[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 19 (Monday, February 6, 2012)]
[Senate]
[Pages S357-S358]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    FEDERAL RESTRICTED BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2011

  The Senate proceeded to consider the bill (S. 1794) to correct and 
simplify the drafting of section 1752 (relating to restricted buildings 
or grounds) of title 18, United States Code, which had been reported 
from the Committee on the Judiciary, with amendments; as follows:
  (The parts of the bill intended to be stricken are shown in boldface 
brackets and the parts of the bill intended to be inserted are shown in 
italics.)

                                S. 1794

       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 ``Federal Restricted Buildings 
     and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011''.

     SEC. 2. RESTRICTED BUILDING OR GROUNDS.

       Section 1752 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to 
     read as follows:

     ``Sec. 1752. Restricted building or grounds

       ``(a) Whoever--
       ``(1) knowingly enters or remains in any restricted 
     building or grounds without lawful authority to do so;
       ``(2) knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the 
     orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, 
     engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within 
     such proximity to, any restricted building or grounds when, 
     or so that, such conduct, in fact, impedes or disrupts the 
     orderly conduct of Government business or official functions;
       ``(3) knowingly, and with the intent to impede or disrupt 
     the orderly conduct of Government business or official 
     functions, obstructs or impedes ingress or egress to or from 
     any restricted building or grounds; or
       ``(4) knowingly engages in any act of physical violence 
     against any person or property in any restricted building or 
     grounds;

     or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be punished as 
     provided in subsection (b).
       ``(b) The punishment for a violation of subsection (a) is--
       ``(1) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more 
     than 10 years, or both, if--
       ``(A) [any] the person, during and in relation to the 
     offense, uses or carries a deadly or dangerous weapon or 
     firearm; or
       ``(B) the offense results in significant bodily injury as 
     defined by section 2118(e)(3); and
       ``(2) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more 
     than one year, or both, in any other case.
       ``(c) In this section--
       ``(1) the term `restricted buildings or grounds' means any 
     posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area--
       ``(A) of the White House or its grounds, or the Vice 
     President's official residence or its grounds;
       ``(B) of a building or grounds where the President or other 
     person protected by the Secret Service is or will be 
     temporarily visiting; or
       ``(C) of a building or grounds so restricted in conjunction 
     with an event designated as a special event of national 
     significance; and
       [``(2) the term `other person protected by the Secret 
     Service' means any person whom

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     the United States Secret Service is authorized to protect 
     under section 3056 of this title when such person has not 
     declined such protection.''.]
       ``(2) the term `other person protected by the Secret 
     Service' means any person whom the United States Secret 
     Service is authorized to protect under section 3056 of this 
     title or by Presidential memorandum, when such person has not 
     declined such protection.''.

  The committee-reported amendments were agreed to.
  The bill (S. 1794), as amended, was engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

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