The changes made to section 32 of Title 18 by the Antiterrorism and
Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214, were
effective on April 24, 1996, and consist of the following:
The extraterritorial jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. §
32(b) was expanded to cover situations where a national of the United States
(as
defined in section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C.
§ 1101(a)(22)) was (1) on board the aircraft, or would have been on
board the
aircraft, or (2) a perpetrator of the offense.
"Conspiracy" was added to 18 U.S.C. § 32(a)(7) and § 32(b)(4).
Hence, a conspiracy to violate these provisions is now indictable under 18
U.S.C.
§ 32 and carries the twenty year penalty proscribed by that section and
is
no longer limited to the five year penalty provided under the general
conspiracy
statute, 18 U.S.C. § 371.
A violation of 18 U.S.C. § 32 was also made a predicate offense
under
the money laundering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1956(c)(7)(D).