 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                         CHAPTER 113B--TERRORISM
 
Sec. 2339A. Providing material support to terrorists

    (a) Offense.--Whoever, within the United States, provides material 
support or resources or conceals or disguises the nature, location, 
source, or ownership of material support or resources, knowing or 
intending that they are to be used in preparation for, or in carrying 
out, a violation of section 32, 37, 81, 175, 351, 831, 842(m) or (n), 
844(f) or (i), 930(c), 956, 1114, 1116, 1203, 1361, 1362, 1363, 1366, 
1751, 1992, 2155, 2156, 2280, 2281, 2332, 2332a, 2332b, 2332c,\1\ or 
2340A of this title or section 46502 of title 49, or in preparation for, 
or in carrying out, the concealment or an escape from the commission of 
any such violation, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more 
than 10 years, or both.
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    (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``material support or 
resources'' means currency or other financial securities, financial 
services, lodging, training, safehouses, false documentation or 
identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal 
substances, explosives, personnel, transportation, and other physical 
assets, except medicine or religious materials.

(Added Pub. L. 103-322, title XII, Sec. 120005(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 
Stat. 2022; amended Pub. L. 104-132, title III, Sec. 323, Apr. 24, 1996, 
110 Stat. 1255; Pub. L. 104-294, title VI, Secs. 601(b)(2), (s)(2), (3), 
604(b)(5), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498, 3502, 3506.)

                       References in Text

    Section 2332c of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was 
repealed by Pub. L. 105-277, div. I, title II, Sec. 201(c)(1), Oct. 21, 
1998, 112 Stat. 2681-871.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-294, Sec. 604(b)(5), amended directory language of 
Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 120005(a), which enacted this section.
    Pub. L. 104-132 amended section generally, reenacting section 
catchline without change and redesignating provisions which detailed 
what constitutes offense, formerly contained in subsec. (b), as subsec. 
(a), inserting references to sections 37, 81, 175, 831, 842, 956, 1362, 
1366, 2155, 2156, 2332, 2332a, 2332b, and 2340A of this title, striking 
out references to sections 36, 2331, and 2339 of this title, 
redesignating provisions which define ``material support or resource'', 
formerly contained in subsec. (a), as subsec. (b), substituting 
provisions excepting medicine or religious materials from definition for 
provisions excepting humanitarian assistance to persons not directly 
involved in violations, and struck out subsec. (c) which authorized 
investigations into possible violations, except activities involving 
First Amendment rights.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-294, Sec. 601(s)(2), (3), inserted 
``930(c),'' before ``956,'', ``1992,'' before ``2155,'', ``2332c,'' 
before ``or 2340A of this title'', and ``or an escape'' after 
``concealment''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-294, Sec. 601(b)(2), which directed 
substitution of ``2332'' for ``2331'', ``2332a'' for ``2339'', ``37'' 
for ``36'', and ``or an escape'' for ``of an escape'', could not be 
executed because the provisions for which the substitutions were to be 
made did not appear in text subsequent to the general amendment by Pub. 
L. 104-132. See above.


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Amendment by section 604(b)(5) of Pub. L. 104-294 effective Sept. 
13, 1994, see section 604(d) of Pub. L. 104-294, set out as a note under 
section 13 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1956, 2332b, 2339B of this 
title; title 22 section 2778; title 28 section 1605.
