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Violent Crime Control and Enforcement Act: Selected Highlights of the Senate Bill (S.1607/H.R.3355)

NCJ Number
149621
Author(s)
K Bea; S Cavanagh; D Teasley; E Bazan; C Doyle
Date Published
1993
Length
5 pages
Annotation
This report describes the provisions of the Federal Violent Crime Control and Enforcement Act (S.1607/H.R.3355).
Abstract
The Violent Crime Control and Enforcement Act, which passed the Senate as S.1067 and subsequently as H.R.3355 on November 24, 1993, focuses on four areas¦drugs; guns; victims, young, old, and women; and systemic adjustments, large and small in the Federal role in law enforcement. Among its provisions, the act calls for over $22 billion in Federal assistance over the next 5 years and for the revival and expansion of capital punishment as a Federal sentencing option. It also addresses the regulation of semi-automatic assault weapons and provides for a civil cause of action against those who commit gender-motivated crimes of violence. The act mandates Federal jurisdiction over crimes committed with a gun that has at some point been shipped or carried across a State line. The act's sponsors opted not to include "Brady Bill" components, which were enacted separately, or habeas corpus reform. Although far ranging, the Senate-passed bill does not address, or addresses only fleetingly, several other crime issues such as those raised by the exclusionary rule and asset forfeiture reform.

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