S 2260
117th Congress
Senate
Crime and Law Enforcement
A bill to increase the maximum penalties for assaulting Federal officers by 50 percent.
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 24, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Jun 24, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English 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.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
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