Title: Domestic Terrorism Penalties Act of 2019
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Domestic Terrorism Penalties Act of 2019
This bill addresses domestic terrorism by establishing criminal penalties for murder, assault, and other specified crimes when they are committed with the intent to (1) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; or (2) influence, affect, or retaliate against the conduct or policy of a government.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4187 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4187

    To penalize acts of domestic terrorism, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 13, 2019

    Mr. Weber of Texas (for himself and Mr. McCaul) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To penalize acts of domestic terrorism, 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 ``Domestic Terrorism Penalties Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. DOMESTIC TERRORISM.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 113B of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 2339E. Domestic terrorism
    ``(a) Offenses and Penalties.--Whoever, with respect to a 
circumstance described in subsection (b), and with the intent to 
intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence, affect, or 
retaliate against the policy or conduct of a government--
            ``(1) kills any person, shall be sentenced to death or 
        imprisonment of not more than a term of life imprisonment, 
        fined under this title, or both;
            ``(2) kidnaps any person, shall be imprisoned not more than 
        a term of life imprisonment, fined under this title, or both;
            ``(3) assaults any person with a deadly weapon, shall be 
        imprisoned not more than 30 years, fined under this title, or 
        both;
            ``(4) assaults any person, and serious bodily injury 
        results therefrom, shall be imprisoned not more than 30 years, 
        fined under this title, or both;
            ``(5) destroys or damages any structure, conveyance, or 
        other real or personal property, shall be imprisoned not more 
        than 25 years, fined under this title, or both; or
            ``(6) attempts or conspires to commit an offense described 
        under paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) of this subsection, 
        shall be punished in the same manner as a completed act of such 
        offense.
    ``(b) Circumstance Described.--A circumstance described in this 
subsection is, with respect to an offense under subsection (a), that 
the offense is committed--
            ``(1) against any person or property within the United 
        States, and--
                    ``(A) the mail or any facility of interstate or 
                foreign commerce is used in furtherance of the offense;
                    ``(B) such property is used in interstate or 
                foreign commerce or in an activity that affects 
                interstate or foreign commerce;
                    ``(C) any perpetrator travels in or causes another 
                to travel in interstate or foreign commerce in 
                furtherance of the offense; or
                    ``(D) the offense, or the results of the offense, 
                affect interstate or foreign commerce, or, in the case 
                of a threat, attempt, or conspiracy, would have 
                affected interstate or foreign commerce;
            ``(2) against any property that is owned, leased, or used 
        by the United States or by any department or agency of the 
        United States, whether the property is within or outside of the 
        United States; or
            ``(3) against any property within the United States that is 
        owned, leased, or used by a foreign government.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for such chapter is 
amended by adding after the item relating to section 2339D the 
following:

``2339E. Domestic terrorism.''.
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