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Senate Bill 309
117th Congress(2021-2022)
Smarter Pretrial Detention for Drug Charges Act of 2021
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Introduced in Senate on Feb 12, 2021
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S. 309 (Introduced-in-Senate)


117th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 309


To give Federal courts additional discretion to determine whether pretrial detention is appropriate for defendants charged with nonviolent drug offenses in Federal criminal cases.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

February 12, 2021

Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Coons) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To give Federal courts additional discretion to determine whether pretrial detention is appropriate for defendants charged with nonviolent drug offenses in Federal criminal cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Smarter Pretrial Detention for Drug Charges Act of 2021”.

SEC. 2. Release conditions and detention in Federal criminal cases.

Section 3142 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—

(1) by striking “(42 U.S.C. 14135a)” each place it appears and inserting “(34 U.S.C. 40702)”; and

(2) in subsection (e)(3)—

(A) by striking subparagraph (A); and

(B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B), (C), (D), and (E) as subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), and (D), respectively.