Under the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program, the Department of Justice makes grants to state and local governments to support a wide range of activities relating to law enforcement, crime prevention, and victim services. (For 2017, the Congress appropriated $396 million for this program.) H.R. 2480 would specifically permit grant recipients to use these funds for programs to combat human trafficking. Because the legislation would not change the funding level for the JAG program, CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 2480 would have no significant cost to the federal government.
Enacting H.R. 2480 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 2480 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028.
H.R. 2480 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments.
