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Rural Safety and Law Enforcement Improvement Act

Introduced: July 26, 2002 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 20, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Jul 29, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Jul 26, 2002
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jul 26, 2002
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Rural Safety and Law Enforcement Improvement Act- Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to make grants to rural local and tribal governments for the retention for one additional year of police officers funded through the cops on the beat (or COPS) program; (2) authorize the use of COPS grants on a matching funds basis to assist the police departments of such units in improving police communications, and in developing and improving access to crime-solving technologies; and (3) hire personnel and purchase equipment for rural areas to assist in the enforcement and prosecution of methamphetamine offenses and the environmental cleanup of methamphetamine-affected areas.

Directs the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice to make grants to such units to establish or improve 911 service in those communities.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, to make grants to establish in rural areas substance abuse (particularly methamphetamine) prevention and treatment pilot programs and methamphetamine prevention education programs.

Directs the Attorney General to provide for the cleanup of methamphetamine laboratories and related hazardous waste, and for the improvement of contract-related response time for cleanup of methamphetamine laboratories and related hazardous waste by providing additional contract personnel, equipment, and facilities, in rural areas.

Establishes a Rural Policing Institute as part of the Small Town and Rural Training Program..

What's happening now August 20, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1