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Calendar No. 32
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 649
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 21, 2013
Mr. Reid introduced the
following bill; which was read the first time
March 22, 2013
Read the second time and placed on the
calendar
A BILL
To ensure that all individuals who should be prohibited
from buying a firearm are listed in the national instant criminal background
check system and require a background check for every firearm sale, and for
other purposes.
1.
Short
title; table of contents
(a)
Short
title
This Act may be cited
as the Safe Communities, Safe Schools
Act of 2013.
(b)
Table of
contents
The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of
contents.
TITLE I—Fix Gun Checks Act
Sec. 101. Short title.
Subtitle A—Ensuring that all individuals who should be
prohibited from buying a gun are listed in the National Instant Criminal
Background Check System
Sec. 111. Reauthorization of NICS Act Record Improvement
Program grants.
Sec. 112. Penalties for States that do not make data
electronically available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check
System.
Sec. 113. Clarification that Federal court information is to be
made available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check
System.
Subtitle B—Requiring a background check for every firearm
sale
Sec. 121. Purpose.
Sec. 122. Firearms transfers.
Sec. 123. Lost and stolen reporting.
Sec. 124. Effective date.
TITLE II—Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act
Sec. 201. Short title.
Sec. 202. Hadiya Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard anti-straw
purchasing and firearms trafficking amendments.
Sec. 203. Amendments to section
922(d).
Sec. 204. Amendments to section
924(a).
Sec. 205. Amendments to section
924(h).
Sec. 206. Amendments to section
924(k).
Sec. 207. Limitation on operations by the Department of
Justice.
TITLE III—School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act
Sec. 301. Short title.
Sec. 302. Grant program for school security.
Sec. 303. Applications.
Sec. 304. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 305. Accountability.
Sec. 306. CAMPUS Safety Act of 2013.
I
Fix
Gun Checks Act
101.
Short
title
This title may be cited
as the Fix Gun Checks Act of
2013.
A
Ensuring that all
individuals who should be prohibited from buying a gun are listed in the
National Instant Criminal Background Check System
111.
Reauthorization
of NICS Act Record Improvement Program grants
(a)
In
general
Section 102(b) of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of
2007 (18 U.S.C. 922 note) is amended—
(1) in paragraph
(1)(C)—
(A) by striking
clauses (ii) and (iii); and
(B) by redesignating
clauses (iv), (v), and (vi) as clauses (ii), (iii), and (iv), respectively;
and
(2) by striking
paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
(2)
Scope
(A)
In
general
The Attorney General, in determining the compliance of a
State under this section or section 104 for the purpose of granting a waiver or
imposing a loss of Federal funds, shall assess the total percentage of records
provided by the State concerning any event occurring within the time period
established by the Attorney General under subparagraph (B), which would
disqualify a person from possessing a firearm under subsection (g) or (n) of
section 922 of title 18, United States Code.
(B)
Regulations
Not
later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the
Fix Gun Checks Act of 2013, the
Attorney General shall, through regulation, establish the time period described
in subparagraph
(A).
.
(b)
Implementation
assistance to States
Section 103 of the NICS Improvement
Amendments Act of 2007 (18 U.S.C. 922 note) is amended—
(1) by striking
subsection (a)(1) and inserting the following:
(1)
In
general
From amounts made available to carry out this section and
subject to section 102(b)(1)(B), the Attorney General shall make grants to
States and Indian tribal governments, in a manner consistent with the National
Criminal History Improvement Program, which shall be used by the States and
Indian tribal governments, in conjunction with units of local government and
State and local courts to—
(A) establish and
plan information and identification technologies for firearms eligibility
determinations; and
(B) make improvements
or upgrade information and identification technologies for firearms eligibility
determinations.
;
(2) by striking
subsections (b) and (c) and inserting the following:
(b)
Use of grant
amounts
(1)
In
general
Grants awarded to States or Indian tribes under
subsection (a)(1) may only be used to—
(A) create electronic
systems, which provide accurate and up-to-date information that is directly
related to checks under the National Instant Criminal Background Check System
(referred to in this section as NICS), including court
disposition and corrections records;
(B) assist States in
establishing or enhancing their own capacities to perform NICS background
checks;
(C) supply accurate
and timely information to the Attorney General concerning final dispositions of
criminal records to databases accessed by NICS;
(D) supply accurate
and timely information to the Attorney General concerning the identity of
persons who are prohibited from obtaining a firearm under section 922(g)(4) of
title 18, United States Code, to be used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
solely to conduct NICS background checks;
(E) supply accurate
and timely court orders and records of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence
for inclusion in Federal and State law enforcement databases used to conduct
NICS background checks; and
(F) collect and
analyze data needed to demonstrate levels of State compliance with this
Act.
(2)
Additional
uses
(A)
In
general
In addition to the uses described in paragraph
(1)—
(i) a
grant awarded under subsection (a)(1)(A) may be used to assist States in
establishing or enhancing a relief from disabilities program in accordance with
section 105; and
(ii) a grant awarded
under subsection (a)(1)(B) may be used to maintain the relief from disabilities
program in accordance with section 105.
(B)
Limitation
Not
less than 3 percent and not more than 10 percent of each grant awarded under
subsection (a)(1)(B) shall be used for the purpose described in subparagraph
(A)(i) of this paragraph.
(c)
Eligibility
To
be eligible for a grant under section 103(a)(1)(B), a State shall certify, to
the satisfaction of the Attorney General, that the State has implemented a
relief from disabilities program in accordance with section
105.
; and
(3) by striking
subsection (e) and inserting the following:
(e)
Authorization
of appropriations
(1)
In
general
There are to be authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this section $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through
2018.
(2)
Limitations
(A)
Use of amounts
authorized
Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for each
fiscal year under paragraph (1), not more than 30 percent may be used to carry
out subsection (a)(1)(B).
(B)
Allocations
A
State may not be awarded more than 2 grants under subsection
(a)(1)(B).
.
112.
Penalties for
States that do not make data electronically available to the National Instant
Criminal Background Check System
(a)
In
general
Section 104(b) of the
NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (18 U.S.C. 922 note) is amended by
striking paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting the following:
(1)
Discretionary
reduction
(A) During the 2-year
period beginning on the date on which the Attorney General publishes final
rules required under section 102(b)(2)(B), the Attorney General may withhold
not more than 3 percent of the amount that would otherwise be allocated to a
State under section 505 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3755) if the State provides less than 50 percent of the records
required to be provided under sections 102 and 103.
(B) During the 3-year
period after the expiration of the period described in subparagraph (A), the
Attorney General may withhold 4 percent of the amount that would otherwise be
allocated to a State under section 505 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3755) if the State provides less than 70 percent
of the records required to be provided under sections 102 and 103.
(2)
Mandatory
reduction
After the expiration of the period referred to in
paragraph (1)(B), the Attorney General shall withhold 5 percent of the amount
that would otherwise be allocated to a State under section 505 of the Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3755), if the State
provides less than 90 percent of the records required to be provided under
sections 102 and
103.
.
(b)
Reporting of
State compliance
Not later than 1 year after the date of
enactment of this Act, and every year thereafter, the Attorney General shall
publish, and make available on a publicly accessible website, a report that
ranks the States by the ratio of number of records submitted by each State
under sections 102 and 103 of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (18
U.S.C. 922 note) to the estimated total number of available records of the
State.
113.
Clarification
that Federal court information is to be made available to the National Instant
Criminal Background Check System
Section 103(e)(1) of the Brady Handgun
Violence Prevention Act (18 U.S.C. 922 note), is amended by adding at the end
the following:
(F)
Application to
Federal courts
In this paragraph—
(i) the terms
department or agency of the United States and Federal
department or agency include a Federal court; and
(ii) for purposes of
any request, submission, or notification, the Director of the Administrative
Office of the United States Courts shall perform the functions of the head of
the department or
agency.
.
B
Requiring a
background check for every firearm sale
121.
Purpose
The purpose of this subtitle is to extend
the Brady Law background check procedures to all sales and transfers of
firearms.
122.
Firearms
transfers
(a)
In
general
Section 922 of title
18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by repealing subsection (s);
(2) by redesignating
subsection (t) as subsection (s);
(3) in subsection
(s), as redesignated—
(A) in paragraph
(3)(C)(ii), by striking (as defined in subsection (s)(8));
and
(B) by adding at the
end the following:
(7) In this
subsection, the term chief law enforcement officer means the chief
of police, the sheriff, or an equivalent officer or the designee of any such
individual.
;
and
(4) by inserting
after subsection (s), as redesignated, the following:
(t)
(1) Beginning on the date
that is 180 days after the date of enactment of the Fix Gun Checks Act of 2013,
it shall be unlawful for any person who is not licensed under this chapter to
transfer a firearm to any other person who is not licensed under this chapter,
unless a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer has first
taken possession of the firearm for the purpose of complying with subsection
(s). Upon taking possession of the firearm, the licensee shall comply with all
requirements of this chapter as if the licensee were transferring the firearm
from the licensee’s inventory to the unlicensed transferee.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply
to—
(A) bona fide gifts between spouses,
between parents and their children, between siblings, or between grandparents
and their grandchildren;
(B) a transfer made from a decedent’s
estate, pursuant to a legal will or the operation of law;
(C) a temporary transfer of possession
that occurs between an unlicensed transferor and an unlicensed transferee,
if—
(i) the temporary transfer of
possession occurs in the home or curtilage of the unlicensed transferor;
(ii) the firearm is not removed from
that home or curtilage during the temporary transfer; and
(iii) the transfer has a duration of
less than 7 days; and
(D) a temporary transfer of possession
without transfer of title made in connection with lawful hunting or sporting
purposes if the transfer occurs—
(i) at a shooting range located in or
on premises owned or occupied by a duly incorporated organization organized for
conservation purposes or to foster proficiency in firearms and the firearm is,
at all times, kept within the premises of the shooting range;
(ii) at a target firearm shooting
competition under the auspices of or approved by a State agency or nonprofit
organization and the firearm is, at all times, kept within the premises of the
shooting competition; or
(iii) while hunting or trapping,
if—
(I) the activity is legal in all places where
the unlicensed transferee possesses the firearm;
(II) the temporary transfer of possession
occurs during the designated hunting season; and
(III) the unlicensed transferee holds any
required license or permit.
(3) For purposes of this subsection, the
term transfer—
(A) shall include a sale, gift, loan,
return from pawn or consignment, or other disposition; and
(B) shall not include temporary possession
of the firearm for purposes of examination or evaluation by a prospective
transferee while in the presence of the prospective transferee.
(4)
(A) Notwithstanding any
other provision of this chapter, the Attorney General may implement this
subsection with regulations.
(B) Regulations promulgated under this
paragraph—
(i) shall include a provision setting a
maximum fee that may be charged by licensees for services provided in
accordance with paragraph (1); and
(ii) shall include a provision requiring a
record of transaction of any transfer that occurred between an unlicensed
transferor and unlicensed transferee accordance with paragraph
(1).
.
(b)
Technical and
conforming amendments
(1)
Section
922
Section 922(y)(2) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended, in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking ,
(g)(5)(B), and (s)(3)(B)(v)(II) and inserting and
(g)(5)(B).
(2)
Section
925A
Section 925A of title 18, United States Code, is amended, in
the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking subsection (s) or (t) of
section 922 and inserting section 922(s).
(3)
NICS
Improvement Amendments Act
Section 103(f) of the NICS Improvement
Amendments Act of 2007 is amended by striking section 922(t) and
inserting section 922(s).
(4)
Consolidated
and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012
Section 511 of
title V of division B of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations
Act, 2012 (18 U.S.C. 922 note) is amended by striking subsection
922(t) and inserting section 922(s) each place it
appears.
123.
Lost and
stolen reporting
(a)
In
general
Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
by adding at the end—
(aa) It shall be
unlawful for any person who lawfully possesses or owns a firearm that has been
shipped or transported in, or has been possessed in or affecting, interstate or
foreign commerce, to fail to report the theft or loss of the firearm, within 24
hours after the person discovers the theft or loss, to the Attorney General and
to the appropriate local
authorities.
.
(b)
Penalty
Section
924(a)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking subparagraph
(B) and inserting the following:
(B) knowingly violates subsection (a)(4),
(f), (k), (q), or (aa) of section
922;
.
124.
Effective
date
The amendments made by
this title shall take effect 180 days after the date of enactment of this
Act.
II
Stop Illegal
Trafficking in Firearms Act
201.
Short
title
This title may be cited
as the Stop Illegal Trafficking in
Firearms Act of 2013.
202.
Hadiya
Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard anti-straw purchasing and firearms trafficking
amendments
(a)
In
general
Chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the following:
932.
Straw
purchasing of firearms
(a) For purposes of
this section—
(1) the term
crime of violence has the meaning given that term in section
924(c)(3);
(2) the term
drug trafficking crime has the meaning given that term in section
924(c)(2); and
(3) the term
purchase includes the receipt of any firearm by a person who does
not own the firearm—
(A) by way of pledge
or pawn as security for the payment or repayment of money; or
(B) on
consignment.
(b) It shall be
unlawful for any person (other than a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer,
licensed collector, or licensed dealer) to knowingly purchase, or attempt or
conspire to purchase, any firearm in or otherwise affecting interstate or
foreign commerce—
(1) from a licensed
importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed collector, or licensed dealer for, on
behalf of, or at the request or demand of any other person, known or unknown;
or
(2) from any person
who is not a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed collector, or
licensed dealer for, on behalf of, or at the request or demand of any other
person, known or unknown, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that
such other person—
(A) is under
indictment for, or has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by
imprisonment for a term exceeding 1 year;
(B) is a fugitive
from justice;
(C) is an unlawful
user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of
the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802));
(D) has been
adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental
institution;
(E) is an alien
who—
(i) is illegally or
unlawfully in the United States; or
(ii) except as
provided in section 922(y)(2), has been admitted to the United States under a
nonimmigrant visa (as that term is defined in section 101(a)(26) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(26));
(F) has been
discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions;
(G) having been a
citizen of the United States, has renounced his or her citizenship;
(H) is subject to a
court order that restrains such person from harassing, stalking, or threatening
an intimate partner of such person or child of such intimate partner or person,
or engaging in other conduct that would place an intimate partner in reasonable
fear of bodily injury to the partner or child, except that this subparagraph
shall only apply to a court order that—
(i) was issued after
a hearing of which such person received actual notice, and at which such person
had the opportunity to participate; and
(ii)
(I) includes a finding that
such person represents a credible threat to the physical safety of such
intimate partner or child; or
(II) by its terms explicitly prohibits the
use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against such intimate
partner or child that would reasonably be expected to cause bodily
injury;
(I) has been
convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence;
(J) intends
to—
(i) use, carry,
possess, or sell or otherwise dispose of the firearm or ammunition in
furtherance of a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime; or
(ii) export the
firearm or ammunition in violation of law;
(K)
(i) does not reside in any
State; and
(ii) is not a citizen of the United
States; or
(L) intends to sell
or otherwise dispose of the firearm or ammunition to a person described in any
of subparagraphs (A) through (K).
(c)
(1) Except as provided in
paragraph (2), any person who violates subsection (b) shall be fined under this
title, imprisoned for not more than 15 years, or both.
(2) If a violation of subsection (b) is
committed knowing or with reasonable cause to believe that any firearm involved
will be used to commit a crime of violence, the person shall be sentenced to a
term of imprisonment of not more than 25 years.
(d) Subsection
(b)(1) shall not apply to any firearm that is lawfully purchased by a
person—
(1) to be given
as a bona fide gift to a recipient who provided no service or tangible thing of
value to acquire the firearm, unless the person knows or has reasonable cause
to believe such recipient is prohibited by Federal law from possessing,
receiving, selling, shipping, transporting, transferring, or otherwise
disposing of the firearm; or
(2) to be given
to a bona fide winner of an organized raffle, contest, or auction conducted in
accordance with law and sponsored by a national, State, or local organization
or association, unless the person knows or has reasonable cause to believe such
recipient is prohibited by Federal law from possessing, purchasing, receiving,
selling, shipping, transporting, transferring, or otherwise disposing of the
firearm.
933.
Trafficking in
firearms
(a) It shall be
unlawful for any person to—
(1) ship, transport,
transfer, cause to be transported, or otherwise dispose of 2 or more firearms
to another person in or otherwise affecting interstate or foreign commerce, if
the transferor knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the use, carrying,
or possession of a firearm by the transferee would be in violation of, or would
result in a violation of, any Federal law punishable by a term of imprisonment
exceeding 1 year;
(2) receive from
another person 2 or more firearms in or otherwise affecting interstate or
foreign commerce, if the recipient knows or has reasonable cause to believe
that such receipt would be in violation of, or would result in a violation of,
any Federal law punishable by a term of imprisonment exceeding 1 year;
or
(3) attempt or
conspire to commit the conduct described in paragraph (1) or (2).
(b)
(1) Except as provided in
paragraph (2), any person who violates subsection (a) shall be fined under this
title, imprisoned for not more than 15 years, or both.
(2) If a violation of subsection (a) is
committed by a person in concert with 5 or more other persons with respect to
whom such person occupies a position of organizer, leader, supervisor, or
manager, the person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more
than 25 years.
934.
Forfeiture
and fines
(a)
(1) Any person
convicted of a violation of section 932 or 933 shall forfeit to the United
States, irrespective of any provision of State law—
(A) any property constituting, or derived
from, any proceeds the person obtained, directly or indirectly, as the result
of such violation; and
(B) any of the person's property used, or
intended to be used, in any manner or part, to commit, or to facilitate the
commission of, such violation.
(2) The court, in imposing sentence on a
person convicted of a violation of section 932 or 933, shall order, in addition
to any other sentence imposed pursuant to section 932 or 933, that the person
forfeit to the United States all property described in paragraph (1).
(b) A defendant
who derives profits or other proceeds from an offense under section 932 or 933
may be fined not more than the greater of—
(1) the fine
otherwise authorized by this part; and
(2) the amount
equal to twice the gross profits or other proceeds of the offense under section
932 or
933.
.
(b)
Title III
authorization
Section 2516(1)(n) of title 18, United States Code,
is amended by striking and 924 and inserting , 924, 932,
or 933.
(c)
Racketeering
amendment
Section 1961(1)(B) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by inserting section 932 (relating to straw purchasing), section
933 (relating to trafficking in firearms), before section
1028.
(d)
Money
laundering amendment
Section 1956(c)(7)(D) of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by striking section 924(n) and inserting
section 924(n), 932, or 933.
(e)
Directive
to sentencing commission
Pursuant to its authority under section
994 of title 28, United States Code, and in accordance with this section, the
United States Sentencing Commission shall review and amend its guidelines and
policy statements to ensure that persons convicted of an offense under section
932 or 933 of title 18, United States Code, and other offenses applicable to
the straw purchases and firearms trafficking of firearms are subject to
increased penalties in comparison to those currently provided by the guidelines
and policy statements for such straw purchasing and firearms trafficking
offenses. The Commission shall also review and amend its guidelines and policy
statements to reflect the intent of Congress that a person convicted of an
offense under section 932 or 933 of title 18, United States Code, who is
affiliated with a gang, cartel, organized crime ring, or other such enterprise
should be subject to higher penalties than an otherwise unaffiliated
individual.
(f)
Technical
and conforming amendment
The table of sections for chapter 44 of
title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following:
932. Straw purchasing of
firearms.
933. Trafficking in firearms.
934. Forfeiture and
fines.
.
203.
Amendments
to section 922(d)
Section
922(d) of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in paragraph (8), by striking
or at the end;
(2) in paragraph (9), by striking the period at
the end and inserting a semicolon; and
(3) by striking the matter following paragraph
(9) and inserting the following:
(10) intends to
sell or otherwise dispose of the firearm or ammunition to a person described in
any of paragraphs (1) through (9); or
(11) intends to
sell or otherwise dispose of the firearm or ammunition in furtherance of a
crime of violence or drug trafficking offense or to export the firearm or
ammunition in violation of law.
This
subsection shall not apply with respect to the sale or disposition of a firearm
or ammunition to a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer,
or licensed collector who pursuant to subsection (b) of section 925 is not
precluded from dealing in firearms or ammunition, or to a person who has been
granted relief from disabilities pursuant to subsection (c) of section
925.
.
204.
Amendments to
section 924(a)
Section 924(a) of title 18, United States
Code, is amended—
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking (d),
(g),; and
(2) by adding at the
end the following:
(8) Whoever knowingly violates subsection
(d) or (g) of section 922 shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more
than 15 years, or
both.
.
205.
Amendments
to section 924(h)
Section
924 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking subsection (h) and
inserting the following:
(h)
(1) Whoever knowingly
receives or transfers a firearm or ammunition, or attempts or conspires to do
so, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such firearm or
ammunition will be used to commit a crime of violence (as defined in subsection
(c)(3)), a drug trafficking crime (as defined in subsection (c)(2)), or a crime
under the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.), the International
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the Foreign Narcotics
Kingpin Designation Act (21 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.), or section 212(a)(2)(C) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)(C)) shall be
imprisoned not more than 25 years, fined in accordance with this title, or
both.
(2) No term of imprisonment imposed on a person
under this subsection shall run concurrently with any term of imprisonment
imposed on the person under section
932.
.
206.
Amendments
to section 924(k)
Section
924 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking subsection (k) and
inserting the following:
(k)
(1) A person who, with
intent to engage in or to promote conduct that—
(A) is punishable under the Controlled
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), the Controlled Substances Import and
Export Act (21 U.S.C. 951 et seq.), or chapter 705 of title 46;
(B) violates any law of a State relating
to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled
Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. 802); or
(C) constitutes a crime of violence (as
defined in subsection (c)(3)),
smuggles or knowingly brings into the United States a
firearm or ammunition, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be imprisoned
not more than 15 years, fined under this title, or both.
(2) A person who, with intent to engage
in or to promote conduct that—
(A) would be punishable under the
Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), the Controlled Substances
Import and Export Act (21 U.S.C. 951 et seq.), or chapter 705 of title 46, if
the conduct had occurred within the United States; or
(B) would constitute a crime of violence
(as defined in subsection (c)(3)) for which the person may be prosecuted in a
court of the United States, if the conduct had occurred within the United
States,
smuggles or knowingly takes out of
the United States a firearm or ammunition, or attempts or conspires to do so,
shall be imprisoned not more than 15 years, fined under this title, or
both.
.
207.
Limitation on operations by the Department
of Justice
The Department of
Justice, and any of its law enforcement coordinate agencies, shall not conduct
any operation where a Federal firearms licensee is directed, instructed,
enticed, or otherwise encouraged by the Department of Justice to sell a firearm
to an individual if the Department of Justice, or a coordinate agency, knows or
has reasonable cause to believe that such an individual is purchasing on behalf
of another for an illegal purpose unless the Attorney General, the Deputy
Attorney General, or the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division
personally reviews and approves the operation, in writing, and determines that
the agency has prepared an operational plan that includes sufficient safeguards
to prevent firearms from being transferred to third parties without law
enforcement taking reasonable steps to lawfully interdict those
firearms.
III
School and
Campus Safety Enhancements Act
301.
Short
title
This title may be cited
as the School and Campus Safety
Enhancements Act of 2013.
302.
Grant
program for school security
Section 2701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797a) is amended—
(1) in subsection
(b)—
(A) in paragraph
(1)—
(i) by striking
Placement and inserting Installation; and
(ii) by inserting
surveillance equipment, after detectors,;
(B) by
redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and
(C) by inserting
after paragraph (4) the following:
(5) Establishment
of hotlines or tiplines for the reporting of potentially dangerous students and
situations.
;
and
(2) by adding at
the end the following:
(g)
Interagency
task force
(1)
Establishment
Not
later than 60 days after the date of enactment of the
School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of
2013, the Director and the Secretary of Education, or the
designee of the Secretary, shall establish an interagency task force to develop
and promulgate a set of advisory school safety guidelines.
(2)
Publication
of guidelines
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment
of the School and Campus Safety Enhancements
Act of 2013, the advisory school safety guidelines promulgated by
the interagency task force shall be published in the Federal Register.
(3)
Required
consultation
In developing the final advisory school safety
guidelines under this subsection, the interagency task force shall consult with
stakeholders and interested parties, including parents, teachers, and
agencies.
.
303.
Applications
Section 2702(a)(2) of title I of the Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797b(a)(2)) is amended
to read as follows:
(2) be accompanied by a report—
(A) signed by the heads of each law enforcement
agency and school district with jurisdiction over the schools where the safety
improvements will be implemented; and
(B) demonstrating that each proposed use of the
grant funds will be—
(i) an effective means for improving the safety
of 1 or more schools;
(ii) consistent with a comprehensive approach to
preventing school violence; and
(iii) individualized to the needs of each school
at which those improvements are to be
made.
.
304.
Authorization
of appropriations
Section 2705
of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C.
3797e) is amended—
(1) by striking $30,000,000 and
inserting $40,000,000; and
(2) by striking
2001 through 2009 and inserting 2014 through
2023.
305.
Accountability
Section 2701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797a), as amended by section
302, is amended by adding at the end the following:
(h)
Accountability
All
grants awarded by the Attorney General under this part shall be subject to the
following accountability provisions:
(1)
Audit
requirement
(A)
Definition
In
this paragraph, the term unresolved audit finding means a finding
in the final audit report of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice
that the audited grantee has utilized grant funds for an unauthorized
expenditure or otherwise unallowable cost that is not closed or resolved within
12 months from the date when the final audit report is issued.
(B)
Audits
Beginning
in the first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this
subsection, and in each fiscal year thereafter, the Inspector General of the
Department of Justice shall conduct audits of recipients of grants under this
part to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of funds by grantees. The Inspector
General shall determine the appropriate number of grantees to be audited each
year.
(C)
Mandatory
exclusion
A recipient of grant funds under this part that is
found to have an unresolved audit finding shall not be eligible to receive
grant funds under this part during the first 2 fiscal years beginning after the
end of the 12-month period described in subparagraph (A).
(D)
Priority
In
awarding grants under this part, the Attorney General shall give priority to
eligible applicants that did not have an unresolved audit finding during the 3
fiscal years before submitting an application for a grant under this
part.
(E)
Reimbursement
If
an entity is awarded grant funds under this part during the 2-fiscal-year
period during which the entity is barred from receiving grants under
subparagraph (C), the Attorney General shall—
(i) deposit an amount
equal to the amount of the grant funds that were improperly awarded to the
grantee into the General Fund of the Treasury; and
(ii) seek to recoup
the costs of the repayment to the fund from the grant recipient that was
erroneously awarded grant funds.
(2)
Nonprofit
organization requirements
(A)
Definition
For
purposes of this paragraph and the grant programs under this part, the term
nonprofit organization means an organization that is described in
section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and is exempt from
taxation under section 501(a) of such Code.
(B)
Prohibition
The
Attorney General may not award a grant under this part to a nonprofit
organization that holds money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding
paying the tax described in section 511(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986.
(C)
Disclosure
Each
nonprofit organization that is awarded a grant under this part and uses the
procedures prescribed in regulations to create a rebuttable presumption of
reasonableness for the compensation of its officers, directors, trustees and
key employees, shall disclose to the Attorney General, in the application for
the grant, the process for determining such compensation, including the
independent persons involved in reviewing and approving such compensation, the
comparability data used, and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation
and decision. Upon request, the Attorney General shall make the information
disclosed under this subparagraph available for public inspection.
(3)
Conference
expenditures
(A)
Limitation
No
amounts authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Justice under this
part may be used by the Attorney General, or by any individual or entity
awarded discretionary funds through a cooperative agreement under this part, to
host or support any expenditure for conferences that uses more than $20,000 in
funds made available by the Department of Justice, unless the Deputy Attorney
General or such Assistant Attorney Generals, Directors, or principal deputies
as the Deputy Attorney General may designate, provides prior written
authorization that the funds may be expended to host the conference.
(B)
Written
approval
Written approval under subparagraph (A) shall include a
written estimate of all costs associated with the conference, including the
cost of all food, beverages, audio-visual equipment, honoraria for speakers,
and entertainment.
(C)
Report
The
Deputy Attorney General shall submit an annual report to the Committee on the
Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of
Representatives on all conference expenditures approved under this
paragraph.
(4)
Annual
certification
Beginning in the first fiscal year beginning after
the date of enactment of this subsection, the Attorney General shall submit, to
the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives, an annual certification—
(A) indicating
whether—
(i) all audits issued
by the Office of the Inspector General under paragraph (1) have been completed
and reviewed by the appropriate Assistant Attorney General or Director;
(ii) all mandatory
exclusions required under paragraph (1)(C) have been issued; and
(iii) all
reimbursements required under paragraph (1)(E) have been made; and
(B) that includes a
list of any grant recipients excluded under paragraph (1) from the previous
year.
.
306.
CAMPUS Safety
Act of 2013
(a)
Short
title
This section may be
cited as the Center to Advance,
Monitor, and Preserve University Security Safety Act of
2013 or the CAMPUS Safety Act of 2013.
(b)
National Center
for Campus Public Safety
Subpart 1 of part E of title I of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.) is
amended—
(1) in section 501 (42 U.S.C. 3751)—
(A) in subsection (a)(1)—
(i) in
the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting or purposes
after one or more of the following programs; and
(ii) by adding at the end the following:
(H) Making subawards
to institutions of higher education and other nonprofit organizations to assist
the National Center for Campus Public Safety in carrying out the functions of
the Center required under section
509(c).
;
and
(B) in subsection
(b)—
(i) in
paragraph (1), by striking or at the end;
(ii) in
paragraph (2), by striking the period and inserting ; or;
and
(iii) by adding at
the end the following:
(3) institutions of
higher education and other nonprofit organizations, for purposes of carrying
out section 509.
;
and
(2) by adding at the
end the following:
509.
National Center
for Campus Public Safety
(a)
Definition of
institution of higher education
In this section, the term
institution of higher education has the meaning given the term in
section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).
(b)
Authority To
establish and operate Center
The Attorney General may establish
and operate a National Center for Campus Public Safety (referred to in this
section as the Center).
(c)
Functions of the
Center
The Center shall—
(1) provide quality
education and training for public safety personnel of institutions of higher
education and their collaborative partners, including campus mental health
agencies;
(2) foster quality
research to strengthen the safety and security of institutions of higher
education;
(3) serve as a
clearinghouse for the identification and dissemination of information,
policies, protocols, procedures, and best practices relevant to campus public
safety, including off-campus housing safety, the prevention of violence against
persons and property, and emergency response and evacuation procedures;
(4) coordinate with
the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Education, State, local
and tribal governments and law enforcement agencies, private and nonprofit
organizations and associations, and other stakeholders, to develop protocols
and best practices to prevent, protect against and respond to dangerous and
violent situations involving an immediate threat to the safety of the campus
community;
(5) promote the
development and dissemination of effective behavioral threat assessment and
management models to prevent campus violence;
(6) identify campus
safety information (including ways to increase off-campus housing safety) and
identify resources available from the Department of Justice, the Department of
Homeland Security, the Department of Education, State, local, and tribal
governments and law enforcement agencies, and private and nonprofit
organizations and associations;
(7) promote
cooperation, collaboration, and consistency in prevention, response, and
problem-solving methods among public safety and emergency management personnel
of institutions of higher education and their campus- and non-campus-based
collaborative partners, including law enforcement, emergency management, mental
health services, and other relevant agencies;
(8) disseminate
standardized formats and models for mutual aid agreements and memoranda of
understanding between campus security agencies and other public safety
organizations and mental health agencies; and
(9) report annually to
Congress on activities performed by the Center during the previous 12
months.
(d)
Coordination
with available resources
In
establishing the Center, the Attorney General shall—
(1) coordinate with
the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Education, and appropriate
State or territory officials;
(2) ensure
coordination with campus public safety resources within the Department of
Homeland Security, including within the Federal Emergency Management Agency,
and the Department of Education; and
(3) coordinate within
the Department of Justice and existing grant programs to ensure against
duplication with the program authorized by this section.
(e)
Reporting and
accountability
At the end of each fiscal year, the Attorney
General shall—
(1) issue a report
that assesses the impacts, outcomes and effectiveness of the grants distributed
to carry out this section;
(2) in compiling such
report, assess instances of duplicative activity, if any, performed through
grants distributed to carry out this section and other grant programs
maintained by the Department of Justice, the Department of Education, and the
Department of Homeland Security; and
(3) make such report
available on the Department of Justice website and submit such report to the
Senate and House Judiciary Committees and the Senate and House Appropriations
Committees.
.
(c)
Rule of
construction
Nothing in this
section shall preclude public elementary and secondary schools or their larger
governing agencies from receiving the informational and training benefits of
the National Center for Campus Public Safety authorized under section 509 of
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as added by this
title.
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