[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3036 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3036

 To mandate life imprisonment without release for drug traffickers or 
            violent criminals convicted for a third offense.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 9, 1993

Mr. Gallegly introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly 
       to the Committees on Energy and Commerce and the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To mandate life imprisonment without release for drug traffickers or 
            violent criminals convicted for a third offense.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Three-Time Loser Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT RELEASE FOR CRIMINALS CONVICTED A 
              THIRD TIME.

    Section 401(b) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 841(b)) 
is amended by striking ``If any person commits a violation of this 
subparagraph or of section 418, 419, or 420 after two or more prior 
convictions for a felony drug offense have become final, such person 
shall be sentenced to a mandatory term of life imprisonment without 
release and fined in accordance with the preceding sentence. For 
purposes of this subparagraph, the term'' and inserting ``If any person 
commits a violation of this subparagraph or of section 418, 419, or 420 
or a crime of violence after two or more prior convictions for a felony 
drug offense or crime of violence or for any combination thereof have 
become final, such person shall be sentenced to not less than a 
mandatory term of life imprisonment without release and fined in 
accordance with the preceding sentence. For purposes of this 
subparagraph, the term `crime of violence' means an offense that is a 
felony and has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use 
of physical force against the person or property of another, or by its 
nature involves a substantial risk that physical force against the 
person or property of another may be used in the course of committing 
the offense, and the term''.

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