[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3123 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3123

 To amend chapter 40 of title 18, United States Code, to increase the 
   penalties for using an instrumentality of interstate commerce to 
threaten to kill, injure, or intimidate any individual or unlawfully to 
      damage or destroy property by means of fire or an explosive.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 12, 2001

  Mr. Pascrell (for himself, Mrs. Morella, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Payne, Mr. 
 Rothman, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Barcia, Ms. Hooley of Oregon, 
Mr. Lampson, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, and Mrs. McCarthy of New York) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend chapter 40 of title 18, United States Code, to increase the 
   penalties for using an instrumentality of interstate commerce to 
threaten to kill, injure, or intimidate any individual or unlawfully to 
      damage or destroy property by means of fire or an explosive.

    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 ``Bomb Threat Responsibility Act of 
2001''.

SEC. 2. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR USING AN INSTRUMENTALITY OF INTERSTATE 
              COMMERCE TO THREATEN TO KILL, INJURE, OR INTIMIDATE ANY 
              INDIVIDUAL OR UNLAWFULLY TO DAMAGE OR DESTROY PROPERTY BY 
              MEANS OF FIRE OR AN EXPLOSIVE.

    Section 844(e) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``not less than 1 year (or, if the person 
        has a prior conviction for a crime under Federal or State law, 
        not less than 3 years) and'' before ``not more than 10 years''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following: ``In the case of a 
        person's second or subsequent conviction under this subsection, 
        the person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not 
        less than 6 years.''.
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