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National
Key Vote
Omnibus Crime Bill
Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to adopt a conference report that amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide $30.07 billion in grants from 1995-2000 to reduce violence and crimes, enhance law enforcement, provide education and activity programs for youth, and for other purposes.
Official Title of Legislation:
HR 3355: To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow grants to increase police presence, to expand and improve cooperative efforts between law enforcement agencies and members of the community to address crime and disorder problems, and otherwise to enhance public safety.
Highlights:
- Bans the manufacture, sale, or possession of nineteen semiautomatic assault weapons and other firearms that carry similar characteristics.
- Increases the number of crimes subject to the death penalty.
- Requires a life sentence in prison to any individual who is convicted of committing their third serious violent or drug crime.
- States that juveniles, age 13 or older, may be tried as adults in court for committing a violent crime or possessing a firearm while committing a crime.
- Creates the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund to track transfers into the Fund, report requirements, and allocate amounts to the Fund.
- Increases sentences in federal sex crime cases for repeat offenders.
- Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to local, state, and tribal governments for increased emphasis on reducing violent crimes against women.
- $9.85 billion for improving, developing, or expanding correctional facilities, creating alternatives of incarceration and probation for young offenders, and providing compensation to States that take criminal aliens into custody.
- $8.8 billion for States, local governments, and other entities to increase police presence, public safety, and cooperative efforts between law enforcement agencies and local citizens.
- $4.36 billion for crime prevention, including creating after school programs, reducing juvenile crime, recruiting more police officers, and establishing substance abuse programs.
- $2.59 billion for reducing violence towards women.
Link to Legislation: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c103:hr3355:
Full Text of Legislation (PDF Document)
House Passage: 11/03/1993 : Bill Passed Voice Vote
NOTE: THIS VOTE WAS TAKEN UNDER A SUSPENSION OF THE RULES TO CUT OFF DEBATE EARLY AND VOTE TO PASS THE BILL, THEREBY REQUIRING A TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY FOR PASSAGE. Senate Passage With Amendment: 11/19/1993 : Bill Passed 95 - 4 (Record Vote Number 384)
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTED BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. House Conference Report Vote: 08/21/1994 : Conference Report Adopted 235 - 195 (Roll no. 416) Senate Conference Report Vote: 08/25/1994 : Conference Report Adopted: 61 - 38 (Record Vote Number 295) President Passage: 09/13/1994 : Signed Became Public Law Number 103-322
Sponsor: Rep. Brooks, Jack (D-TX) (out of office)
Cosponsor: Rep. Hughes, William Sr. (-NJ) (out of office)
Sen. Schumer, Charles (D-NY)
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