Cops for Kids Act

Cops for Kids Act - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to states and local governments to hire and train personnel to monitor the activities of sex offenders.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4828 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4828

   To provide grants to units of local government and States to hire 
         personnel to monitor the activities of sex offenders.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2006

 Mr. Boswell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide grants to units of local government and States to hire 
         personnel to monitor the activities of sex offenders.

    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 ``Cops for Kids Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Attorney General may make grants to States and 
units of local government to develop programs to hire personnel to 
monitor the activities of sex offenders in the community.
    (b) Priority.--In awarding a grant under this Act, the Attorney 
General shall give priority to a unit of local government or State with 
the greatest need as determined by the number of sex offenders in such 
unit of local government or State.
    (c) Matching Funds.--To be eligible to receive a grant under this 
Act, A State or unit of local government shall contribute not less than 
50 percent of the costs of developing a sex offender monitoring 
program, including hiring personnel and providing training.

SEC. 3. USES OF FUNDS.

    A grant awarded under this Act may be used to develop a monitoring 
program of sex offenders, including--
            (1) hiring personnel;
            (2) developing training programs for such personnel; and
            (3) purchasing equipment for the program.

SEC. 4. DEFINITION.

    For purposes of this Act--
            (1) the term ``sex offender'' means an individual required 
        by law to register as a sex offender;
            (2) the term ``State'' means each of the fifty States, the 
        District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin 
        Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 
        Guam, and American Samoa; and
            (3) the term ``unit of local government'' means any city, 
        county, township, town, borough, parish, village, or other 
        general purpose political subdivision of a State.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated $50,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2007 through 2012 to carry out this Act.
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