Legislation to be signed into law Sept.13, 1994

The $30.2 billion, six-year crime legislation authorizes:

- Tossing third-time felons into prison for life - "three strikes, you're out" - while allowing the release of some over age 70 after they serve 30 years. The first two felonies could be state crimes of violence or drugs, but the third must be a violent crime and must be adjudicated in federal court.

- Creating 60 new federal death penalty crimes. Many carried that penalty before the Supreme Court overturned capital punishment in 1972. New death penalty crimes include car-jacking slayings, drive by murders and major drug-trafficking, even when the trafficker is not directly connected to a specific death. Some of the crimes, such as car-jacking, would have to involve either a federal offense such as drug-trafficking or an interstate aspect to wind up in federal court.

- Banning 19 named assault-style firearms and scores of copycats and others deemed to have similar characteristics, effective today and lasting 10 years. It would limit magazine capacity to 10 rounds. It would exempt 650 named firearms and all guns and magazines legally owned today. Since magazines have no serial numbers, the government would have to prove that a magazine was made after September 13, 1994.

- Allowing some non-violent, first-time drug offenders to avoid mandatory minimum 5- and 10-year federal penalties. They would have to serve at least two years. This would be limited to those who use no gun or threat of violence, are not organizers and never served more than 90 days in jail for another crime.

- Letting prosecutors in rape trials introduce evidence of prior sex offenses by the defendant, even if there was no charge and no conviction on the previous offense.

- Trying juveniles as young as 13 as adults for violent federal crimes such as murder, assault, robbery and rape. Prohibits giving handguns to minors.

- Preventing people from buying guns if they are subject to a court restraining order because of family violence.

- Requiring sexual predators and those who prey on children to register with state law enforcement agencies, which may notify the community when the offenders are released.

- Spending $10.8 billion for state and local law enforcement, including $8.8 billion for a matching program to help hire 100,000 new law enforcement officers to carry out community policing.

- Spending $2.6 billion for federal law enforcement, including $1.2 billion to beef up the Border Patrol.

- Spending $9.85 billion for prisons, including $7.9 billion for state prison grants and $1.8 billion to reimburse states for incarcerating criminal illegal aliens.

- Spending $6.9 billion for crime prevention programs, including $1 billion for drug courts. The prevention efforts include $1.6 billion for the Violence Against Women Act, including money for shelters, and $1.6 billion for flexible Local Partnership Act grants.

- A trust fund to pay the bill's entire cost. The money would come from savings from reductions in the federal work force.