[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 58 (Thursday, April 25, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3033-S3036]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. LEAHY (for himself and Mr. Cornyn):
  S. 822. A bill to protect crime victims' rights, to eliminate the 
substantial backlog of DNA samples collected from crime scenes and 
convicted offenders, to improve and expand the DNA testing capacity of 
Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to increase research and 
development of new DNA testing technologies, to develop new training 
programs regarding the collection and use of DNA evidence, to provide 
post conviction testing of DNA evidence to exonerate the innocent, to 
improve the performance of counsel in State capital cases, and for 
other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, today, I am proud to introduce the Justice 
for All Reauthorization Act of 2013. The Justice for All Act, 
originally enacted in 2004, was an unprecedented bipartisan piece of 
criminal justice legislation. It was the most significant step Congress 
had taken in many years to improve the quality of justice in this 
country. I am pleased to be joined this year by Senator Cornyn as an 
original cosponsor of this legislation. I know that Senator Cornyn 
shares my commitment to ensuring public confidence in the integrity of 
the American justice system.
  It is fitting that we introduce this bill now, during Crime Victims' 
Rights week, as we honor the victims of crime across the country, and 
reaffirm our commitment to seeking justice on their behalf. That 
commitment feels particularly important now, in light of this year's 
horrific events in Boston and Newtown. Nothing can eliminate the pain 
inflicted by those tragedies, but we can work together to ensure that 
the needs of those families are met so that they can find healing and 
begin to rebuild their lives.
  This legislation takes important steps to strengthen rights for 
victims of crime. For example, it establishes an affirmative right to 
be informed of their rights under the Crime Victims' Rights Act and 
other key laws, and it takes several steps to make it easier for crime 
victims to assert those rights in court.
  In addition to being Crime Victims' Rights Week, today is National 
DNA Day and it is appropriate to acknowledge the power DNA testing has 
had in improving our criminal justice system. One example of that 
impact has been in the testing of rape kits. This legislation 
reauthorizes the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Reduction Act, which has 
provided significant funding to reduce the backlog of untested rape 
kits so that victims need not live in fear while kits languish in 
storage. That program is named after Debbie Smith who waited years 
after being attacked before her rape kit was tested and the perpetrator 
was caught. She and her husband Rob have worked tirelessly to ensure 
that others will not experience the ordeal she went through. I thank 
Debbie and Rob for their continuing help on this extremely important 
cause.
  The legislation also includes significant measures to improve the 
administration of justice in our courts, including the use of post-
conviction DNA testing. The bill is built on the work I began in 2000, 
when I introduced the Innocence Protection Act, which sought to ensure 
that defendants in the most serious cases receive competent 
representation and, where appropriate, access to post-conviction DNA 
testing

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necessary to prove their innocence in those cases where the system got 
it grievously wrong.
  The Innocence Protection Act became a key component of the Justice 
for All Act. The act also included vital provisions to ensure that 
crime victims would have the rights and protections they need and 
deserve and that States and communities would take major steps to 
reduce the backlog of untested rape kits and ensure prompt justice for 
victims of sexual assault. These and other important criminal justice 
provisions made the Justice for All Act a groundbreaking achievement in 
criminal justice reform.
  The programs created by the Justice for All Act have had an enormous 
impact, and it is crucial that we reauthorize them. Unfortunately, it 
is clear that simply reauthorizing the existing law is not enough. 
Significant problems remain, and we must work together to address them.
  In the years since the Justice for All Act passed, we have seen too 
many cases of people found to be innocent after spending years in jail. 
A California man, Brian Banks, was exonerated after spending five years 
in prison for a rape he did not commit. He recently signed with the 
Atlanta Falcons and will realize his dream of playing professional 
football. Brian's story had a happy ending, but too many wrongly 
convicted people are not as lucky. It is an outrage when an innocent 
person is punished, and this injustice is compounded when the true 
perpetrator remains on the streets, able to commit more crimes. We are 
all less safe when the system gets it wrong.
  To that end, this legislation strengthens the Kirk Bloodsworth Post 
Conviction DNA Testing Grant Program, one of the key programs created 
in the Innocence Protection Act. Kirk Bloodsworth was a young man just 
out of the Marines when he was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to 
death for a heinous crime that he did not commit. He was the first 
person in the United States to be exonerated from a death row crime 
through the use of DNA evidence.
  This program provides grants to States for testing in cases like 
Kirk's where someone has been convicted, but where significant DNA 
evidence was not tested. The last administration resisted implementing 
the program for several years, but we worked hard to see the program 
put into place. Now, money has gone out to a number of States, and is 
having an impact. The legislation we introduce today clarifies the 
conditions set for this program so that participating States are 
required to preserve key evidence, which is crucial, but are given 
further guidance about how to do so in a way that is attainable and 
will allow more states to participate.
  This legislation takes important steps to ensure that all criminal 
defendants, including those who cannot afford a lawyer, receive 
effective representation. It requires the Department of Justice to 
assist States in developing an effective and efficient system of 
indigent defense. I know as a former prosecutor, that the system only 
works as it should when each side is well represented by competent and 
well-trained counsel. Fifty years after the Supreme Court's landmark 
decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, it is past time to ensure that all 
criminal defendants have effective representation before government 
authority takes away their liberty.
  The bill also asks States to produce comprehensive plans for their 
criminal justice systems, which will help to ensure that criminal 
justice systems operate effectively as a whole and that all parts of 
the system work together and receive the resources they need.
  The bill reauthorizes and improves key grant programs in a variety of 
areas throughout the criminal justice system. Importantly, it increases 
authorized funding for the Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement 
Grant program, which is a vital program to assist forensic laboratories 
in performing the many forensic tests that are essential to solving 
crimes and prosecuting perpetrators.
  In these times of tight budgets, it is important to note that this 
bill would make all of these improvements while responsibly reducing 
the total authorized funding under the Justice For All Act and that 
many of these changes will help States, communities, and the Federal 
Government save money in the long term.
  I thank the many law enforcement and criminal justice organizations 
that have helped to pinpoint the needed improvements that this law 
attempts to solve and I appreciate their ongoing support in seeing it 
passed.
  Today, we rededicate ourselves to building a criminal justice system 
in which the innocent remain free, the guilty are punished, and all 
sides have the tools, resources, and knowledge they need to advance the 
cause of justice. Americans need and deserve a criminal justice system 
which keeps us safe, ensures fairness and accuracy, and fulfills the 
promise of our constitution. This bill will take important steps to 
bring us closer to that goal.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be 
printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be 
printed in the Record, as follows:

                                 S. 822

       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 ``Justice for All 
     Reauthorization Act of 2013''.

     SEC. 2. CRIME VICTIMS' RIGHTS.

       (a) In General.--Section 3771 of title 18, United States 
     Code, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following:
       ``(9) The right to be informed of the rights under this 
     section and the services described in section 503(c) of the 
     Victims' Rights and Restitution Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
     10607(c)) and provided contact information for the Office of 
     the Victims' Rights Ombudsman of the Department of 
     Justice.'';
       (2) in subsection (d)(3), in the fifth sentence, by 
     inserting ``, unless the litigants, with the approval of the 
     court, have stipulated to a different time period for 
     consideration'' before the period; and
       (3) in subsection (e)--
       (A) by striking ``this chapter, the term'' and inserting 
     the following: ``this chapter:
       ``(1) Court of appeals.--The term `court of appeals' 
     means--
       ``(A) the United States court of appeals for the judicial 
     district in which a defendant is being prosecuted; or
       ``(B) for a prosecution in the Superior Court of the 
     District of Columbia, the District of Columbia Court of 
     Appeals.
       ``(2) Crime victim.--
       ``(A) In general.--The term'';
       (B) by striking ``In the case'' and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(B) Minors and certain other victims.--In the case''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(3) District court; court.--The terms `district court' 
     and `court' include the Superior Court of the District of 
     Columbia.''.
       (b) Crime Victims Fund.--Section 1402(d)(3) of the Victims 
     of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10601(d)(3) is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(A)'' before ``Of the sums''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(B) Amounts made available under subparagraph (A) may not 
     be used for any purpose that is not specified in subparagraph 
     (A).''.

     SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR GRANTS FOR CRIME 
                   VICTIMS.

       (a) Crime Victims Legal Assistance Grants.--Section 103(b) 
     of the Justice for All Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-405; 118 
     Stat. 2264) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``$2,000,000'' and all 
     that follows through ``2009'' and inserting ``$5,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018'';
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``$2,000,000'' and all 
     that follows through ``2009,'' and inserting ``$5,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018'';
       (3) in paragraph (3), by striking ``$300,000'' and all that 
     follows through ``2009,'' and inserting ``$500,000 for each 
     of fiscal years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018'';
       (4) in paragraph (4), by striking ``$7,000,000'' and all 
     that follows through ``2009,'' and inserting ``$11,000,000 
     for each of fiscal years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018''; 
     and
       (5) in paragraph (5), by striking ``$5,000,000'' and all 
     that follows through ``2009,'' and inserting ``$7,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018''.
       (b) Crime Victims Notification Grants.--Section 1404E(c) of 
     the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10603e(c)) is 
     amended by striking ``this
     section--'' and all that follows and inserting ``this section 
     $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 
     and 2018.''.

     SEC. 4. DEBBIE SMITH DNA BACKLOG GRANT PROGRAM.

       Section 2(j) of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 
     2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135(j)) is amended by striking ``fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014'' and inserting ``fiscal years 2014 
     through 2018''

     SEC. 5. RAPE EXAM PAYMENTS.

       Section 2010(d)(2) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
     and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg-4(d)(2)) is 
     amended by striking ``enactment of this Act'' and inserting 
     ``enactment of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act 
     of 2013''.

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     SEC. 6. ADDITIONAL REAUTHORIZATIONS.

       (a) DNA Training and Education for Law Enforcement.--
     Section 303(b) of the Justice for All Act of 2004 (42 U.S.C. 
     14136(b)) is amended by striking ``$12,500,000 for each of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2014'' and inserting ``$5,000,000 
     for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018''.
       (b) Sexual Assault Forensic Exam Program Grants.--Section 
     304(c) of the Justice for All Act of 2004 (42 U.S.C. 
     14136a(c)) is amended by striking ``$30,000,000 for each of 
     2014 through 2018'' and inserting ``$15,000,000 for each of 
     fiscal years 2014 through 2018''.
       (c) DNA Research and Development.--Section 305(c) of the 
     Justice for All Act of 2004 (42 U.S.C. 14136b(c)) is amended 
     by striking ``$15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2005 
     through 2009'' and inserting ``$5,000,000 for each of fiscal 
     years 2014 through 2018''.
       (d) FBI DNA Programs.--Section 307(a) of the Justice for 
     All Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-405; 118 Stat. 2275) is 
     amended by striking ``$42,100,000 for each of fiscal years 
     2005 through 2009'' and inserting ``$10,000,000 for each of 
     fiscal years 2014 through 2018''.
       (e) DNA Identification of Missing Persons.--Section 308(c) 
     of the Justice for All Act of 2004 (42 U.S.C. 14136d(c)) is 
     amended by striking ``fiscal years 2005 through 2009'' and 
     inserting ``fiscal years 2014 through 2018''.

     SEC. 7. PAUL COVERDELL FORENSIC SCIENCES IMPROVEMENT GRANTS.

       Section 1001(a)(24) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
     and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3793(a)(24)) is 
     amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (H), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in subparagraph (I), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(J) $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 8. IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF REPRESENTATION IN STATE 
                   CAPITAL CASES.

       Section 426 of the Justice for All Act of 2004 (42 U.S.C. 
     14163e) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``$75,000,000 for each 
     of fiscal years 2005 through 2009'' and inserting 
     ``$30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018''; 
     and
       (2) in subsection (b), by inserting before the period at 
     the end the following: ``, or upon a showing of good cause, 
     and at the discretion of the Attorney General, the State may 
     determine a fair allocation of funds across the uses 
     described in sections 421 and 422''.

     SEC. 9. POST-CONVICTION DNA TESTING.

       (a) In General.--Section 3600 of title 18, United States 
     Code, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)(B)(i), by striking ``death''; and
       (B) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ``and the applicant 
     did not--'' and all that follows through ``knowingly fail to 
     request'' and inserting ``and the applicant did not knowingly 
     fail to request''; and
       (2) in subsection (g)(2)(B), by striking ``death''.
       (b) Preservation of Biological Evidence.--Section 3600A(c) 
     of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (2); and
       (2) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) as 
     paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), respectively.

     SEC. 10. INCENTIVE GRANTS TO STATES TO ENSURE CONSIDERATION 
                   OF CLAIMS OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE.

       (a) In General.--Section 413 of the Justice for All Act of 
     2004 (42 U.S.C. 14136 note) is amended--
       (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking 
     ``fiscal years 2005 through 2009'' and inserting ``fiscal 
     years 2014 through 2018''; and
       (2) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
       ``(2) for eligible entities that are a State or unit of 
     local government, provide a certification by the chief legal 
     officer of the State in which the eligible entity operates or 
     the chief legal officer of the jurisdiction in which the 
     funds will be used for the purposes of the grants, that the 
     State or jurisdiction--
       ``(A) provides DNA testing of specified evidence under a 
     State statute or a State or local rule or regulation to 
     persons convicted after trial and under a sentence of 
     imprisonment or death for a State felony offense, in a manner 
     intended to ensure a reasonable process for resolving claims 
     of actual innocence that ensures post-conviction DNA testing 
     in at least those cases that would be covered by section 
     3600(a) of title 18, United States Code, had they been 
     Federal cases, and, if the results of the testing exclude the 
     applicant as the perpetrator of the offense, permits the 
     applicant to apply for post-conviction relief, 
     notwithstanding any provision of law that would otherwise bar 
     the application as untimely; and
       ``(B) preserves biological evidence, as defined in section 
     3600A of title 18, United States Code, under a State statute 
     or a State or local rule, regulation, or practice in a manner 
     intended to ensure that reasonable measures are taken by the 
     State or jurisdiction to preserve biological evidence secured 
     in relation to the investigation or prosecution of, at a 
     minimum, murder, non-negligent manslaughter and sexual 
     offenses.''.
       (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 412(b) of the 
     Justice for All Act of 2004 (42 U.S.C. 14136e(b)) is amended 
     by striking ``$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2005 
     through 2009'' and inserting ``$10,000,000 for each of fiscal 
     years 2014 through 2018''.

     SEC. 11. ESTABLISHMENT OF BEST PRACTICES FOR EVIDENCE 
                   RETENTION.

       (a) In General.--Subtitle A of title IV of the Justice for 
     All Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-405; 118 Stat. 2278) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following:

     ``SEC. 414. ESTABLISHMENT OF BEST PRACTICES FOR EVIDENCE 
                   RETENTION.

       ``(a) In General.--The Director of the National Institute 
     of Justice, in consultation with Federal, State, and local 
     law enforcement agencies and government laboratories, shall--
       ``(1) establish best practices for evidence retention to 
     focus on the preservation of biological evidence; and
       ``(2) assist State, local, and tribal governments in 
     adopting and implementing the best practices established 
     under paragraph (1).
       ``(b) Deadline.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     enactment of this section, the Director of the National 
     Institute of Justice shall publish the best practices 
     established under subsection (a)(1).
       ``(c) Limitation.--Nothing in this section shall be 
     construed to require or obligate compliance with the best 
     practices established under subsection (a)(1).''.
       (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of 
     contents in section 1(b) of the Justice for All Act of 2004 
     (Public Law 108-405; 118 Stat. 2260) is amended by inserting 
     after the item relating to section 413 the following:

``Sec. 414. Establishment of best practices for evidence retention.''.

     SEC. 12. EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

       (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the 
     ``Effective Administration of Criminal Justice Act of 2013''.
       (b) Strategic Planning.--Section 502 of title I of the 
     Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
     3752) is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(a) In General.--'' before ``To request 
     a grant''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(6) A comprehensive State-wide plan detailing how grants 
     received under this section will be used to improve the 
     administration of the criminal justice system, which shall--
       ``(A) be designed in consultation with local governments, 
     and all segments of the criminal justice system, including 
     judges, prosecutors, law enforcement personnel, corrections 
     personnel, and providers of indigent defense services, victim 
     services, juvenile justice delinquency prevention programs, 
     community corrections, and reentry services;
       ``(B) include a description of how the State will allocate 
     funding within and among each of the uses described in 
     subparagraphs (A) through (G) of section 501(a)(1);
       ``(C) describe the process used by the State for gathering 
     evidence-based data and developing and using evidence-based 
     and evidence-gathering approaches in support of funding 
     decisions; and
       ``(D) be updated every 5 years, with annual progress 
     reports that--
       ``(i) address changing circumstances in the State, if any;
       ``(ii) describe how the State plans to adjust funding 
     within and among each of the uses described in subparagraphs 
     (A) through (G) of section 501(a)(1);
       ``(iii) provide an ongoing assessment of need;
       ``(iv) discuss the accomplishment of goals identified in 
     any plan previously prepared under this paragraph; and
       ``(v) reflect how the plan influenced funding decisions in 
     the previous year.
       ``(b) Technical Assistance.--
       ``(1) Strategic planning.--Not later than 90 days after the 
     date of enactment of this subsection, the Attorney General 
     shall begin to provide technical assistance to States and 
     local governments requesting support to develop and implement 
     the strategic plan required under subsection (a)(6).
       ``(2) Protection of constitutional rights.--Not later than 
     90 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the 
     Attorney General shall begin to provide technical assistance 
     to States and local governments, including any agent thereof 
     with responsibility for administration of justice, requesting 
     support to meet the obligations established by the Sixth 
     Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which 
     shall include--
       ``(A) public dissemination of practices, structures, or 
     models for the administration of justice consistent with the 
     requirements of the Sixth Amendment; and
       ``(B) assistance with adopting and implementing a system 
     for the administration of justice consistent with the 
     requirements of the Sixth Amendment.
       ``(3) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 
     through 2018 to carry out this subsection.''.
       (c) Applicability.--The requirement to submit a strategic 
     plan under section 501(a)(6) of title I of the Omnibus Crime 
     Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as added by subsection 
     (b), shall apply to any application submitted under such 
     section 501 for a grant for any fiscal year beginning after 
     the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this 
     Act.

     SEC. 13. OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY.

       All grants awarded by the Department of Justice that are 
     authorized under this Act shall be subject to the following:
       (1) Audit requirement.--Beginning in fiscal year 2014, and 
     each fiscal year thereafter,

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     the Inspector General of the Department of Justice shall 
     conduct audits of recipients of grants under this Act to 
     prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of funds by grantees. The 
     Inspector General shall determine the appropriate number of 
     grantees to be audited each year.
       (2) Mandatory exclusion.--A recipient of grant funds under 
     this Act that is found to have an unresolved audit finding 
     shall not be eligible to receive grant funds under this Act 
     during the 2 fiscal years beginning after the 12-month period 
     described in paragraph (5).
       (3) Priority.--In awarding grants under this Act, the 
     Attorney General shall give priority to eligible entities 
     that, during the 3 fiscal years before submitting an 
     application for a grant under this Act, did not have an 
     unresolved audit finding showing a violation in the terms or 
     conditions of a Department of Justice grant program.
       (4) Reimbursement.--If an entity is awarded grant funds 
     under this Act during the 2-fiscal-year period in which the 
     entity is barred from receiving grants under paragraph (2), 
     the Attorney General shall--
       (A) deposit an amount equal to the grant funds that were 
     improperly awarded to the grantee into the General Fund of 
     the Treasury; and
       (B) seek to recoup the costs of the repayment to the fund 
     from the grant recipient that was erroneously awarded grant 
     funds.
       (5) Defined term.--In this section, the term ``unresolved 
     audit finding'' means an audit report finding in the final 
     audit report of the Inspector General of the Department of 
     Justice that the grantee has utilized grant funds for an 
     unauthorized expenditure or otherwise unallowable cost that 
     is not closed or resolved within a 12-month period beginning 
     on the date when the final audit report is issued.
       (6) Nonprofit organization requirements.--
       (A) Definition.--For purposes of this section and the grant 
     programs described in this Act, the term `` `nonprofit 
     organization' '' means an organization that is described in 
     section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and is 
     exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code.
       (B) Prohibition.--The Attorney General shall not award a 
     grant under any grant program described in this Act to a 
     nonprofit organization that holds money in offshore accounts 
     for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax described in 
     section 511(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
       (C) Disclosure.--Each nonprofit organization that is 
     awarded a grant under a grant program described in this Act 
     and uses the procedures prescribed in regulations to create a 
     rebuttable presumption of reasonableness for the compensation 
     of its officers, directors, trustees and key employees, shall 
     disclose to the Attorney General, in the application for the 
     grant, the process for determining such compensation, 
     including the independent persons involved in reviewing and 
     approving such compensation, the comparability data used, and 
     contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and 
     decision. Upon request, the Attorney General shall make the 
     information disclosed under this subsection available for 
     public inspection.
       (7) Administrative expenses.--Unless otherwise explicitly 
     provided in authorizing legislation, not more than 7.5 
     percent of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under 
     this Act may be used by the Attorney General for salaries and 
     administrative expenses of the Department of Justice.
       (8) Conference expenditures.--
       (A) Limitation.--No amounts authorized to be appropriated 
     to the Department of Justice under this Act may be used by 
     the Attorney General or by any individual or organization 
     awarded discretionary funds through a cooperative agreement 
     under this Act, to host or support any expenditure for 
     conferences that uses more than $20,000 in Department funds, 
     unless the Deputy Attorney General or the appropriate 
     Assistant Attorney General, Director, or principal deputy as 
     the Deputy Attorney General may designate, provides prior 
     written authorization that the funds may be expended to host 
     a conference.
       (B) Written approval.--Written approval under subparagraph 
     (A) shall include a written estimate of all costs associated 
     with the conference, including the cost of all food and 
     beverages, audio/visual equipment, honoraria for speakers, 
     and any entertainment.
       (C) Report.--The Deputy Attorney General shall submit an 
     annual report to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate 
     and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
     Representatives on all conference expenditures approved by 
     operation of this paragraph.
       (9) Prohibition on lobbying activity.--
       (A) In general.--Amounts authorized to be appropriated 
     under this Act may not be utilized by any grant recipient 
     to--
       (i) lobby any representative of the Department of Justice 
     regarding the award of grant funding; or
       (ii) lobby any representative of a Federal, state, local, 
     or tribal government regarding the award of grant funding.
       (B) Penalty.--If the Attorney General determines that any 
     recipient of a grant under this Act has violated subparagraph 
     (A), the Attorney General shall--
       (i) require the grant recipient to repay the grant in full; 
     and
       (ii) prohibit the grant recipient from receiving another 
     grant under this Act for not less than 5 years.
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