[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3736 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3736

To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to terminate 
   the availability of community development block grant amounts for 
States and localities within such States that allow recovery of damages 
          for injuries suffered in the commission of a felony.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 27, 1996

Mr. Bliley (for himself, Mr. Hyde, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Saxton, Mr. Zimmer, 
   Mr. Klug, Mr. Barton of Texas, Mr. Inglis of South Carolina, Mr. 
  Whitfield, Mr. Knollenberg, Mr. Upton, Mr. McHugh, Mr. Coble, Mrs. 
 Seastrand, Mr. Bilbray, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Hoke, Mr. Pickett, Mr. Condit, 
   Mrs. Meyers of Kansas, Mr. Stockman, Mr. Ballenger, Mr. Burr, Mr. 
  Gilman, Mr. Horn, Mr. Oxley, Mr. Gallegly, Mr. Smith of Texas, Mr. 
Laughlin, Ms. Molinari, Mr. Metcalf, Mr. Stearns, Mr. Cooley of Oregon, 
  Mr. Buyer, Mr. Hayes, Mr. McKeon, Mr. Chambliss, Mr. Gene Green of 
Texas, Mrs. Chenoweth, Mr. Barr of Georgia, Mr. Davis, Mr. Calvert, Mr. 
Franks of Connecticut, Mr. Riggs, Mr. Royce, Mrs. Myrick, Mr. Fields of 
 Texas, Mr. Sisisky, Mr. Packard, Mr. Tanner, Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. Baker 
 of Louisiana, Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Bateman, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Watts of 
   Oklahoma, Mr. Bunning of Kentucky, Mr. Dreier, and Mr. Hayworth) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                     Banking and Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to terminate 
   the availability of community development block grant amounts for 
States and localities within such States that allow recovery of damages 
          for injuries suffered in the commission of a felony.

    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 ``Crime Does Not Pay Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1974.

    Section 104 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 5304) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(n) Prevention of Recovery for Injuries Incurred in Commission of 
Felonies.--Grant amounts may not be provided under this title to a 
State, or to any unit of general local government in a State, if such 
State does not have in effect (at the time the grant amounts are made 
available to State or unit of general local government) a law that 
prohibits any individual who has been convicted of a felony from 
recovering, in any civil action under the law of such State, any 
compensatory, actual, or general damages for any physical or mental 
injury, harm, or suffering to such individual that was caused in the 
commission of the felony. The Secretary shall have the authority to 
determine whether a State law complies with the requirements of this 
subsection.''.
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