I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2376 
To prohibit the rewarding of suicide bombings, to prohibit terrorist 
kidnappings and sexual assaults, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 17, 2007 
Mr. FRANKS of Arizona introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To prohibit the rewarding of suicide bombings, to prohibit 
terrorist kidnappings and sexual assaults, and for other 
purposes. 
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 ‘‘Terrorism Prevention 
and Deterrence Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. PREVENTION AND DETERRENCE OF TERRORIST 
SUICIDE BOMBINGS. 
(a) OFFENSE
OF REWARDING
OR FACILITATING 
INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 113B of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘§ 2339E. Providing material support to international 
terrorism 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘facility of interstate or foreign 
commerce’ has the same meaning as in section 
1958(b)(2). 
‘‘(2) The term ‘international terrorism’ has the 
same meaning as in section 2331. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘material support or resources’ 
has the same meaning as in section 2339A(b). 
‘‘(4) The term ‘perpetrator of an act’ includes 
any person who— 
‘‘(A) commits the act; 
‘‘(B) aids, abets, counsels, commands, in-
duces, or procures its commission; or 
‘‘(C) attempts, plots, or conspires to com-
mit the act. 
‘‘(5) The term ‘serious bodily injury’ has the 
same meaning as in section 1365. 
‘‘(b) PROHIBITION.—Whoever, in a circumstance de-
scribed in subsection (c), provides, or attempts or con-
spires to provide, material support or resources to the per-
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petrator of an act of international terrorism, or to a family 
member or other person associated with such perpetrator, 
with the intent to facilitate, reward, or encourage that act 
or other acts of international terrorism, shall be fined 
under this title, imprisoned not more than 25 years, or 
both, and, if death results, shall be imprisoned for any 
term of years or for life. 
‘‘(c) JURISDICTIONAL BASES.—A circumstance re-
ferred to in subsection (b) is that— 
‘‘(1) the offense occurs in or affects interstate 
or foreign commerce; 
‘‘(2) the offense involves the use of the mails or 
a facility of interstate or foreign commerce; 
‘‘(3) an offender intends to facilitate, reward, or 
encourage an act of international terrorism that af-
fects interstate or foreign commerce or would have 
affected interstate or foreign commerce had it been 
consummated; 
‘‘(4) an offender intends to facilitate, reward, or 
encourage an act of international terrorism that vio-
lates the criminal laws of the United States; 
‘‘(5) an offender intends to facilitate, reward, or 
encourage an act of international terrorism that is 
designed to influence the policy or affect the conduct 
of the United States Government; 
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‘‘(6) an offender intends to facilitate, reward, or 
encourage an act of international terrorism that oc-
curs in part within the United States and is de-
signed to influence the policy or affect the conduct 
of a foreign government; 
‘‘(7) an offender intends to facilitate, reward, or 
encourage an act of international terrorism that 
causes or is designed to cause death or serious bod-
ily injury to a national of the United States while 
that national is outside the United States, or sub-
stantial damage to the property of a legal entity or-
ganized under the laws of the United States (includ-
ing any of its States, districts, commonwealths, ter-
ritories, or possessions) while that property is out-
side of the United States; 
‘‘(8) the offense occurs in whole or in part with-
in the United States, and an offender intends to fa-
cilitate, reward or encourage an act of international 
terrorism that is designed to influence the policy or 
affect the conduct of a foreign government; or 
‘‘(9) the offense occurs in whole or in part out-
side of the United States, and an offender is a na-
tional of the United States, a stateless person whose 
habitual residence is in the United States, or a legal 
entity organized under the laws of the United States 
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(including any of its States, districts, common-
wealths, territories, or possessions).’’. 
(2) TECHNICAL
AND
CONFORMING
AMEND-
MENTS.— 
(A) TABLE OF SECTIONS.—The table of 
sections for chapter 113B of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘2339D. Receiving military-type training from a foreign terrorist organization. 
‘‘2339E. Providing material support to international terrorism.’’. 
(B) 
OTHER
AMENDMENT.—Section 
2332b(g)(5)(B)(i) of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘2339E (relating 
to providing material support to international 
terrorism),’’ before ‘‘or 2340A (relating to tor-
ture)’’. 
(b) INCREASED PENALTIES FOR PROVIDING MATE-
RIAL SUPPORT TO TERRORISTS.— 
(1) PROVIDING
MATERIAL
SUPPORT
TO
DES-
IGNATED
FOREIGN
TERRORIST
ORGANIZATIONS.— 
Section 2339B(a) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘15 years’’ and inserting ‘‘25 
years’’. 
(2) PROVIDING
MATERIAL
SUPPORT
OR
RE-
SOURCES IN AID OF A TERRORIST CRIME.—Section 
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2339A(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘15 years’’ and inserting ‘‘40 years’’. 
(3) RECEIVING MILITARY-TYPE TRAINING FROM 
A
FOREIGN
TERRORIST
ORGANIZATION.—Section 
2339D(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘ten years’’ and inserting ‘‘15 years’’. 
(4) ADDITION
OF
ATTEMPTS
AND
CONSPIR-
ACIES
TO
AN
OFFENSE
RELATING
TO
MILITARY 
TRAINING.—Section 2339D(a) of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘, or attempts 
or conspires to receive,’’ after ‘‘receives’’. 
SEC. 3. TERRORIST MURDERS, KIDNAPPINGS, AND AS-
SAULTS. 
(a) PENALTIES FOR TERRORIST MURDER AND MAN-
SLAUGHTER.—Section 2332(a) of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘fined under 
this title’’ and all that follows and inserting ‘‘pun-
ished as provided under section 1111(b);’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘fined under 
this title’’ and all that follows and inserting ‘‘pun-
ished as provided under section 1112(b); and’’. 
(b) ADDITION OF OFFENSE OF TERRORIST KIDNAP-
PING.—Section 2332 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
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(1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as 
subsections (d) and (e), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(c) KIDNAPPING.—Whoever outside the United 
States unlawfully seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kid-
naps, abducts, or carries away, or attempts or conspires 
to seize, confine, inveigle, decoy, kidnap, abduct or carry 
away, a national of the United States shall be punished 
as provided under section 1201(a).’’. 
(c) ADDITION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT TO DEFINITION 
OF OFFENSE OF TERRORIST ASSAULT.—Section 2332(d) 
of title 18, United States Code, as redesignated by sub-
section (b) of this section, is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘(as defined 
in section 1365, including any conduct that, if the 
conduct occurred in the special maritime and terri-
torial jurisdiction of the United States, would violate 
section 2241 or 2242)’’ after ‘‘injury’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘(as defined 
in section 1365, including any conduct that, if the 
conduct occurred in the special maritime and terri-
torial jurisdiction of the United States, would violate 
section 2241 or 2242)’’ after ‘‘injury’’; and 
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(3) by striking the matter following paragraph 
(2) and inserting the following: 
‘‘shall be punished as provided under section 2242.’’. 
Æ 
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