HR 41
105th Congress
House
Crime and Law Enforcement
Capital punishment
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Imports
Life imprisonment
Recidivists
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Smuggling
Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1997
Introduced: January 7, 1997
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Everywhere this bill has been
6 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 28, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Jan 22, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Jan 7, 1997
Referred to House Commerce
Jan 7, 1997
Referred to House Judiciary
Jan 7, 1997
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jan 7, 1997
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1997 - Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to direct the court to sentence a person convicted of bringing into the United States a proscribed quantity of a mixture or substance containing a controlled substance in an amount the Attorney General has determined is equal to 100 usual dosage amounts to life imprisonment without possibility of release (or, if the defendant has violated such provision on more than one occasion and if certain requirements under the Federal criminal code are met, to death). Makes conforming amendments to the code.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.