[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2742 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2742

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for armored 
                             car robberies.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 15, 2003

  Mr. Chabot 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 penalties for armored 
                             car robberies.

    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 ``Armored Car Crew Protection Act of 
2003''.

SEC. 2. ARMORED CAR ROBBERIES.

    (a) Offense.--Chapter 103 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 2120. Armored car robbery
    ``(a) Whoever, by force and violence, or by intimidation, takes, or 
attempts to take, from the person or presence of another, or obtains or 
attempts to obtain by extortion, any property or money or any other 
thing of value belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, 
management, or possession of, any armored car shall be fined under this 
title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
    ``(b) Whoever, in committing an offense under subsection (a), 
assaults any person or puts in jeopardy the life of any person by the 
use of a dangerous weapon or device, shall be fined under this title or 
imprisoned not more than 25 years, or both.
    ``(c) Whoever, in committing an offense under subsection (a), or in 
avoiding or attempting to avoid apprehension for the commission of such 
offense, or in freeing himself or herself or attempting to free himself 
or herself from arrest or confinement for such offense, kills any 
person or forces any person to accompany him without the consent of 
such person, shall be imprisoned not less than 10 years, or if death 
results shall be punished by death or life imprisonment.
    ``(d) As used in this section--
            ``(1) the term `armored car' means a vehicle used by an 
        armored car company to transport and protect currency, bullion, 
        securities, precious metals, food stamps, and other articles of 
        unusual value in interstate commerce; and
            ``(2) the term `armored car company' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 5 of the Armored Car Industry Reciprocity 
        Act of 1993.''.
    (b) Amendment to Table of Sections.--The table of sections at the 
beginning of chapter 103 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new item:

``2120. Armored car robbery.''.
    
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