S. Amdt. 3022 - Of a Perfecting Nature.

Gang Abatement and Prevention Act of 2007

S. 456 — 110^th Congress (2007–2008)

Summary

This bill would enact a number of reforms to reduce gang violence, including increasing funding for anti-gang programs and police technologies, stiffening penalties, and establishing new crimes. (by CRS)

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Title

A bill to increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes.

Other Titles

• Gang Abatement and Prevention Act of 2007
• Gang Abatement and Prevention Act of 2007
• PRECAUTION Act
• Prevention Resources for Eliminating Criminal Activity Using Tailored Interventions in Our Neighborhoods Act of 2007
• Gang Abatement and Prevention Act of 2007
• PRECAUTION Act
• Prevention Resources for Eliminating Criminal Activity Using Tailored Interventions in Our Neighborhoods Act of 2007

Sponsor

Dianne Feinstein

Co-Sponsors

• Ted Stevens
• Daniel Inouye
• Robert Menéndez
• Max Baucus
• Jeff Bingaman
• Edward Kennedy
• Maria Cantwell
• Barbara Boxer
• Joseph Biden
• Orrin Hatch
• John Kerry
• Norm Coleman
• Ken Salazar
• Mel Martinez
• Richard Durbin
• Barbara Mikulski
• Charles Schumer
• Herbert Kohl
• Arlen Specter
• Christopher Dodd
• Blanche Lincoln
• Jim Webb
• Pat Roberts
• Elizabeth Dole
• Jon Kyl
• Sherrod Brown
• Kay Hutchison
• Mark Pryor
• Hillary Clinton
• John Cornyn
• Daniel Akaka
• Joseph Lieberman
• Robert Casey
• Patty Murray
• Bill Nelson
• Lisa Murkowski
• Charles Hagel
• Mary Landrieu
• Pete Domenici
• Evan Bayh
• Jon Tester
• Tim Johnson
• John Warner
• Frank Lautenberg

Subjects

• Criminal justice
• Administrative procedure
• Budgets
• Children
• Communications
• Conferences
• Congress
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Conspiracy
• Crime prevention
• Criminal investigation
• Criminal justice information
• Criminal statistics
• Criminology
• Data banks
• Department of Justice
• Drug abuse
• Drug law enforcement
• Drug traffic
• Education
• Electronic surveillance
• Elementary and secondary education
• Evidence (Law)
• Executive departments
• Extradition
• Families
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Federal aid to law enforcement
• Firearms
• Gangs
• Government information
• Government publicity
• Higher education
• Homicide
• Illegal aliens
• Immigration
• Indian law enforcement
• Juvenile delinquency
• Kidnapping
• Law
• Legal education
• Limitation of actions
• Minorities
• Missing children
• Murder
• Organized crime
• Prosecution
• Public prosecutors
• Public service advertising
• Sentences (Criminal procedure)
• Sentencing guidelines
• Social services
• Student records
• Technology
• Terrorism
• U.S. Sentencing Commission
• Violence
• Witnesses
• Youth services
• Youth violence

Related Bills

• H.R. 1582 (110^th) : Gang Abatement and Prevention Act of 2007
• H.R. 3547 (110^th) : Gang Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Act
• H.R. 3922 (110^th) : Gang Reduction, Investment, and Prevention Act

Major Actions

Introduced	1/31/2007
Referred to Committee
Amendments (1 proposed)
Passed Senate	9/21/2007

Bill History

• All Votes
• All Actions
• Amendments

	Chamber/Committee	Motion	Date	Result
select this vote	Senate	Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.	9/21/2007	PASSED by voice vote
currently selected	Senate	Amendment SA 3022 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.	9/21/2007	PASSED by voice vote

	Action	Date	Description
	Introduced	1/31/2007
		1/31/2007	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
		1/31/2007	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1434-1436)
		6/05/2007	Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-444.
	Put on a legislative calendar	6/14/2007	Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
		7/30/2007	Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
	Put on a legislative calendar	7/30/2007	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 290.
		9/21/2007	Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
		9/21/2007	The committee substitute as amended agreed to by Unanimous Consent.
select this vote	Senate Vote on Passage	9/21/2007	Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
		9/21/2007	Amendment SA 3022 proposed by Senator Casey for Senator Feinstein.
currently selected	Vote	9/21/2007	Amendment SA 3022 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
		9/24/2007	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
		9/24/2007	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
		9/24/2007	Referred to House Judiciary
		9/24/2007	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
		9/24/2007	Referred to House Education and Labor
		9/24/2007	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
		9/24/2007	Received in the House.
		10/17/2007	Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.

	Number	Sponsor	Date Offered	Status
currently selected	S. Amdt. 3022	Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]	September 21, 2007	Passed by voice vote on September 21, 2007.
	Of a perfecting nature. Actions September 21, 2007, 12:00 am ET - Amendment SA 3022 proposed by Senator Casey for Senator Feinstein. September 21, 2007, 12:00 am ET - Amendment SA 3022 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. Full Text of this Amendment SA 3022. Mr. CASEY (for Mrs. FEINSTEIN) proposed an amendment to the bill S. 456, to increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes; as follows: Strike section 215. (As printed in the Congressional Record for the Senate on Sep 21, 2007.)