[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3980 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2nd Session
                                S. 3980

 To award grants to local educational agencies to operate after school 
     programs in certain areas with a high rate of juvenile crime.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 19, 2024

   Mrs. Blackburn (for herself and Ms. Cortez Masto) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To award grants to local educational agencies to operate after school 
     programs in certain areas with a high rate of juvenile crime.

    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 ``Advancing Frequent and Tailored 
Education to Rebuild Safe Communities and Help Orchestrate 
Opportunities and Learning Act'' or the ``AFTER SCHOOL Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) ESEA terms.--The terms ``local educational agency'' and 
        ``secondary school'' have the meanings given those terms in 
        section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
        1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
            (2) Eligible local educational agency.--The term ``eligible 
        local educational agency'' means a local educational agency 
        that serves 1 or more secondary schools that are located in a 
        county in which the juvenile offense rate is not less than 10 
        percent.
            (3) Eligible nonprofit organization.--The term ``eligible 
        nonprofit organization'' means an organization described in 
        section 501(c)(3) and exempt from tax under section 501(a) of 
        the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that has experience in 
        operating an after school program or similar program for 
        secondary school students.
            (4) Eligible students.--The term ``eligible students'' 
        means students in any of grades 6 through 12.
            (5) Juvenile offense rate.--The term ``juvenile offense 
        rate'' means the percentage of violent offenses committed by 
        any individual who is not more than 19 years of age as compared 
        to the total number of violent offenses committed by all age 
        groups in a given county, as published in the Uniform Crime 
        Reporting Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
    (b) Program Established.--The Attorney General shall award grants, 
in accordance with subsection (c), to eligible local educational 
agencies that have an approved application in order to enable those 
eligible local educational agencies to provide after school programs 
for eligible students, as described in subsection (e).
    (c) Formula.--From the total amount made available to carry out 
this section, the Attorney General shall allot to each eligible local 
educational agency having an application approved under subsection (d), 
an amount that bears the same relationship to that total amount as the 
number of eligible students who will be served by such eligible local 
educational agency under this section bears to the number of eligible 
students who will be served by all eligible local educational agencies 
under this section.
    (d) Application.--An eligible local educational agency seeking a 
grant under this section shall submit an application to the Attorney 
General at such time, in such manner, and containing such information 
as the Attorney General may require, including--
            (1) the juvenile offense rate for the most recent fiscal 
        year for which data are available for the county in which 1 or 
        more secondary schools served by the local educational agency 
        are located;
            (2) an assurance that the local educational agency will 
        carry out the after school programs or will partner only with 
        an eligible nonprofit organization to carry out such programs; 
        and
            (3) information about the activities and frequency of the 
        after school programs that will be carried out with grant funds 
        under this section.
    (e) Uses of Funds.--
            (1) In general.--An eligible local educational agency that 
        receives a grant under this section shall use such grant funds 
        to operate after school programs for eligible students, which 
        may include--
                    (A) expanding existing after school programs for 
                eligible students;
                    (B) developing and carrying out new after school 
                programs for eligible students; or
                    (C) partnering with an eligible nonprofit 
                organization to administer and operate after school 
                programs for eligible students.
            (2) After school programs.--An eligible local educational 
        agency that receives a grant under this section shall ensure 
        that the after school programs carried out with grant funds 
        include activities that have an educational purpose.
    (f) Reports.--
            (1) Local educational agency reports.--Each eligible local 
        educational agency that receives a grant under this section 
        shall submit an annual report to the Attorney General that 
        describes--
                    (A) the number of schools served by an after school 
                program established or maintained using funds under 
                this section;
                    (B) the number of children served at each such 
                school; and
                    (C) the general successes and vulnerabilities of 
                the after school programs established or maintained 
                using funds under this section.
            (2) Attorney general report.--Not later than 90 days after 
        the date as of which the Attorney General has received all the 
        reports for a year under paragraph (1), the Attorney General 
        shall submit to Congress a report summarizing the reports 
        received under that paragraph.
    (g) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2025, 2026, 2027, and 2028.
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