[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 801 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 801

To provide for attempt liability for international parental kidnapping.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 7, 2003

   Mr. Hatch introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for attempt liability for international parental kidnapping.

    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 ``International Parental Kidnapping 
Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. ATTEMPT LIABILITY FOR PARENTAL KIDNAPPING.

    Section 1204 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``, or attempts to do 
        so,'' before ``or retains''; and
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``or the Uniform 
                Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act'' before 
                ``and was''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``or'' after the 
                semicolon.
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