3.0.0 1435 2023-01-15T06:17:49Z 2023-01-15T06:17:49Z Senate S S 2003-07-21 108 hsju00 Judiciary Committee House Standing Legislative interest 2003-12-15T15:40:00Z Legislative interest 2003-12-01T21:16:00Z Legislative interest 2003-10-29T21:52:00Z Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2003 108 1765 HR 2003-04-22 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Related bill CRS Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2003 108 1707 HR 2003-07-18 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 121. Related bill House 2003-09-04 Became Public Law No: 108-79. President E40000 2 House floor actions 2003-09-04 Became Public Law No: 108-79. BecameLaw 36000 9 Library of Congress 2003-09-04 Signed by President. President E30000 2 House floor actions 2003-09-04 Signed by President. BecameLaw 36000 9 Library of Congress 2003-09-02 Presented to President. Floor E20000 2 House floor actions 2003-09-02 Presented to President. President 28000 9 Library of Congress 2003-07-25 18:40:15 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. Floor H38310 2 House floor actions 2003-07-25 18:40:13 On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H7766-7771) Floor H37100 2 House floor actions 2003-07-25 18:40:13 Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR H7766-7771) Floor 8000 9 Library of Congress 2003-07-25 18:39:52 Mr. Sensenbrenner asked unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table and consider. Floor H30200 2 House floor actions 2003-07-25 18:39:52 Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H7764-7771) Floor H30000 2 House floor actions 2003-07-22 22:49:11 Held at the desk. Floor H15000 2 House floor actions 2003-07-22 09:02:01 Received in the House. Floor H14000 2 House floor actions 2003-07-22 Senate Message on Senate action sent to the House. Floor 2003-07-21 Senate Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9659-9664; text as passed Senate: CR S9659-9664) Floor 2003-07-21 Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9659-9664; text as passed Senate: CR S9659-9664) Floor 17000 9 Library of Congress 2003-07-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001141 Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL] Jeff Sessions R AL N K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE 2003-07-21 True D000294 Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH] MICHAEL DEWINE R OH 2003-07-21 True F000062 Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] Dianne Feinstein D CA 2003-07-21 True D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2003-07-21 True Public Law 108-79 Crime and Law Enforcement AIDS (Disease) Administrative procedure Architecture Arts, Culture, Religion Building construction Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Confidential communications Congress Congressional reporting requirements Continuum of care Correctional institutions Correctional personnel Cost effectiveness Crime prevention Criminal investigation Criminal justice information Criminal statistics Criminology Department of Justice Economic impact statements Economics and Public Finance Employee crimes Employee training Evidence (Law) Executive reorganization Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to law enforcement Finance and Financial Sector Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Governmental investigations Health Health counseling Human immunodeficiency viruses Identification of criminals Informers Labor and Employment Law Licenses Medical tests Mental health services Physical examinations Preventive medicine Prison violence Prisoners Prisoners' rights Prisons Prosecution Psychotherapy Public meetings Punishment Rape Recidivists Right of privacy Sex crimes Sexually transmitted diseases Social science research Standards State laws Surveys Trauma care Undercover operations Victims of crimes Witnesses Crime and Law Enforcement 00 2003-07-21 Introduced in Senate 2003-09-17T17:22:56Z Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 - Directs the Bureau of Justice Statistics to carry out, annually, a comprehensive statistical review and analysis of the incidence and effects of prison rape.

Establishes within the Department of Justice the Review Panel on Prison Rape to assist the Bureau in conducting such analysis. Directs the Panel to carry out public hearings on the operation of prisons for the purpose of identifying common characteristics of: (1) victims and perpetrators of prison rape; and (2) prisons with high and low incidences of prison rape.

Establishes within the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) a national clearinghouse for the provision of information, assistance, and training to Federal, State, and local authorities for the prevention, investigation, and punishment of prison rape.

Directs the Attorney General to make grants to to assist States in ensuring that budgetary circumstances do not compromise efforts to protect inmates and to safeguard the communities to which inmates return.

Establishes the National Prison Rape Reduction Commission to: (1) study the impact of prison rape on Federal, State, and local governments and on communities and social institutions; and (2) report recommended national standards for enhancing the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape. Directs the Attorney General to publish a final rule adopting national standards. Reduces grant funds for prisons to States that fail to comply with such standards.

Prohibits the receipt of Federal grants by penal facility accredication organizations that fail to adopt accreditation standards for the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape.]]>

82 2003-07-21 Passed Senate without amendment 2003-09-17T17:55:57Z (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 - (Sec. 4) Directs the Bureau of Justice Statistics to carry out, annually, a comprehensive statistical review and analysis of the incidence and effects of prison rape. Requires: (1) the review and analysis to be based on a sample of not less than ten percent of all Federal, State, and county prisons, and a representative sample of municipal prisons, that includes at least one prison from each State; and (2) Federal, State, or local officials or facility administrators that receive a request from the Bureau to participate in the national survey and provide access to any inmates under their legal custody.

Establishes within the Department of Justice the Review Panel on Prison Rape to carry out, for each calendar year, public hearings concerning the operation of the three prisons with the highest incidence of prison rape and the two prisons with the lowest incidence in each category of facilities identified. Declares that the purpose of these hearings shall be to collect evidence to aid in the identification of common characteristics of: (1) victims and perpetrators of prison rape; (2) prisons and prison systems with a high incidence of prison rape; and and (3) prisons and prison systems that appear to have been successful in deterring prison rape.

Requires the Attorney General to submit an annual report to Congress and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on Bureau and Panel activities regarding prison rape. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 through 2010.

(Sec. 5) Establishes within the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) a national clearinghouse for the provision of information, assistance, and training to Federal, State, and local authorities for the prevention, investigation, and punishment of prison rape.

(Sec. 6) Directs the Attorney General to make grants to to assist States in ensuring that budgetary circumstances do not compromise efforts to protect inmates and to safeguard the communities to which inmates return. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 through 2010, with a limitation.

(Sec. 7) Establishes the National Prison Rape Reduction Commission to: (1) study the impact of prison rape on Federal, State, and local governments and on communities and social institutions; and (2) report recommended national standards for enhancing the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape.

(Sec. 8) Directs the Attorney General, within one year after receiving such report, to publish a final rule adopting national standards. Provides for a five percent reduction of any amount of grant funds for prisons that a State would otherwise receive for a fiscal year, unless the chief executive of the State submits to the Attorney General: (1) a certification that the State has adopted, and is in full compliance with, the national standards; or (2) an assurance that not less than five percent of such amount shall be used only to enable the State to adopt and achieve full compliance with such standards, so as to ensure that such certification may be submitted in future years. Requires the Attorney General to publish an annual report listing each grantee that is not in compliance with the standards.

(Sec. 9) Prohibits the receipt of Federal grants by penal facility accredication organizations that fail to adopt accreditation standards for the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape.]]>

49 2003-09-04 Public Law 2007-05-31T00:02:58Z (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate passed version is repeated here.)

Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 - (Sec. 4) Directs the Bureau of Justice Statistics to carry out, annually, a comprehensive statistical review and analysis of the incidence and effects of prison rape. Requires: (1) the review and analysis to be based on a sample of not less than ten percent of all Federal, State, and county prisons, and a representative sample of municipal prisons, that includes at least one prison from each State; and (2) Federal, State, or local officials or facility administrators that receive a request from the Bureau to participate in the national survey and provide access to any inmates under their legal custody.

Establishes within the Department of Justice the Review Panel on Prison Rape to carry out, for each calendar year, public hearings concerning the operation of the three prisons with the highest incidence of prison rape and the two prisons with the lowest incidence in each category of facilities identified. Declares that the purpose of these hearings shall be to collect evidence to aid in the identification of common characteristics of: (1) victims and perpetrators of prison rape; (2) prisons and prison systems with a high incidence of prison rape; and and (3) prisons and prison systems that appear to have been successful in deterring prison rape.

Requires the Attorney General to submit an annual report to Congress and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on Bureau and Panel activities regarding prison rape. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 through 2010.

(Sec. 5) Establishes within the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) a national clearinghouse for the provision of information, assistance, and training to Federal, State, and local authorities for the prevention, investigation, and punishment of prison rape.

(Sec. 6) Directs the Attorney General to make grants to to assist States in ensuring that budgetary circumstances do not compromise efforts to protect inmates and to safeguard the communities to which inmates return. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 through 2010, with a limitation.

(Sec. 7) Establishes the National Prison Rape Reduction Commission to: (1) study the impact of prison rape on Federal, State, and local governments and on communities and social institutions; and (2) report recommended national standards for enhancing the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape.

(Sec. 8) Directs the Attorney General, within one year after receiving such report, to publish a final rule adopting national standards. Provides for a five percent reduction of any amount of grant funds for prisons that a State would otherwise receive for a fiscal year, unless the chief executive of the State submits to the Attorney General: (1) a certification that the State has adopted, and is in full compliance with, the national standards; or (2) an assurance that not less than five percent of such amount shall be used only to enable the State to adopt and achieve full compliance with such standards, so as to ensure that such certification may be submitted in future years. Requires the Attorney General to publish an annual report listing each grantee that is not in compliance with the standards.

(Sec. 9) Prohibits the receipt of Federal grants by penal facility accredication organizations that fail to adopt accreditation standards for the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape.]]>

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