[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4769 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4769

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 29, 2014

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

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                                 A BILL


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

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans Involved in Police Services 
Act of 2014''.

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

    Section 1701(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd(b)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (17) as 
        subparagraphs (A) through (Q), respectively, and by moving the 
        margins of such subparagraphs (as so redesignated) two ems to 
        the right;
            (2) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) (as so 
        redesignated by paragraph (1) of this section), by striking 
        ``The purposes for which'' and inserting ``(1) In general.--The 
        purposes for which'';
            (3) in subparagraph (Q) (as so redesignated by paragraph 
        (1) of this section), by striking ``paragraphs (1) through 
        (16)'' and inserting ``subparagraphs (A) through (P)''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(2) Troops-to-cops program.--
                    ``(A) In general.--For grants made during the 3-
                year period beginning on the date of enactment of the 
                Veterans Involved in Police Services Act of 2014, in 
                addition to the purposes described in paragraph (1), 
                grants made under subsection (a) may be used to hire 
                former members of the Armed Forces (and to pay the full 
                salary of such former members) to serve as career law 
                enforcement officers for deployment in community-
                oriented policing, particularly in jurisdictions in 
                which the violent crime rate is higher than the 
                national violent crime rate, according to the uniform 
                crime report compiled by the Federal Bureau of 
                Investigation.
                    ``(B) Definition.--In this paragraph, `former 
                member of the Armed Forces' means a member of the Armed 
                Forces of the United States who has been honorably 
                discharged from the Armed Forces of the United 
                States.''.
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