HR 2698 — Workforce Justice Act of 2023

(a) Allocation among States (1) In general Of the total amount appropriated for this part, the Attorney General shall, except as provided in paragraph (2), allocate— (A) 50 percent of such remaining amount to each State in amounts that bear the same ratio of— (i) the total population of a State to— (ii) the total population of the United States; and (B) 50 percent of such remaining amount to each State in amounts that bear the same ratio of— (i) the average annual number of part 1 violent crimes of the Uniform Crime Reports of the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported by such State for the three most recent years reported by such State to— (ii) the average annual number of such crimes reported by all States for such years. (2) Minimum allocation If carrying out paragraph (1) would result in any State receiving an allocation less than 0.25 percent of the total amount (in this paragraph referred to as a “minimum allocation State”), then paragraph (1), as so carried out, shall not apply, and the Attorney General shall instead— (A) allocate 0.25 percent of the total amount to each State; and (B) using the amount remaining after carrying out subparagraph (A), carry out paragraph (1) in a manner that excludes each minimum allocation State, including the population of and the crimes reported by such State. (b) Allocation between States and units of local government Of the amounts allocated under subsection (a)— (1) 60 percent shall be for direct grants to States, to be allocated under subsection (c); and (2) 40 percent shall be for grants to be allocated under subsection (d). (c) Allocation for State governments (1) In general Of the amounts allocated under subsection (b)(1), each State may retain for the purposes described in section 10152 of this title an amount that bears the same ratio of— (A) total expenditures on criminal justice by the State government in the most recently completed fiscal year to— (B) the total expenditure on criminal justice by the State government and units of local government within the State in such year. (2) Remaining amounts Except as provided in subsection (e)(1), any amounts remaining after the allocation required by paragraph (1) shall be made available to units of local government by the State for the purposes described in section 10152 of this title. (d) Allocations to local governments (1) In general Of the amounts allocated under subsection (b)(2), grants for the purposes described in section 10152 of this title shall be made directly to units of local government within each State in accordance with this subsection, subject to subsection (e). (2) Allocation (A) In general From the amounts referred to in paragraph (1) with respect to a State (in this subsection referred to as the “local amount”), the Attorney General shall allocate to each unit of local government an amount which bears the same ratio to such share as the average annual number of part 1 violent crimes reported by such unit to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the 3 most recent calendar years for which such data is available bears to the number of part 1 violent crimes reported by all units of local government in the State in which the unit is located to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for such years. (B) Transitional rule Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), for fiscal years 2006, 2007, and 2008, the Attorney General shall allocate the local amount to units of local government in the same manner that, under the Local Government Law Enforcement Block Grants program in effect immediately before January 5, 2006, the reserved amount was allocated among reporting and nonreporting units of local government. (3) Annexed units If a unit of local government in the State has been annexed since the date of the collection of the data used by the Attorney General in making allocations pursuant to this section, the Attorney General shall pay the amount that would have been allocated to such unit of local government to the unit of lo...