119-hr2649

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2649 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2649

 To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
 provide for additional grant amounts for protection against mass 
 violence.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 April 3, 2025

 Mr. Neguse (for himself, Ms. Titus, and Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 the Judiciary

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 A BILL

 To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
 provide for additional grant amounts for protection against mass 
 violence.

 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 2025'' or as the ``STOP Violence Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL GRANT AMOUNTS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST MASS VIOLENCE.

 

Section 506 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10157) is amended--

    (1) in subsection

    (a) --
        (A) in paragraph

    (1) , by striking the ``and'' at 
 the end;
        (B) in paragraph

    (2) , by striking the period at the 
 end and inserting ``; and''; and
            (C) by inserting after paragraph

    (2) the following:
 ``

    (3) $20,000,000, to be granted by the Attorney General to 
 States, units of local governments, and other nonprofit 
 organizations that serve victims of crime to provide 
 compensation, training, and technical assistance to public 
 assembly facilities to prepare against mass violence and to 
 protect public assembly facilities from mass violence.''; and

    (2) by adding at the end the following:
 ``
            (c) In this section:
 ``

    (1) The term `mass violence' includes active shooter 
 incidents and targeted violence.
 ``

    (2) 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.
 ``

    (3) The term `target 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.
 ``

    (4) 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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