Proceeds of Crime Act of 2007

To control violent crime.

7/24/2007--Introduced.
Violent Crime Control Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to increase or impose new criminal penalties for:
(1) the use of firearms to commit a crime of violence or a drug trafficking crime;
(2) interstate transportation in ai more...d of racketeering;
(3) using interstate facilities to commit murder-for-hire and other violent crimes; and
(4) violent crimes and drug crimes committed by illegal aliens.
Extends the limitation period for prosecuting violent crimes and crimes of terrorism. Death Penalty Procedures Improvement Act of 2007 - Revises death penalty hearing procedures and provisions for the implementation of the death sentence.
Imposes a minimum mandatory prison term for possession of child pornography. Increases criminal penalties for sexual exploitation of children and child pornography.
Proceeds of Crime Act of 2007 - Expands criminal forfeiture provisions to include certain crimes involving terrorism, fraud and computer crimes, alien smuggling, food stamp fraud, intellectual property theft, contraband cigarettes, and trafficking in persons. Expands prohibitions against money laundering activities. Revises civil forfeiture provisions.
Controlled Substances Analogue Reform Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to redefine "controlled substance analogue" for purposes of criminal prohibitions against trafficking in certain substances whose chemical structures are substantially similar to substances in schedule I or II of such Act.
Imposes mandatory restitution for victims of violent crime.
Imposes or increases criminal penalties for certain crimes of terrorism, including providing material support to facilitate, reward, or encourage international acts of terrorism, attempts or conspiracies to obtain military-type training from a foreign terrorism organization, and terrorist offenses resulting in death. Authorizes the death penalty for certain terrorist offenses involving weapons of mass destruction.
Gang Deterrence and Community Protection Act of 2007 - Revises criminal penalties for and definitions relating to crimes committed by criminal street gangs, including interstate travel in aid of racketeering, murder for hire, drug trafficking, use of firearms in committing violent crimes, and use of interstate commerce facilities to commit multiple murder.
Amends:
(1) the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to expand the definition of "racketeering activity" to include interstate murder; and
(2) the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to authorize the use of community-based justice grants to hire additional prosecutors to reduce case backlogs and to assist in the accurate identification and successful prosecution of young violent offenders.
Authorizes the Attorney General to designate specific areas that are located within one or more states as high intensity interstate gang activity areas.

Sponsor

• Rep. Lamar Smith [R, TX-21]
• and 4 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. James Forbes [R, VA-4]
  • Rep. Jim Gerlach [R, PA-6]
  • Rep. Kevin McCarthy [R, CA-22]
  • Rep. Marilyn Musgrave [R, CO-4]
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Committees

• House Financial Services
• 5 more
  • House Judiciary
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Judiciary
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.3156

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
July 24, 2007

Related Bills:

• S.1860

Related Issue Areas:

• Criminal justice
• Armed forces
• Budgets
• Capital punishment
• 45 more
• Child pornography
• Child sexual abuse
• Children
• Compensation for victims of crime
• Computer crimes
• Conspiracy
• Counterterrorism
• Criminal aliens
• Defense policy
• Drug abuse
• Drug law enforcement
• Drug traffic
• Federal aid to law enforcement
• Firearms
• Food
• Food stamps
• Foreign policy
• Forfeiture
• Fraud
• Gangs
• Illegal aliens
• Immigration
• Imprisonment
• Intellectual property
• International affairs
• Juvenile delinquency
• Larceny
• Law
• Limitation of actions
• Mandatory sentences
• Military training
• Money laundering
• Murder
• Organized crime
• Prosecution
• Public prosecutors
• Sentences (Criminal procedure)
• Smuggling
• Technology
• Terrorism
• Terrorists
• Violence
• Weapons of mass destruction
• Weapons systems
• Welfare

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October 18, 2007 Milking Sacred Cows | By Steven Ferry

HR 3156 Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act, which would have permitted the FDA to ban any nutrient which had any degree of risk associated with it, ...

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September 10, 2007 What is CODEX and CAFTA

HR 3156. 3156 establishes a similar risk-analysis assessment that Codex decreed needed to be done. 3156 states that even a relatively small risk of adverse health effects could be grounds for outlawing a supplement, unless “sufficient ...

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July 23, 2007 HR 3156, To control violent crime

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