Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 116 Part 3.djvu/206

This page needs to be proofread.

116 STAT. 1798 PUBLIC LAW 107-273—NOV. 2, 2002 "PART EE—DRUG COURTS "Sec. 2951. Gra nt authority. "Sec. 2952. Prohibition of participation by violent offenders. "Sec. 2953. Definition. "Sec. 2954. Administration. "Sec. 2955. Applications. "Sec. 2956. Federal share. "Sec. 2957. Distribution and allocation. "Sec. 2958. Report. "Sec. 2959. Technical assistance, training, and evaluation.". Deadline. (c) IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS.— Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall— (1) devise a plan to implement recommendations of the General Accounting Office to— (A) develop and implement a management information system that is able to track and readily identify the universe of drug court programs funded by the Drug Court Program Office of the Department of Justice; (B) take steps to ensure and sustain an adequate grantee response rate to the Drug Court Program Office's data collection efforts by improving efforts to notify and remind grantees of their reporting requirements; (C) take corrective action toward grantees that do not comply with the data collection reporting requirement of the Department of Justice; (D) reinstate the collection of post-program data in the Drug Court Program Office's data collection effort, selectively spot checking grantee responses to ensure accurate reporting; (E) analyze performance and outcome data collected from grantees and report annually on the results; (F) consolidate the multiple Department of Justicefunded drug court program-related data collection efforts to better ensure that the primary focus is on the collection and reporting of data on Drug Court Program Office-funded drug court programs; (G) conduct a methodologically sound national impact evaluation of Drug Court Program Office-funded drug court programs; and (H) consider ways to reduce the time needed to provide information on the overall impact of Federally-funded drug court programs; and (2) submit a report on the plan to the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives. SEC. 2302. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. Section 1001(a) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3793) is amended— (1) in paragraph (3), by inserting before the period at the end the following: "or EE"; and (2) by adding at the end the following: "(25)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (C), there are authorized to be appropriated to carry out part EE— " (i) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2002; " (ii) $54,000,000 for fiscal year 2003; " (iii) $58,000,000 for fiscal year 2004; and " (iv) $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2005.