Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Title: Sentencing Reform Act of 2015
Subject: Criminal procedure and sentencing: Drug trafficking and controlled substances: Firearms and explosives: Crime and law enforcement
Description: Sentencing Reform Act of 2015 This bill permits a court to reduce the mandatory minimum prison term imposed on certain non-violent defendants convicted of a high-level first-time or low-level repeat drug offense (including unlawful import, export, manufacture, or distribution of, or possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance). The legislation expands safety valve eligibility to permit a court to impose a sentence below the mandatory minimum for certain non-violent, cooperative drug defendants with a limited criminal history. It reduces the enhanced mandatory minimum prison term for certain defendants who commit a high-level repeat drug offense, use a firearm in a crime of violence or drug offense after a prior conviction for such offense, or unlawfully possess a firearm after three or more prior convictions. It permits retroactive application of such reductions for defendants without a prior serious violent felony conviction, after a court considers certain factors. It also establishes a consecutive mandatory prison term for a defendant who commits a drug offense involving a detectable amount of heroin or fentanyl. The bill makes the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 retroactive to permit resentencing of a convicted crack cocaine offender sentenced before August 3, 2010.
Session: 114th Congress
Last Action: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 698.
Last Action Date: December 23, 2016
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3713/all-info
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80 sponsors: Bob Goodlatte (R); John Conyers (D); Sheila Jackson-Lee (D); Raul Labrador (R); Mike Bishop (R); Judy Chu (D); Steve Chabot (R); Jerrold Nadler (D); Jason Chaffetz (R); Steve Cohen (D); Doug Collins (R); Theodore Deutch (D); Mimi Walters (R); Suzan DelBene (D); David Trott (R); David Cicilline (D); Thomas Rooney (R); Pedro Pierluisi (N); Luis Gutierrez (D); Karen Bass (D); Scott Peters (D); David Young (R); Keith Ellison (D); Corrine Brown (D); Jerry McNerney (D); Bobby Rush (D); Al Green (D); Eddie Johnson (D); Lacy Clay (D); Danny Davis (D); Frederica Wilson (D); Tulsi Gabbard (D); Richard Hanna (R); Pete Olson (R); Lynn Jenkins (R); Peter Welch (D); Janice Schakowsky (D); Carlos Curbelo (R); Brenda Lawrence (D); Barbara Lee (D); Nydia Velazquez (D); Joyce Beatty (D); Beto O'Rourke (D); Donald Payne (D); Mark Takano (D); Brian Higgins (D); John Kline (R); Tom Emmer (R); Gene Green (D); Mark Takai (D); Marcy Kaptur (D); James McGovern (D); Scott Garrett (R); Juan Vargas (D); Daniel Kildee (D); Marcia Fudge (D); Jared Polis (D); Mike Quigley (D); Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R); Tim Ryan (D); Michael Honda (D); John Lewis (D); Louise Slaughter (D); Jose Serrano (D); David Loebsack (D); Robert Brady (D); Sean Maloney (D); Sander Levin (D); David Scott (D); Bill Foster (D); Grace Napolitano (D); Rick Larsen (D); Rod Blum (R); Jim McDermott (D); Mia Love (R); Lloyd Doggett (D); Ted Lieu (D); Susan Davis (D); Chellie Pingree (D); Brad Sherman (D)
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Dec 23 2016 | Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 698. |
| House | Dec 23 2016 | Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged. |
| House | Dec 23 2016 | Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 114-888, Part I. |
| House | Nov 18 2015 | Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. |
| House | Nov 18 2015 | Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote. |
| House | Nov 16 2015 | Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Discharged. |
| House | Nov 3 2015 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations. |
| House | Oct 9 2015 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. |
| House | Oct 8 2015 | Introduced in House |
| House | Oct 8 2015 | Referred to House Energy and Commerce |
| House | Oct 8 2015 | Referred to House Judiciary |
| House | Oct 8 2015 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. |
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Oct 15 2015 | federal bill text | bill text |
| Introduced | Dec 24 2016 | federal bill text | bill text |
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
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