[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3872 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3872

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
  authorize public safety and community policing grants to be used to 
make grants to institutions of higher education, with priority given to 
  Predominantly Black Institutions and other similar institutions, to 
    support majors related to criminal justice, for the purpose of 
 increasing the racial diversity of law enforcement agencies, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 2, 2015

Ms. Kelly of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
  authorize public safety and community policing grants to be used to 
make grants to institutions of higher education, with priority given to 
  Predominantly Black Institutions and other similar institutions, to 
    support majors related to criminal justice, for the purpose of 
 increasing the racial diversity of law enforcement agencies, 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 ``Safe Streets and Representative 
Police Forces Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS TO INCREASE THE RACIAL DIVERSITY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT 
              AGENCIES.

    Section 1701(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (16), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (17) as paragraph (18);
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (16) the following:
            ``(17) to increase the racial diversity of law enforcement 
        agencies by awarding grants to institutions of higher education 
        (as such term is defined in section 101(a) of the Higher 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001)), with priority given to 
        Predominantly Black Institutions (as such term is defined in 
        section 318 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
        1059e)), historically Black colleges and universities (as such 
        term is defined in section 631 of the Higher Education Act of 
        1965 (20 U.S.C. 1132)), institutions of higher education at 
        which not less than 40 percent of the enrolled students are 
        Latino, and institutions of higher education at which not less 
        than 40 percent of the enrolled students are Native American, 
        to support majors related to criminal justice, including 
        psychology, sociology, pre-law, and criminal justice majors; 
        and''; and
            (4) in paragraph (18), as so redesignated, by striking 
        ``paragraphs (1) through (16)'' and inserting ``paragraphs (1) 
        through (17)''.
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