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Drug Abuse Education, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2001

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Congressional Summary of S 304

Drug Abuse Education, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2001 - Increases penalties for drug offenses involving juveniles, including trafficking in or near a school. Provides for: (1) grants to encourage drug-free prisons and jails; and (2) mandatory revocation of probation and supervised release for failing a drug test.

Authorizes: (1) grants to develop, implement, or expand drug treatment alternative to prison programs; (2) a study of the effect of mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses; and (3) grants for substance abuse education and prevention efforts, residential and outpatient treatment programs for juveniles, and drug abuse research. Provides for a National Academy of Sciences study regarding youth violence and substance abuse.

Provides for grants for: (1) alternative education for at-risk youth; and (2) counseling, training, and mentoring services in low-income, high-crime communities for children of prisoners. Authorizes: (1) the President to award to individuals under age 18 a National Character Achievement Award; and (2) grants for after school programs.

Reestablishes drug courts. Prohibits participation by violent offenders.

Offender Reentry and Community Safety Act of 2001 - Establishes: (1) the Federal Reentry Center Demonstration project; (2) the Federal High-Risk Offender Reentry Demonstration project; (3) the District of Columbia and Federal Intensive Supervision, Tracking, and Reentry Training Demonstration projects; and (4) the Federal Enhanced In-Prison Vocational Assessment and Training Demonstration project.

Directs the Attorney General to make grants for: (1) adult and juvenile offender reentry demonstration projects and programs; and (2) research, development, and evaluation.

Requires that the Government consider religious organizations for assistance under Government programs funded under this Act.

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Current Status of Bill S 304

Bill S 304 is currently in the status of Bill Introduced since February 13, 2001. Bill S 304 was introduced during Congress 107 and was introduced to the Senate on February 13, 2001.  Bill S 304's most recent activity was Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 247. as of November 29, 2001

Bipartisan Support of Bill S 304

Total Number of Sponsors
1
Democrat Sponsors
0
Republican Sponsors
1
Unaffiliated Sponsors
0
Total Number of Cosponsors
8
Democrat Cosponsors
4
Republican Cosponsors
4
Unaffiliated Cosponsors
0

Policy Area and Potential Impact of Bill S 304

Primary Policy Focus

Crime and Law Enforcement

Potential Impact Areas

- AIDS (Disease)
- Academic performance
- Administration of juvenile justice
- Administrative procedure
- Alcoholism
- Alcoholism treatment
- Alien property
- Ambulatory care
- Amphetamines
- Authorization
- Awards, medals, prizes
- Brain
- Child mental health services
- Church and social problems
- Church and state
- Civics education
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Clinical trials
- Commemorations
- Community and school
- Community health services
- Community organization
- Community-based corrections
- Compensation for victims of crime
- Compulsory education
- Computer literacy
- Computer-assisted instruction
- Computers in education
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Conspiracy
- Correctional institutions
- Correctional personnel
- Counseling
- Crime prevention
- Delinquency prevention
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Depressed areas
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- District of Columbia
- Dropout prevention
- Dropouts
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse in pregnancy
- Drug abuse prevention
- Drug abuse treatment
- Drug addiction
- Drug addicts
- Drug courts
- Drug testing
- Drug therapy
- Drug traffic
- Drugs and women
- Drugs and youth
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electric power failures
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary schools
- Energy
- Ethnic groups
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Ex-offenders
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Family violence
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to law enforcement
- Federal aid to medical research
- Federal aid to rural areas
- Federal aid to substance abuse programs
- Federal aid to youth services
- Federal law enforcement officers
- Fetus
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Gangs
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Governmental investigations
- Health
- Health counseling
- Health education
- Heroin
- Housing and Community Development
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Identification of criminals
- Indian courts
- Indian law enforcement
- Judicial review of administrative acts
- Juvenile corrections
- Juvenile courts
- Juvenile delinquency
- Juvenile probation
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Mandatory sentences
- Medical research
- Mental health services
- Mental health services for youth
- Mentoring
- Methamphetamine
- Minorities
- Mothers
- Nonprofit organizations
- Parent and child
- Parole
- Pharmaceutical research
- Physicians
- Prison alternatives
- Prisoners
- Prisons
- Probation
- Probation officers
- Prosecution
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Rehabilitation of criminals
- Rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents
- Religion
- Religious liberty
- Research centers
- Rural conditions
- Rural crime
- Rural health
- School discipline
- School health programs
- School security
- School violence
- School-age child care
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Searches and seizures
- Secondary education
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)
- Sentencing guidelines
- Social Welfare
- Student activities
- Student records
- Technical education
- Technology assessment
- U.S. Sentencing Commission
- Urban affairs
- Victims of crimes
- Violence
- Vocational and technical education
- Wife abuse
- Women
- Women's health
- Youth employment
- Youth violence

Alternate Title(s) of Bill S 304

Drug Abuse Education, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2001
A bill to reduce illegal drug use and trafficking and to help provide appropriate drug education, prevention, and treatment programs.
Drug Abuse Education, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2001
Drug Abuse Education, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2001
Offender Reentry and Community Safety Act of 2001
Offender Reentry and Community Safety Act of 2001

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