STOP Violence Act of 2023

Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement


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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2899 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2899

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
   provide for additional grant amounts for protection against mass 
                               violence.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 26, 2023

   Mr. Neguse (for himself, Mr. Correa, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
Carson, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Ms. Matsui, Ms. Titus, Ms. Velazquez, 
 Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. Jackson Lee, 
 Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania, and Ms. Stansbury) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 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 Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Strengthen and Tackle Opportunities 
to Prevent Violence Act of 2023'' or as the ``STOP Violence Act of 
2023''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL GRANT AMOUNTS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST MASS VIOLENCE.

    Section 506 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10157) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking the ``and'' at 
                the end;
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
            ``(3) $20,000,000, to be granted by the Attorney General to 
        States, units of local governments, and other nonprofit 
        organizations that serve victims of crime to provide 
        compensation, training, and technical assistance to public 
        assembly facilities to prepare against mass violence and to 
        protect public assembly facilities from mass violence.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) In this section:
            ``(1) The term `mass violence' includes active shooter 
        incidents and targeted violence.
            ``(2) The term `active shooter' means an individual 
        actively engaged in the unauthorized killing or attempting to 
        kill a person or persons in a confined and populated area with 
        a firearm.
            ``(3) The term `target violence' means an incident of 
        violence where an assailant who is known or knowable to a law 
        enforcement agency for a jurisdiction where the assailant 
        resides, identifies a particular target prior to a violent 
        attack, which may be one or more individuals, a class or 
        category of individuals, or an institution, without regard to 
        whether the assailant is able to successfully harm the chosen 
        target.
            ``(4) The term `public assembly facility' means a permanent 
        or temporary structure or facility, place, or activity where 
        concentrations of people gather in reasonably close quarters 
        for purposes including deliberation, education, worship, 
        shopping, employment, entertainment, recreation, sporting 
        events, or similar activities.''.
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