HCS/HB 1152 - This act creates the crimes of threatening the use of a weapon of mass destruction and computer dissemination of information to promote a terrorist act.

A person commits the crime of threatening the use of a weapon of mass destruction by knowingly making a threat to an identifiable group with a specific intent that the statement regarding the use will be taken as a threat.

This act defines the terms "threat", "weapon of mass destruction", and "terrorist act".

Under this 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.

A person commits the crime of computer dissemination of information to promote a terrorist act by knowingly furnishing or disseminating information through a computer with the intent to encourage, solicit, or promote a terrorist act.

Under this act, computer dissemination of information to promote a terrorist act is a Class B felony. The act 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.
SUSAN HENDERSON