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Key Votes
HR 3 - Juvenile Crime bill - Key Vote
National Key Votes
Nita Lowey voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Read statements Nita Lowey made in this general time period.
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Family
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Stage Details
Legislation - Bill Sent To Committee (Senate) - May 8, 1997
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (286-132) - May 8, 1997(Key vote)
Title: Juvenile Crime bill
Vote Result
Yea Votes
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Vote to pass a bill that allows juveniles that commit violent crimes or specific drug offenses to be tried as adults more easily.
- Allows the Attorney General to determine if a 13 year old, who has allegedly committed a federal offense, should be tried as an adult.
- Allows juveniles 14 or older to be tried as adults for federal violent crimes and for federal drug crimes.
- Calls for juvenile records to be kept and available to the public in the same manner as adult offenders' records.
- Indicates that juveniles cannot be held in jails with adult offenders before or after trial.
- Calls on the Attorney General to establish an armed violent youth apprehension program to run for 5 years.
- Appropriates $1.5 billion for the fiscal years 1998 through 2000 to carry out the provisions within the bill.
- Calls for incentive grants for states to implement various programs, including: building correction or detention facilities, hiring additional juvenile judges, probation officers, court-appointed defenders and prosecutors, and establishing interagency information sharing programs to include juvenile and criminal justice system, schools and social services agencies.
- Stipulates that special priority be given to funding for law enforcement initiatives related to gangs.
Sponsors
- Bill McCollum (FL - R) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Robert Laurence 'Bob' Barr Jr. (GA - ) (Out Of Office)
- Ed Bryant (TN - R) (Out Of Office)
- Charles T. Canady (FL - R) (Out Of Office)
- Jon Lynn Christensen (NE - R) (Out Of Office)
- John Howard Coble (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
