HR 6400
116th Congress
House
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Detention of persons
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Emergency medical services and trauma care
HIV/AIDS
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Neurological disorders
Women's health
Emergency Community Supervision Act
Introduced: March 26, 2020
Introduced by:
Jeffries, Hakeem S.
Democratic
· New York
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 26, 2020
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Mar 26, 2020
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Emergency Community Supervision Act
This bill establishes measures to reduce the number of individuals in federal custody during a national emergency relating to a communicable disease.
Specifically, it does the following:
- requires certain categories of inmates to be released and placed in community supervision (e.g., home confinement);
- limits the use of pretrial detention; and
- modifies supervised release, including to limit the use of incarceration as a sanction for a parole violation.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
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