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Category: Prisoners

Bills

109th Congress

BillTitle
H CON RES 294 Calling on the international community to condemn the Laogai, the system of forced labor prison camps in the People's Republic of China, as a tool for suppression maintained by the Chinese Government.
H R 27 To enhance the workforce investment system of the Nation by strengthening one-stop career centers, providing for more effective governance arrangements, promoting access to a more comprehensive array of employment, training, and related services, establishing a targeted approach to serving youth, and improving performance accountability, and for other purposes.
H R 2862 An Act making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes.
H R 3132 To make improvements to the national sex offender registration program, and for other purposes.
H R 3402 To authorize appropriations for the Department of Justice for fiscal years 2006 through 2009, and for other purposes.
H R 609 To amend and extend the Higher Education Act of 1965.

108th Congress

BillTitle
H J RES 2 Joint Resolution making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes.
H J RES 73 Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2004, and for other purposes.
H R 1261 To enhance the workforce investment system of the Nation by strengthening one-stop career centers, providing for more effective governance arrangements, promoting access to a more comprehensive array of employment, training, and related services, establishing a targeted approach to serving youth, and improving performance accountability, and for other purposes.
H R 1559 Making emergency wartime supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes.
H R 1829 To amend title 18, United States Code, to require Federal Prison Industries to compete for its contracts minimizing its unfair competition with private sector firms and their non-inmate workers and empowering Federal agencies to get the best value for taxpayers' dollars, to provide a five-year period during which Federal Prison Industries adjusts to obtaining inmate work opportunities through other than its mandatory source status, to enhance inmate access to remedial and vocational opportunities and other rehabilitative opportunities to better prepare inmates for a successful return to society, to authorize alternative inmate work opportunities in support of non-profit organizations, and for other purposes.
H R 2417 To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.
H R 2799 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
H R 3214 To eliminate the substantial backlog of DNA samples collected from crime scenes and convicted offenders, to improve and expand the DNA testing capacity of Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to increase research and development of new DNA testing technologies, to develop new training programs regarding the collection and use of DNA evidence, to provide post-conviction testing of DNA evidence to exonerate the innocent, to improve the performance of counsel in State capital cases, and for other purposes.
H R 4754 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
H R 4818 Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
H R 5107 To protect crime victims' rights, to eliminate the substantial backlog of DNA samples collected from crime scenes and convicted offenders, to improve and expand the DNA testing capacity of Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to increase research and development of new DNA testing technologies, to develop new training programs regarding the collection and use of DNA evidence, to provide post-conviction testing of DNA evidence to exonerate the innocent, to improve the performance of counsel in State capital cases, and for other purposes.

107th Congress

BillTitle
H CON RES 83 Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2002, revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2001, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for each of fiscal years 2003 through 2011.
H R 1291 A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to modify and improve authorities relating to education benefits, burial benefits, and vocational rehabilitation benefits for veterans, to modify certain authorities relating to the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, and for other purposes.
H R 2146 To amend title 18 of the United States Code to provide life imprisonment for repeat offenders who commit sex offenses against children.
H R 2215 To authorize appropriations for the Department of Justice for fiscal year 2002, and for other purposes.
H R 2500 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other purposes.
H R 4775 Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other purposes.
H RES 160 Calling on the Government of the People's Republic of China to immediately and unconditionally release Li Shaomin and other American scholars of Chinese ancestry being held in detention, calling on the President of the United States to continue working on behalf of Li Shaomin and the other detained scholars for their release, and for other purposes.

106th Congress

BillTitle
H R 1000 To amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.
H R 1180 To amend the Social Security Act to expand the availability of health care coverage for working individuals with disabilities, to establish a Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program in the Social Security Administration to provide such individuals with meaningful opportunities to work, and for other purposes.
H R 1501 To provide grants to ensure increased accountability for juvenile offenders.
H R 1802 To amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide States with more funding and greater flexibility in carrying out programs designed to help children make the transition from foster care to self-sufficiency, and for other purposes.
H R 2415 To enhance security of United States missions and personnel overseas, to authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal year 2000, and for other purposes.
H R 2587 Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.
H R 2670 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.
H R 3064 Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.
H R 3194 Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.
H R 4942 Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes.
H R 833 To amend title 11 of the United States Code, and for other purposes.
S 1059 An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2000 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
S 1217 An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.
S 2311 A bill to revise and extend the Ryan White CARE Act programs under title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act, to improve access to health care and the quality of health care under such programs, and to provide for the development of increased capacity to provide health care and related support services to individuals and families with HIV disease, and for other purposes.
S 254 A bill to reduce violent juvenile crime, promote accountability by rehabilitation of juvenile criminals, punish and deter violent gang crime, and for other purposes.
S 331 A bill to amend the Social Security Act to expand the availability of health care coverage for working individuals with disabilities, to establish a Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program in the Social Security Administration to provide such individuals with meaningful opportunities to work, and for other purposes.
S 625 A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, and for other purposes.
S 82 A bill to authorize appropriations for Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.
S 886 An original bill to authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal years 2000 and 2001; to provide for enhanced security at United States diplomatic facilities; to provide for certain arms control, nonproliferation, and other national security measures; to provide for the reform of the United Nations; and for other purposes.

105th Congress

BillTitle
H R 1000 To require States to establish a system to prevent prisoners from being considered part of any household for purposes of determining eligibility of the household for food stamp benefits and the amount of food stamp benefits to be provided to the household under the Food Stamp Act of 1977.
H R 1003 To clarify Federal law with respect to restricting the use of Federal funds in support of assisted suicide.
H R 1252 To modify the procedures of the Federal courts in certain matters, and for other purposes.
H R 1385 To consolidate, coordinate, and improve employment, training, literacy, and vocational rehabilitation programs in the United States, and for other purposes.
H R 1493 To require the Attorney General to establish a program in local prisons to identify, prior to arraignment, criminal aliens and aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States, and for other purposes.
H R 1853 To amend the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act.
H R 2015 To provide for reconciliation pursuant to subsections (b)(1) and (c) of section 105 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998.
H R 2159 Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
H R 2267 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
H R 2358 To provide for improved monitoring of human rights violations in the People's Republic of China.
H R 2605 To require the United States to oppose the making of concessional loans by international financial institutions to any entity in the People's Republic of China.
H R 2607 An Act making omnibus consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
H R 3433 To amend the Social Security Act to establish a Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program in the Social Security Administration to provide beneficiaries with disabilities meaningful opportunities to return to work and to extend Medicare coverage for such beneficiaries, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for impairment-related work expenses.
H R 3494 An act to amend title 18, United States Code, to protect children from sexual abusae and exploitation, and for other purposes.
H R 3616 To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1999 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1999, and for other purposes.
H R 3718 To limit the jurisdiction of the Federal courts with respect to prison release orders.
H R 4057 To amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.
H R 4103 Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
H R 4276 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
H R 4328 Making omnibus consolidated and emergency appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
H R 4380 Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
H R 4550 To provide for programs to facilitate a significant reduction in the incidence and prevalence of substance abuse through reducing the demand for illegal drugs and the inappropriate use of legal drugs.
H R 750 To support the autonomous governance of Hong Kong after its reversion to the People's Republic of China.
S 1022 An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
S 1156 An original bill making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
S 1882 A bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.
S 2057 An original bill to authorize appropriations for the fiscal year 1999 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
S 2132 An original bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
S 2260 An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
S 2279 A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize the programs of the Federal Aviation Administration for fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002, and for other purposes.
S 947 An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104(a) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998.
S 955 An original bill making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.

104th Congress

BillTitle
H R 1561 To consolidate the foreign affairs agencies of the United States; to authorize appropriations for the Department of State and related agencies for fiscal years 1996 and 1997; to responsibly reduce the authorizations of appropriations for United States foreign assistance programs for fiscal years 1996 and 1997, and for other purposes.
H R 1617 An Act to consolidate Federal employment training, vocational education, and adult education programs and create integrated statewide workforce development systems, and for other purposes.
H R 2058 Establishing United States policy toward China.
H R 2076 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for other purposes.
H R 2202 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve deterrence of illegal immigration to the United States by increasing border patrol and investigative personnel, by increasing penalties for alien smuggling and for document fraud, by reforming exclusion and deportation law and procedures, by improving the verification system for eligibility for employment, and through other measures, to reform the legal immigration system and facilitate legal entries into the United States, and for other purposes.
H R 2586 To provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit, and for other purposes.
H R 2703 To combat terrorism.
H R 3019 Making appropriations for fiscal year 1996 to make a further downpayment toward a balanced budget, and for other purposes.
H R 3610 Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.
H R 3734 To provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(a)(1) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1997.
H R 3814 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.
H R 4278 Making omnibus consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.
H R 665 An Act entitled the Victims Justice Act of 1995.
H R 667 To control crime by incarcerating violent criminals.
H R 668 To control crime by further streamlining deportation of criminal aliens.
H R 728 To control crime by providing law enforcement block grants.
H R 729 To control crime by a more effective death penalty.
H RES 120 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding American citizens held in Iraq.
S 143 A bill to consolidate Federal employment training programs and create a new process and structure for funding the programs, and for other purposes.
S 1664 An original bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase control over immigration to the United States by increasing border patrol and investigative personnel and detention facilities, improving the system used by employers to verify citizenship or work-authorized alien status, increasing penalties for alien smuggling and document fraud, and reforming asylum, exclusion, and deportation law and procedures; to reduce the use of welfare by aliens; and for other purposes.
S 1956 An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 202(a) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1997.
S 219 A bill to ensure economy and efficiency of Federal Government operations by establishig a moratorium on regulatory rulemaking actions, and for other purposes.
S 641 A bill to reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act of 1990, and for other purposes.
S 652 An original bill to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition, and for other purposes.
S 735 A bill to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and for other purposes.
S 908 An original bill to authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal years 1996 through 1999 and to abolish the United States Information Agency, the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the Agency for International Development, and for other purposes.

103rd Congress

BillTitle
H CON RES 218 Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.
H R 2333 To authorize appropriations for the Department of State, the United States Information Agency, and related agencies, to authorize appropriations for foreign assistance programs, and for other purposes.
H R 2401 To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes.
H R 2518 Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1994, and for other purposes.
H R 2519 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1994, and for other purposes.
H R 3350 To establish a program of residential substance abuse treatment within Federal prisons.
H R 3351 To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow grants for the purpose of developing alternative methods of punishment for young offenders to traditional forms of incarceration and probation.
H R 3354 To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow grants for the purpose of developing and implementing residential substance abuse treatment programs within State correctional facilities, as well as within local correctional facilities in which inmates are incarcerated for a period of time sufficient to permit substance abuse treatment.
H R 3355 To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow grants to increase police presence, to expand and improve cooperative efforts between law enforcement agencies and members of the community to address crime and disorder problems, and otherwise to enhance public safety.
H R 3400 To provide a more effective, efficient, and responsive government.
H R 4092 To control and prevent crime.
H R 4278 To make improvements in the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program under title II of the Social Security Act.
H R 4426 An Act making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and for other purposes.
H R 4603 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and making supplemental appropriations for these departments and agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1994, and for other purposes.
H R 4606 Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and for other purposes.
H R 5110 To approve and implement the trade agreements concluded in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations.
H R 6 To extend for six years the authorizations of appropriations for the programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and for other purposes.
H RES 118 To condemn the release by the Government of Malta of convicted terrorist Mohammed Ali Rezaq.
S 1281 An original bill to authorize appropriations for the fiscal years 1994 and 1995 for the Department of State, the United States Information Agency, and related agencies, to provide for the consolidation of international broadcasting activities, and for other purposes.
S 1607 A bill to control and prevent crime.
S CON RES 63 An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal years 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

102nd Congress

BillTitle
H R 1281 Making dire emergency supplemental appropriations for the consequences of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, food stamps, unemployment compensation administration, veterans compensation and pensions, and urgent needs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1991, and for other purposes.
H R 2608 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1992, and for other purposes.
H R 2707 Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1992, and for other purposes.
H R 3371 To control and prevent crime.
H R 3553 To amend and extend the Higher Education Act of 1965.
H R 3839 Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1992, and for other purposes.
H R 5677 Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1993, and for other purposes.
H R 5678 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, and the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1993, and for other purposes.
S 1150 A bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.
S 1241 A bill to control and reduce violent crime.
S 1306 A bill to amend title V of the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend certain programs, to restructure the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, and for other purposes.
S 2 An act to promote the achievement of National Education Goals, to measure progress toward such goals, to develop national education standards and voluntary assessments in accordance with such standards and to encourage the comprehensive improvement of America's neighborhood public schools to improve student achievement.
S 3026 An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1993, and for other purposes.
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