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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1710
To combat terrorism.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 25, 1995
Mr. HYDE (for himself, Mr. MCCOLLUM, Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. GEKAS,
Mr. CANADY of Florida, Mr. HOKE, and Mr. BONO) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To combat terrorism.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Comprehensive
Antiterrorism Act of 1995’’.
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
TITLE I—NEW OFFENSES
Sec. 101. Protection of Federal employees.
Sec. 102. Providing financial support to terrorist organizations.
Sec. 103. Modification of material support provision.
Sec. 104. Acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries.
Sec. 105. Conspiracy to harm people and property overseas.
Sec. 106. Clarification and extension of criminal jurisdiction over certain terror-
ism offenses overseas.
Sec. 107. Expansion and modification of weapons of mass destruction statute.
Sec. 108. Addition of terrorism offenses to the money laundering statute.
Sec. 109. Expansion of Federal jurisdiction over bomb threats.
Sec. 110. Clarification of maritime violence jurisdiction.
Sec. 111. Possession of stolen explosives prohibited.
TITLE II—INCREASED PENALTIES
Sec. 201. Mandatory minimum for certain explosives offenses.
Sec. 202. Increased penalty for explosive conspiracies.
Sec. 203. Increased and alternate conspiracy penalties for terrorism offenses.
Sec. 204. Mandatory penalty for transferring a firearm knowing that it will be
used to commit a crime of violence.
Sec. 205. Mandatory penalty for transferring an explosive material knowing
that it will be used to commit a crime of violence.
Sec. 206. Directions to sentencing commission.
TITLE III—INVESTIGATIVE TOOLS
Sec. 301. Interceptions of communications.
Sec. 302. Pen registers and trap and trace devices in foreign counterintelligence
investigations.
Sec. 303. Disclosure of information and consumer reports to Federal Bureau
of Investigation for foreign counterintelligence purposes.
Sec. 304. Access to records of common carriers, public accommodation facili-
ties, physical storage facilities and vehicle rental facilities in
foreign counterintelligence and counterterrorism cases.
Sec. 305. Study of tagging explosive materials, rendering explosive components
inert, and imposing controls of precursors of explosives.
Sec. 306. Limitation of statutory exclusionary rule concerning intercepted wire
or oral communications.
Sec. 307. Authority for wiretaps in any terrorism-related or explosives felony.
Sec. 308. Temporary emergency wiretap authority involving terroristic crimes.
Sec. 309. Expanded authority for multi-point wiretaps.
Sec. 310. Enhanced access to telephone billing records.
Sec. 311. Requirement to preserve evidence.
Sec. 312. Military assistance with respect to offenses involving weapons of mass
destruction.
Sec. 313. Detention hearing.
Sec. 314. Reward authority of the Attorney General.
Sec. 315. Definition of terrorism.
TITLE IV—NUCLEAR MATERIALS
Sec. 401. Expansion of nuclear materials prohibitions.
TITLE V—CONVENTION ON THE MARKING OF PLASTIC
EXPLOSIVES
Sec. 501. Definitions.
Sec. 502. Requirement of detection agents for plastic explosives.
Sec. 503. Criminal sanctions.
Sec. 504. Exceptions.
Sec. 505. Investigative authority.
Sec. 506. Effective date.
TITLE VI—IMMIGRATION-RELATED PROVISIONS
Subtitle A—Removal of Alien Terrorists
PART 1—REMOVAL PROCEDURES FOR ALIEN TERRORISTS
Sec. 601. Removal procedures for alien terrorists.
Sec. 602. Funding for detention and deportation of alien terrorists.
PART 2—EXCLUSION AND DENIAL OF ASYLUM FOR ALIEN TERRORISTS
Sec. 611. Membership in terrorist organization as ground for exclusion.
Sec. 612. Denial of asylum to alien terrorists.
Sec. 613. Denial of other relief for alien terrorists.
Subtitle B—Expedited Exclusion
Sec. 621. Inspection and exclusion by immigration officers.
Sec. 622. Judicial review.
Sec. 623. Exclusion of aliens who have not been inspected and admitted.
Subtitle C—Improved Information and Processing
PART 1—IMMIGRATION PROCEDURES
Sec. 631. Access to certain confidential INS files through court order.
Sec. 632. Waiver authority concerning notice of denial of application for visas.
PART 2—ASSET FORFEITURE FOR PASSPORT AND VISA OFFENSES
Sec. 641. Criminal forfeiture for passport and visa related offenses.
Sec. 642. Subpoenas for bank records.
Sec. 643. Effective date.
TITLE VII—FUNDING
Sec. 701. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 702. Civil monetary penalty surcharge and telecommunications carrier
compliance payments.
TITLE I—NEW OFFENSES
SEC. 101. PROTECTION OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.
(a) HOMICIDE.—Section 1114 of title 18, United
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘§ 1114. Protection of officers and employees of the
United States
‘‘Whoever kills or attempts to kill any officer or em-
ployee of the United States or of any agency in any branch
of the United States Government (including any member
of the uniformed services) while such officer or employee
is engaged in or on account of the performance of official
duties, or any person assisting such an officer or employee
in the performance of such duties or on account of that
assistance, shall be punished, in the case of murder, as
provided under section 1111, or in the case of man-
slaughter, as provided under section 1112, except that any
such person who is found guilty of attempted murder shall
be imprisoned for not more than 20 years.’’.
(b) THREATS AGAINST FORMER OFFICERS AND EM-
PLOYEES.—Section 115(a)(2) of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘, or threatens to assault,
kidnap, or murder, any person who formerly served as a
person designated in paragraph (1), or’’ after ‘‘assaults,
kidnaps, or murders, or attempts to kidnap or murder’’.
SEC. 102. PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO TERRORIST
ORGANIZATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—That chapter 113B of title 18,
United States Code, that relates to terrorism is amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘§ 2339B. Providing financial support to terrorist or-
ganizations
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—Whoever, within the United States,
knowingly provides material support or resources in or af-
fecting interstate or foreign commerce, to any organiza-
tion 
designated 
by 
the 
President 
under 
section
212(a)(3)(B)(iv) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
as a terrorist organization shall be fined under this title
or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
‘‘(b) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term
‘material support or resources’ has the meaning given that
term in section 2339A of this title.’’.
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections
at the beginning of chapter 113B of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing new item:
‘‘2339B. Providing financial support to terrorist organizations.’’.
SEC. 103. MODIFICATION OF MATERIAL SUPPORT PROVI-
SION.
Section 2339A of title 18, United States Code, is
amended read as follows:
‘‘§ 2339A. Providing material support to terrorists
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—Whoever, within the United States,
provides material support or resources or conceals or dis-
guises the nature, location, source, or ownership of mate-
rial support or resources, knowing or intending that they
are to be used in preparation for or in carrying out, a
violation of section 32, 37, 351, 844(f) or (i), 956, 1114,
1116, 1203, 1361, 1363, 1751, 2280, 2281, 2332, 2332a,
or 2332b of this title or section 46502 of title 49, or in
preparation for or in carrying out the concealment or an
escape from the commission of any such violation, shall
be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than ten
years, or both.’’.
‘‘(b) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘mate-
rial support or resources’ means currency or other finan-
cial securities, financial services, lodging, training,
safehouses, false documentation or identification, commu-
nications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances,
explosives, personnel, transportation, and other physical
assets.’’.
SEC. 104. ACTS OF TERRORISM TRANSCENDING NATIONAL
BOUNDARIES.
(a) OFFENSE.—Title 18, United States Code, is
amended by inserting after section 2332a the following:
‘‘§ 2332b. Acts of terrorism transcending national
boundaries
‘‘(a) PROHIBITED ACTS.—
‘‘(1) Whoever, involving any conduct transcend-
ing national boundaries and in a circumstance de-
scribed in subsection (b)—
‘‘(A) kills, kidnaps, maims, commits an as-
sault resulting in serious bodily injury, or as-
saults with a dangerous weapon any individual
within the United States; or
or maiming if committed in the special maritime and terri-
torial jurisdiction of the United States shall, if any of the
conspirators commits an act within the jurisdiction of the
United States to effect any object of the conspiracy, be
punished as provided in subsection (a)(2).
‘‘(2) The punishment for an offense under subsection
(a)(1) of this section is—
‘‘(A) imprisonment for any term of years or for
life if the offense is conspiracy to murder or kidnap;
and
‘‘(B) imprisonment for not more than 35 years
if the offense is conspiracy to maim.
‘‘(b) Whoever, within the jurisdiction of the United
States, conspires with one or more persons, regardless of
where such other person or persons are located, to damage
or destroy specific property situated within a foreign coun-
try and belonging to a foreign government or to any politi-
cal subdivision thereof with which the United States is at
peace, or any railroad, canal, bridge, airport, airfield, or
other public utility, public conveyance, or public structure,
or any religious, educational, or cultural property so situ-
ated, shall, if any of the conspirators commits an act with-
in the jurisdiction of the United States to effect any object
of the conspiracy, be imprisoned not more than 25 years.’’.