[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2503 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2503

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to require that in any case in 
   which military law enforcement officials are called to a scene of 
   domestic violence at which a weapon is present or there has been 
     obvious physical violence that the officials shall arrest the 
         individual who appears to have committed the offense.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 23, 1993

   Mr. Kyl introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to require that in any case in 
   which military law enforcement officials are called to a scene of 
   domestic violence at which a weapon is present or there has been 
     obvious physical violence that the officials shall arrest the 
         individual who appears to have committed the offense.

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

SECTION 1. MANDATORY ARRESTS BY MILITARY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS WHEN 
              CALLED TO SCENES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

    (a) In General.--Section 807 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d)(1) In a case of domestic violence in which a military law 
enforcement official at the scene determines that physical injury has 
been inflicted or a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument has been 
used, the military law enforcement official shall apprehend a person 
upon reasonable belief that an offense has been committed and that the 
person to be apprehended committed the offense.
    ``(2) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe by regulation the 
definition of `domestic violence' for purposes of this subsection.
    ``(3) In this subsection, the term `military law enforcement 
official' means a person authorized under regulations governing the 
armed forces to apprehend persons subject to this chapter or to trial 
thereunder.''.
    (b) Deadline for Prescribing Procedures.--The Secretary of Defense 
shall prescribe procedures to carry out section 807(d) of title 10, 
United States Code, as added by subsection (a), not later than six 
months after the date of the enactment of this Act.

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