[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1791 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1791

 To provide for mandatory life imprisonment of a person convicted of a 
                 second offense of kidnapping a minor.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 25, 1994

Mr. Kempthorne introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for mandatory life imprisonment of a person convicted of a 
                 second offense of kidnapping a minor.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Child Abduction Prevention Act'' 
(CAP Act).

SEC. 2. MANDATORY LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR A SECOND KIDNAPPING OF A MINOR.

    Section 1201(g) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1) by striking ``paragraph (2)'' and 
        inserting ``paragraphs (2) and (3)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) Second offense.--An offender described in paragraph 
        (1)(B) who commits an offense under this section in which the 
        victim has not attained the age of 18 years shall be punished 
        by imprisonment for life.''.

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