Gang Deterrence and Community Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-880
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arrest
Arson
Assault
Authorization
Automobile theft
Bail
Burglary
Capital punishment
Conspiracy
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Criminal procedure
Data banks
Department of Justice
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Evidence (Law)
Explosives
Extortion
Families
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms
Firearms control
Forfeiture
Fraud
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
Hearsay evidence
Homicide
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Imprisonment
Indian lands
Informers
Jurisdiction
Juvenile delinquency
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Larceny
Law
Law enforcement officers
Life imprisonment
Limitation of actions
Mandatory sentences
Minorities
Money laundering
Murder
Native Americans
Obstruction of justice
Organized crime
Police
Police training
Prosecution
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public prosecutors
Rape
Receiving stolen goods
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Smuggling
Victims of crimes
Violence
Witnesses
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Gang Deterrence and Community Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to modify and expand prohibitions against criminal street gang activity, including forfeiture provisions.

Revises penalties for: (1) interstate or foreign travel or transportation in aid of racketeering enterprises; (2) carjacking; (3) using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire and other felony crimes of violence; (4) violent crimes in aid of racketeering activity; (5) murder and other violent crimes committed during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime; (6) using interstate commerce facilities to commit multiple murder; and (7) the use of firearms in crimes of violence and drug trafficking.

Amends: (1) the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to expand the definition of &quot;racketeering activity&quot; to cover interstate murder; and (2) the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to authorize the use of community-based justice grants to hire additional prosecutors to reduce backlogs and to fund technology, equipment, and training for specified purposes, including to increase the accurate identification and successful prosecution of young violent offenders

Expands: (1) the rebuttable presumption against release of persons charged with firearms offenses; (2) venue in capital cases; and (3) the authority to prosecute juveniles as adults. 

Sets a 15-year statute of limitations for non-capital felony crimes of violence.

Authorizes the Attorney General to designate specific areas that are located within one or more states as high intensity interstate gang activity areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House