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Calendar No. 233 

112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1793 

To amend title 28, United States Code, to clarify the statutory authority 

for the longstanding practice of the Department of Justice of providing 

investigatory assistance on request of State and local authorities with 

respect to certain serious violent crimes, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 2, 2011 

Mr. WHITEHOUSE introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 

referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

NOVEMBER 17, 2011 

Reported by Mr. LEAHY, without amendment 

A BILL 

To amend title 28, United States Code, to clarify the statutory authority for the longstanding practice of the Department of Justice of providing investigatory assistance 

on request of State and local authorities with respect 

to certain serious violent crimes, 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, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Investigative Assist3 ance for Violent Crimes Act of 2011’’. 

4 SEC. 2. INVESTIGATION OF MASS KILLING OR ATTEMPTED 

5 MASS KILLING AND OTHER VIOLENT CRIMES. 

6 Title 28, United States Code, is amended— 

7 (1) in section 530C(b)(1)(L)(i), by striking 

8 ‘‘2,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$3,000,000’’; 

9 (2) in section 530C(b)(4), by adding at the end 

10 the following: ‘‘The authority to conduct or assist in 

11 investigations includes the authority to deploy tac12 tical response, command and control, and other cri13 sis-management assets of the Bureau, as appro14 priate; and any such conduct or assistance shall be 

15 understood presumptively to be within the scope of 

16 Federal office or employment.’’; 

17 (3) in section 540A— 

18 (A) in the section heading, by striking 

19 ‘‘Investigation of violent crimes 

20 against travelers’’ and inserting ‘‘Inves21 tigation of certain violent crimes’’; 

22 (B) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘, in the 

23 investigation of violent acts and shootings oc24 curring in venues such as schools, colleges, uni25 versities, non-Federal office buildings, malls, 

26 and other public places, and in the investigation 


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1 of mass killings and attempted mass killings’’ 

2 after ‘‘traveler’’; and 

3 (C) in subsection (c), by adding the fol4 lowing new paragraph at the end: 

5 ‘‘(4) ‘mass killings’ means 3 or more killings in 

6 a single incident.’’; and 

7 (4) in the table of sections at the beginning of 

8 chapter 33, by striking the item relating to section 

9 540A and inserting the following: 

‘‘540A. Investigation of certain violent crimes.’’. 


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Calendar No. 233 

112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1793 

A BILL 

To amend title 28, United States Code, to clarify 

violent crimes, and for other purposes. local authorities with respect to certain serious vestigatory assistance on request of State and tice of the Department of Justice of providing inthe statutory authority for the longstanding pracNOVEMBER 17, 2011 

Reported without amendment 


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