[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3223 Introduced in House (IH)]


104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3223

   To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide mandatory life 
 imprisonment for persons convicted of a second serious violent felony 
                        or serious drug offense.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 29, 1996

Mr. Schiff (for himself, Mr. McCollum, Mr. Coble, Mr. Skeen, Mr. Frost, 
 Mrs. Myrick, and Mr. LaTourette) introduced the following bill; which 
             was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide mandatory life 
 imprisonment for persons convicted of a second serious violent felony 
                        or serious drug 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 ``Two Strikes Act of 1996''.

SEC. 2. MANDATORY LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR PERSONS CONVICTED OF SECOND OR 
              SUBSEQUENT SERIOUS VIOLENT FELONIES OR SERIOUS DRUG 
              OFFENSES.

    Paragraph (1) of section 3559(c) of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ``if--'' and all that follows through the end of 
such paragraph and inserting ``if the person has been convicted (and 
that conviction has become final) on a separate prior occasion, in a 
court of the United States or a State, of one or more serious violent 
felonies or one or more serious drug offenses.''.
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