Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2012

Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2012 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) expand the juvenile accountability block grant program with respect to programs for the prevention of bullying to include intervention programs, and (2) authorize appropriations for such grant program for FY2013-FY2017.

Expresses the sense of Congress that the use of best practices is encouraged for all activities for which juvenile accountability block grants may be used.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6019 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6019

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
enhance the use of Juvenile Accountability Block Grants for programs to 
  prevent and address occurrences of bullying and to reauthorize the 
             Juvenile Accountability Block Grants program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 26, 2012

Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas (for herself, Mr. Smith of Texas, Ms. Norton, 
  Mr. Rangel, Ms. Richardson, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Ms. Hahn, and Ms. 
 Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas) introduced the following bill; which 
             was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
enhance the use of Juvenile Accountability Block Grants for programs to 
  prevent and address occurrences of bullying and to reauthorize the 
             Juvenile Accountability Block 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 ``Juvenile Accountability Block Grant 
Reauthorization and the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 
2012''.

SEC. 2. BULLYING PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION PROGRAMS; REAUTHORIZATION 
              OF JUVENILE ACCOUNTABILITY BLOCK GRANTS.

    (a) Bullying Prevention and Intervention.--
            (1) In general.--Paragraph (13) of section 1801(b) of the 
        Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
        3796ee(b)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(13) establishing and maintaining accountability-based 
        programs that are designed to enhance school safety, which 
        programs may include research to prevent bullying, the 
        prevention of cyberbullying, and gang prevention programs, as 
        well as intervention programs regarding bullying;''.
            (2) Sense of congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
        that the use of best practices in the effort to combat bullying 
        should be encouraged.
    (b) Reauthorization of Juvenile Accountability Block Grants.--
Section 1810(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3796ee-10(a)) is amended by 
inserting before the period at the end the following: ``and $40,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2013 through 2017''.
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