Law Enforcement Revenue Sharing Act

Law Enforcement Revenue Sharing Act - Provides that all authority of Title I, of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act as amended, is placed in the Attorney General. Establishes a Law Enforcement Assistance Administration with an Administrator appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate and a Deputy Administrator. Authorizes delegation of all functions, powers and duties created by the Act. Sets forth the requirements necessary for a planning process to properly develop a comprehensive State plan and administer such plan. Requires that a State beginning on or after July 1, 1973, submit a comprehensive State plan. Authorizes the Attorney General to review such plan and provide comments to the State and Congress and to publish such comments in the Federal Register. States that the purpose of revenue sharing for law enforcement is to encourage States and units of general local government to carry out programs and projects to reduce crime and delinquency. Sets forth the types of law enforcement activities which can be funded. Provides eligibility to diagnostic services within the community-based delinquency prevention and correctional programs. Gives express funding authority for improved court administration and law reform programs. Provides technical assistance. Provides funding authority for law enforcement education authority for maintenance and operation of State, regional and local planning processes and improved management of law enforcement activities. Removes the matching requirements and permits 100 percent of program costs to be paid from special revenue sharing funds. Authorizes the Attorney General to make special revenue sharing payments when a State has on file a comprehensive State plan. Sets forth the considerations which must be included for a plan to be comprehensive. Provides for the State government to receive applications for financial assistance from units of local government and other applicants and authorizes the State government to disburse funds when the application is in accordance with this Act. Allows the Attorney General to reallocate funds if a State fails to file a comprehensive plan. Sets forth how special revenue sharing funds shall be allocated. Provides that no person shall be excluded from participation in the program or projects funded under this Act due to discrimination. Provides for the method of payment of special revenue sharing funds. Provides for developing new methods for the prevention and reduction of crime and the detection and apprehension of criminals. Continues the operation of the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice within the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. Provides that grants for this part may be up to 100 percent of the total cost of each project for which a grant is made. Authorizes the Attorney General, after consultation with representatives of States and units of general local government, to establish rules and regulations necessary to the exercise of his functions under, and are consistent with the stated purpose of, this title. Provides that the Attorney General may establish or discontinue such organizational units of the Administration as he deems necessary. Gives a hearing examiner, upon authorization of the Attorney General, the power to hold hearings, sign and issue subpoenas, administer oaths, examine witnesses, and receive evidence at any place in the United States he may designate. Requires accounting and auditing evaluations and reviews as the Attorney General may consider necessary to insure full compliance with the requirements of this title. Authorizes the Attorney General to request from other Federal agencies statistics, data, program reports, and other material in order that the programs under this title can be carried out in a coordinated manner. Provides for the reimbursement of the heads of other Federal departments for the performance of any functions under this title. Provides that the Attorney General shall collect and disseminate information on the condition and progress of law enforcement in the United States. Permits the Attorney General to determine the method of payments under this title. Provides that not more than 12 percent of the funds appropriated for any one fiscal year shall be used in any one State. Provides that nothing contained in this title or any other act shall be construed to authorize any Federal control over any law enforcement agency of any State or political subdivision thereof. Directs the Attorney General to report to the President and to the Congress by March of each year on the activities under this title. Provides for funding authority to carry out the provisions of this title. Provides for the confidentiality of statistical and research information collected under the Administration programs and for a civil sanction of up to $10,000 to enforce such confidentiality. Sets forth criminial penalties for whoever embezzles, willfully misapplies, steals, or obtains by grant any funds, assets or property which are the subject of a grant or contract or other form of assistance.

Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on March 14, 1973. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.

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