[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4776 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 4776

  To make it a Federal crime to use a weapon of a State or local law 
 enforcement officer in the commission of a crime against the officer.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 9, 1998

 Mrs. Myrick introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To make it a Federal crime to use a weapon of a State or local law 
 enforcement officer in the commission of a crime against the officer.

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

SECTION 1. COMMISSION OF CRIME AGAINST STATE OR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 
              OFFICER USING OFFICER'S WEAPON MADE A FEDERAL CRIME.

    (a) In General.--Title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting after chapter 93 the following:

  ``CHAPTER 94--PROTECTION OF STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS

``Sec.
``1941. Protection of State and local law enforcement officers.
``Sec. 1941. Protection of State and local law enforcement officers
    ``Whoever, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce outside 
the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, 
unlawfully obtains a weapon from an individual who is a State or local 
law enforcement officer and, knowing or having reasonable cause to 
believe that the individual is a State or local law enforcement 
officer, knowingly or recklessly uses or attempts to use the weapon to 
engage in conduct that is a criminal offense against the individual 
under the law of the State, Territory, Possession, or District in which 
the conduct occurs, shall be punished in the same manner in which the 
person would be punished if the conduct occurred within the special 
maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of chapters for such title is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to chapter 93 the 
following:

``94. Protection of State and local law enforcement officers    1941''.
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