Keep Our Streets Safe Act of 2024

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9701 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9701

      To provide for the reallocation of certain grant funds from 
jurisdictions that do not allow for consideration the danger, risk, or 
 threat an individual poses to the community when determining bail or 
  pretrial release or that have in effect a policy providing for the 
                  sealing of certain criminal records.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 19, 2024

Mr. Molinaro (for himself, Mr. LaLota, Ms. Malliotakis, Mr. Garbarino, 
    Mr. Lawler, Mr. D'Esposito, Mr. Langworthy, Ms. Tenney, and Mr. 
Williams of New York) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
      To provide for the reallocation of certain grant funds from 
jurisdictions that do not allow for consideration the danger, risk, or 
 threat an individual poses to the community when determining bail or 
  pretrial release or that have in effect a policy providing for the 
                  sealing of certain criminal records.

    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 ``Keep Our Streets Safe Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR STATES RECEIVING BYRNE GRANT FUNDS.

    Section 505 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (34 U.S.C. 10156) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(j) Requirement for Dangerousness Standard for Pretrial 
Release.--
            ``(1) Requirement on states.--The Attorney General shall 
        withhold the amount that would otherwise be made available to a 
        State under subsection (b)(1) if the State--
                    ``(A) does not allow a State court or magistrate to 
                consider the danger, risk, or threat an individual 
                poses to the community when determining bail or 
                pretrial release; or
                    ``(B) has in effect a general policy providing for 
                the sealing of the criminal records of felons (other 
                than juveniles).
            ``(2) Reallocation.--The Attorney General shall reallocate 
        funds that are withheld from a State under this subsection to 
        units of local government within that State, for use in 
        accordance with section 501(a)(1).''.
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