[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 149 (Friday, September 7, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H7925]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       PROTECTING RELIGIOUSLY AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS ACT OF 2018

  Mrs. HANDEL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the 
Speaker's table the bill (S. 994) to amend title 18, United States 
Code, to provide for the protection of community centers with religious 
affiliation, and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate 
consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentlewoman from Georgia?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                                 S. 994

       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''.

  The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the third 
time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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