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Makes targeted changes across multiple federal criminal statutes to broaden liability, clarify mental-state requirements, and increase penalties. It amends the bank-robbery statute to cover conspiracies, clarifies that prosecutions for assaulting federal officers do not require proof the defendant knew the victim’s protected-status, raises maximum penalties and adds weapons-based enhancements for vehicle‑related violent crimes, narrows and strengthens a federal firearms provision to include attempts and conspiracies, creates a new enhanced offense and sentencing enhancement for Schedule I/II drugs disguised as candy or beverages intended for minors, and revises the federal kidnapping statute to restate and expand federal jurisdiction and penalties (including life or death if the victim dies).
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced June 4, 2025 by Charles Ernest Grassley · Last progress June 4, 2025