[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3901 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3901

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
reauthorize funding for the grant program to encourage arrest policies 
                   in dealing with domestic violence.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 1998

 Ms. Stabenow (for herself and Mrs. Morella) 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 
reauthorize funding for the grant program to encourage arrest policies 
                   in dealing with domestic violence.

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

SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS.

    Section 2105(1) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796hh-4(1)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) the term `domestic violence' includes acts or threats 
        of violence, not including acts of self-defense, committed by a 
        current or former spouse of the victim, by a person with whom 
        the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is 
        cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim, by a 
        person who is or has been in a continuing social relationship 
        of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim, by a person 
        similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic 
        or family violence laws of the jurisdiction, or by any other 
        person against a victim who is protected from that person's 
        acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the 
        jurisdiction and for other purposes.''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION.

    Section 1001(a)(19) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3793(a)(19)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (B);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (C) 
        and inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following:
                    ``(D) $63,000,000 for fiscal year 1999;
                    ``(E) $67,000,000 for fiscal year 2000;
                    ``(F) $70,000,000 for fiscal year 2001;
                    ``(G) $70,000,000 for fiscal year 2002; and
                    ``(H) $70,000,000 for fiscal year 2003.''.

SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.

    Section 2101 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796hh) is amended by adding the following:
    ``(d) Disbursement.--At least 5 percent of the funds appropriated 
under this section shall be used for grants to Indian tribal 
governments.''.
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