Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Title: Marijuana Justice Act of 2018
Subject: Civil actions and liability: Correctional facilities and imprisonment: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation: Criminal procedure and sentencing: Drug trafficking and controlled substances: Employment and training programs: Health programs administration and funding: Health promotion and preventive care: Housing and community development funding: Law enforcement administration and funding: State and local government operations: Trade restrictions: Crime and law enforcement
Description: Marijuana Justice Act of 2018 This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act: to remove marijuana and tetrahydrocannabinols from schedule I; and to eliminate criminal penalties for an individual who imports, exports, manufactures, distributes, or possesses with intent to distribute marijuana. It prohibits and reduces certain federal funds for a state without a statute legalizing marijuana, if the Bureau of Justice Assistance determines that such a state has a disproportionate arrest rate or disproportionate incarceration rate for marijuana offenses. The bill directs federal courts to expunge convictions for marijuana use or possession. Finally, it establishes in the Treasury the Community Reinvestment Fund. Amounts in the fund may be used by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to establish a grant program to reinvest in communities most affected by the war on drugs.
Session: 115th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Last Action Date: February 8, 2018
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4815/all-info
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44 sponsors: Barbara Lee (D); Ro Khanna (D); Sheila Jackson-Lee (D); Steve Cohen (D); Eleanor Norton (D); Bobby Rush (D); Earl Blumenauer (D); Danny Davis (D); Jared Polis (D); Hakeem Jeffries (D); Pramila Jayapal (D); Yvette Clarke (D); Marcia Fudge (D); Donald Payne (D); Bennie Thompson (D); Frederica Wilson (D); Mark Pocan (D); Tulsi Gabbard (D); Jamie Raskin (D); Raul Grijalva (D); Jared Huffman (D); Jerry McNerney (D); Luis Correa (D); Joseph Crowley (D); Don Beyer (D); Carolyn Maloney (D); Alan Lowenthal (D); Gregory Meeks (D); Ruben Kihuen (D); Henry Johnson (D); Lacy Clay (D); Karen Bass (D); Alcee Hastings (D); Emanuel Cleaver (D); Cedric Richmond (D); Eddie Johnson (D); Janice Schakowsky (D); Anthony Brown (D); John Lewis (D); Tim Ryan (D); Bonnie Coleman (D); Luis Gutierrez (D); James McGovern (D); Zoe Lofgren (D)
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Feb 8 2018 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry. |
| House | Feb 7 2018 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations. |
| House | Jan 24 2018 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands. |
| House | Jan 19 2018 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. |
| House | Jan 17 2018 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Financial Services, 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. |
| House | Jan 17 2018 | Introduced in House |
| House | Jan 17 2018 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Financial Services, 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. |
| House | Jan 17 2018 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Financial Services, 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. |
| House | Jan 17 2018 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Financial Services, 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. |
| House | Jan 17 2018 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Financial Services, 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 | Jan 24 2018 | federal bill text | bill text |
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Chamber: H
Committee Name: Conservation and Forestry
There have not been any votes on this bill