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S 1982 108th Congress Senate

Witness Security and Protection Act of 2003

Official title: A bill to establish within the United States Marshalls Service a short term State witness protection program to provide assistance to State and local district … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to establish within the United States Marshalls Service a short term State witness protection program to provide assistance to State and local district attorneys to protect their witnesses in homicide and major violent crimes cases and to provide Federal grants for such protection.

Introduced: December 9, 2003 Introduced by: Schumer, Charles E. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
Crime and Law Enforcement Criminal statisticsEconomics and Public FinanceFederal aid to law enforcementFederal-local relations
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Federal-state relationsGovernment Operations and PoliticsHomicideMurderRelocationState courtsViolenceWitnesses
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This bill died when the 108th Congress ended
It never became law before the 108th Congress (2003–2004) adjourned, and bills don't carry over to the next Congress. It would have to be reintroduced. You can still save it for reference, but it won't receive updates.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Dec 9, 2003
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Witness Security and Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal judicial code to provide for the establishment within the United States Marshals Service of a Short Term State Witness Protection Section to provide protection for witnesses in State and local trials involving homicide or other major violent crimes pursuant to cooperative agreements with State and local district attorneys and the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia (DC).

Directs the Section to give priority in awarding grants and providing services to prosecutor's offices in States with an average of at least 100 murders per year during the five-year period immediately preceding an application for protection.

Authorizes: (1) the Attorney General to make grants to State and local district attorneys and the U.S. attorney for DC for providing such witness protection; (2) each grant recipient to use the grant to provide witness protection or to credit the grant to the Section to cover the Section's costs of providing witness protection on the recipient's behalf; and (3) grants to be awarded only in States with an average of not less than 100 murders per year during the most recent five-year period.

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Durbin, Richard J.
Illinois · Dec 9, 2003
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1982: Witness Security and Protection Act of 2003. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-1982/
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