Emergency Community Supervision Act
Latest action · May 7, 2020 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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 7, 2020
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Emergency Community Supervision Act
This bill establishes measures to reduce the number of individuals in federal custody during a national emergency relating to a communicable disease.
Specifically, it does the following:
- requires certain categories of inmates to be released and placed in community supervision (e.g., home confinement);
- limits the use of pretrial detention; and
- modifies supervised release, including to suspend the request for detention and imprisonment as a sanction for a violation of probation, supervised release, or parole.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 7, 2020 to Jun 12, 2020, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Original | May 7, 2020 |
| D-CA | Kamala D. Harris | Original | May 7, 2020 |
| D-MA | Elizabeth Warren | Jun 12, 2020 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 7, 2020Introduced in Senate
- May 7, 2020Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 3579 | Emergency Community Supervision Act | Related bill | Mar 25, 2020 |
| HR 6400 | Emergency Community Supervision Act | Related bill | Mar 26, 2020 |
| HR 6800 | The Heroes Act | Related bill | Jul 23, 2020 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Congressional oversight
- Correctional facilities and imprisonment
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal procedure and sentencing
- Detention of persons
- Digestive and metabolic diseases
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Evidence and witnesses
- Federal district courts
- HIV/AIDS
- Immunology and vaccination
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Judicial review and appeals
- Neurological disorders
- Women's health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 7, 2020Introduced in Senate
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