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

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 994

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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 1, 2017

  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 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)(1), by inserting after ``or 
        attempts'' the following: ``or threatens'';
            (2) in subsection (c), by inserting after ``or attempts'' 
        the following: ``or threatens'';
            (3) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (3), by striking the ``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 religious real 
        property results from the acts committed in violation of this 
        section, a fine in accordance with this title or imprisonment 
        for not more than 5 years, or both; and''; and
            (4) 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''.
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