HR 979
106th Congress
House
Crime and Law Enforcement
Commerce
Correctional institutions
Correctional personnel
Corrections
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Government Operations and Politics
Government service contracts
Prison administration
Prisons
Privatization
Public Safety Act
Introduced: March 4, 1999
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 31, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Mar 4, 1999
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Mar 4, 1999
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Public Safety Act - Provides that the recipient of a grant under the violent offender incarceration and truth-in-sentencing incentive grant program may not contract with a private contractor or vendor to provide services related to the operation of a correctional facility or the incarceration of inmates.
Amends the Federal criminal code to require the Bureau of Prisons to provide that: (1) any penal or correctional facility or institution (except for community correctional confinement such as halfway houses) confining any person convicted of offenses against the United States shall be under the direction of the Director of the Bureau and shall be managed and maintained by U.S. employees; and (2) the housing, safeguarding, care, subsistence, protection, instructing, and disciplining of any person charged with or convicted of any offense against the United States (with that exception) shall be conducted and carried out by U.S. employees.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Committees of jurisdiction
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