A bill to amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide assistance to prevent police layoffs caused by budgetary problems.

Summary

Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to provide monetary assistance to eligible local governments for the purpose of retaining or reattaining employment levels of essential law enforcement and criminal justice employees. Defines an eligible local government as one in which: (1) the number of essential law enforcement and criminal justice personnel who have been or who, but for the assistance extended in this Act, would have to be released for budgetary reasons exceeds five percent of such jurisdiction's total law enforcement and criminal justice work force; and (2) reported crime equals or exceeds the national average.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 4 January 1977

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