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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 36 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase certain penalties for |
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| 6 | 6 | | assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY9, 2023 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. A |
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| 10 | 10 | | RRINGTON(for himself, Mr. ESTES, and Mr. BISHOPof North Carolina) |
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| 11 | 11 | | introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the |
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| 12 | 12 | | Judiciary |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase certain |
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| 15 | 15 | | penalties for assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain |
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| 16 | 16 | | officers or employees. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Patrick Underwood 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Federal Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2023’’. 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. ASSAULTING, RESISTING, OR IMPEDING CERTAIN 6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | OFFICERS OR EMPLOYEES. 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Section 111 of title 18, United States Code, is 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | amended to read as follows: 9 |
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| 29 | 29 | | ‘‘§ 111. Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain offi-1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | cers or employees 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ‘‘(a) I |
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| 32 | 32 | | NGENERAL.—Whoever knowingly— 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | ‘‘(1) forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | intimidates, or interferes while performing official 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | duties, 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘(2) makes physical contact with or has the in-7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | tent to commit another felony while acting under 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | paragraph (1), or 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘(3) uses a deadly or dangerous weapon against 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (including a weapon intended to cause death or dan-11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ger but that fails to do so by reason of a defective 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | component) or inflicts bodily injury while acting 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | under paragraph (1), 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | any officer or employee of the United States or of any 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | agency in any branch of the United States Government 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (including any member of the uniformed services) while 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | engaged in or on account of the performance of official 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | duties, or any person who formerly served as a person de-19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | fined above on account of the performance of official du-20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ties during such person’s term of service shall be punished 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | as provided in subsection (b). 22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ‘‘(b) P |
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| 53 | 53 | | UNISHMENT.—A violation of subsection (a) 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | shall be punished as follows: 24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | ‘‘(1) For a violation of paragraph (1) of such 25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | subsection, by a fine under this title of not less than 26 |
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| 60 | 60 | | $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 1 1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | year, or both. 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | ‘‘(2) For a violation of paragraph (2) of such 3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | subsection, by a fine under this title of not less than 4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | $2,500 or by imprisonment for not more than 10 5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | years, or both. 6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ‘‘(3) For a violation of paragraph (3) of such 7 |
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| 67 | 67 | | subsection, by a fine under this title of not less than 8 |
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| 68 | 68 | | $10,000 or by mandatory imprisonment, or both.’’. 9 |
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