A bill to increase the maximum penalties for assaulting Federal officers by 50 percent.

Bill: 117-s-2260
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]
Introduced: 2021-06-24
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Latest action: action_date: 2021-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-06-24
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill increases the statutory maximum penalties for the following criminal offenses:</p> <ul> <li> assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain federal officers or employees using a deadly or dangerous weapon or by inflicting bodily injury; </li> <li>assaulting a family member of certain federal officials to retaliate against or to impede, intimidate, or interfere with the federal official; and </li> <li>assaulting certain former federal officials or their family members to retaliate against the former federal official. </li> </ul>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2260 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 24, 2021 Mr. Hawley introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To increase the maximum penalties for assaulting Federal officers by 50 percent.

1. Protecting law enforcement officers in the line of duty Chapter 7 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) in section 111(b), by striking 20 years and inserting 30 years ; and (2) in section 115(b)(1)(B)— (A) in clause (i), by striking 1 year and inserting 18 months ; (B) in clause (ii), by striking 10 years and inserting 15 years ; (C) in clause (iii), by striking 20 years and inserting 30 years ; and (D) in clause (iv), by striking 30 years and inserting 45 years .