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HR 3158 106th Congress House Crime and Law Enforcement Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Congress Congressional reporting requirements Correctional personnel Criminal investigation Disciplining of employees Economics and Public Finance Employee training Federal aid to law enforcement Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Labor and Employment Prison administration Prisoners' rights Sex crimes Sexual harassment of women State employees State laws State officials

To establish Federal safeguards for the prevention of sexual misconduct of women inmates at State correctional institutions.

Introduced: October 27, 1999 Introduced by: Norton, Eleanor Holmes Democratic · District of Columbia See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Nov 2, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Oct 27, 1999
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Oct 27, 1999
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2201)
Oct 27, 1999
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Prohibits a State that does not have, or fails to implement, specified safeguards against sexual harassment of women inmates at State correctional institutions from receiving ten percent of the funds that would otherwise be allocated to the State under violent offender incarceration and truth-in-sentencing incentive grant provisions of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. Provides for the reallocation of such funds to States in compliance.

Includes among such safeguards requirements that: (1) each State department of corrections provide mandatory sexual harassment and abuse (harassment) awareness training to the department's officials and staff (officials), periodically submit a report to the State attorney general for the purpose of detecting any pattern of harassment of women inmates, and carry out a system under which women inmates are able to confidentially report harassment by department officials, reports are investigated, and the officials responsible are sanctioned; and (2) the State have criminal penalties explicitly prohibiting custodial sexual misconduct by correctional staff against women inmates and submit reports to Congress and to the Attorney General on State compliance with these safeguards.

What's happening now November 2, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.

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