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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2649 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to |
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| 6 | 6 | | provide for additional grant amounts for protection against mass violence. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | APRIL3, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. N |
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| 10 | 10 | | EGUSE(for himself, Ms. TITUS, and Ms. DEANof Pennsylvania) intro- |
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| 11 | 11 | | duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju- |
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| 12 | 12 | | diciary |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets |
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| 15 | 15 | | Act of 1968 to provide for additional grant amounts |
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| 16 | 16 | | for protection against mass violence. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Strengthen and Tackle 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Opportunities to Prevent Violence Act of 2025’’ or as the 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | ‘‘STOP Violence Act of 2025’’. 6 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL GRANT AMOUNTS FOR PROTECTION 1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | AGAINST MASS VIOLENCE. 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Section 506 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10157) is amend-4 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ed— 5 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (1) in subsection (a)— 6 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (A) in paragraph (1), by striking the 7 |
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| 33 | 33 | | ‘‘and’’ at the end; 8 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (B) in paragraph (2), by striking the pe-9 |
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| 35 | 35 | | riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 10 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (C) by inserting after paragraph (2) the 11 |
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| 37 | 37 | | following: 12 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ‘‘(3) $20,000,000, to be granted by the Attor-13 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ney General to States, units of local governments, 14 |
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| 40 | 40 | | and other nonprofit organizations that serve victims 15 |
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| 41 | 41 | | of crime to provide compensation, training, and tech-16 |
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| 42 | 42 | | nical assistance to public assembly facilities to pre-17 |
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| 43 | 43 | | pare against mass violence and to protect public as-18 |
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| 44 | 44 | | sembly facilities from mass violence.’’; and 19 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 20 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(c) In this section: 21 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ‘‘(1) The term ‘mass violence’ includes active 22 |
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| 48 | 48 | | shooter incidents and targeted violence. 23 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ‘‘(2) The term ‘active shooter’ means an indi-24 |
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| 50 | 50 | | vidual actively engaged in the unauthorized killing or 25 |
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| 54 | 54 | | attempting to kill a person or persons in a confined 1 |
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| 55 | 55 | | and populated area with a firearm. 2 |
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| 56 | 56 | | ‘‘(3) The term ‘target violence’ means an inci-3 |
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| 57 | 57 | | dent of violence where an assailant who is known or 4 |
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| 58 | 58 | | knowable to a law enforcement agency for a jurisdic-5 |
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| 59 | 59 | | tion where the assailant resides, identifies a par-6 |
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| 60 | 60 | | ticular target prior to a violent attack, which may be 7 |
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| 61 | 61 | | one or more individuals, a class or category of indi-8 |
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| 62 | 62 | | viduals, or an institution, without regard to whether 9 |
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| 63 | 63 | | the assailant is able to successfully harm the chosen 10 |
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| 64 | 64 | | target. 11 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ‘‘(4) The term ‘public assembly facility’ means 12 |
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| 66 | 66 | | a permanent or temporary structure or facility, 13 |
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| 67 | 67 | | place, or activity where concentrations of people 14 |
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| 68 | 68 | | gather in reasonably close quarters for purposes in-15 |
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| 69 | 69 | | cluding deliberation, education, worship, shopping, 16 |
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| 70 | 70 | | employment, entertainment, recreation, sporting 17 |
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| 71 | 71 | | events, or similar activities.’’. 18 |
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