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1 1 Amend Senate File 2146 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 1, by striking lines 1 through 13, and
1 3 inserting the following:
1 4 "DIVISION I
1 5 Sec. . Section 707.2, Code 2001, is amended by
1 6 adding the following new subsection:
1 7 NEW SUBSECTION. 6. The person kills another
1 8 person while participating in an act of terrorism as
1 9 defined in section 708A.1.
1 10 Sec. . NEW SECTION. 708A.1 DEFINITIONS.
1 11 For purposes of this chapter:
1 12 1. "Material support or resources" means assisting
1 13 or providing money, financial securities, financial
1 14 services, lodging, training, safe houses, false
1 15 documentation or identification, communication
1 16 equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances,
1 17 explosives, personnel, transportation, and other
1 18 physical assets, except medicine or religious
1 19 materials.
1 20 2. "Renders criminal assistance" means a person
1 21 who, with intent to prevent the apprehension or
1 22 obstruct the prosecution or defense of any person,
1 23 knowingly does any of the following acts:
1 24 a. Destroys, alters, conceals, or disguises
1 25 physical evidence which would be admissible in the
1 26 trial of another for a public offense, or makes
1 27 available false evidence or furnishes false
1 28 information with the intent that it be used in the
1 29 trial of that case.
1 30 b. Induces a witness having knowledge material to
1 31 the subject at issue to leave the state or hide, or to
1 32 fail to appear when subpoenaed.
1 33 c. Provides concealment or warns of impending
1 34 apprehension to any person being sought for the
1 35 subject at issue.
1 36 d. Provides a weapon, disguise, transportation, or
1 37 money to any person being sought for the subject at
1 38 issue.
1 39 e. Prevents or obstructs, by means of force,
1 40 intimidation, or deception, another person from
1 41 performing an act which might aid in the apprehension
1 42 or prosecution or defense of any person.
1 43 f. Profits or provides aid to any person who
1 44 profits from an advantage derived from the commission
1 45 of a public offense.
1 46 3. "Terrorism" means an act intended to intimidate
1 47 or coerce a civilian population, or to influence the
1 48 policy of a unit of government by intimidation or
1 49 coercion, by shooting, throwing, launching,
1 50 discharging, or otherwise using a dangerous weapon at,
2 1 into, or in a building, vehicle, airplane, railroad
2 2 engine, railroad car, or boat, occupied by another
2 3 person, or within an assembly of people.
2 4 Sec. . NEW SECTION. 708A.2 VALUE FOR PURPOSES
2 5 OF MATERIAL SUPPORT AND RESOURCES.
2 6 The value of property or services is its highest
2 7 value by any reasonable standard at the time the
2 8 material support or resources is given. Any
2 9 reasonable standard includes but is not limited to
2 10 market value within the community, actual value, or
2 11 replacement value.
2 12 If credit, property, or services are obtained by
2 13 two or more acts from the same person or location, or
2 14 from different persons by two or more acts which occur
2 15 in approximately the same location or time period so
2 16 that the material support or resources are
2 17 attributable to a single scheme, plan, or conspiracy,
2 18 the acts may be considered as a single act of support
2 19 or resources and the value may be the total value of
2 20 all credit, property, and services involved.
2 21 Sec. . NEW SECTION. 708A.3 SOLICITING OR
2 22 PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT OR RESOURCES FOR TERRORISM.
2 23 1. A person who provides material support or
2 24 resources to a person who commits or attempts to
2 25 commit terrorism and the value of the material support
2 26 or resources is in excess of one thousand dollars
2 27 commits a class "B" felony.
2 28 2. A person who provides material support or
2 29 resources to a person who commits or attempts to
2 30 commit terrorism and the value of the material support
2 31 or resources does not exceed one thousand dollars
2 32 commits a class "C" felony.
2 33 Sec. . NEW SECTION. 708A.4 THREAT OF
2 34 TERRORISM.
2 35 A person who threatens to commit terrorism or
2 36 threatens to cause terrorism to be committed and who
2 37 causes a reasonable expectation or fear of the
2 38 imminent commission of such an act of terrorism
2 39 commits a class "D" felony.
2 40 Sec. . NEW SECTION. 708A.5 OBSTRUCTION OF
2 41 TERRORISM PROSECUTION.
2 42 1. A person who renders criminal assistance to
2 43 another person who commits terrorism that results in
2 44 the murder of a third person while knowing that the
2 45 other person was engaged in terrorism commits a class
2 46 "B" felony.
2 47 2. A person who renders criminal assistance to
2 48 another person who commits terrorism while knowing
2 49 that the other person was engaged in an act of
2 50 terrorism commits a class "C" felony."
3 1 #2. Page 1, by inserting before line 14, the
3 2 following: "DIVISION II".
3 3 #3. Title page, line 1, by striking the words "a
3 4 criminal offense for an act" and inserting the
3 5 following: "criminal offenses for acts".
3 6
3 7
3 8
3 9 O. GENE MADDOX
3 10 SF 2146.501 79
3 11 jm/pj
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