Prevention of Terrorist Access to Destructive Weapons Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5118
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2004-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Antiaircraft missiles
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms sales
Aviation safety
Biological warfare
Capital punishment
Commerce
EBB Terrorism
Explosives
Export controls
Extraterritoriality
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Genetic engineering
Health
International Affairs
Interstate commerce
Jurisdiction
Launch vehicles
Law
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Money laundering
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Rockets (Ordnance)
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Smallpox
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Virus diseases
Wiretapping

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: 
Prevention of Terrorist Access to Destructive Weapons Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly producing, acquiring, transferring, possessing, using, or threatening to use: (1) an explosive or incendiary rocket designed as a weapon to seek an aircraft; (2) any device to launch or guide such rocket; (3) parts designed for use in assembling or fabricating such a rocket or device; (4) any weapon designed or intended to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life; (5) any object capable of and designed or intended to endanger human life; or (6) the variola virus. (Makes exceptions for specified governmental conduct.)
 
Amends the Atomic Energy Act to expand the scope of provisions governing atomic weapons to prohibit transferring or receiving in interstate or foreign commerce, using, or possessing and threatening to use an atomic weapon.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) when such prohibited conduct shall be considered to have occurred within the jurisdiction of the United States; and (2) applicable criminal penalties, including the death penalty.
 
Expands the scope of Arms Export Control Act licensing provisions and Federal criminal code provisions regarding interception of communications, acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, and money laundering to cover offenses under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Introduced in House