S 3646
116th Congress
Senate
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Emergency Community Supervision Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 7, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
May 7, 2020
Introduced in Senate
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 suspend the request for detention and imprisonment as a sanction for a violation of probation, supervised release, or parole.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
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