AUTHORIZATION AND CHANGE OF COPS PROGRAM TO SINGLE GRANT PROGRAM.

SEC. 1163. AUTHORIZATION AND CHANGE OF COPS PROGRAM TO SINGLE GRANT PROGRAM. (a) In General.—Section 1701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd) is amended—(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows: “(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).”; (2) by striking subsections (b) and (c); (3) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (b), and in that subsection—(A) by striking “additional grant projects.—Grants made under subsection (a) may include programs, projects, and other activities to—” and inserting “uses of grant amounts.—The purposes for which grants made under subsection (a) may be made are—”; (B) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (12) as paragraphs (6) through (17), respectively; (C) by inserting before paragraph (6) (as so redesignated) the following new paragraphs: “(1) rehire law enforcement officers who have been laid off as a result of State and local budget reductions for deployment in community-oriented policing; “(2) hire and train new, additional career law enforcement officers for deployment in community-oriented policing across the Nation; 119 STAT. 3120“(3) procure equipment, technology, or support systems, or pay overtime, to increase the number of officers deployed in community-oriented policing; “(4) award grants to pay for offices hired to perform intelligence, anti-terror, or homeland security duties;”; and (D) by amending paragraph (9) (as so redesignated) to read as follows: “(9) develop new technologies, including interoperable communications technologies, modernized criminal record technology, and forensic technology, to assist State 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;”; (4) by redesignating subsections (e) through (k) as subsections (c) through (i), respectively; and (5) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated) by striking “subsection (i)” and inserting “subsection (g)”. (b) Conforming Amendment.—Section 1702 of title I of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3796dd–1) is amended in subsection (d)(2) by striking “section 1701(d)” and inserting “section 1701(b)”. (c) Authorization of Appropriations.—Section 1001(a)(11) of title I of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3793(a)(11)) is amended—(1) in subparagraph (A) by striking “expended—” and all that follows through “2000” and inserting “expended $1,047,119,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2009”; and (2) in subparagraph (B)—(A) by striking “section 1701(f)” and inserting “section 1701(d)”; and (B) by striking the third sentence.