I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3147 
To provide additional tools and tough penalties to fight terrorism and protect 
America’s national security. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 24, 2007 
Mrs. WILSON of New Mexico introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To provide additional tools and tough penalties to fight 
terrorism and protect America’s national security. 
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 ‘‘Counter-Terrorism and 
National Security Act of 2007’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT TO FACILITATE, 
REWARD, OR ENCOURAGE ACTS OF TER-
RORISM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 113B of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘§ 2339E. Providing material support to facilitate, re-
ward, or encourage acts of terrorism 
‘‘(a) PROHIBITION.—Whoever, in a circumstance pro-
vided in subsection (b) provides, or attempts or conspires 
or agrees to provide, material support or resources to the 
perpetrator of an act of international terrorism, to a fam-
ily member of such perpetrator, or to any other person, 
with the intent to facilitate, reward, or encourage that act 
or other acts of international terrorism, shall be fined 
under this title or imprisoned not more than 15 years, or 
both, and, if death results, shall be imprisoned for any 
term of years or for life. 
‘‘(b) JURISDICTIONAL BASES.—A circumstance re-
ferred to in subsection (a) is— 
‘‘(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-
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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; 
‘‘(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; 
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‘‘(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 
(including any of its States, districts, common-
wealths, territories, or possessions). 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
‘‘(1) the term ‘material support or resources’ 
has the same meaning as in section 2339A(b) of this 
title; 
‘‘(2) the term ‘the perpetrator of an act’ in-
cludes— 
‘‘(A) any person who commits the act; 
‘‘(B) any person who aids, abets, counsels, 
commands, induces, or procures its commission; 
and 
‘‘(C) any person who attempts, plans, or 
conspires to commit the act; 
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‘‘(3) the term ‘international terrorism’ has the 
same meaning as in section 2331 of this title; 
‘‘(4) the term ‘facility of interstate or foreign 
commerce’ has the same meaning as in section 
1958(b)(2) of this title; 
‘‘(5) the term ‘serious bodily injury’ has the 
same meaning as in section 1365 of this title; and 
‘‘(6) the term ‘national of the United States’ 
has the same meaning as in section 101(a)(22) of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1101(a)(22)).’’. 
(b) CHAPTER ANALYSIS.—The chapter analysis 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 facilitate, reward, or encourage acts of 
terrorism.’’. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—Section 2332b(g)(5)(B)(i) of title 
18, United States Code is amended by striking all fol-
lowing ‘‘2339C’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘(relating to 
financing of terrorism), 2339E (relating to providing ma-
terial support to facilitate, reward, or encourage acts of 
terrorism), or 2340A (relating to torture) of this title;’’. 
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SEC. 3. PROHIBITING ATTEMPTS AND CONSPIRACIES TO 
OBTAIN MILITARY-TYPE TRAINING FROM A 
FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. 
Section 2339D(a) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting ‘‘, or attempts or conspires to do 
so,’’ after ‘‘foreign terrorist organization’’. 
SEC. 4. KIDNAPPING AND RAPE OVERSEAS. 
Section 2332 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by— 
(1) redesignating the subsections (c) and (d) as 
subsections (d) and (e), respectively; 
(2) inserting the following new subsection (c): 
‘‘(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 fined under 
this title, punished by imprisonment for any term of years 
or for life, or both, and if the death of any person results, 
shall be fined under this title, punished by death or impris-
onment for any term of years or for life, or both.’’; and 
(3) in subsection (d) (as redesignated), by— 
(A) inserting ‘‘(as defined in section 1365 
of this title, including any conduct that, if the 
conduct occurred in the special maritime and 
territorial jurisdiction of the United States, 
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would violate section 2241 or 2242 of this 
title)’’ after ‘‘injury’’ in paragraphs (1) and (2); 
and 
(B) striking ‘‘ten’’ and inserting ‘‘25’’. 
SEC. 5. HOSTAGE TAKING. 
Section 1203 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘§ 1203. Hostage taking 
‘‘(a) Whoever, whether inside or outside the United 
States, seizes or detains and threatens to kill, to injure, 
or to continue to detain without lawful authority— 
‘‘(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 such officer or employee is 
engaged in or on account of the performance of offi-
cial duties, or any person assisting such an officer 
or employee in the performance of such duties or on 
account of that assistance, or whoever attempts or 
conspires to do so; or 
‘‘(2) except as provided in subsection (b) of this 
section, another person in order to compel a third 
person or a governmental organization to do or ab-
stain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit 
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condition for the release of the person detained, or 
whoever attempts or conspires to do so, 
shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years 
or for life and, if the death of any person results, shall 
be punished by death or life imprisonment. 
‘‘(b)(1) It is not an offense under subsection (a)(2) 
if the conduct required for the offense occurred outside 
the United States unless— 
‘‘(A) the offender or the person seized or de-
tained is a national of the United States; 
‘‘(B) the offender is found in the United States; 
or 
‘‘(C) the governmental organization sought to 
be compelled is the Government of the United 
States. 
‘‘(2) It is not an offense under subsection (a)(2) if 
the conduct required for the offense occurred inside the 
United States, each alleged offender and each person 
seized or detained are nationals of the United States, and 
each alleged offender is found in the United States, unless 
the governmental organization sought to be compelled is 
the Government of the United States. 
‘‘(c) As used in this section, the term ‘national of the 
United States’ has the meaning given such term in section 
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101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1101(a)(22)).’’. 
SEC. 6. INTERFERENCE WITH FLIGHT CREW OR THREAT TO 
SAFETY OF AIRCRAFT. 
Section 46504 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by— 
(1) amending the heading for such section to 
read as follows: ‘‘Interference with flight crew or 
threat to safety of aircraft.’’; and 
(2) designating the existing language as sub-
section (a), and adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) An individual on an aircraft in the special air-
craft jurisdiction of the United States who knowingly or 
recklessly takes any action that poses a serious threat to 
the safety of the aircraft or other individuals on the air-
craft, shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not 
more than 10 years, or both.’’. 
SEC. 7. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR PROVIDING MATERIAL 
SUPPORT TO TERRORISTS. 
Section 2339D of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘or imprisoned for ten years, or 
both.’’ and inserting ‘‘and imprisoned for not less than 
3 years and not more than 15 years.’’. 
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