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SECTION 1. CONVEYANCE OF PROPERTY TO CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
            (1) the Las Vegas Valley in the State of Nevada is the 
        fastest growing community in the United States;
            (2) helicopter tour operations are conflicting with the 
        needs of long-established residential communities in the 
        Valley; and
            (3) the designation of a public heliport in the Valley that 
        would reduce conflicts between helicopter tour operators and 
        residential communities is in the public interest.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to provide a suitable 
location for the establishment of a commercial service heliport 
facility to serve the Las Vegas Valley in the State of Nevada while 
minimizing and mitigating the impact of air tours on the Sloan Canyon 
National Conservation Area and North McCullough Mountains Wilderness.
    (c) Definitions.--In this Act:
            (1) Conservation area.--The term ``Conservation Area'' 
        means the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area established 
        by section 604(a) of the Clark County Conservation of Public 
        Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002 (116 Stat. 2010).
            (2) County.--The term ``County'' means Clark County, 
        Nevada.
            (3) Helicopter tour.--
                    (A) In general.--The term ``helicopter tour'' means 
                a commercial helicopter tour operated for profit.
                    (B) Exclusion.--The term ``helicopter tour'' does 
                not include a helicopter tour that is carried out to 
                assist a Federal, State, or local agency.
            (4) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior.
            (5) Wilderness.--The term ``Wilderness'' means the North 
        McCullough Mountains Wilderness established by section 
        202(a)(13) of the Clark County Conservation of Public Land and 
        Natural Resources Act of 2002 (116 Stat. 2000).
    (d) Conveyance.--As soon as practicable after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary shall convey to the County, subject to valid 
existing rights, for no consideration, all right, title, and interest 
of the United States in and to the parcel of land described in 
subsection (e).
    (e) Description of Land.--The parcel of land to be conveyed under 
subsection (d) is the parcel of approximately 229 acres of land 
depicted as tract A on the map entitled ``Clark County Public Heliport 
Facility'' and dated May 3, 2004.
    (f) Use of Land.--
            (1) In general.--The parcel of land conveyed under 
        subsection (d)--
                    (A) shall be used by the County for the operation 
                of a heliport facility under the conditions stated in 
                paragraphs (2) and (3); and
                    (B) shall not be disposed of by the County.
            (2) Imposition of fees.--
                    (A) In general.--Any operator of a helicopter tour 
                originating from or concluding at the parcel of land 
                described in subsection (e) shall pay to the Clark 
                County Department of Aviation a $3 conservation fee for 
                each passenger on the helicopter tour if any portion of 
                the helicopter tour occurs over the Conservation Area.
                    (B) Disposition of funds.--Any amounts collected 
                under subparagraph (A) shall be deposited in a special 
                account in the Treasury of the United States, which 
                shall be available to the Secretary, without further 
                appropriation, for the management of cultural, 
                wildlife, and wilderness resources on public land in 
                the State of Nevada.
            (3) Flight path.--Except for safety reasons, any helicopter 
        tour originating or concluding at the parcel of land described 
        in subsection (e) that flies over the Conservation Area shall 
        not fly--
                    (A) over any area in the Conservation Area except 
                the area that is between 3 and 5 miles north of the 
                latitude of the southernmost boundary of the 
                Conservation Area;
                    (B) lower than 1,000 feet over the eastern segments 
                of the boundary of the Conservation Area; or
                    (C) lower than 500 feet over the western segments 
                of the boundary of the Conservation Area.
            (4) Reversion.--If the County ceases to use any of the land 
        described in subsection (d) for the purpose described in 
        paragraph (1)(A) and under the conditions stated in paragraphs 
        (2) and (3)--
                    (A) title to the parcel shall revert to the United 
                States, at the option of the United States; and
                    (B) the County shall be responsible for any 
                reclamation necessary to revert the parcel to the 
                United States.
    (g) Administrative Costs.--The Secretary shall require, as a 
condition of the conveyance under subsection (d), that the County pay 
the administrative costs of the conveyance, including survey costs and 
any other costs associated with the transfer of title.

Ex Output:
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey a specified parcel of Federal land to Clark County, Nevada, for operation of a commercial heliport facility. Prohibits the disposal of such conveyed land by the County.

Establishes a conservation fee for, and restricts the flight path of, helicopter tours originating from or concluding at the conveyed land which fly over the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area. Requires collected fees to be deposited into a special account in the Treasury for use by the Secretary for cultural, wildlife, and wilderness resources management on public lands in Nevada.

Provides that title to the conveyed land shall revert to the United States if the County ceases to use the land for the purpose described in this Act. Makes the County responsible for any reclamation necessary for reversion.

Directs the Secretary to require the County to pay the administrative costs of conveying the land.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Environmental Policy Act 
Administrative Reorganization Amendments of 1993''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE OF NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT 
              COMPLIANCE.

    Sections 201, 202, and 204 of title II of the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4331 et seq.) are 
redesignated and amended to read as follows:
    ``Sec. 201. (a) There is established in the Executive Office of the 
President the Office of National Environmental Policy Act Compliance. 
The Office may be referred to as the `Office of NEPA Compliance'.
    ``(b) The head of the Office shall be the Director of the Office of 
National Environmental Policy Act Compliance, who shall be appointed by 
the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The 
compensation of the Director shall be at the rate of compensation 
payable to the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
    ``Sec. 202. (a) The Director shall--
            ``(1) promulgate regulations governing the implementation 
        of this Act by all Federal agencies (including independent 
        regulatory commissions) which include provisions for public 
        review and comment on the detailed statements required by 
        section 102(2)(C) and, as appropriate, on other documents 
        prepared pursuant to this Act;
            ``(2) mediate interagency disputes, including recommending 
        to the President, as appropriate, resolutions of referrals of 
        interagency disagreements under section 203;
            ``(3) monitor Federal agency implementation of this Act and 
        regulations issued under paragraph (1), including--
                    ``(A) reviewing and approving regulations issued by 
                other Federal agencies to implement this Act;
                    ``(B) determining which Federal agency is the lead 
                agency for purposes of compliance with this Act in 
                cases in which Federal agencies do not agree on which 
                is the lead agency;
                    ``(C) developing alternative procedures for 
                complying with this Act in cases in which emergency 
                circumstances make it necessary for a Federal agency to 
                take an action with significant environmental impact;
                    ``(D) developing alternative procedures for 
                complying with this Act, in cases in which a change in 
                a proposed Federal agency action or new information 
                relating to the environmental impacts of such an action 
                makes it necessary to supplement existing analysis 
                under this Act; and
                    ``(E) developing and publishing guidance to Federal 
                agencies regarding implementation of title I and 
                regulations promulgated under paragraph (1); and
            ``(4) perform such other functions related to environmental 
        laws, policies, and programs as the President may specify.
    ``(b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect, alter, or 
limit the independence of independent regulatory commissions under the 
laws establishing such commissions. The policies, practices, and 
interpretations under this Act and the Environmental Quality 
Improvement Act of 1970 and other laws applicable to, or adopted by, 
such commissions or the Council on Environmental Quality before the 
date of the enactment of the National Environmental Policy Act 
Administrative Reorganization Amendments of 1993 shall continue in 
effect to the extent they are consistent with such independence and 
carry out the purposes of such Acts.
    ``(c)(1) The Director, subject to paragraph (2), shall--
            ``(A) review and appraise the various programs and 
        activities of the Federal Government in light of the policy set 
        forth in title I for the purpose of determining the extent to 
        which such programs and activities are contributing to the 
        achievement of such policy and make recommendations to the 
        President with respect thereto;
            ``(B) coordinate or facilitate the development of 
        recommendations to the President regarding national policies to 
        foster and promote the improvement of environmental quality to 
        meet the conservation, social, economic, health, and other 
        requirements and goals of the Nation; and
            ``(C) coordinate or facilitate the development of such 
        studies, reports thereon, and recommendations with respect to 
        matters of policy and legislation, as the President may 
        request.
    ``(2) The President may transfer to another official in the 
Executive Office of the President, by Executive order, any function of 
the Director under this subsection.
    ``(d)(1) The Director, subject to paragraph (2), shall--
            ``(A) assist Federal agencies and departments in appraising 
        the effectiveness of existing and proposed facilities, 
        programs, policies, and activities of the Federal Government, 
        and those specific major projects designated by the President 
        which do not require individual project authorization by the 
        Congress, which affect environmental quality; and
            ``(B) assist in coordinating among Federal departments and 
        agencies those programs and activities which affect, protect, 
        and improve environmental quality.
    ``(2) The President may transfer to another official in the 
Executive Office of the President or to the head of any Federal agency, 
by Executive order, any function of the Director under this subsection.
    ``(e) The Director shall keep the appropriate Committees of the 
Senate and the House of Representatives informed of the actions, 
regulations, policies, and practices of the Office in carrying out the 
functions and other requirements of the Director and the Office under 
this Act (other than functions of the Director transferred in 
accordance with subsection (c)(2) or (d)(2)).
    ``Sec. 203. Referrals of interagency disagreements by the head of 
any Federal agency concerning proposed major Federal actions 
significantly affecting the quality of the human environment under 
section 102(2)(C) or concerning matters under section 309(b) of the 
Clean Air Act shall be made to the Office for mediation and, as 
appropriate, resolution by the President.''.

SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO NEPA.

    Sections 203, 205, 207, and 208 of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969, as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act, 
are redesignated in order as sections 204, 205, 206, and 207, 
respectively; such sections are each amended by striking ``Council'' 
and inserting ``Office'' each place it appears; and section 206 of such 
Act, as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this 
Act, is repealed.

SEC. 4. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL 
              QUALITY IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1970.

    The Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. 4372 
et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 202(c) by--
                    (A) striking ``The purposes'' and all that follows 
                through ``(1) to'' and inserting ``the purpose of this 
                title is to''; and
                    (B) striking ``; and'' and all that follows through 
                the end of the section and inserting a period;
            (2) in section 203, by striking subsections (a) through (d) 
        and the designation for subsection (e);
            (3) by striking sections 204 and 205;
            (4) in section 206(a), by striking ``Office of 
        Environmental Quality Management Fund'' and inserting ``Office 
        of National Environmental Policy Act Compliance Management 
        Fund'';
            (5) by redesignating section 206 as section 204; and
            (6) by adding at the end the following:

                             ``definitions

    ``Sec. 205. In this title, each of the terms `Director' and 
`Office' has the meaning given that term in section 3 of the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969.''.

SEC. 5. ASSISTANCE FOR OFFICE OF NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT 
              COMPLIANCE.

    The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (as amended by 
section 3) is amended by inserting after section 207 the following:
    ``Sec. 208. To assist in the timely performance of the functions of 
the Office, the Director may utilize personnel or otherwise obtain 
assistance from other entities in the Executive Office of the President 
or other Federal agencies, by mutual consent with the heads of those 
entities or agencies, to assist the Director in performing the 
functions of the Office.''.

SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 209 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 is 
amended to read as follows:
    ``Sec. 209. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated to the 
Director to carry out the functions of the Director under this or any 
other Act--
            ``(1) $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1994;
            ``(2) $1,100,000 for fiscal year 1995;
            ``(3) $1,200,000 for fiscal year 1996; and
            ``(4) $1,400,000 for fiscal year 1997.
    ``(b) Amounts appropriated to, or available for the use of, the 
Office or the Director shall remain available until expended.''.

SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS.

    The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 is amended by 
inserting after section 2 (42 U.S.C. 4321) the following:
    ``Sec. 3. In this Act:
            ``(1) The term `Director' means the Director of the Office 
        of National Environmental Policy Act Compliance appointed under 
        section 201(b).
            ``(2) The term `Fund' means the Office of National 
        Environmental Policy Act Compliance Management Fund established 
        by section 204 of the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 
        1970.
            ``(3) The term `Office' means the Office of National 
        Environmental Policy Act Compliance established by section 
        201(a).''.

SEC. 8. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS TO SECRETARY OF THE ENVIRONMENT.

    (a) Transfers.--There are transferred to the Secretary of the 
Environment--
            (1) the functions of the Council on Environmental Quality 
        under paragraphs (2), (5), (6), and (7) of section 204 of the 
        National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as in effect on the 
        day before the date of the enactment of this Act; and
            (2) the functions of the Chairman of the Council on 
        Environmental Quality (as Director of the Office of 
        Environmental Quality) under paragraphs (3), (4), (6), and (7) 
        of section 203(d) of the Environmental Quality Improvement Act 
        of 1970, as in effect on the day before the date of the 
        enactment of this Act.
    (b) Construction.--The functions transferred to the Secretary of 
the Environment by this section or pursuant to any executive order 
issued pursuant to amendments made by this Act shall not be construed 
by anyone to affect, alter, change, or amend any other law or 
regulation administered by the Secretary or his or her delegate.
    (c) Accountability.--The Secretary of the Environment shall be 
accountable to the appropriate committees of the Senate and House of 
Representatives for all functions described in subsection (b).
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary such sums as may be necessary 
specifically to carry out the functions described in subsection (b) 
effectively and in a timely manner.

SEC. 9. TERMINATION OF COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF 
              ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.

    (a) Termination.--The Council on Environmental Quality and the 
Office of Environmental Quality are terminated.
    (b) References.--Reference to the Council on Environmental Quality, 
the Office of Environmental Quality, or any officer or employee of that 
council or that office in any other Federal law, Executive order, rule, 
regulation, or delegation of authority, or in any document of or 
relating to the Council on Environmental Quality--
            (1) with respect to functions that were vested in that 
        council or office on the day before the date of the enactment 
        of this Act and are vested in the Director of the Office of 
        National Environmental Policy Act Compliance Office by section 
        202 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 
        amended by section 2 of this Act, is deemed to refer to the 
        Director of the Office of National Environmental Policy Act 
        Compliance or to such other official to whom such a function is 
        transferred in accordance with section 202(c)(2) or (d)(2) of 
        that Act, as appropriate; or
            (2) with regard to disputes, disagreements, and matters 
        described in sections 202(a)(2) and 203 of that Act, as amended 
        by section 2 of this Act, is deemed to refer to the Director of 
        the Office of National Environmental Policy Act Compliance or 
        to that office, as appropriate.
    (c) Savings Provisions.--
            (1) Continuation of orders, etc.--All orders, 
        determinations, rules, regulations, agreements, grants, 
        contracts, privileges, and other administrative actions--
                    (A) which have been issued, made, granted, or 
                allowed to become effective by the President, the 
                Council on Environmental Quality, or the Office of 
                Environmental Quality, in the performance of functions 
                of the Council on Environmental Quality or the Office 
                of Environmental Quality, or by a court of competent 
                jurisdiction with respect to those functions, and
                    (B) which are in effect on the date of the 
                enactment of this Act, or were final before that date 
                of enactment and are to become effective on or after 
                that date of enactment,
        shall continue in effect according to their terms until 
        modified, terminated, superseded, set aside, or revoked in 
        accordance with law by the President, the Director of the 
        Office of National Environmental Policy Act Compliance, any 
        other authorized official, a court of competent jurisdiction, 
        or operation of law.
            (2) Continuation of proceedings and applications.--The 
        provisions of this Act shall not affect any proceedings pending 
        before the Council on Environmental Quality on the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, but such proceedings shall be continued. 
        Orders shall be issued in such proceedings, appeals shall be 
        taken therefrom, and payments shall be made pursuant to such 
        orders, as if this Act had not been enacted, and orders issued 
        in any such proceedings shall continue in effect until 
        modified, terminated, superseded, or revoked by a duly 
        authorized official, by a court of competent jurisdiction, or 
        by operation of law. Nothing in this paragraph shall be 
        considered to prohibit the discontinuance or modification of 
        any such proceeding under the same terms and conditions and to 
        the same extent that such proceeding could have been 
        discontinued or modified if this Act had not been enacted.
            (3) Suits not affected.--The provisions of this section 
        shall not affect suits commenced before the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, and in all such suits, proceedings shall 
        be had, appeals taken, and judgments rendered in the same 
        manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been 
        enacted.
            (4) Suits involving council or office.--No suit, action, or 
        other proceeding commenced by or against the Council on 
        Environmental Quality or the Office of Environmental Quality, 
        or by or against any individual in the official capacity of 
        such individual as an officer or employee of the Council or 
        that Office, shall abate by reason of the enactment of this 
        Act.
            (5) Rulemaking.--Any administrative action relating to the 
        preparation or promulgation of a regulation by the Council on 
        Environmental Quality shall be continued by the Director of the 
        Office of National Environmental Policy Act Compliance or the 
        President with the same effect as if this Act had not been 
        enacted.
            (6) Assets and interests.--The contracts, liabilities, 
        records, property, and other assets and interests of the 
        Council on Environmental Quality and the Office of 
        Environmental Quality shall, on and after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, be considered to be the contracts, 
        liabilities, records, property, and other assets and interests 
        of the Office of National Environmental Policy Act Compliance.
    (d) Continuing Availability of Amounts.--Amounts available to the 
Council on Environmental Quality on the date of the enactment of this 
Act shall be available for use by the Director of the Office of 
National Environmental Policy Act Compliance.

SEC. 10. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

    The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 
seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 2 (42 U.S.C. 4321)--
                    (A) by inserting ``and'' after ``man;''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Nation;'' and all that follows 
                through the end of the section and inserting 
                ``Nation.'';
            (2) by striking ``Council on Environmental Quality'' each 
        place that term appears and inserting ``Director'';
            (3) in section 102(2)(B) (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(B)) by striking 
        ``established by title II of this Act'';
            (4) in section 102(2)(G) (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(G)) by 
        inserting ``and'' after the semicolon;
            (5) in section 102(2)(H) (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(H)) by striking 
        ``; and'' and inserting a period;
            (6) by striking section 102(2)(I) (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(I));
            (7) in section 205(1) (42 U.S.C. 4345(1)) by striking ``the 
        Citizen's'' and all that follows through ``and with''; and
            (8) in section 205(2) (42 U.S.C. 4345(2)) by striking ``the 
        Council's'' and inserting ``the Office's''.

                                 

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Ex Output:
National Environmental Policy Act Administrative Reorganization Amendments of 1993 - Amends the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (the Act) to replace provisions regarding the Council on Environmental Quality with those establishing an Office of National Environmental Policy (NEPA) Compliance in the Executive Office of the President.  Requires the Office to be headed by a Director appointed by the President. 
Requires the Director to:  (1) promulgate regulations governing the implementation of the Act by all Federal agencies; (2) mediate interagency disputes; (3) monitor Federal agency implementation of the Act and regulations; and (4) perform other functions related to environmental laws, policies, and programs as specified by the President. 
Amends the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970 to remove provisions regarding the Office of Environmental Quality. 
Authorizes appropriations for the Office of NEPA Compliance. 
Transfers certain duties of the Council, including making an annual report on the state of the environment, to the Secretary of the Environment.  Authorizes appropriations. 
Terminates the Council and the Office of Environmental Quality and transfers functions to the Office of NEPA Compliance.  Makes existing Council funds available for the Director.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Freedom to Serve Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) According to article I, section 8 of the United States 
        Constitution, Congress has the power to raise and support 
        armies and to provide and maintain a navy; and to make all laws 
        necessary and proper to carry out these powers.
            (2) The First Amendment states: ``Congress shall make no 
        law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the 
        free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or 
        of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, 
        and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.''.
            (3) According to the United States Supreme Court, the right 
        to peaceable assembly is a right similar to those of free 
        speech and free press and is equally essential. (De Jonge v. 
        Oregon).
            (4) The key word being ``peaceably'', the First Amendment 
        protects peaceful, not violent, assembly and protest.
            (5) The successful recruiting of men and women to serve in 
        the armed services of the United States is fundamental to the 
        security of the American people.
            (6) Serving in the military is highly honorable, and often 
        requires great sacrifice and courage by the men and women of 
        our armed services.
            (7) United States military recruiters have been subject to 
        an escalating number of acts of vandalism and violent protest, 
        including but not limited to:
                    (A) March 2003: Anti-war protestors in Ithaca, NY, 
                target a recruitment center that had been hit before 
                with Molotov cocktails. On St. Patrick's Day, wielding 
                cups of their own blood, they entered a Lansing 
                military recruitment office and splashed their blood 
                over recruiter posters, military cutouts and the 
                American flag.
                    (B) January 20, 2005: At Seattle Central Community 
                College, Army recruiter Sgt. Jeff Due and his colleague 
                Sgt. 1st Class Douglas Washington were hounded by an 
                angry mob of approximately 500 anti-war students. The 
                recruiters' table was destroyed; their handouts, torn 
                apart. Protesters threw water bottles and newspapers at 
                the soldiers. A far-left anti-war group had been 
                agitating to kick the recruiters off campus. The 
                college administration refused to punish the radicals.
                    (C) January 31, 2005: Recruiters in Manhattan 
                reported that a door to their office had been beaten 
                in. Various anti-war symbols were scrawled in red paint 
                on the building. On the same day, New York police 
                arrested a young Manhattan College junior and charged 
                him with throwing a burning rag into an Army recruiting 
                station and ruining the door locks with super glue.
                    (D) February 1, 2005: At a South Toledo, Ohio, 
                recruitment center, protesters hurled manure all over 
                the building. They broke windows and sprayed vulgar 
                graffiti on office property.
                    (E) March 2005: In East Orange, NJ, young anti-
                military protesters shattered the windows of an Army 
                recruitment station and a neighboring Navy office.
                    (F) March/April 2005: Anti-war protestors at New 
                York's Bronx Community College shut down several 
                military recruitment sessions. At UC Santa Cruz, 
                protestors drove recruiters off campus after an hour-
                long demonstration of shouting and window banging.
                    (G) May 2005: Student protestors swarmed the booths 
                of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the USAF at a 
                San Francisco State University career fair. In 
                Wisconsin, an Air Force ROTC information day was 
                canceled due to threats by an anti-war group at the 
                University of Wisconsin-Madison.
                    (H) April 2006: UC Santa Cruz students ambushed 
                military recruiters. Vandals at the University of North 
                Carolina at Chapel Hill tossed cans of red paint in 
                front of an ROTC office and spray-painted vulgarities 
                all over its doors. University of Minnesota students 
                splattered red paint all over an Army recruiting 
                station.
                    (I) December 2006: Protesters in Lawrence, Kansas 
                crippled business at an Army/Navy recruitment center, 
                where workers' car tires were slashed and bomb-proof 
                glass had to be installed.
                    (J) January 2007: Pittsburgh protestors shut down a 
                recruitment station for a day, wielding signs calling 
                recruiters ``child predators''.
                    (K) March 2007: Vandals broke into a Milwaukee 
                recruitment station wielding crowbars.
                    (L) July 2007: A protestor in Bremerton, Wash., 
                slashed tires of Army recruiting vehicles to protest 
                the Iraq war because he ``hated the military''. In 
                Maryland, vandals smashed a Rockville Air Force career 
                center. In Lufkin, Texas, Navy recruiters were the 
                targets of vandals who keyed their cars, smashed their 
                windows and shot at their vehicles with ``what appeared 
                to be a high-powered pellet gun''.
                    (M) August 2007: In Stamford, Conn., a protestor 
                twice left a fake bomb package at a military 
                recruitment office.
                    (N) September 2007: An anti-war group calls on 
                followers to commit fraud to interfere with military 
                recruiters. Anti-war protestors shut down the Times 
                Square recruitment station.
                    (O) October 2007: An anti-war group defaces the 
                Berkeley recruitment office.
                    (P) January 2008: Protesters chain themselves to 
                the Berkeley recruiting center to shut it down, and 
                vandalize the windows with bloody handprints and signs 
                branding recruiters ``death pimps''.
                    (Q) February 2008: Vandals trash the recruiting 
                station at 14th and L Streets in Washington, DC, which 
                has been subjected to multiple attacks.
                    (R) March 2008: A bomb goes off at the Times Square 
                recruitment station.
            (8) In the face of escalating threats against military 
        recruiters and facilities, Congress must take steps to increase 
        protection of military recruiters and those who wish to serve 
        their country in uniform.

SEC. 3. INTERFERENCE WITH MILITARY RECRUITING.

    (a) Offense.--Chapter 67 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 1389. Interfering with military recruiting
    ``(a) Whoever--
            ``(1) by force or threat of force or by physical 
        obstruction, injures, intimidates or interferes with or 
        attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person 
        because that person is or has been providing Federal or State 
        military recruiting services;
            ``(2) by force or threat of force or by physical 
        obstruction, injures, intimidates or interferes with or 
        attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person 
        lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise their right to 
        inquire about or volunteer for service in the active or reserve 
        armed services of the United States or the National Guard of 
        any State; or
            ``(3) intentionally damages or destroys the property of a 
        facility, or attempts to do so, because such facility houses or 
        hosts military recruiting services;
shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).
    ``(b) The punishment for an offense under this section is--
            ``(1) in the case of a first offense, a fine under this 
        title or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both; and
            ``(2) in the case of a second or subsequent offense after a 
        prior conviction under this section, a fine under this title or 
        imprisonment for not more than 3 years, or both.
    ``(c) In this section--
            ``(1) the term `facility' includes the building or 
        structure in which recruiting is conducted;
            ``(2) the term `interfere with' means to restrict any 
        person's ability or freedom to easily enter or leave a 
        recruiting office;
            ``(3) the term `intimidate' means to place a person in 
        reasonable apprehension of bodily harm to that person or to 
        another;
            ``(4) the term `physical obstruction' means rendering 
        impassable entrance into or exiting from a facility that 
        provides military recruiting services, or rendering passage to 
        or from such a facility unreasonably difficult or hazardous;
            ``(5) the term `military recruiting services' means the 
        provision by representatives of the Government or of the armed 
        services, to individuals who might wish to serve in the armed 
        services, of information about military service, assistance in 
        selecting a branch of military service, enlistment information, 
        or any other necessary assistance needed to join the armed 
        services of the United States; and
            ``(6) the term `State' means a State of the United States, 
        the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or 
        possession of the United States.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 67 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new item:

``1389. Interfering with military recruiting.''.
    (c) Direction to Sentencing Commission.--The United States 
Sentencing Commission, in establishing or amending sentencing 
guidelines with respect to offenses under the section added to title 18 
by this Act, shall consider the threat posed to national security and 
the national defense by these offenses an aggravating factor so that 
the base levels for punishment for these offenses is greater than those 
for otherwise similar offenses.

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Freedom to Serve Act of 2008 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose criminal penalties for: (1) using force or the threat of force or physical obstruction to injure, intimidate or interfere with anyone providing federal or state military recruiting services or anyone seeking to inquire about or volunteer for military service in the active or reserve Armed Forces or the National Guard of any state; or (2) intentionally damaging or destroying facilities that house or host military recruiting services.