Summary of the Perfected Version of the Bill

HCS HB 1152 -- TERRORISM (Wilson, 130)

This substitute creates the crimes of threatening the use of a
weapon of mass destruction and computer dissemination of
information to promote a terrorist act.  The substitute defines
"threat," "weapon of mass destruction," and "terrorist act."
Threatening the use of a weapon of mass destruction is a class C
felony for the first offense and a class B felony for second and
subsequent offenses.  Computer dissemination of information to
promote a terrorist act is a class B felony.

The substitute also revises the crime of making a terrorist
threat to include threatening conditions that cause serious
public inconvenience or terror.  The threat may be made by any
means.

FISCAL NOTE:  Estimated Cost on General Revenue Fund of Less than
$100,000 in FY 2005, FY 2006, and FY 2007.  No impact on Other
State Funds in FY 2005, FY 2006, and FY 2007.

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