[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4531 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4531

  To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for jurisdiction, 
apprehension, and detention of certain civilians accompanying the Armed 
       Forces outside the United States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 26, 1994

 Mr. Thomas of California (for himself and Mr. McKeon) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for jurisdiction, 
apprehension, and detention of certain civilians accompanying the Armed 
       Forces outside the United States, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CRIMINAL OFFENSES COMMITTED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES

    (a) In General.--Subtitle A of title 10 of the United States Code 
is amended by inserting after chapter 49 the following new chapter:

  ``CHAPTER 50--CRIMINAL OFFENSES COMMITTED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES

``Sec.
``991. Definitions.
``992. Criminal offenses committed by a member of the armed forces or 
                            by any person serving with, employed by, or 
                            accompanying the armed forces outside of 
                            the United States.
``993. Delivery to authorities of foreign country.
``Sec. 991. Definitions
    ``In this chapter:
            ``(1) The term `United States' includes the special 
        maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
            ``(2) The term `special maritime and territorial 
        jurisdiction of the United States' has the meaning given that 
        term in section 7 of title 18.
            ``(3) The term `criminal offense' means an offense against 
        the United States other than an infraction.
``Sec. 992. Criminal offenses committed by any person serving with, 
              employed by, or accompanying the armed forces outside of 
              the United States
    ``(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person who, 
while serving with, employed by, or accompanying the armed forces 
outside of the United States, engages in conduct which would constitute 
a criminal offense if the conduct were engaged in within the special 
maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States shall be 
guilty of a like offense against the United States and shall be subject 
to the same punishment as is provided under title 18 for such like 
offense.
    ``(b) A person employed by the armed forces outside the United 
States is not punishable under subsection (a) for conduct described in 
such subsection if such person is not a national of the United States 
and was appointed to his position of employment in the country in which 
such person engaged in such conduct.
    ``(c)(1) Except in the case of a prosecution approved as provided 
in paragraph (2), prosecution of a person may not be commenced under 
this section for an offense described in subsection (a) if a foreign 
government, in accordance with jurisdiction recognized by the United 
States, has prosecuted such person for the conduct constituting such 
offense.
    ``(2) The Attorney General of the United States, the Deputy 
Attorney General of the United States, the Associate Attorney General 
of the United States, or an Assistant Attorney General of the United 
States may approve a prosecution which, except for this paragraph, is 
prohibited under paragraph (1). An approval of prosecution under this 
paragraph must be in writing. The authority to approve a prosecution 
under this paragraph may not be delegated below the level of Assistant 
Attorney General.
    ``(d)(1) The Secretary of Defense may designate and authorize any 
member of the armed forces serving in a law enforcement position in a 
criminal investigative agency of the Department of Defense to apprehend 
and detain, outside the United States, any person who is reasonably 
believed to have engaged in an offense under such subsection.
    ``(2) A person apprehended and detained under paragraph (1) shall 
be released to the custody of civilian law enforcement authorities of 
the United States for removal to the United States for judicial 
proceedings in relation in conduct referred to in such paragraph unless 
(A) such person is delivered to authorities of a foreign country under 
section 993 of this title, or (B) such person is pending court-martial 
under chapter 47 of this title for such conduct.
``Sec. 993. Delivery to authorities of foreign country
    ``(a) A member of the armed forces designated and authorized under 
section 992(e) of this title may deliver any person to the appropriate 
authorities of a foreign country in which that person is alleged to 
have engaged in an offense under section 992(a) of this title if--
            ``(1) the appropriate authorities of that country request 
        the delivery of the person to such country for trial for such 
        conduct as an offense under the laws of that country; and
            ``(2) the delivery of such person to that country is 
        authorized by a treaty or other international agreement to 
        which the United States is a party.
    ``(b) The Secretary of Defense may confine or otherwise restrain a 
person whose delivery is requested under subsection (a) until the 
completion of the trial of such person by the foreign country making 
such request.
    ``(c) The Secretary of Defense shall determine what officials of a 
foreign country constitute appropriate authorities for the purposes of 
this section.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The tables of chapters at the beginning of 
such subtitle, and at the beginning of part II of such subtitle, are 
each amended by inserting after the item relating to chapter 49 the 
following:

``50. Criminal Offenses Outside the United States...........     991''.

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