Patrick Underwood Federal Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2023

Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement, Assault and harassment offenses, Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation, Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management, Violent crime

Summary:  <p><strong></strong><b>Patrick Underwood Federal Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2023 </b></p> <p>This bill revises the federal criminal statute that prohibits assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain federal officers or employees.</p> <p>Among other changes, the bill increases the applicable penalties for such offenses.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 36 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 36

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase certain penalties 
 for assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2023

    Mr. Arrington (for himself, Mr. Estes, and Mr. Bishop of North 
  Carolina) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase certain penalties 
 for assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees.

    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 ``Patrick Underwood Federal Law 
Enforcement Protection Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. ASSAULTING, RESISTING, OR IMPEDING CERTAIN OFFICERS OR 
              EMPLOYEES.

    Section 111 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows:
``Sec. 111. Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or 
              employees
    ``(a) In General.--Whoever knowingly--
            ``(1) forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, 
        intimidates, or interferes while performing official duties,
            ``(2) makes physical contact with or has the intent to 
        commit another felony while acting under paragraph (1), or
            ``(3) uses a deadly or dangerous weapon against (including 
        a weapon intended to cause death or danger but that fails to do 
        so by reason of a defective component) or inflicts bodily 
        injury while acting under paragraph (1),
any officer or employee of the United States or of any agency in any 
branch of the United States Government (including any member of the 
uniformed services) while engaged in or on account of the performance 
of official duties, or any person who formerly served as a person 
defined above on account of the performance of official duties during 
such person's term of service shall be punished as provided in 
subsection (b).
    ``(b) Punishment.--A violation of subsection (a) shall be punished 
as follows:
            ``(1) For a violation of paragraph (1) of such subsection, 
        by a fine under this title of not less than $1,000 or by 
        imprisonment for not more than 1 year, or both.
            ``(2) For a violation of paragraph (2) of such subsection, 
        by a fine under this title of not less than $2,500 or by 
        imprisonment for not more than 10 years, or both.
            ``(3) For a violation of paragraph (3) of such subsection, 
        by a fine under this title of not less than $10,000 or by 
        mandatory imprisonment, or both.''.
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