Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act of 2018 Public Law 115–249 Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act of 2018 249 115–249 Statute Compilation United States House of Representatives Office of the Legislative Counsel text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. GPO Statute Compilations USLM converter, version 20210527.1 2021-10-15 Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act of 2018 15276 115 2018-09-28 Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act of 2018 [(Public Law 115–249)] [This law has not been amended] [Currency: This publication is a compilation of the text of Public Law 115-249. It was last amended by the public law listed in the As Amended Through note above and below at the bottom of each page of the pdf version and reflects current law through the date of the enactment of the public law listed at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps/] [Note: While this publication does not represent an official version of any Federal statute, substantial efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of its contents. The official version of Federal law is found in the United States Statutes at Large and in the United States Code. The legal effect to be given to the Statutes at Large and the United States Code is established by statute (1 U.S.C. 112, 204).]
AN ACTTo 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. [18 U.S.C. 1 note] 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”.