H.R. 8611

Logan's Law

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I Violent Criminal Offender Database

Sec. 103. State participation in database

(a) Submission of data. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, and on an ongoing basis thereafter, each State that receives amounts under the Byrne JAG grant program shall submit to the Attorney General all data regarding qualifying convictions entered by a court of the State or a political subdivision of the State necessary for the Attorney General to comply with section 102.

(b) Byrne JAG grant penalty for noncompliance. The Attorney General—

(1) shall not distribute amounts under the Bryne JAG grant program to a State that is not in compliance with subsection (a); and

(2) in the case of amounts under the Byrne JAG grant program that the Attorney General would have distributed to a State but for the prohibition under paragraph (1) of this subsection, may, at the discretion of the Attorney General, and without regard to the requirements and limitations under section 505 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10156), distribute those amounts directly to units of local government in the State, which shall be in addition to the grants required to be made directly to units of local government under subsection (d) of such section 505.

II Federal efforts to increase data sharing among States