[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4804 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4804

    To provide for a task force within the FBI to deal with certain 
 malicious and false threats in order made to obtain a response by law 
                  enforcement, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2016

  Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for a task force within the FBI to deal with certain 
 malicious and false threats in order made to obtain a response by law 
                  enforcement, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Stop Swatting in Our Schools Act of 
2016''.

SEC. 2. TASK FORCE TO PREVENT SWATTING.

    (a) Creation.--The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
shall create a Task Force to combat swatting by investigating and 
referring for prosecution Federal offenses involved in this activity.
    (b) Definition of Swatting.--The term ``swatting'' means activity 
of individuals who through the use of the mail, telephone, or other 
instrument of interstate or foreign commerce, or in or affecting 
interstate or foreign commerce, willfully makes any threat, or 
maliciously conveys false information knowing the same to be false, 
concerning an attempt or alleged attempt being made, or to be made, to 
kill, injure, or intimidate any individual or unlawfully to damage or 
destroy any building, vehicle, or other real or personal property by 
means of fire or an explosive with the intent to trigger a response by 
a law enforcement agency in the absence of circumstances requiring such 
a response.
    (c) Swatting Considered Domestic Terrorism.--For the purposes of 
its activities, the Task Force created under this section shall deem 
swatting to be a form of domestic terrorism.
    (d) Coordination With the Joint Terrorism Task Forces.--The task 
force created under this section shall coordinate its activities with 
the Joint Terrorism Task Forces.
    (e) Authorization.--There are authorized to be appropriated to 
carry out this section such sums as may be necessary.
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