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[CITE: 42USC14016]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
         CHAPTER 136--VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
 
                 SUBCHAPTER III--VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
 
             Part E--Violence Against Women Act Improvements
 
Sec. 14016. Enforcement of statutory rape laws


(a) Sense of Senate

    It is the sense of the Senate that States and local jurisdictions 
should aggressively enforce statutory rape laws.

(b) Justice Department program on statutory rape

    Not later than January 1, 1997, the Attorney General shall establish 
and implement a program that--
        (1) studies the linkage between statutory rape and teenage 
    pregnancy, particularly by predatory older men committing repeat 
    offenses; and
        (2) educates State and local criminal law enforcement officials 
    on the prevention and prosecution of statutory rape, focusing in 
    particular on the commission of statutory rape by predatory older 
    men committing repeat offenses, and any links to teenage pregnancy.

(c) Violence against women initiative

    The Attorney General shall ensure that the Department of Justice's 
Violence Against Women initiative addresses the issue of statutory rape, 
particularly the commission of statutory rape by predatory older men 
committing repeat offenses.

(Pub. L. 104-193, title IX, Sec. 906, Aug. 22, 1996, 110 Stat. 2349.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work 
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, and not as part of the Violent 
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 which enacted this 
chapter.
