Sec. 2. Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program
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Section 1404B(b) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 ( 34 U.S.C. 20105(b) ) is amended— by inserting after compensation, training and technical assistance the following: (including efforts to prepare against mass violence and to protect public assembly facilities) ; by striking The Director may and inserting the following: The Director may ; and by adding at the end the following: In this subsection: 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 targeted 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. .
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