[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3243 Introduced in House (IH)]


104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3243

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
   reduce certain funds if eligible States do not enact certain laws.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 15, 1996

  Mr. Jacobs 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 
   reduce certain funds if eligible States do not enact certain laws.

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

SECTION 1. GRANT REDUCTION.

    Section 506 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) In order not to reduce the funds available under this subpart 
by 50 percent (for redistribution to other participating States), a 
State shall, on the first day of each fiscal year succeeding the first 
fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1998, meet the following 
requirements: Have in effect throughout the State in such fiscal year a 
law which--
            ``(1) makes it unlawful for a person to attempt to murder a 
        woman whom the person knows is pregnant if death of the fetus 
        results; and
            ``(2) provides a sentence of not less than 30 years in 
        prison and may be life imprisonment.''.
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