Permits the Center to use grant funds to enhance the program, including: (1) by providing educational opportunities for rural law enforcement agencies; and (2) through coordination with institutions of higher education to encourage and deliver programs of study with those institutions for employees of such agencies.
Directs the Center to establish eight regional centers comprised of specified States. Requires that all funds for such regional centers be distributed by, and each regional center submit a budget request to, the Center.
[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 349 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
107th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 349
To provide funds to the National Center for Rural Law Enforcement, and
for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 15, 2001
Mr. Hutchinson (for himself, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Smith of Oregon, Mr.
Thomas, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Feingold, and Mr. Johnson)
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the
Committee on on the Judiciary
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To provide funds to the National Center for Rural Law Enforcement, 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 ``Rural Law Enforcement Assistance Act
of 2001''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) Board.--The term ``Board'' means the members of the
Board of the Center elected in accordance with the bylaws of
the Center.
(2) Center.--The term ``Center'' means the National Center
for Rural Law Enforcement, a nonprofit corporation located in
Little Rock, Arkansas.
(3) Executive director.--The term ``Executive Director''
means the Executive Director of the Center as appointed in
accordance with the bylaws of the Center.
(4) Institutions of higher education.--The term
``institutions of higher education'' has the meaning given the
term in section 1201(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 1141(a)).
(5) Metropolitan statistical area.--The term ``metropolitan
statistical area'' has the same meaning given the term by the
Bureau of the Census of the Department of Commerce.
(6) Rural area.--The term ``rural area'' means an area that
is located outside of a metropolitan statistical area.
(7) Rural law enforcement agency.--The term ``rural law
enforcement agency'' means a criminal justice or law
enforcement agency that serves a county, parish, city, town,
township, borough, or village that is located in a rural area.
SEC. 3. EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM GRANTS.
(a) Grant Authority.--The Attorney General shall annually make a
grant to the National Center for Rural Law Enforcement through the
Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Affairs, if the Executive
Director certifies in writing to the Attorney General that the Center--
(1) is incorporated in accordance with applicable State
law;
(2) is in compliance with the bylaws of the Center;
(3) will use amounts made available under this section in
accordance with subsection (b); and
(4) will not support any political party or candidate for
elected or appointed office.
(b) Uses of Funds.--
(1) Required uses of funds.--The Center shall use amounts
made available under this section to develop an education and
training program for criminal justice or law enforcement
agencies in rural areas and the employees of those agencies,
which shall include--
(A) the development and delivery of management,
forensic and computer education and training, technical
assistance, and practical research and evaluation for
employees of rural law enforcement agencies (including
tribal law enforcement agencies and railroad law
enforcement agencies), including supervisory and
executive managers of those agencies;
(B) conducting research into the causes and
prevention of criminal activity in rural areas,
including the causes, assessment, evaluation, analysis,
and prevention of criminal activity;
(C) the development and dissemination of
information designed to assist States and units of
local government in rural areas throughout the United
States;
(D) the establishment and maintenance of a resource
and information center for the collection, preparation,
and dissemination of information regarding criminal
justice and law enforcement in rural areas, including
programs for the prevention of crime and recidivism;
and
(E) the delivery of assistance, in a consulting
capacity, to criminal justice agencies in the
development, establishment, maintenance, and
coordination of programs, facilities and services,
education, training, and research relating to crime in
rural areas.
(2) Permissive uses of funds.--The Center may use amounts
made available under a grant under this section to enhance the
education and training program developed under paragraph (1),
through--
(A) educational opportunities for rural law
enforcement agencies;
(B) the development, promotion, and voluntary
adoption of educational and training standards and
accreditation certification programs for rural law
enforcement agencies and the employees of those
agencies;
(C) grants to, and contracts with, State, and local
governments, law enforcement agencies, public and
private agencies, educational institutions, and other
organizations and individuals to carry out this
paragraph;
(D) the formulation and recommendation of law
enforcement policy, goals, and standards in rural areas
applicable to criminal justice agencies, organizations,
institutions, and personnel; and
(E) coordination with institutions of higher
education for the purpose of encouraging and delivering
programs of study with those institutions for employees
of rural law enforcement agencies.
(c) Powers.--In carrying out subsection (b), the Executive Director
may--
(1) request the head of any Federal department or agency to
detail, on a reimbursable basis, 1 or more employees of the
Federal department or agency to the Center to assist the Center
in carrying out subsection (b), and any such detail shall be
without interruption or loss of civil service status or
privilege;
(2) request the Administrator of the General Services
Administration to provide the Center, on a reimbursable basis,
the administrative support services necessary for the Center to
carry out subsection (b); and
(3) procure temporary and intermittent services under
section 3109(b) of title 5, United States Code, at rates of
compensation established by the Board, but not to exceed the
daily equivalent of the maximum rate of pay payable for a
position at level IV of the Executive Schedule under section
5315 of title 5, United States Code.
(d) Reporting Requirements.--The Executive Director shall annually
submit to the Attorney General a report, which shall include--
(1) a description of the education and training program
developed under subsection (b);
(2) the number and demographic representation of
individuals who attended programs sponsored by the Center;
(3) a description of the extent to which resources of other
governmental agencies or private entities were used in carrying
out subsection (b); and
(4) a description of the extent to which contracts with
other public and private entities were used in carrying out
subsection (b).
(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be
appropriated to carry out this section--
(1) $13,000,000 for fiscal year 2002; and
(2) such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years
2003 through 2007.
SEC. 4. REGIONAL CENTERS.
(a) Establishment.--
(1) In general.--The Center shall establish 8 regional
centers, 1 in each geographic region listed in subsection (b)
that will be under the supervision, direction, and control of
the Center.
(2) Requirement.--The 8 regional centers shall be
established 2 per year during 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.
(b) Regions.--For purposes of subsection (a), the regions shall be
as follows:
(1) Region 1.--Region 1 shall be comprised of the following
States--
(A) Connecticut;
(B) Maine;
(C) Massachusetts;
(D) New Hampshire;
(E) New York;
(F) Rhode Island; and
(G) Vermont.
(2) Region 2.--Region 2 shall be comprised of the following
States--
(A) Delaware;
(B) Maryland;
(C) New Jersey;
(D) Ohio;
(E) Pennsylvania;
(F) West Virginia; and
(G) Virginia.
(3) Region 3.--Region 3 shall be comprised of the following
States--
(A) Alabama;
(B) Florida;
(C) Georgia;
(D) Mississippi;
(E) North Carolina; and
(F) South Carolina.
(4) Region 4.--Region 4 shall be comprised of the following
States--
(A) Iowa;
(B) Minnesota;
(C) Nebraska;
(D) North Dakota;
(E) South Dakota; and
(F) Wisconsin.
(5) Region 5.--Region 5 shall be comprised of the following
States--
(A) Arkansas;
(B) Illinois;
(C) Indiana;
(D) Kentucky;
(E) Louisiana;
(F) Michigan;
(G) Missouri; and
(H) Tennessee.
(6) Region 6.--Region 6 shall be comprised of the following
States--
(A) Colorado;
(B) Kansas;
(C) New Mexico;
(D) Oklahoma; and
(E) Texas.
(7) Region 7.--Region 7 shall be comprised of the following
States--
(A) Arizona;
(B) California;
(C) Nevada; and
(D) Utah.
(8) Region 8.--Region 8 shall be comprised of the following
States--
(A) Alaska;
(B) Hawaii;
(C) Idaho;
(D) Montana;
(E) Oregon;
(F) Washington; and
(G) Wyoming.
(c) Funding.--
(1) In general.--All funds for the regional centers shall
be distributed by the Center which shall determine the budget
base of each regional center based upon the budget request
required to be submitted by each regional center under
paragraph (2).
(2) Budget request.--Each regional center shall submit a
budget request to the Center at such time and in such manner as
the Executive Director may reasonably require.
(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be
appropriated to carry out this section--
(1) $8,000,000 for fiscal year 2002;
(2) $16,000,000 for fiscal year 2003;
(3) $24,000,000 for fiscal year 2004;
(4) $32,000,000 for fiscal year 2005; and
(5) such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years
2006 and 2007.
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Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1479-1480)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1480-1481)
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