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