Title: To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase certain penalties for assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
This bill increases certain criminal penalties for assaulting, resisting, or otherwise interfering with a federal officer or employee who is performing official duties.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8030 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8030

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase certain penalties 
 for assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 14, 2020

Mr. Arrington (for himself, Mr. Banks, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Babin, Mr. Roy, 
   Mr. Cook, Mr. Long, Mrs. Hartzler, and Mr. Estes) 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 increase certain penalties 
 for assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees, 
                        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. ASSAULTING, RESISTING, OR IMPEDING CERTAIN OFFICERS OR 
              EMPLOYEES.

    Section 111 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows:
``Sec. 111. Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or 
              employees
    ``(a) In General.--Whoever knowingly--
            ``(1) forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, 
        intimidates, or interferes while performing official duties,
            ``(2) makes physical contact with or has the intent to 
        commit another felony while acting under paragraph (1), or
            ``(3) uses a deadly or dangerous weapon against (including 
        a weapon intended to cause death or danger but that fails to do 
        so by reason of a defective component) or inflicts bodily 
        injury while acting under paragraph (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 engaged in or on account of the performance 
of official duties, or any person who formerly served as a person 
defined above on account of the performance of official duties during 
such person's term of service shall be punished as provided in 
subsection (b).
    ``(b) Punishment.--A violation of subsection (a) shall be punished 
as follows:
            ``(1) For a violation of paragraph (1) of such subsection, 
        by a fine under this title of not less than $1,000 or by 
        imprisonment for not more than 1 year, or both.
            ``(2) For a violation of paragraph (2) of such subsection, 
        by a fine under this title of not less than $2,500 or by 
        imprisonment for not more than 10 years, or both.
            ``(3) For a violation of paragraph (3) of such subsection, 
        by a fine under this title of not less than $10,000 or by 
        mandatory imprisonment, or both.''.
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