[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 437 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 437

  To amend title 18, United States Code, to modify the limitation on 
                      mandatory minimum sentences.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 1995

 Mr. Hastings 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 modify the limitation on 
                      mandatory minimum sentences.

    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 ``Minimum Mandatory Sentence 
Modification Act''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF LIMITATION ON MINIMUM MANDATORY SENTENCES.

    (a) Section 3553 Amendments.--Section 3553(f) of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``an offense under section 401,'' and all 
        that follows through ``(21 U.S.C. 961, 963)'' and inserting 
        ``any offense''; and
            (2) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``had attained the age 
        of 55 years at the time of sentencing and'' after ``the 
        defendant''.
    (b) Modification of Effective Date and Application.--Subsection (c) 
of section 80001 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act 
of 1994 (Public Law 103-322; 108 Stat. 1986) is amended by striking 
``on or after the 10th day'' and all that follows through the end of 
such subsection and inserting ``whether before, on, or after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. Upon the application of any person whose 
sentence is governed by section 3553(f) of title 18, United States 
Code, and notice to Government, the sentencing court shall modify that 
sentence to comply with such section.''.
    (c) Savings Provision for Persons Covered by Former Section 
3553(F).--This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall not reduce 
the eligibility, by reason of section 3553(f) as in effect before the 
enactment of this Act, of any person for a sentence without regard to a 
statutory minimum sentence.
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