H.R. 2649

119 HR 2649 IH: Strengthen and Tackle Opportunities to Prevent Violence Act of 2025
 U.S. House of Representatives
 2025-04-03
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 I  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  H. R. 2649  IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES   April 3, 2025   Mr. Neguse  (for himself,  Ms. Titus , and  Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the  Committee on the Judiciary    A BILL
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for additional grant amounts for protection against mass violence.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Strengthen and Tackle Opportunities to Prevent Violence Act of 2025   or as the   STOP Violence Act of 2025  .
2.
Additional grant amounts for protection against mass violence
Section 506 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 34 U.S.C. 10157 ) is amended—
(1)
in subsection (a)—
(A)
in paragraph (1), by striking the  and  at the end;
(B)
in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and inserting  ; and ; and
(C)
by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
(3)
$20,000,000, to be granted by the Attorney General to States, units of local governments, and other nonprofit organizations that serve victims of crime to provide compensation, training, and technical assistance to public assembly facilities to prepare against mass violence and to protect public assembly facilities from mass violence.
 ; and
(2)
by adding at the end the following:
(c)
In this section:
(1)
The term  mass violence  includes active shooter incidents and targeted violence.
(2)
The term  active shooter  means an individual actively engaged in the unauthorized killing or attempting to kill a person or persons in a confined and populated area with a firearm.
(3)
The term  target violence  means an incident of violence where an assailant who is known or knowable to a law enforcement agency for a jurisdiction where the assailant resides, identifies a particular target prior to a violent attack, which may be one or more individuals, a class or category of individuals, or an institution, without regard to whether the assailant is able to successfully harm the chosen target.
(4)
The term  public assembly facility  means a permanent or temporary structure or facility, place, or activity where concentrations of people gather in reasonably close quarters for purposes including deliberation, education, worship, shopping, employment, entertainment, recreation, sporting events, or similar activities.
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