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To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for additional grant amounts for protection against mass violence.
Summary
The STOP Violence Act of 2025 provides $20 million in federal grants administered by the Attorney General to States, local governments, and victim service nonprofit organizations. The grants fund compensation, training, and technical assistance to help public assembly facilities prepare for and protect against mass violence incidents. The bill defines mass violence as including active shooter incidents and targeted violence, where an active shooter is an individual actively engaged in unauthorized killing or attempted killing in a confined, populated area with a firearm. Targeted violence is defined as incidents where an assailant known to or knowable by law enforcement identifies a particular target prior to a violent attack. Public assembly facilities covered by the bill include permanent or temporary structures where people gather for purposes such as worship, shopping, employment, entertainment, recreation, or sporting events.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2] (D-CO)
5 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Joe Neguse’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK $31,726
- HOLLAND & HART $17,400
- ELEVATIONS CREDIT UNION $14,600
- FOUNDRY GROUP $14,200
- DISH NETWORK $13,200
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Actions (2)
- Apr 3, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- Apr 3, 2025 Introduced in House
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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.
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 “Strengthen and Tackle Opportunities to Prevent Violence Act of 2025” or as the “STOP Violence Act of 2025”.
SEC. 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.”. <all>
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