I don't know if any of you have read it. Since most of the folks who voted for it didn't don't feel too bad if you haven't. It is 86 pages of pretty densely pack prose, after all.
When I first grabbed a copy off the internet I really didn't know what to expect. According to the White House page on the signing of the bill,
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall make grants
to States for the purpose of carrying out programs to provide
comprehensive services to aid children who are living in a home in which methamphetamine or other controlled substances are unlawfully manufactured, distributed, dispensed, or used.
(b) CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS.—The Attorney General shall
ensure that the services carried out with grants under subsection
(a) include the following:
(1) Coordination among law enforcement agencies, prosecutors,
child protective services, social services, health care services,
and any other services determined to be appropriate by
the Attorney General to provide assistance regarding the problems
of children described in subsection (a).
(2) Transition of children from toxic or drug-endangering
environments to appropriate residential environments.
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 and 2007. Amounts appropriated under the preceding sentence shall remain available until expended.
SEC. 756. AUTHORITY TO AWARD COMPETITIVE GRANTS TO ADDRESS METHAMPHETAMINE USE BY PREGNANT AND PARENTING WOMEN OFFENDERS.
(a) PURPOSE AND PROGRAM AUTHORITY.—
(1) GRANT AUTHORIZATION.—The Attorney General may
award competitive grants to address the use of methamphetamine among pregnant and parenting women offenders to promote public safety, public health, family permanence and well being.
(2) PURPOSES AND PROGRAM AUTHORITY.—Grants awarded
under this section shall be used to facilitate or enhance and
collaboration between the criminal justice, child welfare, and State substance abuse systems in order to carry out programs to address the use of methamphetamine drugs by pregnant and parenting women offenders.
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) CHILD WELFARE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘child welfare
agency’’ means the State agency responsible for child and/
or family services and welfare.
(2) CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘criminal justice
agency’’ means an agency of the State or local government
or its contracted agency that is responsible for detection, arrest, enforcement, prosecution, defense, adjudication, incarceration, probation, or parole relating to the violation of the criminal laws of that State or local government.
(c) APPLICATIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—No grant may be awarded under this
section unless an application has been submitted to, and
approved by, the Attorney General.
(2) APPLICATION.—An application for a grant under this
section shall be submitted in such form, and contain such
information, as the Attorney General, may prescribe by regulation or guidelines.
(3) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—The Attorney General shall make
grants to States, territories, and Indian Tribes. Applicants must demonstrate extensive collaboration with the State criminal justice agency and child welfare agency in the planning and implementation of the program.
(4) CONTENTS.—In accordance with the regulations or
guidelines established by the Attorney General in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, each application for a grant under this section shall contain a plan to expand the State’s services for pregnant and parenting women offenders who are pregnant women and/or women with dependent children for the use of methamphetamine or methamphetamine and other drugs and include the following in the plan:
(A) A description of how the applicant will work jointly
with the State criminal justice and child welfare agencies
needs associated with the use of methamphetamine or
methamphetamine and other drugs by pregnant and parenting
women offenders to promote family stability and
permanence.
(B) A description of the nature and the extent of the
problem of methamphetamine use by pregnant and parenting
women offenders.
(C) A certification that the State has involved counties
and other units of local government, when appropriate,
in the development, expansion, modification, operation or
improvement of proposed programs to address the use,
manufacture, or sale of methamphetamine.
(D) A certification that funds received under this section
will be used to supplement, not supplant, other Federal,
State, and local funds.
(E) A description of clinically appropriate practices and
procedures to—
(i) screen and assess pregnant and parenting
women offenders for addiction to methamphetamine
and other drugs;
(ii) when clinically appropriate for both the women
and children, provide family treatment for pregnant
and parenting women offenders, with clinically appropriate
services in the same location to promote family
permanence and self sufficiency; and
(iii) provide for a process to enhance or ensure
the abilities of the child welfare agency, criminal justice
agency and State substance agency to work together
to re-unite families when appropriate in the case where
family treatment is not provided.
(d) PERIOD OF GRANT.—The grant shall be a three-year grant.
Successful applicants may reapply for only one additional three year funding cycle and the Attorney General may approve such applications.
(e) PERFORMANCE ACCOUNTABILITY; REPORTS AND EVALUATIONS.—
(1) REPORTS.—Successful applicants shall submit to the
Attorney General a report on the activities carried out under
the grant at the end of each fiscal year.
(2) EVALUATIONS.—Not later than 12 months at the end
of the 3 year funding cycle under this section, the Attorney
General shall submit a report to the appropriate committees
of jurisdiction that summarizes the results of the evaluations conducted by recipients and recommendations for further legislative action.
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized
to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may
be necessary.
I have included the entire text of the section so that you can see it is a well-thought-out, indeed, self-contained section.