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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 203 

To amend Federal crime grant programs relating to domestic violence to 

encourage States and localities to implement gun confiscation policies, 

reform stalking laws, create integrated domestic violence courts, and 

hire additional personnel for entering protection orders, and for other 

purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 4, 2007 

Mr. ROTHMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend Federal crime grant programs relating to domestic 

violence to encourage States and localities to implement 

gun confiscation policies, reform stalking laws, create 

integrated domestic violence courts, and hire additional 

personnel for entering protection orders, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Domestic Violence Vic5 tim Protection Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ENCOURAGEMENT OF GUN CONFISCATION POLI2 CIES IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES. 

3 Section 2101(c) of the Omnibus Crime Control and 

4 Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796hh(c)) is amend5 ed— 

6 (1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 

7 (4); 

8 (2) by striking the period at the end of para9 graph (5)(B) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

10 (3) by adding at the end the following new 

11 paragraph: 

12 ‘‘(6) certify that their laws or official policies— 

13 ‘‘(A) provide that a law enforcement officer 

14 who has probable cause that an act of domestic 

15 violence has been committed may— 

16 ‘‘(i) question persons present to deter17 mine whether there are weapons on the 

18 premises; and 

19 ‘‘(ii) upon observing or learning that a 

20 weapon is present on the premises, seize 

21 any weapon that the officer reasonably be22 lieves would expose the victim or any other 

23 household member to a risk of serious bod24 ily injury; and 

25 ‘‘(B) provide that a court, as part of the 

26 relief provided in a protection order— 


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1 ‘‘(i) may order that the defendant is 

2 prohibited from possessing any firearm or 

3 other weapon; and 

4 ‘‘(ii) may order that any location may 

5 be searched for such a weapon, and such 

6 weapon may be seized, if the court has rea7 sonable cause to believe that a firearm or 

8 other weapon of the defendant is at that 

9 location.’’. 

10 SEC. 3. ELIMINATION OF SPECIFIC INTENT TO CAUSE FEAR 

11 FROM THE ELEMENTS OF THE OFFENSE OF 

12 STALKING. 

13 Section 40602 of the Violence Against Women Act 

14 of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14031) is amended by adding at the 

15 end the following new subsection: 

16 ‘‘(c) ELEMENTS OF STALKING OFFENSE.—To be eli17 gible to receive a grant under subsection (a), a State or 

18 unit of local government shall, in addition to the require19 ments of subsection (b), certify that its laws or official 

20 policies relating to the offense of stalking require, as ele21 ments of the offense, not more than the following: that 

22 the defendant has on more than one occasion harassed or 

23 threatened the victim.’’. 


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1 SEC. 4. ENCOURAGEMENT OF INTEGRATED DOMESTIC VIO2 LENCE COURTS. 

3 Section 40412 of the Violence Against Women Act 

4 of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13992) is amended— 

5 (1) by inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—’’ at the 

6 beginning; and 

7 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub8 section: 

9 ‘‘(b) INTEGRATED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COURTS.— 

10 Training provided pursuant to grants made under this 

11 subtitle may include training in the context of establishing 

12 and maintaining courts that provide, wherever practicable, 

13 for domestic matters (whether civil or criminal) that arise 

14 out of the same family or domestic circumstance to be as15 signed to a judicial unit for the processing of those mat16 ters on a coordinated basis.’’. 

17 SEC. 5. HIRING AND MAINTAINING OF ADDITIONAL PER18 SONNEL FOR ENTERING PROTECTION OR19 DERS. 

20 (a) GRANTS TO ENCOURAGE ARREST POLICIES.— 

21 Paragraph (12) of section 2101(b) of the Omnibus Crime 

22 Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 

23 3796hh(b)(12)) is amended by inserting ‘‘, and to hire and 

24 maintain additional personnel for entering information re25 lating to protection orders’’ before the period. 


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1 (b) GRANTS RELATING TO STALKING AND DOMESTIC

2 VIOLENCE.—Section 40602 of the Violence Against 

3 Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14031) is amended by 

4 striking the period at the end of subsection (a) and insert5 ing the following: ‘‘, which may include hiring and main6 taining additional personnel for entering such data.’’. 

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