[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2000 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2000

  To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase the penalty for 
                                rioting.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 10, 2025

  Mr. Cotton introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase the penalty for 
                                rioting.

    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 ``Mitigating Extreme Lawlessness and 
Threats Act''.

SEC. 2. RIOTS.

    Section 2101 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), in the flush text following 
        paragraph (4), by striking ``subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or 
        (D)'' and all that follows and inserting ``paragraph (1), (2), 
        (3), or (4) of this subsection, shall be punished as provided 
        in subsection (b).'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (b) through (f) as 
        subsections (c) through (g), respectively;
            (3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) The punishment for a violation of subsection (a) shall be--
            ``(1) a fine under this title, or a term of imprisonment of 
        not more than ten years, or both;
            ``(2) if the defendant, in carrying out an activity 
        described in subsection (a), committed an act of violence or 
        aided or abetted any other person in committing an act of 
        violence, a fine under this title, a term of imprisonment of 
        not less than one year and not more than ten years, or both; or
            ``(3) if the defendant, in carrying out an activity 
        described in subsection (a), assaulted a Federal law 
        enforcement officer or member of the uniformed service, a fine 
        under this title, or a term of imprisonment for any term of 
        years, but not less than one year, or for life, or both.''; and
            (4) in subsection (c), as so redesignated, by striking 
        ``subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of paragraph (1) of 
        subsection (a)'' and inserting ``paragraph (1), (2), (3), or 
        (4) of subsection (a)''.
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