Truancy Prevention and Juvenile Crime Reduction Act of 1999

Summary

Truancy Prevention and Juvenile Crime Reduction Act of 1999 - Directs the Attorney General to make grants to eligible partnerships of local governmental units and local educational agencies to reduce truancy and the incidence of daytime juvenile crime. Sets forth provisions regarding maximum grant awards, allocation of such awards, and grant renewal. Authorizes the use of grant amounts to comprehensively address truancy through: (1) parental involvement in prevention activities; (2) sanctions; (3) parental accountability; (4) in-school truancy prevention programs; (5) involvement of local law enforcement, social services, judicial, business, and religious communities, and nonprofit organizations; (6) technology;(7) elimination of 40-day count and other unintended incentives to allow students to be truant after a certain time of school year; or (8) juvenile probation officer collaboration with one or more local educational agencies. Authorizes the Attorney General to give priority to funding programs that attempt to replicate specified model programs. Authorizes appropriations.

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 17 March 1999

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 17 March 1999

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