Witness Protection Enhancement Act of 2007
Latest action · Sep 10, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedAug 3, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Witness Protection Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to establish in the U. S. Marshals Service a Short Term State Witness Protection Section to provide protection for witnesses in state and local trials involving homicide or other major violent crimes pursuant to cooperative agreements with state and local prosecutor's offices and the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
Directs the Section to give priority in awarding grants and providing services to prosecutor's offices in states with an average of at least 100 murders per year or with a violent crime rate above the national average.
Authorizes: (1) the Attorney General to make grants to state and local prosecutors and to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia for providing such witness protection; and (2) each recipient to use the grant to provide witness protection or to credit the grant to the Section to cover the Section's costs of providing witness protection.
Amends the federal criminal code to specify that federal witness relocation and protection services extend to witnesses in cases involving criminal street gangs, serious drug offenses, and homicide.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 10, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
- Aug 3, 2007Introduced in House
- Aug 3, 2007Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 79 | Witness Security and Protection Act of 2007 | Related bill | Jan 4, 2007 |
| HR 933 | Witness Security and Protection Act of 2007 | Related bill | Sep 17, 2007 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Department of Justice
- Drug abuse
- Drug traffic
- Economics and Public Finance
- Executive reorganization
- Federal aid to law enforcement
- Federal law enforcement officers
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Gangs
- Government Operations and Politics
- Homicide
- Murder
- Prosecution
- Relocation
- Violence
- Witnesses
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Aug 3, 2007Introduced in House
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