HR 2649
STOP Violence Act of 2025
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Bill overview
The STOP Violence Act of 2025 aims to enhance resources for preventing mass violence by amending the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. Specifically, it increases grant funding available to states, local governments, and nonprofit organizations to help protect public assembly facilities and provide support to victims of crime. The bill defines key terms related to mass violence, such as active shooter incidents and targeted violence, to ensure consistent application of resources. It seeks to bolster preparedness and response efforts against these types of events.
Key provisions
- Increases grant funding for protection against mass violence.
- Provides $20 million in grants to states, local governments, and nonprofits.
- Focuses on compensating, training, and providing technical assistance to public assembly facilities.
- Defines ‘mass violence’ as including active shooter incidents and targeted violence.
- Defines ‘active shooter’ as an individual engaging in unauthorized killing in a populated area.
- Defines ‘targeted violence’ as violence against a known or knowable target.
- Defines ‘public assembly facility’ as locations where gatherings of people occur.
Who is affected
- States
- Local governments
- Nonprofit organizations
- Victims of crime
- Public assembly facilities
Notable changes
- Expands grant eligibility to include nonprofit organizations.
- Introduces specific definitions for ‘mass violence,’ ‘active shooter,’ ‘targeted violence,’ and ‘public assembly facility’.
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Henry C. "Hank" Johnson
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 2649
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for additional grant amounts for protection against mass violence.
This Act may be cited as the Strengthen and Tackle Opportunities to Prevent Violence Act of 2025 STOP Violence Act of 2025
or as the
.
Section 506 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10157) is amended—
in subsection (a)—
in paragraph (1), by striking the and
at the end;
in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and
; and
by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
by adding at the end the following:
The term mass violence
includes active shooter incidents and targeted violence.
The term active shooter
means an individual actively engaged in the unauthorized killing or attempting to kill a person or persons in a confined and populated area with a firearm.
The term target violence
means an incident of violence where an assailant who is known or knowable to a law enforcement agency for a jurisdiction where the assailant resides, identifies a particular target prior to a violent attack, which may be one or more individuals, a class or category of individuals, or an institution, without regard to whether the assailant is able to successfully harm the chosen target.
The term public assembly facility
means a permanent or temporary structure or facility, place, or activity where concentrations of people gather in reasonably close quarters for purposes including deliberation, education, worship, shopping, employment, entertainment, recreation, sporting events, or similar activities.