Community Reintegration and Crime Prevention Act of 2010 - Amends the Second Chance Act of 2007 to reauthorize appropriations for FY2011 and FY2012 to the Secretary of Labor to carry out the reintegration of offenders grants program through the award of grants to nonprofit organizations to provide mentoring, job training and job placement services, and other comprehensive transitional services to assist eligible offenders in obtaining and retaining employment.
Directs the Attorney General, in coordination with the Secretary of Labor, to prepare a report identifying the best practices of nonprofit organizations receiving grants under the Act. Directs the Attorney General to make such report available to the public.
Requires nonprofit organization grantees, for grants awarded on or after January 1, 2012, to comply with the best practices identified in the report.
[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4688 Introduced in House (IH)]
111th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4688
To amend the Second Chance Act of 2007 to reauthorize the grants
program carried out by the Secretary of Labor to provide mentoring, job
training and job placement services, and other comprehensive
transitional services to assist eligible offenders in obtaining and
retaining employment, and to require a study on best practices by
nonprofit organization participating in such grants program.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 24, 2010
Mr. Sestak introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To amend the Second Chance Act of 2007 to reauthorize the grants
program carried out by the Secretary of Labor to provide mentoring, job
training and job placement services, and other comprehensive
transitional services to assist eligible offenders in obtaining and
retaining employment, and to require a study on best practices by
nonprofit organization participating in such grants program.
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 ``Community Reintegration and Crime
Prevention Act of 2010''.
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF REINTEGRATION OF OFFENDERS GRANTS PROGRAM.
(1) Best practices reports.--Section 212 of the Second
Chance Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17532) is amended--
(A) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the
following new sentence: ``For grants awarded for
periods beginning on or after January 1, 2012, a grant
recipient under this section shall comply with the best
practices identified pursuant to subsection (g).''; and
(B) by inserting after subsection (f) the following
new subsection (and redesignating subsections (g) and
(h) as subsections (h) and (i), respectively):
``(g) Best Practice Report.--Not later than January 1, 2011, the
Attorney General, in coordination with the Secretary of Labor, shall
prepare a report identifying, based on the information submitted
pursuant to subsection (f), best practices of nonprofit organizations
under this section. The Attorney General shall make such report
publicly available.''.
(2) Program reauthorized through 2012.--Subsection (i) of
section 212 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 17532), as redesignated by
paragraph (1), is amended by inserting at the end before the
period the following: ``and $30,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 2011 and 2012''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
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