One Hundred Fifteenth Congress of the United States of America
2d Session
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen
S. 994
AN ACT
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the protection of community centers with religious affiliation, and for other purposes.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act of 2018
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Protection of community centers with religious affiliation
Section 247 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
in subsection (a)(2), by inserting after threat of force,
the following: including by threat of force against religious real property,
;
in subsection (d)—
in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting or (c)
after subsection (a)
;
in paragraph (3), by striking and
at the end;
by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and
by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
if damage to or destruction of property results from the acts committed in violation of this section, which damage to or destruction of such property is in an amount that exceeds $5,000, a fine in accordance with this title, imprisonment for not more than 3 years, or both; and
; and
in subsection (f), by inserting before the period at the end the following: , or real property owned or leased by a nonprofit, religiously affiliated organization
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Speaker of the House of Representatives
Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate