[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 628 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 628

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to extend certain protections 
     now accorded various Federal officials to the staffs of those 
                               officials.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 23, 1995

  Mr. Horn (for himself, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Berman, Mr. Fattah, Mr. 
Ehlers, Mr. English, Mr. Farr, Mr. Frost, Mr. Pete Geren of Texas, Ms. 
Johnson of Connecticut, Mr. King, Mr. Leach, Mr. Ney, Mr. Poshard, Mr. 
 Sensenbrenner, Mr. Skeen, Mr. Smith of Texas, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Walsh, 
  Ms. Pelosi, and Ms. Eshoo) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 18, United States Code, to extend certain protections 
     now accorded various Federal officials to the staffs of those 
                               officials.

    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 ``Staff Protection Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTIONS FOR STAFF OF CERTAIN OFFICIALS.

    Section 115 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1)(A), by inserting ``a member of the 
        staff or'' before ``a member of the immediate family'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(1)(B), by inserting ``or a member of 
        the staff of such an official, judge, or law enforcement 
        officer; '' after ``under such section,'';
            (3) in the matter following subparagraph (B) in subsection 
        (a)(1), by striking ``or law enforcement officer'' each place 
        it appears and inserting ``law enforcement officer, or member 
        of the staff''; and
            (4) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph 
                (3);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of paragraph 
                (4) and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) `member of the staff' includes any person acting in a 
        staff capacity, whether on a paid or unpaid basis.''.
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