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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 636 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend section 248 of title 18, United States Code, to provide adequate |
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| 6 | 6 | | penalties and remedies for attacks on facilities providing counseling about |
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| 7 | 7 | | abortion alternatives and attacks on places of religious worship. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY22, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. T |
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| 11 | 11 | | ENNEYintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 12 | 12 | | Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend section 248 of title 18, United States Code, to |
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| 15 | 15 | | provide adequate penalties and remedies for attacks on |
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| 16 | 16 | | facilities providing counseling about abortion alternatives |
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| 17 | 17 | | and attacks on places of religious worship. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Pregnancy Resource 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Center Defense Act’’. 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | •HR 636 IH |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. ATTACKS ON FACILITIES PROVIDING COUNSELING 1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | ABOUT ABORTION ALTERNATIVES AND 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | PLACES OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP. 3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (a) C |
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| 30 | 30 | | RIMINALPENALTIES.—Section 248(b)(1) of 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘, 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | except that for a first offense, if the conduct involved a 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | facility described in subsection (a)(3) that exclusively pro-7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | vides abortion-alternative services or involved a place of 8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | religious worship and did not involve exclusively a non-9 |
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| 36 | 36 | | violent physical obstruction, the length of imprisonment 10 |
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| 37 | 37 | | shall be not more than 3 years’’ after ‘‘or both’’. 11 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (b) C |
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| 39 | 39 | | IVILREMEDIES.—Section 248(c) of title 18, 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | United States Code, is amended— 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (1) in paragraph (1)(B), in the second sentence, 14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | by inserting ‘‘, or $20,000 per violation for conduct 15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | involving a facility described in subsection (a)(3) 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | that exclusively provides abortion-alternative services 17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | or involving a place of religious worship’’ after ‘‘per 18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | violation’’; and 19 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (2) in paragraph (2)(B)(i), by inserting ‘‘, 20 |
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| 48 | 48 | | $25,000 for a first violation, if the violation involved 21 |
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| 49 | 49 | | a facility described in subsection (a)(3) that exclu-22 |
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| 50 | 50 | | sively provides abortion-alternative services or in-23 |
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| 51 | 51 | | volved a place of religious worship and did not in-24 |
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| 52 | 52 | | volve exclusively a nonviolent physical obstruction,’’ 25 |
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| 53 | 53 | | after ‘‘physical obstruction’’. 26 |
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| 56 | 56 | | •HR 636 IH |
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| 57 | 57 | | SEC. 3. DESTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, AND 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | PROPERTY. 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | Section 844(i) of title 18, United States Code, is 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | amended by inserting ‘‘or if the building is a facility de-4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | scribed in section 248(a)(3) that exclusively provides abor-5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | tion-alternative services or is a place of religious worship,’’ 6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | before ‘‘shall be imprisoned for not less than 7 years’’. 7 |
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