Title: Expanded Stalking Protections Act of 2019
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Expanded Stalking Protections Act of 2019
This bill broadens the scope of conduct that constitutes a federal stalking offense.
Specifically, it expands stalking to include conduct that causes a person's friend or co-worker to experience a reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 915 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 915

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to extend the coverage of the 
Federal prohibition against stalking in order to provide protection to 
            friends and co-workers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2019

   Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. DelBene, Mrs. 
Dingell, Miss Gonzalez-Colon of Puerto Rico, Mr. Hastings, Ms. Jackson 
 Lee, Mr. Keating, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Kilmer, Ms. 
   Kuster of New Hampshire, Mr. McNerney, Mr. Meeks, Ms. Moore, Ms. 
 Norton, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Suozzi, Ms. Wasserman 
  Schultz, and Ms. Wilson of Florida) 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 extend the coverage of the 
Federal prohibition against stalking in order to provide protection to 
            friends and co-workers, 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 ``Expanded Stalking Protections Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. STALKING.

    (a) In General.--Section 2261A of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``Whoever'' and inserting ``(a) In 
        General.--Whoever'';
            (2) in paragraph (1)(A)(ii), by striking ``or'';
            (3) in paragraph (1)(A)(iii), by striking ``or'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (4) by adding at the end of paragraph (1)(A) the following:
                            ``(iv) a friend of that person; or
                            ``(v) a co-worker of that person; or''; and
            (5) by adding at the end of the following:
    ``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Co-worker.--The term `co-worker' means a person with 
        whom one has a work relationship, without regard to any 
        hierarchy within the organization.
            ``(2) Friend.--The term `friend' means a person with whom 
        one has a bond of mutual affection, exclusive of intimate or 
        family relations.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 2261A, as amended by subsection 
(a), is further amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ``or (iii)'' and 
        inserting ``(iii), (iv), or (v)'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ``or (iii)'' and 
        inserting ``(iii), (iv), or (v)''; and
            (3) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ``or (iii)'' and 
        inserting ``(iii), (iv), or (v)''.
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