To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase certain penalties for assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees, and for other purposes.

I 116TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. R. 8030 To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase certain penalties for assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AUGUST 14, 2020 Mr. ARRINGTON (for himself, Mr. BANKS, Mr. TIFFANY, Mr. BABIN, Mr. ROY, Mr. COOK, Mr. LONG, Mrs. HARTZLER, and Mr. ESTES) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase certain penalties for assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. ASSAULTING, RESISTING, OR IMPEDING CER- 3 TAIN OFFICERS OR EMPLOYEES. 4 Section 111 of title 18, United States Code, is 5 amended to read as follows: 6 ‘‘§ 111. Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain offi- 7 cers or employees 8 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Whoever knowingly— 9 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:33 Aug 29, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H8030.IH H8030 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 8030 IH ‘‘(1) forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, 1 intimidates, or interferes while performing official 2 duties, 3 ‘‘(2) makes physical contact with or has the in- 4 tent to commit another felony while acting under 5 paragraph (1), or 6 ‘‘(3) uses a deadly or dangerous weapon against 7 (including a weapon intended to cause death or dan- 8 ger but that fails to do so by reason of a defective 9 component) or inflicts bodily injury while acting 10 under paragraph (1), 11 any officer or employee of the United States or of any 12 agency in any branch of the United States Government 13 (including any member of the uniformed services) while 14 engaged in or on account of the performance of official 15 duties, or any person who formerly served as a person de- 16 fined above on account of the performance of official du- 17 ties during such person’s term of service shall be punished 18 as provided in subsection (b). 19 ‘‘(b) PUNISHMENT.—A violation of subsection (a) 20 shall be punished as follows: 21 ‘‘(1) For a violation of paragraph (1) of such 22 subsection, by a fine under this title of not less than 23 $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 1 24 year, or both. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:33 Aug 29, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H8030.IH H8030 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 8030 IH ‘‘(2) For a violation of paragraph (2) of such 1 subsection, by a fine under this title of not less than 2 $2,500 or by imprisonment for not more than 10 3 years, or both. 4 ‘‘(3) For a violation of paragraph (3) of such 5 subsection, by a fine under this title of not less than 6 $10,000 or by mandatory imprisonment, or both.’’. 7 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:33 Aug 29, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H8030.IH H8030 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS