| 1 | Representative Needelman offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment |
| 4 | Remove lines 755-758 and insert: |
| 5 | (2) The Redirection Program must provide community-based |
| 6 | services that have been identified as model programs or as |
| 7 | promising programs as determined by a nationally recognized |
| 8 | research entity using rigorous research design methodologies to |
| 9 | establish criteria of a strict scientific standard of program |
| 10 | effectiveness in reducing adolescent violent crime, aggression, |
| 11 | delinquency, and substance abuse. Interventions selected for use |
| 12 | in the Redirection Program must be identified by the search |
| 13 | entity as meeting the criteria as a model programs or as |
| 14 | promising programs. |