“To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 with respect to eligibility for certain crime control grants.”
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This section establishes grant ineligibility under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (Byrne JAG) and another program authorized by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. (1) For Byrne JAG grants (34 U.S.C. 10153), beginning the first fiscal year after enactment and each year thereafter, the Attorney General may not award, renew, or extend grants to a state or unit of local government with a policy or law that substantially limits cash bail for every individual charged with a covered offense or permits pretrial release on personal recognizance for an individual previously convicted of a felony. Covered offenses include violent or sexual acts (e.g., murder, rape, sexual assault, carjacking, robbery, burglary, assault) and public disorder offenses (e.g., looting, vandalism, rioting, fleeing law enforcement). (2) For grants under section 1702 (34 U.S.C. 10382), beginning the first fiscal year after enactment and each year thereafter, the Attorney General may not award, renew, or extend grants to a covered jurisdiction (i.e., a unit of local government in an urbanized area, per Census Bureau definition) that reduced a law enforcement agency's budget in the prior fiscal year, unless the reduction resulted from a proportionate overall government budget shortfall.