119-hr636

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 636 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 636

 To amend 

section 248 of title 18, United States Code, to provide 
 adequate penalties and remedies for attacks on facilities providing 
 counseling about abortion alternatives and attacks on places of 
 religious worship.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 January 22, 2025

 Ms. Tenney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on the Judiciary

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 A BILL

 To amend 

section 248 of title 18, United States Code, to provide 
 adequate penalties and remedies for attacks on facilities providing 
 counseling about abortion alternatives and attacks on places of 
 religious worship.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Pregnancy Resource Center Defense 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ATTACKS ON FACILITIES PROVIDING COUNSELING ABOUT ABORTION 
 ALTERNATIVES AND PLACES OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.

    (a) Criminal Penalties.--

Section 248

    (b)

    (1) of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting ``, except that for a first 
offense, if the conduct involved a facility described in subsection

    (a)

    (3) that exclusively provides abortion-alternative services or 
involved a place of religious worship and did not involve exclusively a 
nonviolent physical obstruction, the length of imprisonment shall be 
not more than 3 years'' after ``or both''.

    (b) Civil Remedies.--

Section 248
            (c) of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended--

    (1) in paragraph

    (1)
        (B) , in the second sentence, by 
 inserting ``, or $20,000 per violation for conduct involving a 
 facility described in subsection

    (a)

    (3) that exclusively 
 provides abortion-alternative services or involving a place of 
 religious worship'' after ``per violation''; and

    (2) in paragraph

    (2)
        (B)
            (i) , by inserting ``, $25,000 for a 
 first violation, if the violation involved a facility described 
 in subsection

    (a)

    (3) that exclusively provides abortion-
 alternative services or involved a place of religious worship 
 and did not involve exclusively a nonviolent physical 
 obstruction,'' after ``physical obstruction''.

SEC. 3. DESTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, AND PROPERTY.

 

Section 844
            (i) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting ``or if the building is a facility described in 

section 248

    (a)

    (3) that exclusively provides abortion-alternative services or is 
a place of religious worship,'' before ``shall be imprisoned for not 
less than 7 years''.
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