HR 404 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Open Air Drug Market Penalty Act of 2003

Introduced Jan 28, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Robert E. Andrews D-NJ

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 6, 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.

IntroducedJan 28, 2003
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Open Air Drug Market Penalty Act of 2003 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to impose an additional five years' imprisonment for knowingly committing a Federal offense, of which an element is the distribution of a controlled substance and for which the maximum term of imprisonment equals or exceeds five years, within 500 feet of the place where such an offense was committed within the preceding 48 hours.

Prohibits: (1) the court from placing on probation or suspending the sentence of anyone convicted for such a violation; and (2) the term of imprisonment imposed from running concurrently with any other term of imprisonment.

Cosponsors 1

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Oct 15, 2003.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-TX	Martin Frost		Oct 15, 2003

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 6, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Feb 3, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Jan 28, 2003Introduced in House
Jan 28, 2003Referred 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.

Subjects

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

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