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118THCONGRESS
2
DSESSION H. R. 8205
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to
provide that Byrne grant funds may be used for public safety report
systems, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY1, 2024
Mr. F
ITZGERALD(for himself, Mr. NEHLS, Mr. STEIL, Mr. TIFFANY, and Mr.
H
IGGINSof Louisiana) introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act of 1968 to provide that Byrne grant funds may
be used for public safety report systems, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Keeping Violent Of-4
fenders Off Our Streets Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. USE OF BYRNE GRANT FUNDING FOR PUBLIC SAFE-1
TY REPORT SYSTEMS. 2
Section 501 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 3
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10152) is amended— 4
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by adding at the end 5
the following: 6
‘‘(J) A public safety report system de-7
scribed in subsection (i).’’; and 8
(2) by adding at the end the following: 9
‘‘(i) P
UBLICSAFETYREPORTSYSTEMDE-10
SCRIBED.—A public safety report system described in this 11
subsection shall include the following: 12
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The public safety report 13
system shall be developed and maintained by the 14
State or Tribal Court Administration, shall provide 15
judges and prosecutors in the jurisdiction, at no 16
cost, a public safety report for each defendant 17
charged with an offense described in subparagraph 18
(A), and shall contain the following: 19
‘‘(A) The criteria for setting bail for an in-20
dividual charged with— 21
‘‘(i) murder, manslaughter (except in-22
voluntary manslaughter), or attempted 23
murder; 24
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‘‘(ii) rape, attempted rape, or any 1
other felony sexual abuse offense or at-2
tempt to commit such an offense; 3
‘‘(iii) any felony assault offense; 4
‘‘(iv) kidnapping; 5
‘‘(v) robbery; 6
‘‘(vi) a felony offense involving resist-7
ing or obstructing an officer; 8
‘‘(vii) carjacking; 9
‘‘(viii) unlawful possession of a fire-10
arm in the commission of a felony; or 11
‘‘(ix) any other violent felony. 12
‘‘(B) Identifying information regarding 13
each defendant charged with an offense de-14
scribed in subparagraph (A), the case filed 15
against the defendant, and the offense with 16
which the defendant is charged. 17
‘‘(C) Information on the eligibility of each 18
such defendant for a personal bond. 19
‘‘(D) Information regarding the applica-20
bility of any required or discretionary bond con-21
ditions for each such defendant. 22
‘‘(E) A summary of the criminal history of 23
the defendant, including information regarding 24
any— 25
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‘‘(i) previous misdemeanor or felony 1
conviction; 2
‘‘(ii) pending charges; 3
‘‘(iii) previous sentence imposing a 4
term of imprisonment; 5
‘‘(iv) previous conviction or pending 6
charges for any offense described in sub-7
paragraph (A); and 8
‘‘(v) previous failure of the defendant 9
to appear in court following release on bail. 10
‘‘(2) U
SE OF SYSTEM.—The public safety re-11
port system shall be used by the jurisdiction as fol-12
lows: 13
‘‘(A) In the case of a State or Tribal court 14
in that jurisdiction that is considering the re-15
lease on bail of a defendant charged with an of-16
fense described in subparagraph (A) of para-17
graph (1)— 18
‘‘(i) the prosecutor shall use the pub-19
lic safety report system developed under 20
section 3 to prepare a public safety report 21
with respect to the defendant; 22
‘‘(ii) the prosecutor shall provide the 23
public safety report prepared under clause 24
(i) to the State or Tribal court as soon as 25
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practicable, but not later than 48 hours 1
after the defendant’s arrest; and 2
‘‘(iii) the court shall consider the pub-3
lic safety report before setting bail; and 4
‘‘(B) To submit each public safety report 5
prepared under subparagraph (A)(i) to the Na-6
tional Crime Information Center.’’. 7
SEC. 3. FRAUD IN CONNECTION WITH POSTING BAIL. 8
Section 1033(f)(1)(A) of title 18, United States Code, 9
is amended by inserting before the comma the following: 10
‘‘(including the posting of monetary bail, criminal bail 11
bonds, and Federal immigration bail bonds)’’. 12
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