HR 1994 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Public Safety Act

Introduced May 6, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Ted Strickland D-OH

Latest action · Jun 25, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedMay 6, 2003
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Public Safety Act - Prohibits funds provided by the Federal Government to a State or local government for the purpose of providing core correctional services from being used to contract with private contractors or vendors to provide such activities. Defines core correctional services as the housing, safeguarding, protecting, and disciplining of persons charged or convicted of an offense.

Amends the Federal criminal code to require the Bureau of Prisons to provide that: (1) any penal or correctional facility or institution, except for nonprofit community correctional confinement (such as halfway houses), confining any person convicted of offenses against the United States shall be under the direction of the Director of the Bureau and shall be managed and maintained by Federal, State, or local government employees; and (2) the housing, safeguarding, protection, and disciplining of any person charged with or convicted of any offense against the United States (with that exception) shall be conducted and carried out by Federal, State, or local government employees.

Cosponsors 21

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 6, 2003 to Sep 8, 2004; 11 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-GA	David Scott	Original	May 6, 2003
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings	Original	May 6, 2003
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.	Original	May 6, 2003
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman	Original	May 6, 2003
D-GA	John Lewis	Original	May 6, 2003
D-PA	Joseph M. Hoeffel	Original	May 6, 2003
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty	Original	May 6, 2003
D-OH	Sherrod Brown	Original	May 6, 2003
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin	Original	May 6, 2003
D-PA	Tim Holden	Original	May 6, 2003
D-OH	Tim Ryan	Original	May 6, 2003
D-TX	Gene Green		May 7, 2003
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		May 20, 2003
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Jul 17, 2003
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		Sep 9, 2003
D-TX	Martin Frost		Sep 9, 2003
D-CA	Lois Capps		Sep 30, 2003
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Feb 24, 2004
D-GA	Denise L. Majette		Jul 9, 2004
D-NM	Tom Udall		Jul 19, 2004
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Sep 8, 2004

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Judiciary Committee	Referred May 6, 2003
	Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee	Referred Jun 25, 2003

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jun 25, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
May 6, 2003Introduced in House
May 6, 2003Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E879)
May 6, 2003Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Extensions	Debate and remarks E879	Ted Strickland D-OH	May 6, 2003

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To ensure that the incarceration of inmates is not provided by private contractors or vendors and that persons charged or convicted of an offense against the United States shall be housed in facilities managed and maintained by Federal, State, or local governments.
Short Titles as Introduced: Public Safety Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

May 6, 2003Introduced in House

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