[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1314 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1314

  To provide an enhanced penalty for threatening to kill, injure, or 
intimidate an individual, or to cause property damage, by means of fire 
                  or an explosive on school property.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 29, 2001

    Mrs. Lowey (for herself, Mr. Engel, Mr. Gilman, and Mrs. Kelly) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                                  the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide an enhanced penalty for threatening to kill, injure, or 
intimidate an individual, or to cause property damage, by means of fire 
                  or an explosive on school property.

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

SECTION 1. ENHANCED PENALTY FOR THREATENING TO KILL, INJURE, OR 
              INTIMIDATE AN INDIVIDUAL, OR TO CAUSE PROPERTY DAMAGE, BY 
              MEANS OF FIRE OR AN EXPLOSIVE ON SCHOOL PROPERTY.

    Section 844(e) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following: ``If the threat or conveying of false 
information referred to in the preceding sentence concerns conduct on 
the grounds of a school which provides elementary or secondary 
education (as determined under State law), the maximum term of 
imprisonment under this subsection shall be 20 years.''.
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