[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1018 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1018

To increase the penalties for fraudulent 9-1-1 calls that result in an 
    emergency response from law enforcement agencies, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 21, 2015

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To increase the penalties for fraudulent 9-1-1 calls that result in an 
    emergency response from law enforcement agencies, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Swatting Won't be Accepted or 
Tolerated Act of 2015'' or the ``SWAT Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASED PENALTIES.

    Part I of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in section 1001--
                    (A) in subsection (a), in the flush text following 
                paragraph (3), by adding at the end the following: ``If 
                the offense involves a false, fictitious, or fraudulent 
                statement or representation, whether written or oral, 
                to a Federal law enforcement agency that causes an 
                emergency Federal law enforcement response, the term of 
                imprisonment shall be not more than 8 years.''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Reimbursement.--
            ``(1) In general.--The court, in imposing a sentence on a 
        defendant who has been convicted of an offense under subsection 
        (a) that involves a false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement 
        or representation, whether written or oral, to a Federal law 
        enforcement agency that causes an emergency Federal law 
        enforcement response, shall order the defendant to reimburse 
        any Federal, State, or local government incurring expenses 
        incident to any law enforcement emergency or investigative 
        response to that conduct, for those expenses up to $10,000.
            ``(2) Liability.--A person ordered to make reimbursement 
        under this subsection shall be jointly and severally liable for 
        such expenses with each other person, if any, who is ordered to 
        make reimbursement under this subsection for the same expenses.
            ``(3) Civil judgment.--An order of reimbursement under this 
        subsection shall, for the purposes of enforcement, be treated 
        as a civil judgment.''; and
            (2) in section 1038(c)(1), by--
                    (A) striking ``state or local'' and inserting 
                ``Federal, State, or local''; and
                    (B) striking ``fire or rescue service'' and 
                inserting ``fire, rescue, or law enforcement service''.
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