21 U.S.C. § 1714 — Awards for demonstration programs by local partnerships to coerce abstinence in chronic hard-drug users under community supervision through the use of drug testing and sanctions

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The Director gives competitive awards to local partnerships that drug-test chronic hard-drug users under community supervision. These partnerships apply set sanctions and fund job training and treatment. Partnerships must include multiple agencies and a researcher. Congress authorized $4,900,000 yearly for 2007 through 2009.

(a) Awards required. The Director must give competitive awards to eligible partnerships. The goal is to reduce illegal drug use among long-term hard-drug users under criminal-justice supervision in the community. (b) Use of award amounts. Recipients must use the money to support the partnership's work. They must also build a program of drug testing and step-by-step sanctions for these users. And they must help users through job training, drug treatment, or other services. (c) Eligible partnership defined. A qualifying "eligible partnership" is a working group whose funding application does several things. It must name at least two participating agencies or organizations. These can include state, local, or tribal criminal-justice or treatment agencies. They can also include federal agencies like the DEA or ATF, and community groups. It must include a qualified researcher. It must plan to drug-test users at least twice a week under judicial authority, and quickly apply known graduated sanctions for violations. It must have a strategy covering different kinds of drug problems and criminal histories. It must plan to share data across agencies in real time. And it must plan to track progress in reducing missed or failed drug tests. (d) Reports to Congress. The Director had to send Congress an interim report on best practices by June 1, 2009. A final report on the funded programs was due by June 1, 2010. (e) Authorization of appropriations. Congress authorized $4,900,000 per year for fiscal years 2007 through 2009 to carry out this section.

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- Codified at 21 U.S.C. § 1714, titled "Awards for demonstration programs by local partnerships to coerce abstinence in chronic hard-drug users under community supervision through the use of drug testing and sanctions." - Originally enacted as Pub. L. 105–277, div. C, title VII, § 716, added by Pub. L. 109–469, title XI, § 1119, Dec. 29, 2006, 120 Stat. 3547. - The source credit reflects five separate amending/enacting references, including amendments by Pub. L. 105–277 (1998), Pub. L. 109–469 (2006), and Pub. L. 115–271 (2018). - The statute's text comprises 470 words and authorizes appropriations of $4,900,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2009. - Section requires an interim report to Congress by June 1, 2009, and a final report by June 1, 2010.

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(a) Awards required

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) Use of award amounts

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.

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.

(d) Reports to Congress

(1) Interim report

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) Final report

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) Authorization of appropriations

There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $4,900,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2009.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 105–277, div. C, title VII, § 716, as added Pub. L. 109–469, title XI, § 1119, Dec. 29, 2006, 120 Stat. 3547; amended Pub. L. 105–277, div. C. title VII, § 715, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–693; Pub. L. 109–469, title VI, § 602, Dec. 29, 2006, 120 Stat. 3533; Pub. L. 115–271, title VIII, § 8202(a), (b)(2), Oct. 24, 2018, 132 Stat. 4110.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

2006Enacted · Pub. L. 105-277 · 120 Stat. 3547
1998Amended · Pub. L. 105-277 · 112 Stat. 2681
2006Amended · Pub. L. 109-469 · 120 Stat. 3533
2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-271 · 132 Stat. 4110

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 105-277 on 2006-12-29.

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