To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize the public safety and community policing grant program, and for other purposes.

Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize the public safety and community policing (COPS ON THE BEAT) grant program for FY2015-FY2019.

Replaces various requirements for the allocation of grant funds with a requirement that a specified amount of funds available in any fiscal year be allocated to establish school-based partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and local school systems by using school resource officers who operate in and around elementary and secondary schools to combat school-related crime and disorder problems, gangs, and drug activities.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5643 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5643

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
reauthorize the public safety and community policing grant program, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 18, 2014

Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. McIntyre) 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 
reauthorize the public safety and community policing grant program, 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. REAUTHORIZATION OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND COMMUNITY POLICING 
              GRANTS.

    Section 1101(a)(11) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3793(a)(11)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``2006 through 2009'' 
        and inserting ``2015 through 2019''; and
            (2) by amending subparagraph (B) to read as follows:
                    ``(B) Of funds available under part Q in any fiscal 
                year, not less than $30,000,000 shall be allocated for 
                grants pursuant to applications submitted by units of 
                local government or law enforcement agencies in order 
                to carry out the purpose described in section 
                1701(b)(12).''.
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