[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5325 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5325

To amend title 18, United States Code, to ensure that acts of torture, 
    as proscribed by the Torture Convention, are also recognized as 
              criminal if committed in the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2000

  Ms. Waters 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 ensure that acts of torture, 
    as proscribed by the Torture Convention, are also recognized as 
              criminal if committed in the United States.

    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 ``Torture Prevention and 
Accountability Act of 2000''.

SEC. 2. TORTURE IN THE UNITED STATES.

    Section 2340A of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``or within'' after 
        ``outside'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking ``or'' at the end of paragraph (1);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of paragraph 
                (2) and inserting ``; or'' and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) the offense takes place in the United States.''; and
            (3) in subsection (a), by striking ``punished by death 
        or''.
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