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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2669 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To establish a new Justice Department grant program to reduce the number |
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| 6 | 6 | | of individuals incarcerated in local jails, reduce the number of days |
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| 7 | 7 | | individuals are incarcerated in local jails, and support community-led |
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| 8 | 8 | | local justice reinvestment. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | APRIL7, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. B |
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| 12 | 12 | | ELL(for himself, Mr. CLEAVER, Ms. CLARKEof New York, Mr. FIG- |
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| 13 | 13 | | URES, Mrs. MCIVER, Mr. JACKSONof Illinois, Mr. BISHOP, Mr. THOMP- |
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| 14 | 14 | | SONof Mississippi, Mr. THANEDAR, Mr. JOHNSONof Georgia, Mr. IVEY, |
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| 15 | 15 | | Ms. N |
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| 16 | 16 | | ORTON, Ms. ANSARI, Ms. CROCKETT, and Ms. WILSONof Florida) |
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| 17 | 17 | | introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the |
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| 18 | 18 | | Judiciary |
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| 19 | 19 | | A BILL |
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| 20 | 20 | | To establish a new Justice Department grant program to |
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| 21 | 21 | | reduce the number of individuals incarcerated in local |
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| 22 | 22 | | jails, reduce the number of days individuals are incarcer- |
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| 23 | 23 | | ated in local jails, and support community-led local jus- |
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| 24 | 24 | | tice reinvestment. |
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| 25 | 25 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 26 | 26 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 28 | 28 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Community First Pre-4 |
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| 29 | 29 | | trial Reform Act’’ or the ‘‘Community First Act’’. 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | SEC. 2. GRANTS AUTHORIZED. 1 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (a) G |
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| 35 | 35 | | RANTSAUTHORIZED.—The Attorney General, 2 |
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| 36 | 36 | | acting through the Bureau of Justice Assistance, shall 3 |
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| 37 | 37 | | make grants to eligible partnerships for purposes of reduc-4 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ing the number of individuals in jails operated by units 5 |
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| 39 | 39 | | of local government and the number of days such individ-6 |
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| 40 | 40 | | uals spend in jail as follows: 7 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (1) Grants for analysis and planning, which 8 |
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| 42 | 42 | | shall be used to— 9 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (A) collect and analyze local criminal jus-10 |
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| 44 | 44 | | tice and incarceration data, including data on 11 |
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| 45 | 45 | | equity disparities; and 12 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (B) develop a strategic, collaborative plan 13 |
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| 47 | 47 | | to decrease local jail incarceration that shall be 14 |
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| 48 | 48 | | public facing. 15 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (2) Grants for implementation of the plan de-16 |
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| 50 | 50 | | scribed in paragraph (1)(B) and which may be used 17 |
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| 51 | 51 | | for activities to reduce the number of individuals in-18 |
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| 52 | 52 | | carcerated in local jails and to reduce the number of 19 |
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| 53 | 53 | | days that individuals are so incarcerated including— 20 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (A) reducing the use of cash bail; 21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (B) reducing revocations of conditional re-22 |
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| 56 | 56 | | lease; 23 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (C) creating or increasing the availability 24 |
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| 58 | 58 | | of pretrial services, including efforts undertaken 25 |
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| 62 | 62 | | in collaboration with community-based organi-1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | zations and nonprofits; 2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (D) investing in case processing and proc-3 |
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| 65 | 65 | | esses to reduce overall time to disposition and 4 |
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| 66 | 66 | | time between court events; 5 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (E) ensuring early assignment of counsel 6 |
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| 68 | 68 | | and presence of counsel at individuals’ first 7 |
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| 69 | 69 | | court appearance or bail hearing; 8 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (F) providing training to various actors 9 |
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| 71 | 71 | | within the criminal justice system on indigent 10 |
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| 72 | 72 | | defense that is aligned with best practices in 11 |
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| 73 | 73 | | the field; 12 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (G) creating or expanding diversion pro-13 |
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| 75 | 75 | | grams that do not require an individual to enter 14 |
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| 76 | 76 | | into a guilty plea and do not use incarceration 15 |
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| 77 | 77 | | as a sanction for noncompliance— 16 |
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| 78 | 78 | | (i) at the pre-arrest phase; 17 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (ii) at the pre-booking phase; and 18 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (iii) at the post-booking phase; or 19 |
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| 81 | 81 | | (H) any other emerging, promising, or evi-20 |
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| 82 | 82 | | dence-based practices that an eligible partner-21 |
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| 83 | 83 | | ship proposes and the Attorney General deems 22 |
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| 84 | 84 | | likely to reduce local jail incarceration. 23 |
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| 88 | 88 | | (b) ELIGIBLEPARTNERSHIP.—An eligible partner-1 |
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| 89 | 89 | | ship is a partnership between not less than two of the fol-2 |
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| 90 | 90 | | lowing: 3 |
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| 91 | 91 | | (1) A unit of local government. 4 |
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| 92 | 92 | | (2) A territory. 5 |
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| 93 | 93 | | (3) An Indian tribe. 6 |
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| 94 | 94 | | (4) A nonprofit organization. 7 |
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| 95 | 95 | | (c) A |
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| 96 | 96 | | PPLICATION.—An application for a grant shall 8 |
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| 97 | 97 | | include the following: 9 |
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| 98 | 98 | | (1) Details of the range of pretrial services 10 |
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| 99 | 99 | | available within the jurisdiction where the jail being 11 |
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| 100 | 100 | | targeted for incarceration rate reduction under this 12 |
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| 101 | 101 | | Act is located. 13 |
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| 102 | 102 | | (2) A plan to ensure that individuals in pretrial 14 |
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| 103 | 103 | | contact with the justice system will be subject to the 15 |
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| 104 | 104 | | least restrictive conditions or combination of condi-16 |
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| 105 | 105 | | tions necessary to reasonably address the imminent 17 |
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| 106 | 106 | | risk of willful flight or the risk of imminent threat 18 |
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| 107 | 107 | | of serious physical harm to a reasonably identifiable 19 |
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| 108 | 108 | | person. 20 |
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| 109 | 109 | | (3) A plan for ongoing process evaluation and 21 |
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| 110 | 110 | | outcome evaluation. 22 |
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| 111 | 111 | | (4) Either— 23 |
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| 112 | 112 | | (A) data— 24 |
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| 116 | 116 | | (i) disaggregated by key demographic 1 |
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| 117 | 117 | | indicators, including factors such as com-2 |
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| 118 | 118 | | munity background and identity, on incar-3 |
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| 119 | 119 | | ceration for correctional facilities within 4 |
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| 120 | 120 | | the local jurisdiction for each of the last 5 |
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| 121 | 121 | | five calendar years that includes—— 6 |
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| 122 | 122 | | (I) the average daily population; 7 |
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| 123 | 123 | | (II) the percentage of individuals 8 |
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| 124 | 124 | | held pretrial and post-conviction; and 9 |
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| 125 | 125 | | (III) the average length of stay 10 |
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| 126 | 126 | | for individuals held pretrial and post- 11 |
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| 127 | 127 | | conviction; and 12 |
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| 128 | 128 | | (ii) disaggregated by key demographic 13 |
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| 129 | 129 | | indicators on arrests made by all law en-14 |
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| 130 | 130 | | forcement entities operating within the 15 |
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| 131 | 131 | | local jurisdiction over each of the last five 16 |
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| 132 | 132 | | calendar years; or 17 |
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| 133 | 133 | | (B) in the event that elements of such in-18 |
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| 134 | 134 | | carceration or arrest data are not able to be 19 |
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| 135 | 135 | | compiled and reported, a comprehensive plan to 20 |
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| 136 | 136 | | obtain as much of the unavailable data as pos-21 |
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| 137 | 137 | | sible within the first year of the award. 22 |
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| 138 | 138 | | SEC. 3. REQUIREMENTS. 23 |
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| 139 | 139 | | (a) I |
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| 140 | 140 | | NGENERAL.—Grantees shall— 24 |
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| 144 | 144 | | (1) consult in all phases of planning, implemen-1 |
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| 145 | 145 | | tation, and evaluation with municipal, county, and 2 |
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| 146 | 146 | | State law enforcement agencies, courts in the local 3 |
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| 147 | 147 | | jurisdiction, public defense organizations and crimi-4 |
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| 148 | 148 | | nal defense practitioners in the local jurisdiction, 5 |
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| 149 | 149 | | local substance use and mental health authorities, 6 |
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| 150 | 150 | | local community members, local community members 7 |
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| 151 | 151 | | who have been justice-involved, and community- 8 |
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| 152 | 152 | | based organizations and service providers; 9 |
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| 153 | 153 | | (2) analyze local jail incarceration and arrest 10 |
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| 154 | 154 | | data to identify the drivers of jail incarceration and 11 |
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| 155 | 155 | | equity disparities and ground jail population reduc-12 |
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| 156 | 156 | | tion strategies in that data; 13 |
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| 157 | 157 | | (3) reduce incarceration rates by no less than 14 |
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| 158 | 158 | | 5 percent the first year of an implementation grant, 15 |
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| 159 | 159 | | 10 percent in each subsequent year, and 50 percent 16 |
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| 160 | 160 | | by the end of the grant period; 17 |
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| 161 | 161 | | (4) in consultation with the Bureau of Justice 18 |
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| 162 | 162 | | Assistance— 19 |
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| 163 | 163 | | (A) adopt and implement a methodology 20 |
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| 164 | 164 | | for measuring equity disparities in jail incarcer-21 |
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| 165 | 165 | | ation; 22 |
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| 166 | 166 | | (B) set goals for the reduction of equity 23 |
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| 167 | 167 | | jail incarceration disparities; and 24 |
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| 171 | 171 | | (C) decrease levels of incarceration across 1 |
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| 172 | 172 | | all races and ethnicities; 2 |
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| 173 | 173 | | (5) engage an external evaluator to coordinate 3 |
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| 174 | 174 | | data collection and reporting in an ongoing fashion 4 |
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| 175 | 175 | | and perform both a process and outcome evaluation, 5 |
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| 176 | 176 | | with support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance; 6 |
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| 177 | 177 | | and 7 |
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| 178 | 178 | | (6) use financial savings created through de-8 |
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| 179 | 179 | | creased incarceration to sustain programmatic and 9 |
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| 180 | 180 | | community-based efforts to reduce jail incarceration. 10 |
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| 181 | 181 | | (b) G |
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| 182 | 182 | | RANTOVERSIGHTREQUIREMENT.— 11 |
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| 183 | 183 | | (1) I |
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| 184 | 184 | | N GENERAL.—If a grantee fails to meet 12 |
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| 185 | 185 | | the incarceration rate and equity disparities reduc-13 |
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| 186 | 186 | | tion requirements under subsection (a)(3) in any 14 |
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| 187 | 187 | | year of the award, the Bureau of Justice Assistance 15 |
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| 188 | 188 | | shall perform an audit of the use of their award and 16 |
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| 189 | 189 | | the grantee shall implement new strategies based on 17 |
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| 190 | 190 | | that audit. If a grantee fails to meet the incarcer-18 |
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| 191 | 191 | | ation rate and equity disparities reduction require-19 |
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| 192 | 192 | | ments under subsection (a)(3) in any two consecu-20 |
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| 193 | 193 | | tive years of the award, the Attorney General shall 21 |
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| 194 | 194 | | terminate the award. 22 |
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| 195 | 195 | | (2) M |
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| 196 | 196 | | ODIFICATION AUTHORITY .—The Bureau 23 |
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| 197 | 197 | | of Justice Assistance may grant a modification to 24 |
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| 198 | 198 | | the incarceration rate reduction requirement under 25 |
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| 202 | 202 | | subsection (a)(3) if the Bureau determines after an 1 |
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| 203 | 203 | | audit that the failure to meet the incarceration rate 2 |
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| 204 | 204 | | reduction requirement was caused by an increase in 3 |
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| 205 | 205 | | population in the covered jurisdiction. If a grantee 4 |
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| 206 | 206 | | fails to meet the modified reduction requirements in 5 |
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| 207 | 207 | | any two subsequent years of the award, the Attorney 6 |
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| 208 | 208 | | General shall terminate the award. 7 |
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| 209 | 209 | | SEC. 4. GRANT AMOUNTS. 8 |
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| 210 | 210 | | (a) P |
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| 211 | 211 | | LANNINGGRANTS.—A grant under section 9 |
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| 212 | 212 | | 2(a)(1) may be for not more than $100,000 for a single 10 |
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| 213 | 213 | | grantee, and shall be for a term of 1 year. 11 |
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| 214 | 214 | | (b) I |
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| 215 | 215 | | MPLEMENTATION GRANTS.—A grant under sec-12 |
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| 216 | 216 | | tion 2(a)(2) shall be for a term of 6 years, and shall be 13 |
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| 217 | 217 | | structured as follows: 14 |
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| 218 | 218 | | (1) For the first year of the grant term, an 15 |
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| 219 | 219 | | amount shall be disbursed that is to be not less than 16 |
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| 220 | 220 | | $500,000 and not more than $3,000,000, contingent 17 |
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| 221 | 221 | | upon acceptance of a grantee’s proposed budget for 18 |
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| 222 | 222 | | activities under the grant, which may be subject to 19 |
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| 223 | 223 | | revision during the award process. 20 |
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| 224 | 224 | | (2) Award amounts shall decrease annually 21 |
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| 225 | 225 | | by— 22 |
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| 226 | 226 | | (A) 10 percent in the second year; 23 |
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| 227 | 227 | | (B) 15 percent in the third year; 24 |
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| 228 | 228 | | (C) 20 percent in the fourth year; and 25 |
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| 232 | 232 | | (D) 25 percent in the fifth year. 1 |
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| 233 | 233 | | (3) Award amounts during the sixth year of the 2 |
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| 234 | 234 | | award may not be used for programmatic activities 3 |
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| 235 | 235 | | and shall support only program evaluation and the 4 |
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| 236 | 236 | | drafting of a final report, and such funds shall be 5 |
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| 237 | 237 | | available to the grantees until expended. 6 |
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| 238 | 238 | | SEC. 5. SELECTION PRIORITY. 7 |
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| 239 | 239 | | In selecting grantees, the Attorney General shall— 8 |
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| 240 | 240 | | (1) give priority to applicants from jurisdictions 9 |
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| 241 | 241 | | with the highest incarceration rates that are not al-10 |
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| 242 | 242 | | ready in decline and whose applications contain the 11 |
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| 243 | 243 | | most ambitious and attainable plans for reducing 12 |
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| 244 | 244 | | that rate; 13 |
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| 245 | 245 | | (2) give additional priority to applicants from 14 |
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| 246 | 246 | | jurisdictions seeking to use funds under this Act to 15 |
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| 247 | 247 | | prevent the local government from expanding the 16 |
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| 248 | 248 | | number of beds in local correctional facilities; 17 |
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| 249 | 249 | | (3) for any year in which there will only be one 18 |
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| 250 | 250 | | new or ongoing award, ensure that a small metro-19 |
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| 251 | 251 | | politan, micropolitan, or noncore area is the recipi-20 |
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| 252 | 252 | | ent of the award; 21 |
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| 253 | 253 | | (4) for any year in which there will be more 22 |
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| 254 | 254 | | than one new or ongoing award, ensure that small 23 |
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| 255 | 255 | | metropolitan, micropolitan, or noncore areas are the 24 |
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| 256 | 256 | | recipients of at least two awards; and 25 |
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| 260 | 260 | | (5) for any year in which there will be three or 1 |
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| 261 | 261 | | more new or ongoing awards, ensure that no more 2 |
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| 262 | 262 | | than one large central metropolitan area is a recipi-3 |
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| 263 | 263 | | ent of an award. 4 |
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| 264 | 264 | | SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 5 |
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| 265 | 265 | | In this Act: 6 |
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| 266 | 266 | | (1) The term ‘‘conditional release’’ means pro-7 |
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| 267 | 267 | | bation, parole, supervised release, home confinement, 8 |
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| 268 | 268 | | community supervision, and other practices under 9 |
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| 269 | 269 | | which an individual is supervised in the community 10 |
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| 270 | 270 | | by the criminal justice system and may be incarcer-11 |
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| 271 | 271 | | ated if found in violation of the conditions of their 12 |
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| 272 | 272 | | release. 13 |
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| 273 | 273 | | (2) The term ‘‘diversion’’ means a program or 14 |
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| 274 | 274 | | practice that— 15 |
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| 275 | 275 | | (A) places individuals who come into con-16 |
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| 276 | 276 | | tact with the criminal justice system into alter-17 |
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| 277 | 277 | | native processes outside the standard scope of 18 |
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| 278 | 278 | | criminal justice processing; and 19 |
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| 279 | 279 | | (B) reduces an individual’s involvement in 20 |
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| 280 | 280 | | the criminal justice system in both the short 21 |
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| 281 | 281 | | and long term. 22 |
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| 282 | 282 | | (3) The term ‘‘emerging practice’’ means a pro-23 |
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| 287 | 287 | | (A) with initial implementation resulting in 1 |
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| 288 | 288 | | decreased local jail incarceration in one or more 2 |
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| 289 | 289 | | communities; and 3 |
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| 290 | 290 | | (B) that will be evaluated through a well- 4 |
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| 291 | 291 | | designed and rigorous study. 5 |
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| 292 | 292 | | (4) The term ‘‘evidence-based practice’’ means 6 |
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| 293 | 293 | | a program or practice that— 7 |
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| 294 | 294 | | (A) is demonstrated to be effective when 8 |
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| 295 | 295 | | implemented with fidelity; 9 |
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| 296 | 296 | | (B) is based on a clearly articulated and 10 |
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| 297 | 297 | | empirically supported theory; 11 |
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| 298 | 298 | | (C) has measurable outcomes relevant to 12 |
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| 299 | 299 | | reducing jail incarceration, including a detailed 13 |
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| 300 | 300 | | description of the outcomes produced in a par-14 |
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| 301 | 301 | | ticular population, whether urban or rural; and 15 |
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| 302 | 302 | | (D) has been scientifically tested and prov-16 |
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| 303 | 303 | | en effective through randomized control studies 17 |
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| 304 | 304 | | or comparison group studies and with the abil-18 |
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| 305 | 305 | | ity to replicate and scale. 19 |
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| 306 | 306 | | (5) The term ‘‘micropolitan area’’ has the 20 |
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| 307 | 307 | | meaning established under the Centers for Disease 21 |
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| 308 | 308 | | Control and Prevention’s (hereinafter in this Act re-22 |
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| 309 | 309 | | ferred to as the ‘‘CDC’’) National Center for Health 23 |
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| 310 | 310 | | Statistics Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for 24 |
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| 311 | 311 | | Counties. 25 |
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| 315 | 315 | | (6) The term ‘‘small metropolitan area’’ has the 1 |
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| 316 | 316 | | meaning established under the CDC’s National Cen-2 |
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| 317 | 317 | | ter for Health Statistics Urban-Rural Classification 3 |
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| 318 | 318 | | Scheme for Counties. 4 |
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| 319 | 319 | | (7) The term ‘‘noncore areas’’ has the meaning 5 |
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| 320 | 320 | | established under the CDC’s National Center for 6 |
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| 321 | 321 | | Health Statistics Urban-Rural Classification Scheme 7 |
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| 322 | 322 | | for Counties. 8 |
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| 323 | 323 | | (8) The term ‘‘post-booking diversion’’ means a 9 |
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| 324 | 324 | | program or practice that diverts individuals from 10 |
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| 325 | 325 | | formal criminal justice system processing after for-11 |
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| 326 | 326 | | mal intake processing into jail. 12 |
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| 327 | 327 | | (9) The term ‘‘pre-booking diversion’’ means a 13 |
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| 328 | 328 | | program or practice that diverts individuals from 14 |
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| 329 | 329 | | formal criminal justice system processing prior to 15 |
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| 330 | 330 | | arrest or prior to formal intake processing into jail. 16 |
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| 331 | 331 | | (10) The term ‘‘promising practice’’ means a 17 |
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| 332 | 332 | | program or practice that— 18 |
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| 333 | 333 | | (A) is demonstrated to be effective based 19 |
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| 334 | 334 | | on positive outcomes relevant to reducing jail 20 |
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| 335 | 335 | | incarceration from one or more objective, inde-21 |
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| 336 | 336 | | pendent, and scientifically valid evaluations, as 22 |
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| 337 | 337 | | documented in writing to the Attorney General; 23 |
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| 342 | 342 | | (B) will be evaluated through a well-de-1 |
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| 343 | 343 | | signed and rigorous study. 2 |
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| 344 | 344 | | (11) The term ‘‘equity disparities’’ means an 3 |
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| 345 | 345 | | measurable differences in outcomes, treatment, or 4 |
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| 346 | 346 | | access to services within the criminal justice system 5 |
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| 347 | 347 | | that are correlated with demographic factors such 6 |
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| 348 | 348 | | community background and identity. 7 |
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| 349 | 349 | | SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 8 |
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| 350 | 350 | | There are authorized to be appropriated— 9 |
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| 351 | 351 | | (1) $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 10 |
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| 352 | 352 | | through 2030 for planning grants; and 11 |
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| 353 | 353 | | (2) $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 12 |
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| 354 | 354 | | through 2030 for implementation grants, of which 13 |
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| 355 | 355 | | 10 percent of any appropriated amount is reserved 14 |
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| 356 | 356 | | specifically for evaluation activities. 15 |
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