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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 304 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To authorize grants for States, and units of local government that take |
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| 6 | 6 | | efforts to stop enabling repeat violence, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY11, 2023 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. S |
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| 10 | 10 | | TEFANIK(for herself, Mr. LALOTA, Mr. GARBARINO, Ms. TENNEY, Ms. |
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| 11 | 11 | | M |
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| 12 | 12 | | ALLIOTAKIS, Mr. MOLINARO, Mr. WILLIAMSof New York, Mr. |
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| 13 | 13 | | D’E |
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| 14 | 14 | | SPOSITO, Mr. LANGWORTHY, Mr. LAWLER, and Mr. SANTOS) intro- |
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| 15 | 15 | | duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju- |
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| 16 | 16 | | diciary |
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| 17 | 17 | | A BILL |
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| 18 | 18 | | To authorize grants for States, and units of local government |
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| 19 | 19 | | that take efforts to stop enabling repeat violence, and |
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| 20 | 20 | | for other purposes. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 22 | 22 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 24 | 24 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Enabling Repeat 4 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Violence and Endangering Our Communities Act’’ or the 5 |
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| 26 | 26 | | ‘‘SERVE Our Communities Act’’. 6 |
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| 30 | 30 | | SEC. 2. SERVE OUR COMMUNITIES GRANT PROGRAM. 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (a) A |
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| 32 | 32 | | UTHORIZATION.—The Attorney General, acting 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | through the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | is authorized to make grants to eligible States and units 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | of local government for the purposes described in sub-5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | section (c). 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (b) E |
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| 38 | 38 | | LIGIBILITY.—In order to be eligible for a grant 7 |
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| 39 | 39 | | under this section, a State or unit of local government— 8 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (1) shall allow a State court or magistrate to 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | consider the danger an individual poses to the com-10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | munity when determining bail or pretrial release 11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | conditions; and 12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (2) shall have taken steps during the previous 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | calendar year to prevent repeat offenses by violent 14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | offenders, including— 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (A) enacting a law that allows a State 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | court or magistrate to consider the danger an 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | individual poses to the community when deter-18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | mining bail or pretrial release conditions; 19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (B) expanding efforts of that jurisdiction 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | to hire and retain law enforcement officers and 21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | prosecutorial staff; or 22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (C) administering a public education pro-23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | gram to combat anti-police sentiment and im-24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | prove community-police relations. 25 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (c) USE OFFUNDS.—A State or unit of local govern-1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | ment that receives a grant under this section may use such 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | funds for the purposes described in section 211(b) of the 3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | Second Chance Act of 2007 (34 U.S.C. 60531(b)). 4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (d) A |
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| 65 | 65 | | UTHORIZATION OFAPPROPRIATIONS.—There is 5 |
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| 66 | 66 | | authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fis-6 |
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| 67 | 67 | | cal years 2024 through 2029 to carry out this section. 7 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (e) D |
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| 69 | 69 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘‘State’’ 8 |
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| 70 | 70 | | and ‘‘unit of local government’’ have the meanings given 9 |
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| 71 | 71 | | such terms in section 901 of the Omnibus Crime Control 10 |
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| 72 | 72 | | and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10251). 11 |
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