[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 53 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 53

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide criminal penalties 
  for the harassment of victims of Federal offenses by the convicted 
                               offenders.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2001

  Mr. Condit 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 provide criminal penalties 
  for the harassment of victims of Federal offenses by the convicted 
                               offenders.

    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 ``Karen Matthews Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. PENALTIES FOR HARASSMENT OF VICTIMS OF FEDERAL OFFENSES.

    Section 1513 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c)(1) Whoever, being convicted of a Federal offense, harasses 
the victim of that offense shall be fined under this title or 
imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
    ``(2) As used in this subsection, the term `harass' includes the 
malicious or repeated frivolous filing of legal process or liens 
against the person or property of the victim.''.
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