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HR 3526 111th Congress House Crime and Law Enforcement Advisory bodies Crime prevention Juvenile crime and gang violence Law enforcement administration and funding Violent crime

Tony Cardenas Community-Based Gang Intervention Act

Introduced: July 31, 2009 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 22, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
Jul 31, 2009
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Jul 31, 2009
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Tony Cardenas Community-Based Gang Intervention Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States must acknowledge and address social conditions such as poverty, homelessness, inadequate educational systems, and limited economic opportunities in developing a comprehensive gang violence reduction strategy.

Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to: (1) require the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award grants to nonprofit community-based gang intervention agencies to provide services for reducing and stopping gang-related and gang-motivated violence and crime; (2) include representatives of community-based gang intervention agencies in juvenile justice and delinquency prevention advisory groups established by state plans; and (3) include community-based gang intervention and prevention activities in state and local grant programs for delinquency prevention.

What's happening now October 22, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3