Methamphetamine Eradication Act
Latest action · May 1, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 15, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Methamphetamine Eradication Act - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to: (1) require fire departments seeking grants under such Act to provide its firefighters methamphetamine awareness training; and (2) allocate funds to rural fire departments for equipment needed for methamphetamine response.
Requires public entities seeking Department of Justice grants to provide their law enforcement officers methamphetamine awareness training.
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) reauthorize the public safety and community policing ("cops on the beat") grant program for FY2007-FY2009; (2) allocate funds to rural police departments and drug task forces to purchase equipment needed for methamphetamine response; and (3) impose a substance abuse testing requirement for federal and state prisoners in residential substance abuse treatment programs. Allocates funds under such Act to assist in prosecuting methamphetamine offenses in rural areas.
Reauthorizes the Byrne Formula Grant Program for FY2007-FY2009. Requires that not less than 50% of funding under such program be available only for grants by the Attorney General to police departments and drug task forces in rural areas to purchase basic equipment to address situations involving methamphetamines.
Requires that not less than 50% of amounts available to the Drug Enforcement Administration in a fiscal year to combat methamphetamines be available only for rural areas.
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to regulate retail sales and packaging of list I pseudoephedrine products.
Imposes a minimum mandatory penalty of 20 years for the manufacture of methamphetamine on premises in which an individual under the age of 18 years resides.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants for treatment of methamphetamine abuse, giving priority to rural areas; and (2) direct the Secretary to award grants for methamphetamine research, training, and technical assistance.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of the health effects on children from the unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine; and (2) award grants to address the mental health problems of children from homes where methamphetamines are manufactured.
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to award grants to educate students about methamphetamine abuse and its prevention and treatment, giving priority to schools in rural areas.
Authorizes appropriations and grants for methamphetamine laboratory cleanup in rural areas.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 8
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 1, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
- Apr 5, 2006Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1499)
- Feb 24, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
- Feb 24, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Research.
- Feb 17, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
- Agriculture and Food
- Authorization
- Business records
- Child abuse
- Child health
- Child welfare
- Commerce
- Communication in medicine
- Community health services
- Community policing
- Community-based corrections
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Cost effectiveness
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal investigation
- Custody of children
- Data banks
- Department of Justice
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse prevention
- Drug abuse treatment
- Drug courts
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
- Drug law enforcement
- Drug testing
- Drug traffic
- Drugs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Emergency Management
- Employee training
- Environmental Protection
- Equipment and supplies
- Families
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to law enforcement
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Fire departments
- Fire fighters
- Food safety
- Forfeiture
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Grants-in-aid
- Hazardous wastes
- Health
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Identification devices
- Labor and Employment
- Laboratories
- Law
- Legal education
- Mandatory sentences
- Medical research
- Medical screening
- Medical tests
- Mental health
- Methamphetamine
- Nonprofit organizations
- Packaging
- Paramedical personnel
- Pharmacies
- Police
- Police training
- Prisoners
- Prisons
- Prosecution
- Public prosecutors
- Rehabilitation of criminals
- Research grants
- Retail trade
- Rural crime
- Rural education
- Rural health
- School health programs
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- Soil pollution
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