[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2361 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2361

  To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the ``three 
                        strikes'' life sentence.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 1997

   Mr. Schiff (for himself, Mr. McCollum, Ms. Dunn, Mr. Calvert, Mr. 
  Bereuter, and Mr. Redmond) 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, with respect to the ``three 
                        strikes'' life sentence.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3559(c) of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(8) For purposes of paragraph (1), an individual who is 
adjudicated a juvenile delinquent in a juvenile proceeding for conduct 
that would be a serious violent felony or a serious drug offense if 
that conduct were engaged in by an adult, shall be deemed to be 
convicted of that serious violent felony or serious drug offense, but 
only with respect to one such adjudication.''.
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