A bill to increase the maximum penalties for assaulting Federal officers by 50 percent.
Summary
This bill increases the statutory maximum penalties for the following criminal offenses: assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain federal officers or employees using a deadly or dangerous weapon or by inflicting bodily injury; assaulting a family member of certain federal officials to retaliate against or to impede, intimidate, or interfere with the federal official; and assaulting certain former federal officials or their family members to retaliate against the former federal official.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jun 24, 2021
Last action Jun 24, 2021
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
2
Key actions
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Committee
1
Jun 24, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
upper
Jun 24, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Josh Hawley
RRepublican
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