S. 1729104th CongressSenate Bill

Interstate Stalking Punishment and Prevention Act of 1996

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Interstate Stalking Punishment and Prevention Act of 1996 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit and prescribe penalties for interstate stalking (i.e., traveling across a State line or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States with the intent to injure or harass another person and, in the course or as a result of such travel, placing that person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury to that person or a member of that person's immediate family).

Introduced May 7, 1996
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Passed House
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Kay Hutchison

Republican

U.S. Senator · TX

Bipartisan — 19 cosponsors (4 D, 15 R)

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