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H.R. 206: STALKERS Act of 2013
- Introduced:
- Jan 04, 2013 (113th Congress, 2013–2015)
- Sponsor:
- Rep. Loretta Sanchez [D-CA46]
- Status:
- Referred to Committee
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- Full Title
To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the offense of stalking.
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- Text
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Last updated Jan 04, 2013.
4 pages
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Library of Congress Summary
The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress.
1/4/2013--Introduced.
STALKERS Act of 2013 - Amends the federal criminal code to revise the definition of stalking and impose criminal penalties on anyone who, with intent to kill, physically injure, harass, or intimidate a person or to place a person under surveillance with the intent to kill, physically injure, harass, or intimidate such person, travels in interstate or foreign commerce or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States or enters or leaves Indian country and:
(1) causes or attempts to cause bodily injury or serious emotional distress to another person, or
(2) engages in conduct that would be reasonably expected to cause serious emotional distress to another person.
Imposes the same criminal penalties on anyone who, with intent to kill, physically injure, harass, or intimidate a person, engages in a course of conduct in or substantially affecting interstate or foreign commerce that:
(1) causes or attempts to cause bodily injury or serious emotional distress to another person, or
(2) occurs in circumstances where the conduct would be reasonably expected to cause another person serious emotional distress.
Increases penalties for stalking offenses if:
(1) the offense involves conduct in violation of a protection order, or
(2) the victim of the offense is under the age of 18 or over the age of 65.Requires the annual report of the Attorney General to include an evaluation of efforts to enforce laws relating to stalking and to identify and describe elements of such efforts that constitute the best practices for the enforcement of such laws.
Provides for compliance of the budgetary effects of this Act with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
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The bill contains the following citations to other parts of U.S. law:
United States Code
The United States Code is the compilation of permanent laws enacted by Congress. Temporary and other non-permanent laws do not appear in the United States Code. (About half of the United States Code is the law itself, called positive law. The other half is merely a compilation of the laws but has no legal significance.)
- Title 18: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
- Part I: CRIMES
- Chapter 110A: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND STALKING
- Section 2261A: Stalking
- Title 28: JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
- Part II: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
- Chapter 31: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
- Section 529: Annual report of Attorney General
Other Citations
- 18 U.S.C. Chapter 110A