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Supporting Youth Opportunity and Preventing Delinquency Act of 2016
This bill amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (JJDPA) to modify and reauthorize juvenile justice programs and activities.
Specifically, it:
revises and reauthorizes through FY2022 programs and activities under title II of the JJDPA, including the State Formula Grant Program and the activities of the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP);
The bill revises, restructures, and reauthorizes through FY2022 programs under title V of the JJDPA, including the Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention Program.
The Government Accountability Office must evaluate the OJJDP's performance and audit selected grant recipients.
The bill subjects juvenile justice grants to accountability provisions.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 5963 as passed House amended on Sep 22, 2016. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Sep 22, 2016
To reauthorize and improve the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
382 Yea 29 Nay 20 not voting
Crossed both parties 29 of 411 voting members broke with their own party: 29 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
431 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 5963 and vote against it. 5 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 5963 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
21 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.