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to provide an appropriate enhancement for a person
who, in violating section 522 of title 18, United
States Code, recruits, solicits, induces, commands, or
causes another person residing in another State to
be or to remain a member of a criminal street gang,
or crosses a State line with the intent to recruit,
solicit, induce, command, or cause another person to
be or to remain a member of a criminal street gang.
SEC. 607. GANG-RELATED WITNESS INTIMIDATION AND RE-
TALIATION.
(a) INTERSTATE TRAVEL TO ENGAGE IN WITNESS
INTIMIDATION OR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.—Section
1952 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as
subsections (c) and (d), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(b) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign com-
merce with intent by bribery, force, intimidation, or
threat, directed against any person, to delay or influence
the testimony of or prevent from testifying a witness in
a State criminal proceeding or by any such means to cause
any person to destroy, alter, or conceal a record, docu-
ment, or other object, with intent to impair the object’s
integrity or availability for use in such a proceeding, and
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thereafter engages or endeavors to engage in such con-
duct, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than 10 years, or both; and if serious bodily injury (as
defined in section 1365 of this title) results, shall be so
fined or imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both;
and if death results, shall be so fined and imprisoned for
any term of years or for life, or both, and may be sen-
tenced to death.’’.
(b) CONSPIRACY PENALTY FOR OBSTRUCTION OF
JUSTICE OFFENSES INVOLVING VICTIMS, WITNESSES,
AND INFORMANTS.—Section 1512 of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(j) Whoever conspires to commit any offense defined
in this section or section 1513 of this title shall be subject
to the same penalties as those prescribed for the offense
the commission of which was the object of the con-
spiracy.’’.
(c) WITNESS RELOCATION SURVEY AND TRAINING
PROGRAM.—
(1) SURVEY.—The Attorney General shall sur-
vey all State and selected local witness protection
and relocation programs to determine the extent and
nature of such programs and the training needs of
those programs. Not later than 270 days after the
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date of the enactment of this section, the Attorney
General shall report the results of this survey to
Congress.
(2) TRAINING.—Based on the results of such
survey, the Attorney General shall make available to
State and local law enforcement agencies training to
assist those law enforcement agencies in developing
and managing witness protection and relocation pro-
grams.
(3) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out
paragraphs (1) and (2) for fiscal year 2000 not to
exceed $500,000.
(d) FEDERAL-STATE COORDINATION AND COOPERA-
TION REGARDING NOTIFICATION OF INTERSTATE WIT-
NESS RELOCATION.—
(1) ATTORNEY GENERAL TO PROMOTE INTER-
STATE COORDINATION.—The Attorney General shall
engage in activities, including the establishment of a
model Memorandum of Understanding under para-
graph (2), which promote coordination among State
and local witness interstate relocation programs.
(2) 
MODEL
MEMORANDUM
OF
UNDER-
STANDING.—The Attorney General shall establish a
model Memorandum of Understanding for States
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and localities that engage in interstate witness relo-
cation. Such a model Memorandum of Under-
standing shall include a requirement that notice be
provided to the jurisdiction to which the relocation
has been made by the State or local law enforcement
agency that relocates a witness to another State who
has been arrested for or convicted of a crime of vio-
lence as described in section 16 of title 18, United
States Code.
(3) BYRNE GRANT ASSISTANCE.—The Attorney
General is authorized to expend up to 10 percent of
the total amount appropriated under section 511 of
subpart 2 of part E of the Omnibus Crime Control
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 for purposes of mak-
ing grants pursuant to section 510 of that Act to
those jurisdictions that have interstate witness relo-
cation programs and that have substantially followed
the model Memorandum of Understanding.
(4) GUIDELINES AND DETERMINATION OF ELI-
GIBILITY.—The Attorney General shall establish
guidelines relating to the implementation of para-
graph (4) and shall determine, consistent with such
guidelines, which jurisdictions are eligible for grants
under paragraph (4).
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(d) BYRNE GRANTS.—Section 501(b) of the Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(25);
(2) by striking the period at the end paragraph
(26) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(27) developing and maintaining witness secu-
rity and relocation programs, including providing
training of personnel in the effective management of
such programs.’’.
(e) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term
‘‘State’’ includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico,
and any other commonwealth, territory, or possession of
the United States.
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