The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act “deter[s] terrorism, provide justice for victims, provide for an effective death penalty, and for other purposes.” According to the Congressional Research Service Summary, the law makes threatening, attempting, or conspiring to use a biological weapon a federal crime; broadens the definition of biological weapons to include components of infectious substances, toxic materials, and recombinant molecules; and authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to regulate how biological agents are to be identified as potential threats and how they are to be transferred.
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
- April 24, 1996
- | Filed under North America, Law, and 1976-2000
