Interagency task force

(a) Establishment The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish an interagency task force (referred to in this Act as the Task Force) to coordinate and promote holistic, qualified approaches to community safety. (b) Members The Task Force shall be composed of the following members: (1) The Secretary of Health and Human Services, or the designee of the Secretary. (2) The Attorney General, or the designee of the Attorney General. (3) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or the designee of the Secretary. (4) The Secretary of Education, or the designee of the Secretary. (5) The Secretary of Labor, or the designee of the Secretary. (6) The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, or the designee of the Administrator. (7) Other agencies, as determined necessary by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. (c) Duties The Task Force shall carry out the following: (1) Conduct a comprehensive audit of all funds allocated and programs supported by the Department of Justice and other Federal agencies that fund law enforcement, jails, prisons, and other detention facilities, and other coercive or carceral approaches to public safety. (2) Conduct a comprehensive audit that assesses all Federal funds allocated to, as well as Federal programs supporting, initiatives that are intended to enhance qualified approaches to community safety, disaggregated by jurisdiction. (3) Facilitate ongoing efforts to streamline the application, monitoring, and reporting processes to make Federal funds provided pursuant to any grant made under this Act maximally accessible to small, grassroots organizations that work to develop, implement, or evaluate qualified approaches to community safety. (d) Meetings For the purpose of carrying out this section, the Task Force may hold such meetings, and sit and act at such times and places, as the Task Force considers appropriate. (e) Information The Task Force may secure directly from any Federal agency such information as may be necessary to enable the Task Force to carry out this section. Upon request of the Chairperson of the Task Force, the head of such agency shall furnish such information to the Task Force. (f) Report to congress Not later than 90 days after the date on which the Task Force completes the audits described in subsection (c), the Task Force shall submit a report to Congress, which summarizes— (1) the contents of such audits; and (2) any recommendations, based on such audits, with respect to additional investments or policy changes that would improve the implementation of qualified community safety approaches and maximize community safety outcomes in all jurisdictions served.