I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1582 
To increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation 
and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, 
to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, 
to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand 
and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 20, 2007 
Mr. SCHIFF (for himself and Mrs. BONO) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
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 protect law- 
abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, 
to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent 
crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention pro-
grams, 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 ‘‘Gang Abatement and 
Prevention Act of 2007’’. 
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SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents of this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
Sec. 3. Findings. 
TITLE I—NEW FEDERAL CRIMINAL LAWS NEEDED TO FIGHT 
NATIONAL GANGS 
Sec. 101. Revision and extension of penalties related to criminal street gang ac-
tivity. 
TITLE II—VIOLENT CRIME REFORMS TO REDUCE GANG 
VIOLENCE 
Sec. 201. Violent crimes in aid of racketeering activity. 
Sec. 202. Murder and other violent crimes committed during and in relation to 
a drug trafficking crime. 
Sec. 203. Expansion of rebuttable presumption against release of persons 
charged with firearms offenses. 
Sec. 204. Statute of limitations for violent crime. 
Sec. 205. Study of hearsay exception for forfeiture by wrongdoing. 
Sec. 206. Possession of firearms by dangerous felons. 
Sec. 207. Conforming amendment. 
Sec. 208. Amendments relating to violent crime. 
Sec. 209. Crimes of violence and drug crimes committed by illegal aliens. 
Sec. 210. Publicity campaign about new criminal penalties. 
Sec. 211. Statute of limitations for terrorism offenses. 
Sec. 212. Crimes committed in Indian country or exclusive Federal jurisdiction 
as racketeering predicates. 
Sec. 213. Predicate crimes for authorization of interception of wire, oral, and 
electronic communications. 
Sec. 214. Clarification of Hobbs Act. 
TITLE III—INCREASED FEDERAL RESOURCES TO DETER AND 
PREVENT AT-RISK YOUTH FROM JOINING ILLEGAL STREET 
GANGS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
Sec. 301. Designation of and assistance for high intensity interstate gang activ-
ity areas. 
Sec. 302. Enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative to improve en-
forcement of criminal laws against violent gangs. 
Sec. 303. Additional resources needed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
to investigate and prosecute violent criminal street gangs. 
Sec. 304. Grants to prosecutors and law enforcement to combat violent crime. 
Sec. 305. Short-Term State Witness Protection Section. 
Sec. 306. Witness protection services. 
Sec. 307. Expansion of Federal witness relocation and protection program. 
Sec. 308. Family abduction prevention grant program. 
SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
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(1) violent crime and drug trafficking are per-
vasive problems at the national, State, and local 
level; 
(2) according to recent Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation, Uniform Crime Reports, violent crime in 
the United States is on the rise, with a 2.5 percent 
increase in violent crime in 2005 (the largest in-
crease in the United States in 15 years) and an even 
larger 3.7 percent jump during the first 6 months 
of 2006; 
(3) these disturbing rises in violent crime are 
attributable in part to the spread of criminal street 
gangs and the willingness of gang members to com-
mit acts of violence and drug trafficking offenses; 
(4) according to a recent National Drug Threat 
Assessment, criminal street gangs are responsible for 
much of the retail distribution of the cocaine, meth-
amphetamine, heroin, and other illegal drugs being 
distributed in rural and urban communities through-
out the United States; 
(5) gangs commit acts of violence or drug of-
fenses for numerous motives, such as membership in 
or loyalty to the gang, for protecting gang territory, 
and for profit; 
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