# § 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)** **Awards required** 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)** **Use of award amounts** 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)** **Eligible partnership defined** 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)** **Reports to Congress**
**(1)** **Interim report** June 1, 2009
Not later than , 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)** **Final report** June 1, 2010
Not later than , 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)** **Authorization of appropriations** There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $4,900,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2009.
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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 105–277, div. C, title VII, § 716, as added Pub. L. 109–469, title XI, § 1119, Dec. 29, 2006, 120 Stat. 3547; amended Pub. L. 105–277, div. C. title VII, § 715, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–693; Pub. L. 109–469, title VI, § 602, Dec. 29, 2006, 120 Stat. 3533; Pub. L. 115–271, title VIII, § 8202(a), (b)(2), Oct. 24, 2018, 132 Stat. 4110.)
## Editorial Notes
### Amendments
2018—, repealed . See 1998 Amendment note below.
, revived and restored this section as in effect on , and as amended by and . See Reauthorization of the Office of National Drug Control Policy note set out under .
2006— amended , which provided for the repeal of this section. See 1998 Amendment note below.
1998—, as amended by , which provided for the repeal of this section effective , was repealed by . See former .