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                                                 Union Calendar No. 338
115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1730

                          [Report No. 115-456]

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the protection of 
 community centers with religious affiliation, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 27, 2017

Mr. Kustoff of Tennessee (for himself, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Poe 
   of Texas, Mr. Kennedy, and Mrs. McMorris Rodgers) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

                           December 11, 2017

 Additional sponsors: Mr. Cohen, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Zeldin, Mr. Ruiz, Ms. 
    DelBene, Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire, Mr. Payne, Ms. Rosen, Mr. 
Fleischmann, Mrs. Black, Mr. Curbelo of Florida, Mr. Byrne, Mr. Duncan 
of Tennessee, Ms. Titus, Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Mr. 
Hill, Mr. Gaetz, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Jeffries, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. 
Gottheimer, Mr. Veasey, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Meng, Ms. Jackson Lee, 
Ms. Eshoo, Mr. King of New York, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Suozzi, 
 Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, 
 Ms. Jayapal, Ms. Tenney, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Dent, Mr. Michael F. Doyle 
   of Pennsylvania, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Costello of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
       Meehan, Mr. Pallone, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, and Ms. Kaptur

                           December 11, 2017

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 
                               27, 2017]


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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the protection of 
 community centers with religious affiliation, 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 ``Protecting Religiously Affiliated 
Institutions Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF COMMUNITY CENTERS WITH RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION.

    Section 247 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2), by inserting after ``threat of 
        force,'' the following: ``including by threat of force against 
        religious real property,'';
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (3), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph 
                (5); and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
            ``(4) if damage to or destruction of property results from 
        the acts committed, by means of fire or explosives, in 
        violation of this section, a fine in accordance with this title 
        and imprisonment for not more than 3 years, or both; and''; and
            (3) in subsection (f), by inserting before the period at 
        the end the following: ``, or real property owned or leased by 
        a nonprofit, religiously affiliated organization''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 338

115th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 1730

                          [Report No. 115-456]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the protection of 
 community centers with religious affiliation, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           December 11, 2017

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed