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<meta><dc:title>116 S 134 ENR:  To amend title 18, United States Code, with regard to stalking.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>S.</dc:type><docNumber>134</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="116">One Hundred Sixteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="2">A T T  H  E S  E  C  O  N  D S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511"> To amend title 18, United States Code, with regard to stalking.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
<section id="d64071e62" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/134/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Combat Online Predators Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d64071e72" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/134/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>ENHANCED PENALTY FOR STALKERS OF CHILDREN.</heading><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d64071e76" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/134/s2/a" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Chapter 110A of <ref href="/us/usc/t18">title 18, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 2261A the following:<quotedContent><section style="-uslm-lc:I650165"><num value="2261B">“§ 2261B.</num><heading> Enhanced penalty for stalkers of children</heading><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as provided in subsection (b), if the victim of an offense under section 2261A is under the age of 18 years, the maximum imprisonment for the offense is 5 years greater than the maximum term of imprisonment otherwise provided for that offense in section 2261.</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Limitation</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Subsection (a) shall not apply to a person who violates section 2261A if—</chapeau><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">“(1) </num><content>the person is subject to a sentence under section 2261(b)(5); and</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">“(2)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>the person is under the age of 18 at the time the offense occurred; or</content></subparagraph><subparagraph class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">“(B) </num><content>the victim of the offense is not less than 15 nor more than 17 years of age and not more than 3 years younger than the person who committed the offense at the time the offense occurred.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
</quotedContent>.</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d64071e132" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/134/s2/b" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 110A of <ref href="/us/usc/t18">title 18, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after the item relating to section 2261A the following new item:<quotedContent><?GPOvSpace 04?>
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<designator>“2261B. </designator>
<label>Enhanced penalty for stalkers of children.”.<?GPOvSpace 04?></label>
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</quotedContent></content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d64071e163" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/134/s2/c" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content><ref href="/us/usc/t18/s2261A">Section 2261A of title 18, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>section 2261(b) of this title</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>section 2261(b) or section 2261B, as the case may be</quotedText>”.</content></subsection></section>
<section id="d64071e184" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/134/s3" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="3">SEC. 3. </num><heading>REPORT ON BEST PRACTICES REGARDING ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-STALKING LAWS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall submit a report to Congress, which shall—</chapeau><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d64071e190" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/134/s3/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>include an evaluation of Federal, Tribal, State, and local efforts to enforce laws relating to stalking; and</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d64071e194" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/134/s3/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>identify and describe those elements of such efforts that constitute the best practices for the enforcement of such laws.</content></paragraph></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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