S.Amdt. 3924Senate110th Congress (2007-2009)

S.Amdt. 3924

Sponsored by Jon KylSen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
Submitted January 25, 2008

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Senate amendment submitted

January 25, 2008

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SA 3924. Mr. KYL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2248, to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act of 1978, to modernize and streamline the provisions of that Act,
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. TERRORIST MURDERS, KIDNAPPINGS, AND ASSAULTS.

(a) Penalties for Terrorist Murder and Manslaughter.--
Section 2332(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``, punished by death''
and all that follows and inserting ``and punished by death or
imprisoned for life;''; and
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``ten years'' and
inserting ``30 years''.
(b) Addition of Offense of Terrorist Kidnapping.--Section
2332 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections
(d) and (e), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
``(c) Kidnapping.--Whoever outside the United States
unlawfully seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps,
abducts, or carries away, or attempts or conspires to seize,
confine, inveigle, decoy, kidnap, abduct or carry away, a
national of the United States shall be fined under this title
and imprisoned for any term of years or for life.''.
(c) Addition of Sexual Assault to Definition of Offense of
Terrorist Assault.--Section 2332(d) of title 18, United
States Code, as redesignated by subsection (b) of this
section, is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``(as defined in section
1365, including any conduct that, if the conduct occurred in
the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the
United States, would violate section 2241 or 2242)'' after
``injury'';
(2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``(as defined in section
1365, including any conduct that, if the conduct occurred in
the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the
United States, would violate section 2241 or 2242)'' after
``injury''; and
(3) in the matter following paragraph (2), by striking ``or
imprisoned'' and all that follows and inserting ``and
imprisoned for any term of years not less than 30 or for
life.''.
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