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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3594 
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 
JULY 28, 2005 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Domestic Violence Vic-
tim Protection Act’’.
SEC. 2. ENCOURAGEMENT OF GUN CONFISCATION POLI-
CIES IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES. 
Section 2101(c) of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796hh(c)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 
(3); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (4) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(5) certify that their laws or official policies— 
‘‘(A) provide that a law enforcement officer 
who has probable cause that an act of domestic 
violence has been committed may— 
‘‘(i) question persons present to deter-
mine whether there are weapons on the 
premises; and 
‘‘(ii) upon observing or learning that a 
weapon is present on the premises, seize 
any weapon that the officer reasonably be-
lieves would expose the victim or any other 
household member to a risk of serious bod-
ily injury; 
‘‘(B) provide that a court, as part of the 
relief provided in a protection order—
‘‘(i) may order that the defendant is 
prohibited from possessing any firearm or 
other weapon; and 
‘‘(ii) may order that any location may 
be searched for such a weapon, and such 
weapon may be seized, if the court has rea-
sonable cause to believe that a firearm or 
other weapon of the defendant is at that 
location.’’. 
SEC. 3. ELIMINATION OF SPECIFIC INTENT TO CAUSE FEAR 
FROM THE ELEMENTS OF THE OFFENSE OF 
STALKING. 
Section 40602 of the Violence Against Women Act 
of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14031) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(c) ELEMENTS OF STALKING OFFENSE.—To be eli-
gible to receive a grant under subsection (a), a State or 
unit of local government shall, in addition to the require-
ments of subsection (b), certify that its laws or official 
policies relating to the offense of stalking require, as ele-
ments of the offense, not more than the following: that 
the defendant has on more than one occasion harassed or 
threatened the victim.’’.
SEC. 4. ENCOURAGEMENT OF INTEGRATED DOMESTIC VIO-
LENCE COURTS. 
Section 40412 of the Violence Against Women Act 
of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13992) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—’’ at the 
beginning; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(b) INTEGRATED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COURTS.— 
Training provided pursuant to grants made under this 
subtitle may include training in the context of establishing 
and maintaining courts that provide, wherever practicable, 
for domestic matters (whether civil or criminal) that arise 
out of the same family or domestic circumstance to be as-
signed to a judicial unit for the processing of those mat-
ters on a coordinated basis.’’. 
SEC. 5. HIRING AND MAINTAINING OF ADDITIONAL PER-
SONNEL FOR ENTERING PROTECTION OR-
DERS. 
(a) GRANTS TO ENCOURAGE ARREST POLICIES.— 
Section 2101(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796hh(b)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(9) To hire and maintain additional personnel 
for entering information relating to protection or-
ders.’’.
(b) GRANTS RELATING TO STALKING AND DOMESTIC 
VIOLENCE.—Section 40602 of the Violence Against 
Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14031) is amended by 
striking the period at the end of subsection (a) and insert-
ing the following: ‘‘, which may include hiring and main-
taining additional personnel for entering such data.’’. 
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