[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1928 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1928

              To provide criminal penalties for stalking.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 30, 2011

Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Mrs. Hutchison) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
              To provide criminal penalties for stalking.

    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 ``Stalkers Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. CRIMINAL PROVISION RELATING TO STALKING, INCLUDING 
              CYBERSTALKING.

    Section 2261A of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read 
as follows:
``Sec. 2261A. Stalking
    ``Whoever--
            ``(1) travels in interstate or foreign commerce or is 
        present within the special maritime and territorial 
        jurisdiction of the United States, or enters or leaves Indian 
        country, with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, 
        or place under surveillance with intent to kill, injure, 
        harass, or intimidate another person, and in the course of, or 
        as a result of, such travel or presence engages in conduct 
        that--
                    ``(A) places that person in reasonable fear of the 
                death of, or serious bodily injury to--
                            ``(i) that person;
                            ``(ii) an immediate family member (as 
                        defined in section 115) of that person; or
                            ``(iii) a spouse or intimate partner of 
                        that person; or
                    ``(B) causes or attempts to cause or would be 
                reasonably expected to cause substantial emotional 
                distress to a person described in clause (i), (ii), or 
                (iii) of subparagraph (A); or
            ``(2) with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, 
        or place under surveillance with intent to kill, injure, 
        harass, or intimidate another person, uses the mail, any 
        interactive computer service or electronic communication 
        service or electronic communication system of interstate 
        commerce, or any other facility of interstate or foreign 
        commerce to engage in a course of conduct that--
                    ``(A) places that person in reasonable fear of the 
                death of or serious bodily injury to a person described 
                in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) of paragraph (1)(A); or
                    ``(B) causes or attempts to cause or would be 
                reasonably expected to cause substantial emotional 
                distress to a person described in clause (i), (ii), or 
                (iii) of paragraph (1)(A),
        shall be punished as provided in section 2261(b) of this 
        title.''.
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