Title: No RIOT Act of 2020
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
No Reward for Inciting Organized Turmoil Act of 2020 or the No RIOT Act of 2020
This bill establishes enhanced criminal penalties for assaulting a federal, state, or local law enforcement officer while engaging in a riot. The bill also (1) specifies that the criminal offenses related to rioting include the use of the internet (including email and social media) with the intent to riot or commit related offenses (e.g., inciting a riot), and (2) revises the definition of racketeering activity to include crimes related to riots or destruction of veterans' memorials.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7503 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7503

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide enhanced penalties 
for assaulting a law enforcement officer while engaging in a riot, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 9, 2020

 Mr. Bishop of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. Norman, Mr. Budd, Mr. 
Gaetz, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Gibbs, and Mr. Brooks of Alabama) 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 provide enhanced penalties 
for assaulting a law enforcement officer while engaging in a riot, and 
                          for other purposes.

    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 ``No Reward for Inciting Organized 
Turmoil Act of 2020'' or the ``No RIOT Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. ASSAULTING A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER WHILE ENGAGING IN A RIOT.

    Section 2101 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting after ``radio,'' the 
        following: ``the internet (including, but not limited to, email 
        and social media),'';
            (2) in subsection (b), by inserting after ``radio,'' the 
        following: ``the internet (including, but not limited to, email 
        and social media),''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Whoever forcibly assaults a Federal, State, or local law 
enforcement officer in the course of an offense under this section 
shall be, in addition to any term of imprisonment imposed under 
subsection (a)--
            ``(1) where the acts in violation of this subsection 
        constitute only simple assault, be imprisoned not more than one 
        year;
            ``(2) where such acts involve physical contact with the 
        victim of that assault, be imprisoned not more than 8 years, or 
        both;
            ``(3) where such acts involve the use of a deadly or 
        dangerous weapon (including a weapon intended to cause death or 
        danger but that fails to do so by reason of a defective 
        component) or inflict bodily injury, shall be fined under this 
        title or imprisoned not more than 20 years; or
            ``(4) where such acts cause death--
                    ``(A) in the case of murder, as provided under 
                section 1111; or
                    ``(B) in the case of manslaughter, as provided 
                under section 1112.''.

SEC. 3. RACKETEERING ACTIVITY.

    Section 1961(1)(B) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting after ``section 831 (relating to nuclear materials),'' the 
following: ``, section 2101 (relating to riots), section 1369 (relating 
to destruction of veterans' memorials),''.
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