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S 1749 111th Congress Senate Crime and Law Enforcement Correctional facilities and imprisonment Telephone and wireless communication

Cell Phone Contraband Act of 2009

Introduced: October 5, 2009 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 28 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 10, 2010
Became Public Law No: 111-225.
Aug 10, 2010
Signed by President.
Jul 29, 2010
Presented to President.
Jul 29, 2010
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Jul 28, 2010
Cleared for White House.
Jul 28, 2010
Senate agreed to House amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6456; text as Senate agreed to House amendment: CR S6456)
Jul 28, 2010
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to House amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S6456; text as Senate agreed to House amendment: CR S6456)
Jul 21, 2010
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill.
Jul 20, 2010
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Jul 20, 2010
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5791)
Jul 20, 2010
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5791)
Jul 20, 2010
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 1749.
Jul 20, 2010
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5791-5792)
Jul 20, 2010
Mr. Scott (VA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Jun 15, 2010
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Apr 14, 2010
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Apr 14, 2010
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Apr 14, 2010
Received in the House.
Apr 13, 2010
Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S2248)
Apr 13, 2010
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S2248)
Apr 13, 2010
The committee reported amendments were agreed to by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S2248)
Apr 13, 2010
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S2248)
Feb 2, 2010
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 269.
Feb 2, 2010
Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with amendments. Without written report.
Jan 28, 2010
Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
Oct 5, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10112)
Oct 5, 2009
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10112)
Oct 5, 2009
Introduced in Senate
 Amendments to this bill 1

Amendments propose changes to this bill. Members vote on amendments separately before the final bill vote. An agreed amendment becomes part of the bill; a failed amendment does not.

1 agreed to

AmendmentSponsorPurposeStatusLatest action
SAMDT 3,722 — To require a GAO study of cell phone use in prisons. Agreed to Apr 13, 2010
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on July 20, 2010. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Cell Phone Contraband Act of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to include a phone or other device provided by a commercial mobile service as a "prohibited object" the provision of which to, or the possession of which by, a federal prisoner is prohibited.

Directs the Comptroller General to submit a report to Congress within one year after the enactment of this Act on a study of: (1) telephone rates within federal prisons, to include information on interstate, intrastate, and collect calls made by prisoners; (2) state and federal efforts to prevent the smuggling of cell phones and other wireless devices into prisons; and (3) cell phone use by inmates in selected state and federal prisons.

Provides for compliance of the budgetary effects of this Act with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.

What's happening now August 10, 2010

Became Public Law No: 111-225.

 Bill text 7 versions

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 2 Republican 1
D
Klobuchar, Amy
Minnesota · Dec 15, 2009
 D
Whitehouse, Sheldon
Rhode Island · Oct 21, 2009
 R
Grassley, Chuck
Iowa · Oct 5, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1749: Cell Phone Contraband Act of 2010. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1749/
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