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108TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4883

To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to terrorism against 

animal-use entities, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 21, 2004

Mr. GRAVES introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL

To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to 

terrorism against animal-use entities, and for other purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Terrorism Against Ani5 mal-Use Entities Prohibition Improvement Act of 2004’’. 

6 SEC. 2. TERRORISM AGAINST ANIMAL-USE ENTITIES. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 43 of title 18, United 

8 States Code, is amended—

9 (1) so that subsection (a) reads as follows: 

10 ‘‘(a) OFFENSES.—
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1 ‘‘(1) PHYSICAL DISRUPTION.—Whoever—

2 ‘‘(A) travels in interstate or foreign com3 merce, or uses or causes to be used the mail or 

4 any facility in interstate or foreign commerce 

5 for the purpose of causing physical disruption 

6 to the functioning of an animal enterprise; and 

7 ‘‘(B) intentionally damages or causes the 

8 loss of any property (including animals or 

9 records) used by the animal enterprise, or con10 spires to do so, 

11 shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). 

12 ‘‘(2) ECONOMIC DISRUPTION.—Whoever—

13 ‘‘(A) travels in interstate or foreign com14 merce, or uses or causes to be used the mail or 

15 any facility in interstate or foreign commerce, 

16 for the purpose of causing economic disruption 

17 to an animal enterprise; and 

18 ‘‘(B) intentionally uses threats, acts of 

19 vandalism, property damage, trespass, per20 sistent and harassing communications, intimi21 dation, or coercion, in furtherance of a plan to 

22 cause economic disruption to that enterprise, or 

23 conspires to do so, 

24 shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).’’; 
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1 (2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ‘‘6 months’’ 

2 and inserting ‘‘1 year’’; 

3 (3) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘Major eco4 nomic damage’’ and inserting ‘‘Significant economic 

5 damage or economic disruption’’, by striking ‘‘causes 

6 economic damage’’ and inserting ‘‘causes economic 

7 damage or economic disruption’’, by striking ‘‘ex8 ceeding $10,000’’ and inserting ‘‘exceeding $10,000 

9 but not exceeding $100,000’’, and by striking ‘‘3 

10 years’’ and inserting ‘‘5 years’’; 

11 (4) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) of 

12 subsection (b) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respec13 tively; 

14 (5) in subsection (b), by inserting after para15 graph (2) the following: 

16 ‘‘(3) MAJOR ECONOMIC DAMAGE OR ECONOMIC

17 DISRUPTION.—Any person who, in the course of a 

18 violation of subsection (a), causes economic damage 

19 or economic disruption exceeding $100,000 to an 

20 animal enterprise shall be fined under this title or 

21 imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.’’; 

22 (6) in subsection (b)(5) as redesignated above, 

23 by striking ‘‘and imprisoned’’ and inserting ‘‘and 

24 shall be punished by death or imprisoned’’; and 

25 (7) in subsection (d)—
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1 (A) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and 

2 (4) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; and 

3 (B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the 

4 following: 

5 ‘‘(3) the term ‘economic disruption’ means 

6 losses and increased costs that individually or collec7 tively exceed $10,000 to that enterprise. Economic 

8 disruption does not include any lawful economic dis9 ruption that results from lawful public, govern10 mental, or animal enterprise reaction to the disclo11 sure of information about an animal enterprise;’’. 

12 (b) COMMUNICATION INTERCEPTION AUTHORITY.—

13 Section 2516(1)(c) of title 18, United States Code, is 

14 amended by inserting before ‘‘section 201 (bribery of pub15 lic officials and witnesses)’’ the following: ‘‘section 43 (ani16 mal enterprise terrorism),’’.

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