HR 2669 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Community-Based Gang Intervention Act

Introduced Jul 11, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Tony Cárdenas D-CA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Sep 13, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedJul 11, 2013
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Community-Based Gang Intervention Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should acknowledge and address social conditions such as poverty, homelessness, inadequate educational systems, and limited economic opportunities in developing a comprehensive gang violence reduction strategy.

Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to: (1) require the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award grants to nonprofit community-based gang intervention agencies to provide services for reducing and stopping gang-related and gang-motivated violence and crime, (2) include representatives of community-based gang intervention agencies in juvenile justice and delinquency prevention advisory groups established by state plans, and (3) include community-based gang intervention and prevention activities in state and local grant programs for delinquency prevention.

Cosponsors 22

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 11, 2013 to Sep 30, 2013, with 20 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CAAlan S. LowenthalOriginalJul 11, 2013
D-NMBen Ray LujánOriginalJul 11, 2013
D-ILBobby L. RushOriginalJul 11, 2013
D-NYCharles B. RangelOriginalJul 11, 2013
D-MDElijah E. CummingsOriginalJul 11, 2013
D-CAGrace F. NapolitanoOriginalJul 11, 2013
D-CAJanice HahnOriginalJul 11, 2013
D-CAJerry McNerneyOriginalJul 11, 2013
D-TXJoaquin CastroOriginalJul 11, 2013
D-FLJoe GarciaOriginalJul 11, 2013
D-NYJose E. SerranoOriginalJul 11, 2013
D-CAJuan VargasOriginalJul 11, 2013
D-CAKaren BassOriginalJul 11, 2013
D-ILLuis V. GutierrezOriginalJul 11, 2013
D-NMMichelle Lujan GrishamOriginalJul 11, 2013
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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Sep 13, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
  2. Jul 11, 2013Introduced in House
  3. Jul 11, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.

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  1. Jul 11, 2013Introduced in House

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