S 4782 — STOP FENTANYL PACKAGE

(a) Appointment (1) In general (A) Director (i) In general There shall be at the head of the Office a Director who shall hold the same rank and status as the head of an executive department listed in section 101 of title 5. (ii) Appointment The Director shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall serve at the pleasure of the President. (B) Deputy Director There shall be a Deputy Director who shall report directly to the Director, and who shall be appointed by the President, and shall serve at the pleasure of the President. (C) Coordinators The following coordinators shall be appointed by the Director: (i) Performance Budget Coordinator, as described in subsection (c)(5). (ii) Interdiction Coordinator, as described in section 1710 of this title. (iii) Emerging and Continuing Threats Coordinator, as described in section 1708 of this title. (iv) State, Local, and Tribal Affairs Coordinator, to carry out the activities described in subsection (j). (v) Demand Reduction Coordinator, as described in subparagraph (D). (D) Demand Reduction Coordinator The Director shall designate or appoint a United States Demand Reduction Coordinator to be responsible for the activities described in section 1701(3) of this title. For purposes of carrying out the previous sentence, the Director shall designate or appoint an appointee in the Senior Executive Service or an appointee in a position at level 15 of the General Schedule (or equivalent). (2) Duties of Deputy Director of National Drug Control Policy The Deputy Director of National Drug Control Policy shall— (A) carry out the duties and powers prescribed by the Director; and (B) serve as the Director in the absence of the Director or during any period in which the office of the Director is vacant. (3) Acting Director If the Director dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to perform the functions and duties of the office, the Deputy Director shall perform the functions and duties of the Director temporarily in an acting capacity pursuant to subchapter III of chapter 33 of title 5. (4) Prohibition No person shall serve as Director or a Deputy Director while serving in any other position in the Federal Government. (5) Prohibition on political campaigning Any officer or employee of the Office who is appointed to that position by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, may not participate in Federal election campaign activities, except that such officer or employee is not prohibited by this paragraph from making contributions to individual candidates. (6) Prohibition on the use of funds for ballot initiatives No funds authorized under this chapter may be obligated for the purpose of expressly advocating the passage or defeat of a State or local ballot initiative. (b) Responsibilities The Director— (1) shall assist the President in the establishment of policies, goals, objectives, and priorities for the National Drug Control Program; (2) shall promulgate the National Drug Control Strategy under section 1705(a) of this title and each report under section 1705(b) 1 of this title in accordance with section 1705 of this title; (3) shall coordinate and oversee the implementation by the National Drug Control Program agencies of the policies, goals, objectives, and priorities established under paragraph (1) and the fulfillment of the responsibilities of such agencies under the National Drug Control Strategy and make recommendations to National Drug Control Program agency heads with respect to implementation of Federal counter-drug programs; (4) shall make such recommendations to the President as the Director determines are appropriate regarding changes in the organization, management, and budgets of National Drug Control Program agencies, and changes in the allocation of personnel to and within those departments and agencies, to implement the policies, goals, priorities, and objectives established under paragraph (1) and the Nati...

(a) Grant authorization The Attorney General shall carry out a single grant program under which the Attorney General makes grants to States, units of local government, Indian tribal governments, other public and private entities, and multi-jurisdictional or regional consortia for the purposes described in subsection (b). (b) Uses of grant amounts The purposes for which grants made under subsection (a) may be made are— (1) to rehire law enforcement officers who have been laid off as a result of State, tribal, or local budget reductions for deployment in community-oriented policing; (2) to hire and train new, additional career law enforcement officers for deployment in community-oriented policing across the Nation, including by prioritizing the hiring and training of veterans (as defined in section 101 of title 38); (3) to procure equipment, technology, or support systems, or pay overtime, to increase the number of officers deployed in community-oriented policing; (4) to award grants to pay for offices hired to perform intelligence, anti-terror, or homeland security duties; (5) to support hiring activities by law enforcement agencies experiencing declines in officer recruitment applications by reducing application-related fees, such as fees for background checks, psychological evaluations, and testing; (6) to increase the number of law enforcement officers involved in activities that are focused on interaction with members of the community on proactive crime control and prevention by redeploying officers to such activities; (7) to provide specialized training to law enforcement officers to enhance their conflict resolution, mediation, problem solving, service, and other skills needed to work in partnership with members of the community; (8) to increase police participation in multidisciplinary early intervention teams; (9) to develop new technologies, including interoperable communications technologies, modernized criminal record technology, and forensic technology, to assist State, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies in reorienting the emphasis of their activities from reacting to crime to preventing crime and to train law enforcement officers to use such technologies; (10) to develop and implement innovative programs to permit members of the community to assist State, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies in the prevention of crime in the community, such as a citizens’ police academy, including programs designed to increase the level of access to the criminal justice system enjoyed by victims, witnesses, and ordinary citizens by establishing decentralized satellite offices (including video facilities) of principal criminal courts buildings; (11) to establish innovative programs to reduce, and keep to a minimum, the amount of time that law enforcement officers must be away from the community while awaiting court appearances; (12) to establish and implement innovative programs to increase and enhance proactive crime control and prevention programs involving law enforcement officers and young persons in the community; (13) to establish school-based partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and local school systems by using school resource officers who operate in and around elementary and secondary schools to combat school-related crime and disorder problems, gangs, and drug activities, including the training of school resource officers in the prevention of human trafficking offenses; (14) to develop and establish new administrative and managerial systems to facilitate the adoption of community-oriented policing as an organization-wide philosophy; (15) to assist a State or Indian tribe in enforcing a law throughout the State or tribal community that requires that a convicted sex offender register his or her address with a State, tribal, or local law enforcement agency and be subject to criminal prosecution for failure to comply; (16) to establish, implement, and coordinate crime prevention and control prog...