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U.S. -OVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 394
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session J SENATE1 115-325
PROTECTING RELIGIOUSLY AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS
ACT OF 2018
AUGUST 22, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. GRASSLEY, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 994]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the bill
(S. 994) to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the
protection of community centers with religious affiliation, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and rec-
ommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. Background and Purpose of the Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institu-
tion s A ct of 2018 ........................................................................................ 1
II. History of the Bill and Committee Consideration ....................................... 3
III. Section-by-Section Summary of the Bill ...................................................... 4
IV. Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate ............................................... 5
V. Regulatory Im pact Evaluation ...................................................................... 6
V I. C onclu sion ...................................................................................................... 6
VII. Changes to Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported .......................... 6
I. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE PROTECTING RELIGIOUSLY
AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS ACT OF 2018
A. BACKGROUND
In the past two years, numerous threats have been made against
religious institutions, including against the Jewish and Muslim
communities. There were 161 bomb threats made to Jewish Com-
munity Centers in 2017-an increase of 127 percent from the pre-
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