Title: STOP Violence Act of 2022
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Strengthen and Tackle Opportunities to Prevent Violence Act of 2022 or the STOP Violence Act of 2022
This bill allows funds under the Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program to be used for efforts to prepare against mass violence and protect public assembly facilities.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7541 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7541

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the Victims of Crime Act 
of 1984 to authorize the use of certain grant funds for active shooter 
                 preparedness, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 18, 2022

  Mr. Neguse (for himself, Ms. Escobar, Mrs. McBath, Mr. Deutch, Mr. 
  Carson, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mrs. Hayes, and Mr. 
  Horsford) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the Victims of Crime Act 
of 1984 to authorize the use of certain grant funds for active shooter 
                 preparedness, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Strengthen and Tackle Opportunities 
to Prevent Violence Act of 2022'' or as the ``STOP Violence Act of 
2022''.

SEC. 2. ANTITERRORISM AND EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

    Section 1404B(b) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (34 U.S.C. 
20105(b)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting after ``compensation, training and 
        technical assistance'' the following: ``(including efforts to 
        prepare against mass violence and to protect public assembly 
        facilities)'';
            (2) by striking ``The Director may'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) In general.--The Director may''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    ``(A) The term `mass violence' includes active 
                shooter incidents and targeted violence.
                    ``(B) The term `active shooter' means an individual 
                actively engaged in the unauthorized killing or 
                attempting to kill a person or persons in a confined 
                and populated area with a firearm.
                    ``(C) The term `targeted violence' means an 
                incident of violence where an assailant who is known or 
                knowable to a law enforcement agency for a jurisdiction 
                where the assailant resides, identifies a particular 
                target prior to a violent attack, which may be one or 
                more individuals, a class or category of individuals, 
                or an institution, without regard to whether the 
                assailant is able to successfully harm the chosen 
                target.
                    ``(D) The term `public assembly facility' means a 
                permanent or temporary structure or facility, place, or 
                activity where concentrations of people gather in 
                reasonably close quarters for purposes including 
                deliberation, education, worship, shopping, employment, 
                entertainment, recreation, sporting events, or similar 
                activities.''.
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