Title: BRICKS Act of 2021
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Blocking Rioters and Insurrectionists from our Cities to Keep us Safe Act of 2021 or the BRICKS Act of 2021
This bill increases criminal penalties for rioting and related offenses (e.g., inciting a riot).
First, the bill increases from 5 to 10 years the statutory maximum prison term for a rioting offense.
Second, it establishes higher statutory maximum penalties for rioting offenses that involve certain aggravating characteristics. Specifically, it provides

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 33 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 33

 To amend title 18, United States Code, by increasing the maximum term 
  of imprisonment for the offense of rioting, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 22, 2021

  Mr. Cotton introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 18, United States Code, by increasing the maximum term 
  of imprisonment for the offense of rioting, 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 ``Blocking Rioters and 
Insurrectionists from our Cities to Keep us Safe Act of 2021'' or as 
the ``BRICKS Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. MAXIMUM PENALTY FOR RIOTING INCREASED.

    Section 2101 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or 
                (D) of this paragraph'' and inserting ``paragraph (1), 
                (2), (3), or (4) of this subsection'';
                    (B) by striking ``five years'' and inserting ``10 
                years''; and
                    (C) by inserting after ``or both.'' the following: 
                ``If serious bodily injury (as such term is defined in 
                section 2246) results from the acts committed in 
                violation of this section or if such acts include the 
                use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous 
                weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this 
                title or imprisoned not more than 25 years, or both. If 
                death results from the acts committed in violation of 
                this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an 
                attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an 
                attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an 
                attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or 
                imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or 
                both.''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``subparagraph (A), (B), 
        (C), or (D) of paragraph (1)'' and inserting ``paragraph (1), 
        (2), (3), or (4)''.
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