Providing material support to an organization that is engaged in domestic terrorism and providing a penalty

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under this bill, it is a Class G felony to provide material support or resources to an organization that is engaged in domestic terrorism. Under the bill, domestic terrorism means engaging in activities that are dangerous to human life and that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any state; that appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; that serve an ideological goal; and that occur primarily within the United States. Under the bill, material support or resources means any tangible or intangible property or service except medicine or religious materials.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a report.

Who's behind it

David Bowen, a Democrat, is its author⁠.