§ 1714. Awards for demonstration programs by local partnerships to coerce abstinence in chronic hard-drug users under community supervision through the use of drug testing and sanctions

• (a) The Director shall make competitive awards to fund demonstration programs by eligible partnerships for the purpose of reducing the use of illicit drugs by chronic hard-drug users living in the community while under the supervision of the criminal justice system.
• (b) Award amounts received under this section shall be used—
  • (1) to support the efforts of the agencies, organizations, and researchers included in the eligible partnership;
  • (2) to develop and field a drug testing and graduated sanctions program for chronic hard-drug users living in the community under criminal justice supervision; and
  • (3) to assist individuals described in subsection (a) by strengthening rehabilitation efforts through such means as job training, drug treatment, or other services.
• (c) In this section, the term “eligible partnership” means a working group whose application to the Director—
  • (1) identifies the roles played, and certifies the involvement of, two or more agencies or organizations, which may include—
    • (A) State, local, or tribal agencies (such as those carrying out police, probation, prosecution, courts, corrections, parole, or treatment functions);
    • (B) Federal agencies (such as the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and United States Attorney offices); and
    • (C) community-based organizations;
  • (2) includes a qualified researcher;
  • (3) includes a plan for using judicial or other criminal justice authority to administer drug tests to individuals described in subsection (a) at least twice a week, and to swiftly and certainly impose a known set of graduated sanctions for non-compliance with community-release provisions relating to drug abstinence (whether imposed as a pre-trial, probation, or parole condition or otherwise);
  • (4) includes a strategy for responding to a range of substance use and abuse problems and a range of criminal histories;
  • (5) includes a plan for integrating data infrastructure among the agencies and organizations included in the eligible partnership to enable seamless, real-time tracking of individuals described in subsection (a);
  • (6) includes a plan to monitor and measure the progress toward reducing the percentage of the population of individuals described in subsection (a) who, upon being summoned for a drug test, either fail to show up or who test positive for drugs.
• (d)
  • (1) Not later than June 1, 2009 , the Director shall submit to Congress a report that identifies the best practices in reducing the use of illicit drugs by chronic hard-drug users, including the best practices identified through the activities funded under this section.
  • (2) Not later than June 1, 2010 , the Director shall submit to Congress a report on the demonstration programs funded under this section, including on the matters specified in paragraph (1).
• (e) There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $4,900,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2009.