[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3242 Introduced in House (IH)]


104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3242

     To provide for the reporting of deaths of persons in custody.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 15, 1996

  Mr. Hutchinson (for himself and Mr. Scott) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To provide for the reporting of deaths of persons in custody.

    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 ``Reporting Deaths in Custody Act of 
1996''.

SEC. 2. REPORTING OF DEATHS OF PERSONS IN CUSTODY IN JAILS.

    (a) In General.--The Attorney General shall, in such form and 
manner as the Attorney General determines, and under such regulations 
as the Attorney General shall prescribe, require that the appropriate 
public authorities report promptly to the Attorney General the death of 
each individual who dies in custody while in a municipal or county 
jail, State or Federal prison, or other similar place of confinement. 
Each such report shall include the cause of death and all other facts 
relevant to the death reported, which the person so reporting shall 
have the duty to make a good faith effort to ascertain.
    (b) Annual Report.--The Attorney General shall annually publish a 
report containing--
            (1) the number of deaths in each institution for which a 
        report was filed during the relevant reporting period;
            (2) the cause of death and time of death for each death so 
        reported; and
            (3) such other information about the death as the Attorney 
        General deems relevant.
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