[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3752 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3752

  To amend section 410(b)(1)(A) of the Controlled Substances Act, to 
    provide a mandatory term of life imprisonment without release, 
   probation, parole or suspension of sentencing for drug felons and 
               violent criminals convicted a third time.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 26, 1994

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend section 410(b)(1)(A) of the Controlled Substances Act, to 
    provide a mandatory term of life imprisonment without release, 
   probation, parole or suspension of sentencing for drug felons and 
               violent criminals convicted a third time.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 401(b)(1)(A) of the Controlled Substance Act (21 U.S.C. 
841(b)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ``If any person commits a 
violation of the 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 inserting ``If any person commits a violation of 
the subparagraph or of section 418, 419, or 420 (21 U.S.C. 859, 860, 
and 861) or a crime of violence after 2 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 a mandatory term 
of life imprisonment without release, probation, parole or suspension 
of sentencing. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term `crime of 
violence' means an offense that is a felony punishable by a maximum 
term of imprisonment of 10 years or more 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.''.

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