Rural Safety Act of 2001
Latest action · Dec 4, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedDec 4, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Directs the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice to make grants to: (1) establish or improve 911 service in those communities; and (2) establish restorative justice programs for juveniles, such as victim/offender mediation and family and community conferences..
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, to make grants to establish in rural areas substance abuse (particularly methamphetamine) prevention and treatment pilot programs and methamphetamine prevention education programs.
Directs the Attorney General to provide for the cleanup of methamphetamine laboratories and related hazardous waste, and for the improvement of contract-related response time by providing additional contract personnel, equipment, and facilities, in rural areas.
Establishes a Rural Policing Institute as part of the Small Town and Rural Training Program.
Secure Storage of Firearms Act of 2001 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to carry out a five-year demonstration program to make grants to assist qualified law enforcement officers in the acquisition and installation of gun safes or gun storage racks in their residences.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a tax credit for certain gun safe or storage rack acquisition expenses.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Dec 4, 2001.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-SD | Tim Johnson | Original | Dec 4, 2001 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred Dec 4, 2001 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 4, 2001Introduced in Senate
- Dec 4, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12375-12376)
- Dec 4, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S12375 | Thomas A. Daschle D-SD | Dec 4, 2001 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to promote rural safety and improve rural law enforcement.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Rural Safety Act of 2001
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Secure Storage of Firearms Act of 2001
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
- Accident prevention
- Administration of juvenile justice
- Administrative procedure
- Aircraft
- Authorization
- Brain
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commerce
- Community health services
- Community policing
- Compensation for victims of crime
- Computer crimes
- Computer software
- Computers
- Consumer education
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Data banks
- Department of Justice
- DNA fingerprints
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse prevention
- Drug abuse treatment
- Drug law enforcement
- Drugs and youth
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency communication systems
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medical services
- Employee training
- Environmental Protection
- Evidence (Law)
- Families
- Family violence
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal aid to law enforcement
- Federal aid to substance abuse programs
- Fines (Penalties)
- Firearms
- Firearms injuries
- Government contractors
- Government Operations and Politics
- Hate crimes
- Hazardous waste site remediation
- Health
- Health education
- Housing and Community Development
- Identification devices
- Identification of criminals
- Income tax
- Indian law enforcement
- Juvenile corrections
- Labor and Employment
- Laboratories
- Law
- Licenses
- Mediation
- Methamphetamine
- Minorities
- Personal income tax
- Photography
- Police
- Police communication systems
- Police training
- Prison alternatives
- Recruiting of employees
- Rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents
- Retail trade
- Rural crime
- School violence
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Small towns
- Storage
- Tax credits
- Taxation
- Telephone
- Transportation and Public Works
- Urban affairs
- Victims of crimes
- Video tape recording
- Voiceprints
- Wireless communication
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 4, 2001Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
