HCR 24 – FINAL VERSION
2010 SESSION
08/05
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 24
A RESOLUTION supporting the Youth PROMISE Act.
SPONSORS: Rep. Chandley, Hills 6; Rep. Levesque, Hills 5
COMMITTEE: Children and Family Law
This resolution supports the Youth PROMISE Act.
10-2121
08/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
A RESOLUTION supporting the Youth PROMISE Act.
Whereas, the general court is committed to ensuring that youth lead productive, safe, healthy, gang-free, and law-abiding lives; and
Whereas, evidence-based and promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street crime activity prevention and intervention is needed to help build individual, family, and community strength and resiliency in youth; and
Whereas, H.R. 1064, the Youth PROMISE (Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education) Act, introduced by Congressman Robert Scott on February 13, 2009, would amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994; and
Whereas, the Youth PROMISE Act establishes a PROMISE Advisory Panel to assist the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in assessing and developing standards and evidence-based practices to prevent juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity and collecting data in designated geographic areas to assess the needs and existing resources for juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention; and
Whereas, the Youth PROMISE Act authorizes awarding grants to local governments to plan, assess, and implement PROMISE plans and programs for juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention, especially for at-risk youth, in local communities; hire and train law enforcement officers as youth-oriented police to work with local PROMISE Coordinating Councils, other community-based organizations, and high-risk youths; extend and increase funding for juvenile accountability block grants through Fiscal Year 2013; and create and expand state, local, and tribal juvenile witness and victim protection programs; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring;
That the New Hampshire general court, hereby supports H.R. 1064, the Youth PROMISE Act, which would provide funding for evidence-based and promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention to help build individual, family, and community strength and resiliency to ensure that youth lead productive, safe, healthy, gang-free, and law-abiding lives; and
That the house clerk transmit copies of this resolution to each member of the New Hampshire congressional delegation and the commissioner of the department of corrections.
Approved: May 5, 2010