; and (ii) equal access, without regard to gender, to services, assistance, or benefits provided. ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (l) Rules for preferential consideration of States with laws similar to REDEEM Act (1) Degree of priority commensurate with degree of compliance If the Attorney General, in awarding grants under this part, gives preferential consideration to any application as authorized under subsection (c)(4), the Attorney General shall base the degree of preferential consideration given to an application from an applicant in a particular State on the number of subparagraphs under that subsection that the State has satisfied, relative to the number of such subparagraphs that each other State has satisfied. (2) Juvenile transfer provisions Subsection (c)(4)(D) shall not be construed to preclude from preferential consideration an application from an applicant in a State that— (A) has in effect a law that authorizes the transfer of an individual who is less than 18 years of age to adult criminal court if the individual commits a specified offense or an offense that falls under a specified category of offenses