Sec. 1509. Recruitment of persons to participate in terrorism
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Chapter 113B of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 2332b the following: It shall be unlawful for any person to employ, solicit, induce, command, or cause another person to commit an act of domestic terrorism or international terrorism or a Federal crime of terrorism, with the intent that the other person commit such act or crime of terrorism. It shall be unlawful for any person to attempt or conspire to commit an offense under paragraph (1). Any person who violates subsection (a)— in the case of an attempt or conspiracy, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both; if death of an individual results, shall be fined under this title, punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both; if serious bodily injury to any individual results, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not less than 10 years nor more than 25 years, or both; and in any other case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
Nothing in this section may be construed or applied to abridge the exercise of rights guaranteed under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. It is not a defense under this section that the act of domestic terrorism or international terrorism or Federal crime of terrorism that is the object of the employment, solicitation, inducement, commanding, or causing has not been done. In this section— the term Federal crime of terrorism has the meaning given that term in section 2332b; and the term serious bodily injury has the meaning given that term in section 1365(h). .
The table of sections for chapter 113B of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 2332b the following: “2332c. Recruitment of persons to participate in terrorism.”.