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A bill to disapprove of amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines relating to lowering of crack sentences and sentences for money laundering and transactions in property derived from unlawful activity.

Introduced: September 18, 1995 See on congress.gov
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 30, 1995
Signed by President.
Oct 30, 1995
Became Public Law No: 104-38.
Oct 25, 1995
Presented to President.
Oct 18, 1995
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Oct 18, 1995
On passage Passed without objection.
Oct 18, 1995
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.
Oct 18, 1995
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2259 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit. Measure will be read by section. A specified amendment is in order. An amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of S. 1254, as passed by the Senate, shall be considered as adopted in the Committee of the Whole and in the House. The bill, as amended, shall be considered as an original bill for the purpose of further amendment. No further amendment shall be in order except the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, debatable for 1 hour and not subject to amendment. After passage of the bill, it shall be in order to take from the Sp eaker's table and consider the bill S. 1254. It shall be in order to move to strike all afte...
Oct 18, 1995
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 237. (consideration: CR H10283-10284)
Oct 18, 1995
The previous question was ordered without objection.
Oct 18, 1995
A similar measure H.R. 2259 was laid on the table without objection.
Oct 6, 1995
Held at the desk.
Oct 6, 1995
Received in the House.
Oct 2, 1995
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Sep 29, 1995
Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
Sep 29, 1995
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
Sep 29, 1995
Measure laid before Senate. (consideration: CR S14779-14782)
Sep 25, 1995
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 194.
Sep 18, 1995
Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Sep 18, 1995
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13738-13740)
Sep 18, 1995
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Disapproves the U.S. Sentencing Commission's amendments to the Sentencing Guidelines relating to: (1) equalization of crack and cocaine powder quantities for trafficking and possession offenses; and (2) money laundering and transactions in property derived from unlawful activity.

(Sec. 2) Directs the Sentencing Commission to submit to the Congress recommendations regarding changes to the statutes and Sentencing Guidelines governing sentences for unlawful manufacturing, importing, exporting, and trafficking of cocaine and like offenses. Requires the recommendations to reflect the following considerations: (1) the sentence for trafficking in crack cocaine should generally exceed that imposed for trafficking in a like quantity of powder cocaine; (2) high-level cocaine traffickers should generally receive longer sentences than low-level traffickers; (3) a defendant who knowingly traffics in powder cocaine that will be converted into crack cocaine prior to its distribution to individuals should be treated at sentencing as though the defendant had trafficked in crack cocaine; and (4) an enhanced sentence should generally be imposed on a defendant who, in the course of an offense, murders or causes serious bodily injury to an individual, uses a dangerous weapon or possesses a firearm, involves a juvenile, a pregnant woman, or an unusually vulnerable person, engages in a continuing criminal enterprise or commits other criminal offenses in order to facilitate drug trafficking activities, restrains a victim, traffics in cocaine within 500 feet of a school, obstructs justice, has a significant prior criminal record, or is an organizer or leader of drug trafficking activities involving five or more persons.

Specifies that such recommendations shall propose revision of the drug quantity ratio of crack cocaine to powder cocaine under the relevant statutes and guidelines in a manner consistent with the ratios set for other drugs.

Requires: (1) the Department of Justice (DOJ) to report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on the charging and plea practices of Federal prosecutors with respect to money laundering; and (2) the Sentencing Commission to submit to such committees' comments on the DOJ report.

What's happening now October 30, 1995

Became Public Law No: 104-38.