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House bill HR6400-116

Judiciary Committee

Emergency Community Supervision Act

• Last activity on Mar 26, 2020

• Introduced Mar 26, 2020

• By Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8]

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Main Subject: Crime and Law Enforcement

Emergency Community Supervision Act

This bill establishes measures to reduce the number of individuals in federal custody during a national emergency relating to a communicable disease.

Specifically, it does the following:

requires certain categories of inmates to be released and placed in community supervision (e.g., home confinement);
limits the use of pretrial detention; and
modifies supervised release, including to limit the use of incarceration as a sanction for a parole violation.

S3646-116, S3579-116, HR6800-116,

Categories

Cancer Cardiovascular and respiratory health Congressional oversight Correctional facilities and imprisonment Criminal procedure and sentencing Detention of persons Digestive and metabolic diseases Emergency medical services and trauma care HIV/AIDS Immunology and vaccination Infectious and parasitic diseases Neurological disorders Women's health Crime and Law Enforcement

House floor actions Actions

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Mar. 26 2020	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Library of Congress Actions

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Mar. 26 2020	Introduced in House Introduced in House