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Mitigating Extreme Lawlessness and Threats Act
To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase the penalty for rioting.
Summary
This bill would amend federal law to increase penalties for rioting under title 18 of the U.S. Code. The bill establishes a tiered penalty structure: general rioting would be punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment and/or a fine; rioting involving acts of violence or aiding others in committing violence would carry a minimum of one year and up to 10 years imprisonment; and rioting involving assault of a federal law enforcement officer or member of the uniformed services would carry a minimum of one year up to life imprisonment. The bill restructures the penalty provisions to clarify these graduated penalties based on the severity of conduct during a riot.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] (R-AR)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Tom Cotton’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $80,461
- APOLLO MANAGEMENT $25,600
- APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT $19,800
- BRODIE GENERATIONAL CAPITAL PARTNERS $13,200
- APOLLO $11,600
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Actions (2)
- Jun 10, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. · senate
- Jun 10, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 10, 2025
Mr. Cotton introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase the penalty for rioting.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Mitigating Extreme Lawlessness and Threats Act”.
SEC. 2. RIOTS.
Section 2101 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), in the flush text following paragraph (4), by striking “subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or
(D)” and all that follows and inserting “paragraph (1), (2),
(3), or (4) of this subsection, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).”;
(2) by redesignating subsections (b) through (f) as subsections (c) through (g), respectively;
(3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
“(b) The punishment for a violation of subsection (a) shall be—
“(1) a fine under this title, or a term of imprisonment of not more than ten years, or both;
“(2) if the defendant, in carrying out an activity described in subsection (a), committed an act of violence or aided or abetted any other person in committing an act of violence, a fine under this title, a term of imprisonment of not less than one year and not more than ten years, or both; or
“(3) if the defendant, in carrying out an activity described in subsection (a), assaulted a Federal law enforcement officer or member of the uniformed service, a fine under this title, or a term of imprisonment for any term of years, but not less than one year, or for life, or both.”; and
(4) in subsection (c), as so redesignated, by striking “subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of paragraph (1) of subsection (a)” and inserting “paragraph (1), (2), (3), or
(4) of subsection (a)”. <all>
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