[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1712 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  2d Session
                                S. 1712

  To provide incentives to encourage stronger truth in sentencing of 
               violent offenders, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 29, 1996

 Mr. Dorgan (for himself and Mr. Craig) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide incentives to encourage stronger truth in sentencing of 
               violent offenders, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Stop Allowing Felons Early Release 
Act (SAFER)''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY FOR TRUTH IN SENTENCING INCENTIVE GRANTS.

    Section 20102(b)(1) of the Violent Crime Control and Law 
Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13702(b)(1)) is amended to read as 
follows:
            ``(1) Formula allocation.--(A) From the amount made 
        available to carry out this section, the Attorney General shall 
        allocate for each eligible State an amount in the ratio that 
        the number of part 1 violent crimes reported by such State to 
        the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 1993 bears to the 
        number of part 1 violent crimes reported by all States to the 
        Federal Bureau of Investigation for 1993.
            ``(B)(i) For each eligible State that has not enacted a 
        statute meeting the requirements of this subparagraph, the 
        Attorney General shall reduce the amount allocated under 
        subparagraph (A) by 25 percent.
            ``(ii) A statute meets the requirements of this 
        subparagraph if it results in the elimination of parole, good 
        time credit release, and other forms of early release for any 
        person convicted of a violent crime, with early release 
        permitted only by approval of the Governor of the State after a 
        public hearing in which representatives of the public and the 
        prisoner's victims have had an opportunity to be heard 
        regarding the proposed release.
            ``(iii) The total amount of the reductions under clause (i) 
        shall be allocated to each eligible State that has enacted a 
        statute meeting the requirements of clause (ii) in accordance 
        with the formula under subparagraph (A).''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall take effect 3 years after 
the date of enactment of this Act.
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