[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 994 Engrossed in Senate (ES)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                 S. 994

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                                 AN ACT


 
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 2018''.

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 the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
                inserting ``or (c)'' after ``subsection (a)'';
                    (B) in paragraph (3), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (C) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph 
                (5); and
                    (D) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
            ``(4) if damage to or destruction of property results from 
        the acts committed in violation of this section, which damage 
        to or destruction of such property is in an amount that exceeds 
        $5,000, a fine in accordance with this title, 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''.

            Passed the Senate September 4, 2018.

            Attest:

                                                             Secretary.
115th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                 S. 994

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

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