School Website Protection Act of 2001

School Website Protection Act of 2001 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly causing the transmission of a program, information, code, or command that affects or impairs, without authorization, a computer of an elementary or secondary school or an institution of higher education.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1252 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1252

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to make unlawful the tampering 
with computers of schools and institutions of higher education, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 26, 2001

Mr. Torricelli 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 make unlawful the tampering 
with computers of schools and institutions of higher education, 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 ``School Website Protection Act of 
2001''.

SEC. 2. TAMPERING WITH COMPUTERS OF SCHOOLS AND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER 
              EDUCATION.

    (a) Offense.--Subsection (a) of section 1030 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (7) and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following new 
        paragraph (8):
            ``(8) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, 
        information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, 
        intentionally affects or impairs without authorization a 
        computer of an elementary school or secondary school or 
        institution of higher education;''.
    (b) Penalties.--Subsection (c) of that section is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ``or (a)(6)'' and 
        inserting ``(a)(6), or (a)(8)''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3)(B), by striking ``or (a)(7)'' and 
        inserting ``(a)(7), or (a)(8)''.
    (c) Definitions.--Subsection (e) of that section is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (8), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (9), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
            ``(10) the terms `elementary school' and `secondary school' 
        have the meanings given such terms in section 14101 of the 
        Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
        8801); and
            ``(11) the term `institution of higher education' has the 
        meaning given that term in section 101 of the Higher Education 
        Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).''.
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