[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1823 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1823

   To reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 5, 1997

 Mr. Weygand introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. GRANT REDUCTION.

    (a) Grant Reduction for Noncompliance.--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) Child Abuse.--
            ``(1) In general.--The funds available under this subpart 
        for a State shall be reduced by 10 percent and redistributed 
        under paragraph (2) unless the State has in effect throughout 
        the State a law which requires, at a minimum, that--
                    ``(A) a person convicted for a first offense of 
                inflicting serious bodily injury on a child serves a 
                term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years;
                    ``(B) a person previously convicted of inflicting 
                bodily injury or serious bodily injury on a child who 
                is convicted subsequently for inflicting serious bodily 
                injury on a child serves a term of imprisonment of not 
                less than 20 years;
                    ``(C) a person convicted for a first offense of 
                inflicting bodily injury on a child serves a term of 
                imprisonment of not less than five years; and
                    ``(D) a person previously convicted of inflicting 
                serious bodily injury or bodily injury on a child who 
                is convicted subsequently for inflicting bodily injury 
                on a child serves a term of imprisonment of not less 
                than 10 years.
            ``(2) Redistribution.--To the extent made available in 
        appropriations Acts, any funds available for redistribution 
        shall be redistributed to participating States that have in 
        effect a law referred to in paragraph (1).
            ``(3) Compliance.--The Attorney General shall issue 
        regulations to ensure compliance with the requirements of 
        paragraph (1).''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 506(a) of title I of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 is amended by striking 
``subsection (f),'' and inserting ``subsections (f) and (g),''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the first day of each fiscal year succeeding the first 
fiscal year beginning 2 years after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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