[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 250 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 250

  To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit threats against 
  former Vice Presidents and members of their families, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 26, 2015

  Mr. Hatch (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit threats against 
  former Vice Presidents and members of their families, 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 ``Former Vice President Protection 
Improvement Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. THREATS AGAINST FORMER VICE PRESIDENTS.

    Section 879 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) 
                as paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), respectively; and
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) a former Vice President or a member of the immediate 
        family of a former Vice President;''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)(1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) by striking ``subsection (a)(1)'' and 
                        inserting ``paragraphs (1) and (2) of 
                        subsection (a)''; and
                            (ii) by inserting ``or former Vice 
                        President'' after ``former President'' each 
                        place it appears; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``subsection 
                (a)(2) and (a)(3)'' and inserting ``paragraphs (3) and 
                (4) of subsection (a)''.
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