[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2585 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2585

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 28, 2013

 Ms. Jackson Lee (for herself, Mr. Honda, Mr. Holt, and Mr. Hinojosa) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


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

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Juvenile Accountability Block Grant 
Reauthorization and the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 
2013''.

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

    (a) Bullying Prevention and Intervention.--
            (1) In general.--Paragraph (13) of section 1801(b) of the 
        Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
        3796ee(b)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(13) establishing and maintaining accountability-based 
        programs that are designed to enhance school safety, which 
        programs may include research-based bullying prevention, 
        cyberbullying prevention, and gang prevention programs, as well 
        as intervention programs regarding bullying;''.
            (2) Sense of congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
        that the use of best practices is encouraged for all activities 
        for which grants under part R of title I of the Omnibus Crime 
        Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 may be used.
    (b) Reauthorization of Juvenile Accountability Block Grants.--
Section 1810(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3796ee-10(a)) is amended by 
inserting before the period at the end the following: ``and such funds 
as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018''.
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