Sec. 320921. FIRST TIME DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OFFENDER REHABILITATION PROGRAM

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## SEC. 320921 FIRST TIME DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OFFENDER REHABILITATION PROGRAM ###

(a)Sentence of Probation Section 3561 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— ####

(1)by redesignating subsection

(b)as subsection (c); and ####

(2)by inserting the following new subsection after subsection (a): > > ### “(b) Domestic Violence Offenders > > A defendant who has been convicted for the first time of a domestic violence crime shall be sentenced to a term of probation if not sentenced to a term of imprisonment. The term ‘**domestic violence crime**’ means a crime of violence for which the defendant may be prosecuted in a court of the United States in which the victim or intended victim is the spouse, former spouse, intimate partner, former intimate partner, child, or former child of the defendant, or any relative defendant, child, or former child of the defendant, or any other relative of the defendant.” > . ###

(b)Conditions of Probation Section 3563(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by— ####

(1)striking “and” at the end of paragraph (2); ####

(2)striking the period at the end of paragraph

(3)and inserting “; and”; and ####

(3)by inserting the following new paragraph: > > #### “(4) > > for a domestic violence crime as defined in section 3561(b) by a defendant convicted of such an offense for the first time that the defendant attend a public, private, or private nonprofit offender rehabilitation program that has been approved by the court, in consultation with a State Coalition Against Domestic Violence or other appropriate experts, if an approved program is readily available within a 50-mile radius of the legal residence of the defendant.” > . ###

(c)Supervised Release Section 3583 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— ####

(1)in subsection

(a)by inserting “or if the defendant has been convicted for the first time of a domestic violence crime as defined in section 3561(b)” after “statute”; and ####

(2)in subsection

(d)by inserting the following after the first sentence: “The court shall order as an explicit condition of supervised release for a defendant convicted for the first time of a domestic violence crime as defined in section 3561(b) that the defendant attend a public, private, or private nonprofit offender rehabilitation program that has been approved by the court, in consultation with a State Coalition Against Domestic Violence or other appropriate experts, if an approved program is readily available within a 50-mile radius of the legal residence of the defendant.”. **[**SEC. 320922. Repealed. P.L. 105–225**]**