[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1866 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1866

To amend title 18, United States Code, to clarify Federal jurisdiction 
        over offenses relating to damage to religious property.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 12, 1996

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to clarify Federal jurisdiction 
        over offenses relating to damage to religious property.

    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 ``Church Arson Prevention Act of 
1996''.

SEC. 2. DAMAGE TO RELIGIOUS PROPERTY.

    Section 247 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) so that subsection (b) reads as follows:
    ``(b) The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are that the 
offense is in or affects interstate or foreign commerce.''; and
            (2) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting ``, racial, or 
        ethnic'' before ``character''.
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