SEC. 2. MURDER AND OTHER VIOLENT CRIMES COM-
MITTED DURING AND IN RELATION TO A 
DRUG TRAFFICKING CRIME. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part D of the Controlled Sub-
stances Act (21 U.S.C. 841 et seq.) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 424. MURDER AND OTHER VIOLENT CRIMES COM-
MITTED DURING AND IN RELATION TO A 
DRUG TRAFFICKING CRIME. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Whoever, during and in relation 
to any drug trafficking crime, knowingly commits any 
crime of violence against any individual that is an offense 
under Federal law punishable by imprisonment for more 
than 1 year or a felony offense under State law that is 
punishable by a term of imprisonment of 5 years or more, 
or threatens, attempts or conspires to do so, shall be pun-
ished by a fine under title 18, United States Code, and— 
‘‘(1) for murder, kidnapping, conduct that 
would violate section 2241 if the conduct occurred in 
the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of 
the United States, or maiming, by imprisonment for 
any term of years or for life; 
‘‘(2) for a serious violent felony (as defined in 
section 3559 of title 18, United States Code) other 
than a felony described in paragraph (1), by impris-
onment for not more than 30 years; 
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‘‘(3) for a crime of violence that is not a serious 
violent felony, by imprisonment for not more than 
20 years; 
‘‘(4) for conspiring to commit a crime of vio-
lence, by imprisonment for not more than 10 years; 
and 
‘‘(5) for threatening to commit a crime of vio-
lence, by imprisonment for not more than 8 years. 
‘‘(b) VENUE.—A prosecution for a violation of this 
section may be brought in— 
‘‘(1) the judicial district in which the murder or 
other crime of violence occurred; or 
‘‘(2) any judicial district in which the drug traf-
ficking crime may be prosecuted. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘crime of violence’ means an of-
fense that has as an element the use of physical 
force against the person of another; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘drug trafficking crime’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 924(c)(2) of title 
18, United States Code.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
for the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Con-
trol Act of 1970 (Public Law 91–513; 84 Stat. 1236) is 
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amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
423, the following: 
‘‘Sec. 424. Murder and other violent crimes committed during and in relation 
to a drug trafficking crime.’’. 
SEC. 
3. 
EXPANSION 
OF 
REBUTTABLE 
PRESUMPTION 
AGAINST RELEASE OF PERSONS CHARGED 
WITH FIREARMS OFFENSES. 
Section 3142(e) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended in the matter following paragraph (3), by insert-
ing after ‘‘that the person committed’’ the following: ‘‘an 
offense under subsection (g)(1) (where the underlying con-
viction is a drug trafficking crime or crime of violence (as 
those terms are defined in section 924(c))), (g)(2), (g)(3), 
(g)(4), (g)(5), (g)(8), (g)(9), (g)(10), or (g)(11) of section 
922,’’. 
SEC. 4. STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR VIOLENT CRIMES 
AND TERRORISM OFFENSES. 
(a) STATUTE
OF
LIMITATIONS
FOR
VIOLENT 
CRIMES.—Chapter 213 of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘§ 3299A. Violent crime offenses 
‘‘No person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished 
for any noncapital felony crime of violence, including any 
racketeering activity or gang crime which involves any 
crime of violence, unless the indictment is found or the 
information is instituted not later than 8 years after the 
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date on which the alleged violation occurred or the con-
tinuing offense was completed.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 213 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘3299A. Violent crime offenses.’’. 
(c) STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR TERRORISM OF-
FENSES.—Section 3286(a) of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended— 
(1) in the subsection heading, by striking 
‘‘EIGHT-YEAR’’ and inserting ‘‘TEN-YEAR’’; and 
(2) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘8 years’’ 
and inserting ‘‘10 years’’. 
Æ 
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