3.0.0 3376 2023-01-11T20:37:35Z 2023-01-11T20:37:35Z House H HR 2007-08-03 110 hsju00 Judiciary Committee House Standing hsju08 Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee Referred to 2007-09-10T14:59:41Z Referred to 2007-08-03T13:08:25Z Witness Security and Protection Act of 2007 110 933 HR 2007-09-17 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10409) Related bill CRS Witness Security and Protection Act of 2007 110 79 S 2007-01-04 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS 2007-09-10 hsju08 Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Committee 2007-08-03 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsju00 Judiciary Committee 2007-08-03 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2007-08-03 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress A000363 Rep. Arcuri, Michael A. [D-NY-24] Michael Arcuri D NY A. 24 N Crime and Law Enforcement Department of Justice Drug abuse Drug traffic Economics and Public Finance Executive reorganization Federal aid to law enforcement Federal law enforcement officers Federal-local relations Federal-state relations Gangs Government Operations and Politics Homicide Murder Prosecution Relocation Violence Witnesses Crime and Law Enforcement 00 2007-08-03 Introduced in House 2007-08-23T20:25:44Z Witness Protection Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to establish in the U. S. Marshals Service a Short Term State Witness Protection Section to provide protection for witnesses in state and local trials involving homicide or other major violent crimes pursuant to cooperative agreements with state and local prosecutor's offices and the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

Directs the Section to give priority in awarding grants and providing services to prosecutor's offices in states with an average of at least 100 murders per year or with a violent crime rate above the national average.

Authorizes: (1) the Attorney General to make grants to state and local prosecutors and to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia for providing such witness protection; and (2) each recipient to use the grant to provide witness protection or to credit the grant to the Section to cover the Section's costs of providing witness protection.

Amends the federal criminal code to specify that federal witness relocation and protection services extend to witnesses in cases involving criminal street gangs, serious drug offenses, and homicide.

]]> Witness Protection Enhancement Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced To enhance witness protection. Introduced in House IH Display Title Witness Protection Enhancement Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced Witness Protection Enhancement Act of 2007 Introduced in House 2007-08-03T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr3376ih/xml/BILLS-110hr3376ih.xml 2007-09-10 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.