S 1959
105th Congress
Senate
Health
Drug abuse
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to substance abuse programs
Intravenous drug abuse
Needle exchange programs
A bill to prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds to provide or support programs to provide individuals with hypodermic needles or syringes for the use of illegal drugs.
Introduced: April 21, 1998
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 21, 1998
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
Apr 21, 1998
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3356)
Apr 21, 1998
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Prohibits Federal funds from being made available to carry out any program of distributing sterile hypodermic needles or syringes to individuals for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
Committees of jurisdiction
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