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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Feb 25, 1997
Police and Rescue Squad Protection Act - Directs the United States Sentencing Commission to amend the Federal sentencing guidelines to provide an appropriate sentencing enhancement for any offense in which the defendant uses, or attempts or conspires to use, an explosive or weapon of mass destruction with the intent to injure any public safety officer responding to, investigating, or attending to any individual injured by the use or attempted use of a different explosive. Specifies that any amendment made under this Act, or any policy statement interpreting such an amendment, shall provide that intent may be inferred where the two explosives occur in close proximity in both time and location.
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Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE] · D–DE
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1558-1559)
Introduced in Senate
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