Signed by President Bill Clinton

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.

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.

Full Bill Text
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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.

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.

Full Bill Text
Full Bill Text

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.

Full Bill Text
Full Bill Text

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.

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.

Full Bill Text
Full Bill Text

Full Bill Text