[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 668 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 668

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
require States who wish to receive funds under the Act to increase the 
penalty applied to a defendant convicted of a violent crime who placed 
        a video of the commission of that crime on the Internet.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 24, 2007

 Mr. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida introduced the following bill; which 
             was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
require States who wish to receive funds under the Act to increase the 
penalty applied to a defendant convicted of a violent crime who placed 
        a video of the commission of that crime on the Internet.

    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 ``Web Video Violence Act''.

SEC. 2. CONDITIONING FUNDING ON STATE CERTIFICATION OF INCREASED 
              PENALTIES FOR VIOLENT CRIMINALS WHO PLACE VIDEO OF CRIME 
              ON INTERNET.

    (a) Certification of Increased Penalty.--Section 502 of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3752) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(6) At the option of the State, a certification that the 
        laws or official policies of the State require that when a 
        criminal defendant is being sentenced, a graduated sanction (in 
        the case of a juvenile defendant) or an increased penalty (in 
        the case of an adult defendant) is applied--
                    ``(A) if the defendant is convicted of a violent 
                crime against the person of another; and
                    ``(B) if the defendant is found to have placed, or 
                directed another to have placed, a video or image of 
                the commission of such crime on the Internet.''.
    (b) Reduction in Grant Funding for Non-Certifying States.--Section 
505(a) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 
U.S.C. 3755(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph--
            ``(3) Special rule for non-certifying states.--If a State 
        opts not to certify that it has increased penalties for certain 
        violent criminals as specified under section 502(6), the 
        Attorney General shall reduce the total amount of funding that 
        would otherwise be allocated to that State--
                    ``(A) by 10 percent in the first fiscal year in 
                which the certification is lacking; and
                    ``(B) by an additional 5 percent for each 
                subsequent fiscal year in which the certification is 
                lacking.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall apply to fiscal years 
beginning with the next fiscal year that begins 1 year after the date 
of enactment of this Act.
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