- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Amendments
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: June 17, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
SA 5842. Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself and Mr. Lujan) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for discal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. . FEDERAL CARJACKING ENFORCEMENT.
(a) Short Title.—This section may be cited as the
“Federal Carjacking Enforcement Act”.
(b) Motor Vehicles.—Section 2119 of title 18, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “,
with the intent to cause death or serious bodily harm” and
inserting “knowingly”;
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking “both,” and inserting
“both;”;
(3) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
“(2) be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
25 years, or both, if—
“(A)(i) the motor vehicle is taken, or attempted to be
taken, with the intent to cause death or serious bodily harm;
or
“(ii) the person taking, or attempting to take, the motor
vehicle brandishes or discharges a firearm (as defined in
section 921) during or in relation to such taking or
attempted taking; and
“(B) serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365,
including any conduct that, if the conduct occurred in the
special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United
States, would violate section 2241 or 2242) results; and”;
and
(4) in paragraph (3), by striking “if death results,” and
inserting “if the motor vehicle is taken, or attempted to be
taken, with the intent to cause death or serious bodily harm,
and death results,”.