<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">HR 2585 (sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee [D-TX18] - cosponsored by Rep. Ruben Hinojosa [D-TX15], <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Rep. Rush Hold [D-NJ12], and Rep. Michael "Mike" Honda [D-CA17]) was introduced in the Houe of Representatives on June 28th and (shortly thereafter) referred to committee.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr2585">http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr2585</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">HR 2585 IH</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><center style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">113th CONGRESS</span></p></center><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><center style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1st Session</span></p></center><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><center style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">H. R. 2585</span></p></center><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><center style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</span></p></center><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><center style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto;box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">June 28, 2013</span></font></p></center></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ms. JACKSON LEE (for herself, Mr. HONDA, Mr. HOLT, and Mr. HINOJOSA) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary</span></p><hr style="box-sizing: border-box; "><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><center style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A BILL</span></p></center><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</em></p></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</span></font></h3><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This Act may be cited as the ‘Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2013’.</span></p></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SEC. 2. BULLYING PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION PROGRAMS; REAUTHORIZATION OF JUVENILE ACCOUNTABILITY BLOCK GRANTS.</span></font></h3><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(a) Bullying Prevention and Intervention-</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(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:</span></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; "><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘(13) establishing and maintaining accountability-based programs that are designed to enhance school safety, which programs may include research-based bullying prevention, cyberbullying prevention, and gang prevention programs, as well as intervention programs regarding bullying;’.</span></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(2) SENSE OF CONGRESS- It is the sense of the Congress that the use of best practices is encouraged for all activities for which grants under part R of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 may be used.</span></p></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(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 such funds as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018’.</span></p></ul></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">What are the odds that this bill will ever see the light of day on the House floor?<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>