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Order Code RS21952
October 13, 2004
CR8 Report for Congress
Received through the CRS Web
The 9/11 Recommendations Implementation
Act: An Abridged Comparison of the Criminal
Law and Procedure Provisions of H.R. 10 and
S. 2845 as Passed by Their Respective
Houses
Charles Doyle
Senior Specialist
American Law Division
Summary
This is a brief description of the substantive criminal law and procedures provisions
of the House-passed version of H.R. 10. They have no equal in Senate-passed S. 2845.
The provisions are largely devoted to increasing the penalties for various existing
terrorist crimes and increasing the jurisdictional circumstances under which they may
be prosecuted under federal law. The provisions include "lone wolf' FISA and grand
jury information sharing amendments; increased penalties for hoaxes and obstructions
of justice in terrorism cases, for identification offenses, and for smuggling aliens;
clarification and expansion of terrorist support offenses, crimes involving weapons of
mass destruction, and counterfeiting offenses. The provisions also increase the penalties
and expand the jurisdictional reach of federal crimes barring the production, traffic in,
and use as terrorist weapons of anti-aircraft missiles, atomic weapons, radiological
dispersal devices, and smallpox virus. They merge the train wrecking and mass transit
attacks proscriptions of existing law. They establish capital punishment as a permissible
sanction for those existing federal terrorist crimes resulting in death that do not already
carry the death penalty, deny federal benefits to terrorists, and make the 1994 death
penalty procedures retroactively applicable to certain air piracy offenses committed after
enactment of the 1974 capital punishment procedures. They establish a no-bail
presumption for terrorists and subjects terrorists to post-imprisonment supervision for
life.
This report will be revised as appropriate and is an abridged version of CRS Report
RL32632, The 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act: Comparison of the Criminal
Law and Procedure Provisions in H.R. 10 and S. 2845 as Passed by Their Respective
Houses.Congressional Research Service V The Library of Congress
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Doyle, Charles. The 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act: An Abridged Comparison of the Criminal Law and Procedure Provisions of H.R. 10 and S. 2845 as Passed by Their Respective Houses, report, October 13, 2004; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc820053/m1/1/: accessed May 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.