21 U.S.C. § 1714
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- (a)The Director shall make competitive awards to fund demonstration programs by eligible partnerships for the purpose of reducing the use of illicit drugs by chronic hard-drug users living in the community while under the supervision of the criminal justice system.
- (b)Award amounts received under this section shall be used—
- (1)to support the efforts of the agencies, organizations, and researchers included in the eligible partnership;
- (2)to develop and field a drug testing and graduated sanctions program for chronic hard-drug users living in the community under criminal justice supervision; and
- (3)to assist individuals described in subsection (a) by strengthening rehabilitation efforts through such means as job training, drug treatment, or other services.
- (c)In this section, the term “eligible partnership” means a working group whose application to the Director—
- (1)identifies the roles played, and certifies the involvement of, two or more agencies or organizations, which may include—
- (A)State, local, or tribal agencies (such as those carrying out police, probation, prosecution, courts, corrections, parole, or treatment functions);
- (B)Federal agencies (such as the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and United States Attorney offices); and
- (C)community-based organizations;
- (2)includes a qualified researcher;
- (3)includes a plan for using judicial or other criminal justice authority to administer drug tests to individuals described in subsection (a) at least twice a week, and to swiftly and certainly impose a known set of graduated sanctions for non-compliance with community-release provisions relating to drug abstinence (whether imposed as a pre-trial, probation, or parole condition or otherwise);
- (4)includes a strategy for responding to a range of substance use and abuse problems and a range of criminal histories;
- (5)includes a plan for integrating data infrastructure among the agencies and organizations included in the eligible partnership to enable seamless, real-time tracking of individuals described in subsection (a);
- (6)includes a plan to monitor and measure the progress toward reducing the percentage of the population of individuals described in subsection (a) who, upon being summoned for a drug test, either fail to show up or who test positive for drugs.
- (1)identifies the roles played, and certifies the involvement of, two or more agencies or organizations, which may include—
- (d)
- (1)Not later than June 1, 2009, the Director shall submit to Congress a report that identifies the best practices in reducing the use of illicit drugs by chronic hard-drug users, including the best practices identified through the activities funded under this section.
- (2)Not later than June 1, 2010, the Director shall submit to Congress a report on the demonstration programs funded under this section, including on the matters specified in paragraph (1).
- (e)There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $4,900,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2009.