[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 469 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 469

  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

                            January 29, 2003

  Mrs. Lowey (for herself, Mr. Engel, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Zero Tolerance School Terror Act''.

SEC. 2. 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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