EXPANSION AND MODIFICATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION STATUTE.

SEC. 725. EXPANSION AND MODIFICATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION STATUTE. Section 2332a of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) in the subsection heading, by inserting “Against a National of the United States or Within the United States” after “Offense”; (B) by striking “uses, or attempts” and inserting “, without lawful authority, uses, threatens, or attempts”, and (C) in paragraph (2), by inserting “, and the results of such use affect interstate or foreign commerce or, in the case of a threat, attempt, or conspiracy, would have affected interstate or foreign commerce” before the semicolon at the end; (2) in subsection (b), by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the following: “(B) any weapon that is designed or intended to cause death or serious bodily injury through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or their precursors;”; (3) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and (4) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new subsection: “(b) Offense by National of the United States Outside of the United States.— Any national of the United States who, without lawful authority, uses, or threatens, attempts, or conspires 110 STAT. 1301to use, a weapon of mass destruction outside of the United States shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life, and if death results, shall be punished by death, or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life.”.