34 U.S.C. § 11116 — Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

(a) Establishment; membership
(1) The Federal executive branch has an independent organization called the Coordinating Council^* on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. It is made up of the Attorney General; the Secretary of Health and Human Services; the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use; the Secretaries of the Interior, Labor, Education, and Housing and Urban Development; the Administrator^* of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service; the Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement; other Federal-agency officers with significant decision-making authority whom the President designates; and the people appointed under paragraph (2).
(2)(A) Ten Council members must be appointed without regard to political affiliation. They must be practitioners in juvenile justice and may not be Federal officers or employees.
(B)(i) The Speaker of the House must appoint three members after consulting the House minority leader.
(ii) The Senate majority leader must appoint three members after consulting the Senate minority leader.
(iii) The President must appoint three members.
(iv) The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs must appoint one member after consulting that Committee’s Vice Chairman and the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources.
(C)(i) Of the members appointed under clauses (i), (ii), and (iii), one must be appointed for a 1-year term, one for a 2-year term, and one for a 3-year term. The terms must be designated when the members are appointed.
(ii) Unless clause (iii) applies, a vacancy during an appointment term may be filled only for the rest of that term.
(iii) After a member’s term ends, that member may continue to serve until a successor is appointed.
(b) Chairman and Vice Chairman
The Attorney General is the Council’s Chairman. The Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is its Vice Chairman. The Vice Chairman acts as Chairman when the Chairman is absent.
(c) Functions
(1) The Council must coordinate all Federal juvenile-delinquency programs, working with State^* and local juvenile-justice programs; all Federal programs and activities that detain or care for unaccompanied juveniles; and all Federal programs about missing and exploited children. It must examine how the separate programs can be coordinated among Federal, State, and local governments to better serve at-risk children and juveniles. At least once a year, it must recommend to the President and Congress how to coordinate overall policy and develop objectives and priorities for all Federal juvenile-delinquency programs and activities and all Federal programs and activities that detain or care for unaccompanied juveniles.
The Council must review Federal agencies’ programs and practices and report how much their funds are used for purposes consistent or inconsistent with the mandates of the “core requirements^*.” This section does not define “core requirements.” The Council must review and make recommendations about any joint-funding proposal undertaken by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and a Council agency. It must review why Federal agencies take juveniles into custody and recommend ways to improve Federal practices and facilities for holding juveniles in custody.
(2) In addition to their other Council duties, the members appointed under subsection (a)(2) must act together each year to:
(A) recommend how to develop the objectives, priorities, and long-term plan, and how to implement the overall policy and strategy for that plan, referred to in section 11114(a)(1) of this title; and
(B) within 120 days after the last Council meeting of a fiscal year, submit a report to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. The report must:
(i) contain the recommendations under subparagraph (A);
(ii) give a detailed account of the Council’s activities during the fiscal year, including a complete, detailed accounting of the Council’s operating expenses under this section;
(iii) be published on the websites of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Council, and the Department of Justice; and
(iv) be in addition to the annual report required under section 11117 of this title.
(d) Meetings
The Council must meet at least once every quarter.
(e) Appointment of personnel or staff support by Administrator
With the Council’s approval, the Administrator must appoint the personnel or staff support the Administrator considers necessary to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.
(f) Expenses of Council members; reimbursement
Members appointed under subsection (a)(2) serve without pay. Council members must be reimbursed for travel, living expenses, and other necessary expenses they incur while carrying out Council duties.
(g) Authorization of appropriations
Of the money available to carry out this part, no more than $200,000 may be used to carry out this section.