[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6278 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6278

  To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to make a violation of 
   such Act, relating to the enforcement of a storage lien, a felony.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 14, 2021

  Mr. Moulton (for himself and Mrs. Trahan) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in 
 addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to make a violation of 
   such Act, relating to the enforcement of a storage lien, a felony.

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

SECTION 1. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR ENFORCEMENT OF A STORAGE LIEN IN 
              VIOLATION OF THE SERVICEMEMBERS CIVIL RELIEF ACT.

    Section 307(c) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. 
3958(c)) is amended--
            (1) in the heading, by striking ``Misdemeanor'' and 
        inserting ``Criminal Penalties'';
            (2) by striking all that follows ``so'' and inserting an em 
        dash; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
            ``(1) shall be fined as provided in title 18, or imprisoned 
        for not more than one year, or both; or
            ``(2) after a prior conviction under this section has 
        become final, shall be fined as provided in title 18, or 
        imprisoned for not more than three years, or both.''.
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