring</header><text>For
a grant for a period exceeding 1 year for hiring or rehiring career law
enforcement officers, the Federal share shall decrease each year for up to 5
years, by an amount determined by the Attorney General, with a goal of the
continuation of the increased hiring level using State or local sources of
funding following the conclusion of Federal support.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="ID62eb7db413da456d811a52d823026f2e"><enum>208.</enum><header>Providing
additional forensic examiners</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 816 of the USA PATRIOT Act (28
U.S.C. 509 note) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID0c027c2dbd4d49459ef42a222ceb2fa8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID3be1dd085552479a9b51f6f16b58eaaa"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (4),
by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID5265a56db84649089166aee6a679e018"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID577fbc62106a40b1ac5acc59728954f9"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting
after paragraph (4) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBAD1E22FAF8B4803B92EB41847AE45DC" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID5ba58577c3cc456fa3ed30f6801f104a"><enum>(5)</enum><text>to hire
additional forensic examiners to help with forensic work and to fight gang
activity; and</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDbebc29a00df84ad8982065d639443824"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(b), by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCD5341B531E6422396F0599C70C3E91B" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID0fc307b405c04f1c8ce77b743f48d202"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Authorization
of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated
$55,000,000 for each fiscal year to carry out this
section.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" id="ID6c9e8bf3fde74a59a1e83225247974a5"><enum>209.</enum><header>Authorization
of appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subtitle $700,000,000 for each
of the fiscal years 2012 through 2016. Any amount appropriated under this
section shall remain available until expended.</text>
</section><section id="IDc6f0e5e715554d38b6b6b04512011692"><enum>210.</enum><header>Performance
evaluation</header>
<subsection id="IDfca8c0a192104d70819bc25099578395"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Monitoring
Components</header>
<paragraph id="id208AB3ABF3464217953B16FED30E7276"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Each program, project, or activity funded under this
title shall contain a monitoring component, developed in accordance with
guidelines established by the Attorney General.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idA719D713EC22431AB69D57E32A07C0EA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text>A
monitoring component required under paragraph (1) shall include—</text>
<subparagraph id="id695EA95B12894ABB903EB18B8B880846"><enum>(A)</enum><text>systematic
identification and collection of data about activities, accomplishments, and
programs throughout the life of the program, project, or activity; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id44B776F1D27E4258B704514C05548CC6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>presentation of
the data described in subparagraph (A) in a usable form.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID21ca5123f40f4bfb85ea652db4cae3a2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Evaluation
components</header>
<paragraph id="id63E4AB73D7344813BA7B20A05A79ED72"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Selected grant recipients shall be evaluated on the local
level or as part of a national evaluation, in accordance with guidelines
established by the Attorney General.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id8A742E13044E4395BEBA8B89ACB62823"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Assessment of
individual programs</header><text>An evaluation conducted under paragraph (1)
may include assessments of individual program implementations.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id61FD40FF05F449C08A4DEBE40758EFD7"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Effectiveness</header>
<subparagraph id="id78C45EA2EB6E4FC89E0C11C9CB243AA3"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>In selected jurisdictions that are able to support
outcome evaluations, the effectiveness of funded programs, projects, and
activities may be required.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idAB0811D272C042BDA0BA3298BCD313CF"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Measures</header><text>Outcome
evaluations conducted under subparagraph (A) may include—</text>
<clause id="idB0AED3C946534D7C9DA8629C78CD1416"><enum>(i)</enum><text>crime and
victimization indicators;</text>
</clause><clause id="idA4268A58F8954ECEB561BA00D10DD129"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>quality of life
measures;</text>
</clause><clause id="id0002214FBE1A46149F43EC6563DA771C"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>community
perceptions; and</text>
</clause><clause id="idE200C03E67FE43988CFC57A854B10B0B"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>police
perceptions of their own work.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDb595c862f1c548e5b308d14077547679"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Periodic
Reviews and Reports</header><text>The Attorney General may require a grant
recipient to submit to the Attorney General the results of the monitoring and
evaluations required under subsections (a) and (b) and such other data and
information as the Attorney General determines to be reasonably
necessary.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID19d9ff202eac4edfb1baf498e2cf45f6"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Report to
Congress</header>
<paragraph id="id6291198F630E493580868C905967F8F5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Beginning not later than October 1, 2012, the Attorney
General shall submit to Congress annual reports describing the extent to which
the approaches under section 202 have been successful in reducing the rate of
gang activity in the communities in which the approaches have been carried
out.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id60A943EB6D4445F7A99FE994F7F1A0B9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>A
report submitted under paragraph (1) shall describe the extent and
effectiveness to which the various approaches have—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID93667366dc6c4f1c916fb837c3a63e94"><enum>(A)</enum><text>reduced recorded
crime and disorder incidents related to criminal street gangs;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID48c696b0481e48848b29bbeae28458c2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>reduced public
fear and perceptions about criminal street gangs;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID87c92a7bb82740e3b41d7243153d5cb5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>reduced calls for
police service related to criminal street gangs;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID89bc9ddd1904436e841302e557d92754"><enum>(D)</enum><text>reduced criminal
street gang homicides;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID1106d05c31a54c5996860da4ab2fd375"><enum>(E)</enum><text>reduced criminal
street gang drug crimes; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID6e43c5868cce4855a1cc262ff7be859c"><enum>(F)</enum><text>improved
perceptions of safety among neighborhood youth, other community members, and
local merchants.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header>Punishment and
improved crime data</header>
<subtitle id="idB7893EADCBAB4D6FBBE648F725994DEE"><enum>A</enum><header>Gang
crimes</header>
<section id="ID00bedf5e35d3446e9446a9e3f3b4d93d"><enum>301.</enum><header>Criminal
street gangs</header>
<subsection id="ID9041bb84175147c0a0e1332b2d83a94a"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Criminal street
gang prosecutions</header><text>Section 521 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCA25030522F04A458C5D72CFC41DF22E" style="USC">
<section id="ID5f8597d47de74e858fd6a17fb17dc717"><enum>521.</enum><header>Criminal
street gang prosecutions</header>
<subsection id="ID165126d74ef04ecc867a3883e08e57a9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>As
used in this chapter:</text>
<paragraph id="ID2573ad5d8f7e4cea848c9c3b19a5101c"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Criminal street
gang</header><text>The term <term>criminal street gang</term> means a formal or
informal continually operating group, club, organization, or association of 5
or more individuals—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID2a45d1f08d3b42f68f434a2a39c6d496"><enum>(A)</enum><text>who individually,
jointly, or in combination, have knowingly committed or attempted to commit for
the direct or indirect benefit of, at the direction of, in furtherance of, or
in association with the group, club organization, or association at least 2
separate acts, each of which is a predicate gang crime—</text>
<clause id="ID00362dabcdd04be39401c8671cc7b88d"><enum>(i)</enum><text>1
of which occurs after the date of enactment of the Fighting Gangs and
Empowering Youth Act of 2010;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID54422d8b91074e3a844866419cace068"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the last of
which occurs not later than 5 years after the commission of a prior predicate
gang crime (excluding any period of imprisonment); and</text>
</clause><clause id="IDcc9a504508da44f5a986025c8124b903"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>1 of which is a
crime of violence or involves manufacturing, importing, distributing,
possessing with intent to distribute, or otherwise dealing in a controlled
substance or listed chemical (as those terms are defined in section 102 of the
Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802));</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID71d77b06d01a4908b2eb35eff80972be"><enum>(B)</enum><text>whose purpose or
purposes is the commission of at least 2 separate criminal acts, each of which
is a predicate gang crime; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDb3527fa69a314a56ad8f7dae4ce5f8bb"><enum>(C)</enum><text>whose activities
affect interstate or foreign commerce, or involve the use of any facility of,
or travel in, interstate or foreign commerce.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID26e8a212f863460cacf13399b2e54972"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Predicate gang
crime</header><text>The term <term>predicate gang crime</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDc85486939d12442393dac62d68eccad4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any act, threat,
conspiracy, or attempted act, which is chargeable under Federal or State law
and punishable by imprisonment for more than 1 year involving—</text>
<clause id="IDd93944fc2608482f9b5e6efcd0228981"><enum>(i)</enum><text>murder;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDa38fe9efbe2443708d2990cc92e03d64"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>manslaughter;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDed36719ad3154e67b47c5b2c1f182f20"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>maiming;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID1f05b60a3d2a4a3495286ebe2e57c40e"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>assault with a
dangerous weapon;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID47ea19c93f844329a46a6989edabfe5b"><enum>(v)</enum><text>assault resulting
in serious bodily injury;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID10d26987aefa47408198dc9571b7941d"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>kidnapping;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID0f5e50c9d5af4351a080a40aa40e0f41"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>robbery;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDbb885e7e27c44175b596ccb6c222dc94"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>extortion;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID9db639e95e984abeaf55956cc691cf5c"><enum>(ix)</enum><text>arson;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID8fcb8e73fd6b4156a57d3ceb27f0b254"><enum>(x)</enum><text>tampering with or
retaliating against a witness, victim, or informant;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID71b6fe0adf724f4ea3fee50210c2e76b"><enum>(xi)</enum><text>burglary;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID539af46c97644cf6a4b9df65e57afbed"><enum>(xii)</enum><text>sexual
assault;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID9454afabd0f7427b807cd723b33eaecd"><enum>(xiii)</enum><text>carjacking;
or</text>
</clause><clause id="ID51424b7c86d748c19263e693f469548f"><enum>(xiv)</enum><text>manufacturing,
importing, distributing, possessing with intent to distribute, or otherwise
dealing in a controlled substance or listed chemicals (as those terms are
defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C.
802));</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID8723bd2c95384676942e59d45c33d0ce"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any act
punishable by imprisonment for more than 1 year under—</text>
<clause id="IDba64566323ed4c91b71da1aca741a1ef"><enum>(i)</enum><text>section 844
(relating to explosive materials);</text>
</clause><clause id="ID6d5511be05ad4cf68d50c1889853918a"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>section
922(g)(1) (where the underlying conviction is a violent felony (as defined in
section 924(e)(2)(B) of this title) or is a serious drug offense (as defined in
section 924(e)(2)(A) of this title));</text>
</clause><clause id="ID0f92a381c2b445cdaa620fdeab581ddb"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>subsection
(a)(2), (b), (c), (g), or (h) of section 924 (relating to receipt, possession,
and transfer of firearms);</text>
</clause><clause id="ID953de9bde25948bbb9c8f581ff0e5807"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>section 930
(relating to possession of firearms and dangerous weapons in Federal
facilities);</text>
</clause><clause id="ID2afc1f53439449b7ad1c1863d5cccfb6"><enum>(v)</enum><text>section 931
(relating to purchase, ownership, or possession of body armor by violent
felons);</text>
</clause><clause id="ID422935c46a8d46bdb2aab0b3316d7361"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>sections 1028
and 1029 (relating to fraud and related activity in connection with
identification documents or access devices);</text>
</clause><clause id="ID138aafb525fc473dab7268e8d981b188"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>section 1512
(relating to tampering with a witness, victim, or informant) or section 1513
(relating to retaliating against a witness, victim, or informant);</text>
</clause><clause id="ID14ad1e703d4e41c593bd382bed0253bb"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>section 1951
(relating to interference with commerce, robbery or extortion);</text>
</clause><clause id="IDc81058c62aed44e2b7e30b5278baf3e1"><enum>(ix)</enum><text>section 1952
(relating to racketeering);</text>
</clause><clause id="IDb52190f7958f44b48a9ad50a9deab6ac"><enum>(x)</enum><text>section 1956
(relating to the laundering of monetary instruments);</text>
</clause><clause id="ID97a5428961064b559b44f02b3cae31f6"><enum>(xi)</enum><text>section 1957
(relating to engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from
specified unlawful activity);</text>
</clause><clause id="ID905b1804e21a40c3b8347b6a06a95247"><enum>(xii)</enum><text>section 1958
(relating to use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of
murder-for-hire); or</text>
</clause><clause id="ID02b41828a627498abc1650f12db06ba8"><enum>(xiii)</enum><text>sections 2312
through 2315 (relating to interstate transportation of stolen motor vehicles or
stolen property); or</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id96519EAD0EB1445CBA5CDFC24501C812"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any crime
involving aggravated sexual abuse, sexual assault, pimping or pandering
involving prostitution, sexual exploitation of children (including sections
2251, 2251A, 2252 and 2260), peonage, slavery, or trafficking in persons
(including sections 1581 through 1592) and sections 2421 through 2427 (relating
to transport for illegal sexual activity).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID4e92d853fb7c48d09391b2f5f40274df"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Sexual
assault</header><text>The term <term>sexual assault</term> means any offense
that involves conduct that would violate chapter 109A if the conduct occurred
in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United
States.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID48f519222f8b4d5087be7c2222976453"><enum>(4)</enum><header>State</header><text>The
term <term>State</term> means each of the several States of the United States,
the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the
United States.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID456a48378ba24b2f90f6936d558dc212"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Pattern of
criminal gang activity</header><text>The term <term>pattern of criminal gang
activity</term> means 2 or more predicate gang crimes that are related to each
other or to related to the membership of the perpetrator in a group, club or
association.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID75e7a9fd69de446e91390541bf7681f6"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Participation
in criminal street gangs</header><text>It shall be unlawful—</text>
<paragraph id="IDba7db3f8f2fc4ea7bfbe89199dbb4f6e"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to engage, or
conspire, or attempt to engage in a pattern of criminal gang activity—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID3415d7a574f74d168cc384af2e18b0a5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in furtherance or
in aid of the illegal activities of a criminal street gang;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDaf5b65af711e4e1a9935c72d3a0e1760"><enum>(B)</enum><text>for the purpose
of gaining entrance to or maintaining or increasing position in such a gang;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID4c4a881085a0461ca4d47d012c665a16"><enum>(C)</enum><text>for the direct or
indirect benefit of the criminal street gang, or in association with the
criminal street gang; or</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID4320af4bf6ae46ccb24520a063ae0598"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to employ, use,
command, counsel, persuade, induce, entice, or coerce any individual to commit,
cause to commit, or facilitate the commission of, a predicate gang
crime—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID9c40d7e767244595aa8676723ef02cf6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in furtherance or
in aid of the activities of a criminal street gang;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa85d08ee42dd434fb9b30b0e7d2b3b92"><enum>(B)</enum><text>for the purpose
of gaining entrance to or maintaining or increasing position in such a gang;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDac4c83d8ed024300a8129e8dba936a86"><enum>(C)</enum><text>for the direct or
indirect benefit of the criminal street gang, or in association with the
criminal street gang.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDbb68c13fd0514037bfc9e4d2da227c69"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Penalties</header><text>Whoever
violates subsection (b)—</text>
<paragraph id="IDada23336835947fd952cbf07549a7c23"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall be fined
under this title, imprisoned for not more than 30 years, or both; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID90efeb68275942b8bdf50493506dadbd"><enum>(2)</enum><text>if the violation
is based on a predicate gang crime for which the maximum penalty includes life
imprisonment, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for any term of years
or for life, or both.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID3dd82c685fcc4eb980033d6f47b47b87"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Civil
procedures</header><text>Property subject to forfeiture under paragraph (1) may
be forfeited in a civil case under the procedures set forth in chapter 46 of
this
title.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="IDad3ca9506f484a58a8db0afe2f5db2b6"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 26 of
title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to
section 521 and inserting the following:</text>
<toc>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section"><quote>521. Criminal street
gang prosecutions.</quote>.</toc-entry>
</toc>
</subsection></section><section id="ID57002e24e1664345933d05d6cfc5ccaa"><enum>302.</enum><header>Solicitation
or recruitment of persons and violent crimes in furtherance or in aid of
criminal street gangs</header>
<subsection id="ID25c694278f6d490f9fb782f2014b05ac"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Solicitation or
recruitment of persons in criminal street gang activity</header><text>Chapter
26 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFE7A823F7C35488BB62729C83B66B718" style="USC">
<section id="ID0539b99f717849b8a1381836b13f227c"><enum>522.</enum><header>Recruitment of
persons to participate in a criminal street gang</header>
<subsection id="ID0e410f02b37a406987a3e550398606ef"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Prohibited
Acts</header><text>It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly recruit,
employ, solicit, induce, command, or cause another person to be or remain as a
member of a criminal street gang, or conspire to do so, with the intent to
cause that person to participate in a predicate gang crime, if the defendant
travels in interstate or foreign commerce in the course of the offense, or if
the activities of that criminal street gang are in or affect interstate or
foreign commerce.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID2bf7f29e2a3843fd83c25124dce3ec69"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definition of
minor</header><text>In this section, the term <term>minor</term> means a person
who is less than 18 years of age.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDe0a470b76e0f469bbafb38a6c32a0f9d"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Penalties</header><text>Any
person who violates subsection (a) shall—</text>
<paragraph id="ID008b42b274934611bdd13115a84e11f8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>be imprisoned not
more than 10 years, fined under this title, or both;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID018c7468fc9348f8ae1e6fa5086b05d9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>if the person
recruited, solicited, induced, commanded, or caused to participate or remain in
a criminal street gang is under the age of 18 years—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID1909ef8dbc2c4bca878c03cba9b8ba4c"><enum>(A)</enum><text>be imprisoned for
not more than 20 years, fined under this title, or both; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDc8c8bfc427e24526b72aa42cf45fa6e3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>at the discretion
of the sentencing judge, be liable for any costs incurred by the Federal
Government, or by any State or local government, for housing, maintaining, and
treating the person until the person attains the age of 18 years; or</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID53f3f73c07f441838b174af416f36d8c"><enum>(3)</enum><text>be subjected to
an enhanced term of imprisonment if the person who recruited, solicited,
induced, commanded, or caused another person to participate in a criminal
street gang is currently incarcerated when the activity occurs.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="idD3F8D8CF2BD84EB7A273BBC3404355A2"><enum>523.</enum><header>Violent crimes
in furtherance or in aid of a criminal street gang</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Any
person who, for the purpose of gaining entrance to or maintaining or increasing
position in, or in furtherance or in aid of, or for the direct or indirect
benefit of, or in purposeful association with a criminal street gang, or as
consideration for the receipt of, or as consideration for a promise or
agreement to pay, anything of pecuniary value to or from a criminal street
gang, murders, kidnaps, sexually assaults, maims, assaults with a dangerous
weapon, commits assault resulting in serious bodily injury upon, commits any
other predicate gang crime or threatens to commit a crime of violence against
any individual, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be punished, in
addition and consecutive to the punishment provided for any other violation of
this chapter—</text>
<paragraph id="ID4a11c659857648f9849c91d23bb33954"><enum>(1)</enum><text>for murder, by
imprisonment for any term of years or for life, a fine under this title, or
both;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID4da2a60db99249f8a9a93283fce8d9cd"><enum>(2)</enum><text>for kidnapping or
sexual assault, by imprisonment for any term of years or for life, a fine under
this title, or both;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID93a4a973b3aa49d49f55e8720dba1b7d"><enum>(3)</enum><text>for maiming, by
imprisonment for any term of years or for life, a fine under this title, or
both;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDe6957e03199d49c0bb845b195e30f368"><enum>(4)</enum><text>for assault with
a dangerous weapon or assault resulting in serious bodily injury, by
imprisonment for not more than 30 years, a fine under this title, or
both;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDbf074387e7124635b73e72ed29f20762"><enum>(5)</enum><text>for any other
predicate gang crime, by imprisonment for not more than 20 years, a fine under
this title, or both;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDfc1dd1faf6b249dc96d8820d4a0e2bb8"><enum>(6)</enum><text>for threatening
to commit a crime of violence specified in paragraphs (1) through (4), by
imprisonment for not more than 10 years, a fine under this title, or
both;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID1384f987d3f24f1ebc510f451c96bc0e"><enum>(7)</enum><text>for attempting or
conspiring to commit murder, kidnapping, maiming, or sexual assault, by
imprisonment for not more than 30 years, a fine under this title, or both;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID7c4f0050e3a341709a5f041917f24c61"><enum>(8)</enum><text>for attempting or
conspiring to commit a crime involving assault with a dangerous weapon or
assault resulting in serious bodily injury, by imprisonment for not more than
20 years, a fine under this title, or
both.</text>
</paragraph></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="ID72ec43b60ac04f6ca676710fa02212ec"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 26 of
title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7CD6191FBA2D45A3A65AA99FDE64B6AC" style="OLC">
<toc>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">522. Recruitment of persons to
participate in a criminal street gang.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">523. Violent crimes in
furtherance of a criminal street
gang.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="id7DF26D8B87B7482D9A5436402A82B89A"><enum>303.</enum><header>Interstate and
foreign travel or transportation in aid of racketeering enterprises and
criminal street gangs</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
1952 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="IDe854c5024e6d48bb99f3fe9d383e85a4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDd1e66197bd004167a8703b15cb365039"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>and thereafter performs or attempts to perform</quote> and inserting
<quote>and thereafter performs, or attempts or conspires to perform</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDea04efe775db4565a85d1561096a540f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>5 years</quote> and inserting <quote>10 years</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDfdd65981a61f47a9a894ab5a56d6e193"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating
subsections (b) and (c) as subsections (c) and (d), respectively;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID055ed19ea1204bc1b1aa8adb035d049a"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting
after subsection (a) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD7005C70EB04491397A7F88ABFB162F7" style="OLC">
<subsection id="ID3cdbb274a4834fc39a86ea1656429e95"><enum>(b)</enum><text>Whoever travels
in interstate or foreign commerce or uses the mail or any facility in
interstate or foreign commerce, with the intent to kill, assault, bribe, force,
intimidate, or threaten any person, to delay or influence the testimony of, or
prevent from testifying, a witness in a State criminal proceeding and
thereafter performs, or attempts or conspires to perform, an act described in
this subsection, shall—</text>
<paragraph id="ID04a6151d5de54215b518f25c40ee0790"><enum>(1)</enum><text>be fined under
this title, imprisoned for any term of years, or both; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID88e53a5ec40e49cfb606f55de33b1ce0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>if death results,
imprisoned for any term of years or for
life.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID79c223f118c949b1b857fab194c8601f"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)(2), as redesignated under subparagraph (B), by inserting
<quote>intimidation of, or retaliation against, a witness, victim, juror, or
informant,</quote> after <quote>extortion, bribery,</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="ID47af3685c3aa4bad945db7c63c6ed73e"><enum>304.</enum><header>Amendments
relating to violent crime in areas of exclusive Federal jurisdiction</header>
<subsection id="ID857a33deaf1d4900b310d4e7b228190f"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Assault within
maritime and territorial jurisdiction of United States</header><text>Section
113(a)(3) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>with
intent to do bodily harm, and without just cause or excuse,</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID0b0e473c6d694ae0a61c4439cf52aed2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Manslaughter</header><text>Section
1112(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by—</text>
<paragraph id="IDedce812305eb48e7ab44826190aef0e7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>striking
<quote>15 years</quote> and inserting <quote>20 years</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID7cfd36c5411b4776bff32d30f2398598"><enum>(2)</enum><text>striking <quote>8
years</quote> and inserting <quote>10 years</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID1d5b30b8ad8a4ad89779b2763044a581"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Offenses
committed within indian country</header><text>Section 1153(a) of title 18,
United States Code, is amended by inserting <quote>an offense for which the
maximum statutory term of imprisonment under section 1363 is greater than 5
years,</quote> after <quote>a felony under chapter 109A,</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID35ed1915a7304c56ba470f9c50c566d3"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Carjacking</header><text>Section
2119 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>, with the
intent to cause death or serious bodily harm</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID950a1dfc79634e12b29a58b4b0553aec"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Clarification
of prohibition on firearm transfer To commit crime of violence or drug
trafficking crime</header><text>Section 924(h) of title 18, United States Code,
is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID88ffc0c418164be2a4727104a9c205c3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>, or will be possessed in furtherance of,</quote> after
<quote>commit</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID2a6e086871ca427eb8f9e9787ab650ae"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>10 years</quote> and inserting <quote>20 years</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDea851464204c449c8a9ca4728f694583"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Amendment of
special sentencing provision</header><text>Section 3582(d) of title 18, United
States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID59f445d1cde14e01899480e6f030dccc"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>chapter 95 (racketeering) or 96 (racketeer influenced and corrupt
organizations) of this title</quote> and inserting <quote>section 521 (criminal
street gangs) or 523 (violent crimes in furtherance or in aid of criminal
street gangs), in chapter 95 (racketeering) or 96 (racketeer influenced and
corrupt organizations),</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID2b3142e598c84baea3f6460257418149"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>a criminal street gang or</quote> before <quote>an illegal
enterprise</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID5bbc169611b54ef1aad9fb58149d0f12"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment relating to orders for restitution</header><text>Section 3663(c)(4)
of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>chapter 46 or
chapter 96 of this title</quote> and inserting <quote>section 521, chapter 46,
or chapter 96 of this title</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID2917a4bb08644a4bbf56946ebe31d759"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Special
provision for indian country</header><text>No person subject to the criminal
jurisdiction of an Indian tribal government shall be subject to section 3559(e)
of title 18, United States Code, for any offense for which Federal jurisdiction
is solely predicated on the fact that the offense was committed in Indian
country (as defined in section 1151 of such title 18) and which occurs within
the boundaries of such Indian country, unless the governing body of such Indian
tribe elects to subject the persons under the criminal jurisdiction of the
tribe to section 3559(e) of such title 18.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="ID3f886a45d42c429ea8957b88cc0ba37b"><enum>305.</enum><header>Increased
penalties for use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of
murder-for-hire and other felony crimes of violence</header>
<subsection id="IDead2d200e4b34deb935624379252f91a"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 1958 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID57e7530e16ff492b99c1771776d106b6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking the
heading and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFA1B2ADC57D74D3C8227FFE6F0B7B9AC" style="OLC">
<section id="ID70c4dfa2f52841768bdf7dd4e781e1d3" section-type="undesignated-section"><enum>1958.</enum><header>Use of interstate
commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire and other felony
crimes of
violence</header>
</section><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID5510e83b076f40c2b4e83e518f9d5a38"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(a), by striking <quote>Whoever</quote> and all that follows through
<quote>conspires to do so</quote> and inserting the following: “Any person who
travels in or causes another (including the intended victim) to travel in
interstate or foreign commerce, or uses or causes another (including the
intended victim) to use the mail or any facility in interstate or foreign
commerce, with intent that a murder or other felony crime of violence be
committed in violation of the laws of any State or the United States as
consideration for the receipt of, or as consideration for a promise or
agreement to pay, anything of pecuniary value, or who conspires to do
so”;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID170af7f59b9240da95bccada8734e133"><enum>(3)</enum><text>striking
<quote>ten years</quote> and inserting <quote>20 years</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID5edd2b388a31499897bbb749161a359c"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>twenty years</quote> and inserting <quote>30 years</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID7ff3dd54b8ae42d9b79614635a3243ba"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming amendment</header><text>The table of sections at the beginning of
chapter 95 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking the item
relating to section 1958 and inserting the following:</text>
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<toc>
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commission of murder-for-hire and other felony crimes of
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</subsection></section><section id="ID8a2604751a2342ad8d26893d308f4376"><enum>306.</enum><header>Amendment of
sentencing guidelines relating to certain gang and violent crimes</header>
<subsection id="ID0f7131ef6dea4c6d86601c42002ce4f4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Directive to
the United States sentencing commission</header><text>Pursuant to its authority
under section 994(p) of title 28, United States Code, and in accordance with
this section, the United States Sentencing Commission shall review and, if
appropriate, amend its guidelines and its policy statements to conform to the
amendments made by this title.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID3fa3b95759254c9abc885564583a2a9e"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Requirements</header><text>In
carrying out this section, the Sentencing Commission shall—</text>
<paragraph id="ID67513bc36cdf4d808cc454cf0c08b114"><enum>(1)</enum><text>establish new
guidelines and policy statements, as warranted, in order to implement new or
revised criminal offenses created under this title;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID36e75d35515c4225b94bf98254e8f270"><enum>(2)</enum><text>ensure that the
sentencing guidelines and policy statements reflect the serious nature of the
offenses and the penalties set forth in this title, the growing incidence of
serious gang and violent crimes, and the need to modify the sentencing
guidelines and policy statements to deter, prevent, and punish such
offenses;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDc3eb9b3cbc6c45b9a4cbfb25836ad0f7"><enum>(3)</enum><text>consider the
extent to which the guidelines and policy statements adequately address—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID42a51546c65347198350ef922f4988bf"><enum>(A)</enum><text>whether the
guideline offense levels and enhancements for gang and violent crimes—</text>
<clause id="IDfd483bd600784402bddb67f95ba85dbb"><enum>(i)</enum><text>are
sufficient to deter and punish such offenses; and</text>
</clause><clause id="ID302289d81ce944bb871abc38a56dd1c4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>are adequate in
view of the statutory increases in penalties contained in the amendments made
by this title; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDf9481e56a11d477aa595c7c1091aec03"><enum>(B)</enum><text>whether any
existing or new specific offense characteristics should be added to reflect
congressional intent to increase gang and violent crime penalties, punish
offenders, and deter gang and violent crime;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDd2173b068559410f909f4700b12bc0c9"><enum>(4)</enum><text>assure reasonable
consistency with other relevant directives and with other sentencing
guidelines;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDe9e08e7a38734b90b4677af614f6c2c0"><enum>(5)</enum><text>account for any
additional aggravating or mitigating circumstances that might justify
exceptions to the generally applicable sentencing ranges;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDa6c1ce4f04af4fe9a17dad5326bf9f85"><enum>(6)</enum><text>make any
necessary conforming changes to the sentencing guidelines; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDcf60eb0e22eb423ea6996de92c928a54"><enum>(7)</enum><text>assure that the
guidelines adequately meet the purposes of sentencing under section 3553(a)(2)
of title 18, United States Code.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="ID2aa62d76b3104b18bb38f9a207dd126d"><enum>307.</enum><header>Study on
expanding Federal authority for juvenile offenders</header>
<subsection id="IDce28a7c0cc024031abe5755ec016659a"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 9 months after the date of enactment of
this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the
Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of
the House of Representatives a report on the costs and benefits associated with
expanding Federal authority to prosecute offenders under the age of 18 years
who are gang members who commit criminal offenses.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID5a4ba33567fb4bc4940e5397366e1c17"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The
report submitted under subsection (a) shall—</text>
<paragraph id="IDe38ffd1c89eb4e4ebd0d28bcc74a5e7c"><enum>(1)</enum><text>examine the
ability of the judicial systems of the States to respond effectively to
juveniles who are members of criminal street gangs, as that term is defined in
section 521 of title 18, United States Code, as amended by this Act;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID6612caa542da46849e6b649c7aee99be"><enum>(2)</enum><text>examine the
extent to which offenders who are 16 and 17 years old are members of criminal
street gangs, and are accused of committing violent crimes and prosecuted in
the adult criminal justice systems of the individual States;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDd3577025b341489884d689ac16dfe644"><enum>(3)</enum><text>determine the
percentage of crimes committed by members of criminal street gangs that are
committed by offenders who are 16 and 17 years old;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDbe78b96ee7054e8eba234591fe4947ed"><enum>(4)</enum><text>examine the
extent to which United States attorneys bring criminal indictments and
prosecute offenders under the age of 18 years, and the extent to which United
States Attorneys’ offices include prosecutors with experience prosecuting
juveniles for adult criminal violations;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID9b856d00fbc4477d882dcf9c22ad721f"><enum>(5)</enum><text>examine the
extent to which the Bureau of Prisons houses offenders under the age of 18
years, and has the ability and experience to meet the needs of young
offenders;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID4a65c157c86a48319a7430f117e29846"><enum>(6)</enum><text>estimate the cost
to the Federal Government of prosecuting and incarcerating members of criminal
street gangs who are 16 or 17 years old and are accused of violent crimes;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDadc9e896198d462b90c582873c043542"><enum>(7)</enum><text>detail any
benefits for Federal prosecutions that would be realized by expanding Federal
authority to bring charges against members of criminal street gangs who are 16
or 17 years old and are accused of violent crimes.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="ID0327a5dcd5c74a28a0b8e9a50d9416b3"><enum>308.</enum><header>Study on
examining the role of gangs in prisons</header>
<subsection id="ID9080c0fdc7094874aee8e2005caf4727"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
General</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this
Act, the Bureau of Prisons shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of
the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a
report on the prevalence of gangs in prisons.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDa177714dbe0441eb9920d03ddbb6c069"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The
report submitted under subsection (a) shall—</text>
<paragraph id="IDb133309eb9e444ee97f9bcf0c15e834a"><enum>(1)</enum><text>investigate the
growth of gangs in our prison system;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID2aeeec7dfc61435e8d616d5440b7b031"><enum>(2)</enum><text>examine the
extent to which non-gang member offenders join gangs after arrival in
prison;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID5a45f3ced8b0432e8e078bd33c803c2c"><enum>(3)</enum><text>examine the
extent to which current offenders and members of criminal street gangs recruit,
employ, solicit, induce, command, or cause another person to be a member of a
criminal street gang after arrival in prison;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID8fb250c761654a1db8b1a2c05133e127"><enum>(4)</enum><text>determine the
impact of incarcerating members of similar criminal street gangs in the same
prison;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID27b3a57b1ec846d592ab766bff544125"><enum>(5)</enum><text>estimate the cost
to the Federal Government of incarcerating members of similar criminal street
gangs in different prisons; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID204b876271ab472b9634cb04365dba7d"><enum>(6)</enum><text>provide any
suggestions on how to suppress the growth of criminal street gangs in our
prison system.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="id7EA88FBF37F541F2B67F8C2ADA7E55BC"><enum>B</enum><header>Firearms
offenses</header>
<section id="ID3fdd09082d4e43eebd9f0ec27404341d"><enum>311.</enum><header>Increased
penalties for use of firearm in crime of violence or drug trafficking
crime</header>
<subsection id="ID622b1ee389a84812a1b5f1299a475889"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 924(c)(1)(A) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID2080448cbd774e5fb6296e8a3fa0aea7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>shall</quote> and inserting <quote>or conspires to use, carry, or
possess a firearm during and in relation to any such crime shall, for each
instance in which the firearm is so used, carried, or possessed</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDd063009832b44143bc954d8449a153d8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in clause
(i)—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDa8609f5bedea4c4d981594c5558af4c8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>5 years</quote> and inserting <quote>7 years</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDbfa8f20da9e348d18caf8f3e8379cb5c"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding
<quote>or</quote> at the end;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDce53ff4e0c6a444da625c30029329749"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking
clause (ii); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID74483c91430046a882c4fdeb2e5d8ad8"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by redesignating
clause (iii) as clause (ii).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID087d7182f6ef41969d99ded06fcb4fe0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
amendments</header><text>Section 924 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID5e547e2f14624f20b3cadec1a846241f"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDa815aedcb1cc466c865ac79c0bcc0561"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
paragraph (4); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID06ecfd02f0d2499586ba3a86870c5a59"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraph (5) as paragraph (4); and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID7015edc7353e4623a5a89b137955b8b3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (o).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="id5B8E1372A2F3498EB6071C2D6F7C7482"><enum>C</enum><header>Crime
data</header>
<section id="ID2d934182e3254d6b937e645b1d6bc5e4"><enum>321.</enum><header>Standardization
of crime reporting and investigation</header>
<subsection id="ID628d83989341450789eff17f428d51d5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Expanding
uniform crime reporting</header><text>Section 7332(c) of the Uniform Federal
Crime Reporting Act of 1988 (28 U.S.C. 534 note) is amended by adding at the
end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="ID8ea98268a6b546378036d262772e8a0f"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Juvenile
crime</header><text>The Attorney General shall create a separate category in
the Uniform Crime Reports to distinguish criminal offenses committed by
juveniles.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID34d52da94f48443ea81d38378068eea6"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Reporting by
States and local governments</header>
<subparagraph id="ID2f156c6139e7428dbf8d73581f3f8178"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>For each fiscal year beginning after the date of
enactment of the Fighting Gangs and Empowering Youth Act of 2010, all
departments and agencies within a State or unit of local government which
routinely investigate complaints of criminal activity, shall meet the
requirements of paragraph (2).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID7a004036881941c59291277d957c6d95"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Ineligibility
for funds</header><text>For any fiscal year beginning after the date of
enactment of the Fighting Gangs and Empowering Youth Act of 2010, a State or
unit of local government that fails to comply with subparagraph (A) shall not
be eligible to receive any of the funds that would otherwise be allocated for
that fiscal year to the State or unit of local government under subtitle A of
title II of such Act.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDfb1b50b5675541e8b0178a30035da659"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Reallocation</header><text>Amounts
not allocated to a State or unit of local government under the subtitle
referred to in subparagraph (B) for failure to fully comply with subparagraph
(A) shall be reallocated under that subtitle to States and units of local
government that have not failed to comply with such subparagraph.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDf322df419177422dbcceb9bf3a1a053a"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Waiver</header><text>The
Attorney General shall waive the requirements of subparagraph (A) if compliance
with such subparagraph by a State or unit of local government would be
unconstitutional under the constitution of the applicable
State.</text>
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</subsection><subsection id="ID752762b0369741a3b9023a358cc4a829"><enum>(b)</enum><header>National
strategy for investigation coordination</header><text>Section 7332 of the
Uniform Federal Crime Reporting Act of 1988 (28 U.S.C. 534 note) is amended by
adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="ID075dd73d86d843ef8598c51f6a8b1541"><enum>(h)</enum><header>National
strategy for investigation coordination</header>
<paragraph id="ID5d21a93f295b418d880771ae2af2643a"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Coordination</header><text>The
Attorney General shall develop a national strategy to coordinate, consolidate,
and standardize all investigations by Federal law enforcement agencies of
crimes that are included in the Uniform Crime Reports.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDf7365445f1da40c98f504c9714f5fbe9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not
later than January 1, 2012, the Attorney General shall submit a report to the
President and Congress—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID80702854561046a8855dc314c077ce7c"><enum>(A)</enum><text>outlining the
strategy developed under paragraph (1); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID7e27ca3b355b4e799b7640105969acd9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>describing the
efforts and strategy of the Department of Justice in consolidating and
standardizing data on all crimes that are included in the Uniform Crime
Reports.</text>
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</subsection></section><section id="ID189eb692e9214ec18dbe1ad74ae6997c"><enum>322.</enum><header>Consolidating
and standardizing gang-related crime data</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 150008 of the Violent Crime Control
and law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14062) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="IDa5b837605b1d48fd8de3a31e39c6d245"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a), by inserting <quote>, consolidate, and standardize all</quote> after
<quote>strategy to coordinate</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID981597961fb54858b64081e3d3276f6d"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(b), by striking <quote>acquire and collect</quote> and inserting
<quote>acquire, collect, consolidate, and standardize all</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID42e99e51d4ed410994dde855e8029ad3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by amending
subsection (c) to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="ID264206be764b442e9d3d180dc82144ad"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not
later than January 1, 2012, the Attorney General shall submit a report to the
President and Congress—</text>
<paragraph id="IDf7a0fccae82a4e92a5889f7aeab7b20f"><enum>(1)</enum><text>outlining the
strategy developed under subsection (a); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID963862ad0b504fd2bf9d98f76e9c6f40"><enum>(2)</enum><text>describing the
efforts and strategy of the Department of Justice in consolidating and
standardizing data on national gang
offenses.</text>
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</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfba6ea6c084143baacd0e0f9917a08cc"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(d), by striking <quote>$1,000,000 for fiscal year 1996</quote> and inserting
<quote>$2,000,000 for fiscal year 2012</quote>.</text>
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