I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3150 
To increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation 
and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, 
to reform and facilitate prosecution of juvenile gang members who com-
mit violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 24, 2007 
Mr. KELLER of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To increase and enhance law enforcement resources com-
mitted to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, 
to deter and punish violent gang crime, to reform and 
facilitate prosecution of juvenile gang members who com-
mit violent crimes, to expand and improve gang preven-
tion programs, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Anti-Gang Enforce-
ment Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. SOLICITATION OR RECRUITMENT OF PERSONS IN 
CRIMINAL STREET GANG ACTIVITY. 
Chapter 26 of title 18, United States Code, is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘§ 522. Recruitment of persons to participate in a 
criminal street gang 
‘‘(a) PROHIBITED ACTS.—It shall be unlawful for any 
person to use any facility in, or travel in, interstate or 
foreign commerce, or cause another to do so, in order to 
recruit, employ, solicit, induce, command, or cause another 
person to be or remain as a member of a criminal street 
gang, or conspire to do so, with the intent that the person 
being recruited, solicited, induced, commanded, or caused 
to be or remain a member of such gang participate in an 
offense described in section 521(b). 
‘‘(b) PENALTIES.—Any person who violates sub-
section (a) shall— 
‘‘(1) be imprisoned not more than 10 years, 
fined under this title, or both; and 
‘‘(2) if the person recruited, solicited, induced, 
commanded, or caused to participate in a criminal 
street gang is a minor— 
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‘‘(A) be imprisoned for not less than 3 
years and not more than 10 years, fined under 
this title, or both; and 
‘‘(B) at the discretion of the sentencing 
judge, be liable for any costs incurred by the 
Federal Government, or by any State or local 
government, for housing, maintaining, and 
treating the person until the person attains the 
age of 18 years.’’. 
SEC. 3. CRIMINAL STREET GANGS. 
(a) CRIMINAL STREET GANG PROSECUTIONS.—Sec-
tion 521 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
‘‘§ 521. Criminal street gang prosecutions 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this chapter: 
‘‘(1) CRIMINAL
STREET
GANG.—The term 
‘criminal street gang’ means a formal or informal 
group, club, organization, or association of 3 or 
more individuals, who act in concert, or agree to act 
in concert, with a purpose that any of these persons 
alone, or in any combination, commit or will commit, 
2 or more predicate gang crimes, 1 of which occurs 
after the date of enactment of The Gang Prevention 
and Effective Deterrence Act of 2003 and the last 
of which occurs not later than 10 years (excluding 
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any period of imprisonment) after the commission of 
a prior predicate gang crime, provided that the ac-
tivities of the criminal street gang affect interstate 
or foreign commerce. 
‘‘(2) PREDICATE
GANG
CRIME.—The term 
‘predicate gang crime’ means— 
‘‘(A) any act or threat, or attempted act or 
threat, which is chargeable under Federal or 
State law and punishable by imprisonment for 
more than 1 year, involving murder, attempted 
murder, manslaughter, gambling, kidnapping, 
robbery, extortion, arson, obstruction of justice, 
tampering with or retaliating against a witness, 
victim, or informant, burglary, sexual assault, 
carjacking, or manufacturing, importing, dis-
tributing, possessing with intent to distribute, 
or otherwise dealing in a controlled substance 
or listed chemicals (as those terms are defined 
in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act 
(21 U.S.C. 802)); 
‘‘(B) any act punishable by imprisonment 
for more than 1 year under section 844 (relat-
ing to explosive materials), section 922(g)(1) 
(where the underlying conviction is a serious 
violent 
felony 
(as 
defined 
in 
section 
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3559(c)(2)(F) of this title) or is a serious drug 
offense (as defined in section 942(e)(2)(A) of 
this title), or subsection (a)(2), (b), (c), (g), or 
(h) of section 924 (relating to receipt, posses-
sion, and transfer of firearms), sections 1028 
and 1029 (relating to fraud and related activity 
in connection with identification documents or 
access devices), section 1503 (relating to ob-
struction of justice), section 1510 (relating to 
obstruction of criminal investigations), section 
1512 (relating to tampering with a witness, vic-
tim, or informant), or section 1513 (relating to 
retaliating against a witness, victim, or inform-
ant), section 1951 (relating to interference with 
commerce, robbery or extortion), section 1952 
(relating to racketeering), section 1956 (relat-
ing to the laundering of monetary instruments), 
section 1957 (relating to engaging in monetary 
transactions in property derived from specified 
unlawful activity), section 1958 (relating to use 
of interstate commerce facilities in the commis-
sion of murder-for-hire), sections 2312 through 
2315 (relating to interstate transportation of 
stolen motor vehicles or stolen property); or 
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‘‘(C) any act involving the Immigration 
and Nationality Act, section 274 (relating to 
brining in and harboring certain aliens), section 
277 (relating to aiding or assisting certain 
aliens to enter the United States), or section 
278 (relating to importation of alien for im-
moral purpose). 
‘‘(3) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means each of 
the several States of the United States, the District 
of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or 
possession of the United States. 
‘‘(b) ILLEGAL PARTICIPATION IN CRIMINAL STREET 
GANGS.—It shall be unlawful— 
‘‘(1) to participate in a criminal street gang by 
committing, or conspiring or attempting to commit, 
2 or more predicate gang crimes— 
‘‘(A) in furtherance or in aid of the activi-
ties of a criminal street gang; or 
‘‘(B) for the purpose of gaining entrance 
to or maintaining or increasing position in such 
a gang; or 
‘‘(2) to employ, use, command, counsel, per-
suade, induce, entice, or coerce any individual to 
commit, cause to commit, or facilitate the commis-
sion of, a predicate gang crime— 
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‘‘(A) in furtherance or in aid of the activi-
ties of a criminal street gang; or 
‘‘(B) for the purpose of gaining entrance 
to or maintaining or increasing position in such 
a gang. 
‘‘(c) PENALTIES.— 
‘‘(1) IMPRISONMENT OF UP TO 30 YEARS OR 
LIFE.—Any person who violates paragraph (1) of 
subsection (b)— 
‘‘(A) shall be imprisoned not more than 30 
years; 
‘‘(B) if the violation is based on a predi-
cate gang crime for which the maximum pen-
alty includes life imprisonment, shall be impris-
oned for any term of years or for life; and 
‘‘(C) if the person commits such a violation 
after 1 or more prior convictions for such a 
predicate gang crime, that is not part of the in-
stant violation, shall be imprisoned for any term 
of years not less than 15 years or for life. 
‘‘(2) IMPRISONMENT OF UP TO 20 YEARS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A person who violates 
subsection (b)(2) shall be imprisoned for not 
more than 20 years, fined under this title, or 
both. 
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‘‘(B) SUBJECT IS A MINOR.—If the person 
who was the subject of the violation under sub-
section (b)(2) was less than 18 years of age at 
the time of the violation, the person committing 
the violation shall be imprisoned for not less 
than 10 years. 
‘‘(C) CONSECUTIVE
TERMS.—A term of 
imprisonment under this paragraph shall run 
consecutively to any other term of imprison-
ment, including that imposed for any other vio-
lation of this chapter. 
‘‘(3) ADDITIONAL PENALTIES.—In addition to 
any other penalty authorized by this section— 
‘‘(A) a person who violates paragraph (1) 
or (2) of subsection (b), 1 of whose predicate 
gang crimes involves murder or conspiracy to 
commit murder which results in the taking of 
a life, shall be punished by death or by impris-
onment for any term of years or for life; 
‘‘(B) a person who violates paragraph (1) 
or (2) of subsection (b), 1 of whose predicate 
gang crimes involves attempted murder or con-
spiracy to commit murder, shall be imprisoned 
for not more than 30 years; and 
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