“To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish a criminal penalty for interfering with commerce by blocking public roads.”
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This section amends the Hobbs Act (18 U.S.C. 1951)—which criminalizes robbery, extortion, or threats of physical violence that obstruct, delay, or affect interstate commerce, punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment—to establish a new offense of purposely obstructing, delaying, or affecting commerce by blocking a public road or highway (or attempting or conspiring to do so), punishable by fine, up to 5 years imprisonment, or both. The section redesignates the definitions subsection as subsection (d); revises the section heading to "Interference with commerce" (from "Interference with commerce by threats or violence"); updates the table of sections for chapter 95 of title 18, U.S. Code, accordingly; and makes conforming amendments to cross-references in 5 U.S.C. §8332(o)(2)(B)(xx), 18 U.S.C. §1961(1), and 18 U.S.C. §2516(1)(c).