[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3028 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3028

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
 provide that the Attorney General may give preferential consideration 
  for grants under part Q of title I of that Act to applications from 
jurisdictions which have in place laws or ordinances to make available 
 to the public grand jury transcripts and other records considered by 
                 grand juries, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 10, 2015

 Mr. Jeffries (for himself, Mrs. Lawrence, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Bass, 
  Mr. Meeks, and Ms. Judy Chu of California) 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 
 provide that the Attorney General may give preferential consideration 
  for grants under part Q of title I of that Act to applications from 
jurisdictions which have in place laws or ordinances to make available 
 to the public grand jury transcripts and other records considered by 
                 grand juries, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Grand Jury Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR COPS GRANTS FOR STATES WITH SUNSHINE 
              LAWS.

    Section 1701(c) of title I the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd(c)) is amended by inserting 
before the period at the end the following: ``, or to applications from 
a jurisdiction, or an entity located in a jurisdiction, which has in 
place a law or ordinance to make available to the public grand jury 
transcripts and other records considered by grand juries''.
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