[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1793 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1793

    To amend title 28, United States Code, to clarify the statutory 
authority for the longstanding practice of the Department of Justice of 
   providing investigatory assistance on request of State and local 
  authorities with respect to certain serious violent crimes, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 2, 2011

Mr. Whitehouse introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 28, United States Code, to clarify the statutory 
authority for the longstanding practice of the Department of Justice of 
   providing investigatory assistance on request of State and local 
  authorities with respect to certain serious violent crimes, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Investigative Assistance for Violent 
Crimes Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. INVESTIGATION OF MASS KILLING OR ATTEMPTED MASS KILLING AND 
              OTHER VIOLENT CRIMES.

    Title 28, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in section 530C(b)(1)(L)(i), by striking ``2,000,000'' 
        and inserting ``$3,000,000'';
            (2) in section 530C(b)(4), by adding at the end the 
        following: ``The authority to conduct or assist in 
        investigations includes the authority to deploy tactical 
        response, command and control, and other crisis-management 
        assets of the Bureau, as appropriate; and any such conduct or 
        assistance shall be understood presumptively to be within the 
        scope of Federal office or employment.'';
            (3) in section 540A--
                    (A) in the section heading, by striking 
                ``Investigation of violent crimes against travelers'' 
                and inserting ``Investigation of certain violent 
                crimes'';
                    (B) in subsection (a), by inserting ``, in the 
                investigation of violent acts and shootings occurring 
                in venues such as schools, colleges, universities, non-
                Federal office buildings, malls, and other public 
                places, and in the investigation of mass killings and 
                attempted mass killings'' after ``traveler''; and
                    (C) in subsection (c), by adding the following new 
                paragraph at the end:
            ``(4) `mass killings' means 3 or more killings in a single 
        incident.''; and
            (4) in the table of sections at the beginning of chapter 
        33, by striking the item relating to section 540A and inserting 
        the following:

``540A. Investigation of certain violent crimes.''.
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