Material Support to Terrorism Prohibition Enhancement Act of 2003

Material Support to Terrorism Prohibition Enhancement Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit (in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, or while outside the United States and a U.S. national or a legal entity organized under U.S. laws) providing, or concealing or disguising the nature, location, source, or ownership of, material support or resources to be used in carrying out an act of international or domestic terrorism or in concealing or escaping from the commission of any such act. Defines (as components of "material support or resources") "training" to mean instruction or teaching designed to impart a specific skill and "personnel" to include oneself. Prohibits prosecuting a person in connection with providing "personnel" unless that person has knowingly provided, attempted to provide, or conspired to provide a terrorist organization with one or more individuals (who may be or include himself) to work in concert with the organization or under its direction or control.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2858 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2858

  To prohibit material support for terrorism, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2003

    Mr. Green of Wisconsin introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit material support for terrorism, 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 ``Material Support to Terrorism 
Prohibition Enhancement Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT TO TERRORISM.

    (a) Section 2339A(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended 
by--
            (1) designating the first sentence as paragraph (1);
            (2) designating the second sentence as paragraph (3);
            (3) inserting after paragraph (1) the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(2) Whoever, in or affecting interstate or foreign 
        commerce, or while outside the United States and a national of 
        the United States (as defined in section 1203(c)) or a legal 
        entity organized under the laws of the United States (including 
        any of its States, districts, commonwealth, territories or 
        possessions), provides material support or resources or 
        conceals or disguises the nature, location, source, or 
        ownership of material support or resources, knowing or 
        intending that they are to be used in preparation for, or in 
        carrying out, an act of international or domestic terrorism (as 
        defined in section 2331), or in the preparation for, or in 
        carrying out, the concealment or escape from the commission of 
        any such act, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be 
        punished as provided under paragraph (1) for an offense under 
        that paragraph.''.
            (4) by inserting ``act or'' after ``underlying''.
    (b) Section 2339A(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended 
by--
            (1) inserting ``(including oneself)'' after ``personnel''; 
        and
            (2) adding at the end the following ``As used in this 
        subsection, the term `training' means instruction or teaching 
        designed to impart a specific skill.''.
    (c) Paragraph (4) of section 2339B(g) of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
            ``(4) the term `material support or resources' has the same 
        meaning as in section 2339A (including the definition of 
        `training' in that section); ''.
    (d) Section 2339B of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(h) Provision of Personal.--No person may be prosecuted under 
this section in connection with the term `personnel' unless that person 
has knowingly provided, attempted to provide, or conspired to provide a 
terrorist organization with one or more individuals (who may be or 
include himself) to work in concert with the organization or under its 
direction or control.''.
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