[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3712 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3712

  To prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds to provide or support 
programs to provide individuals with hypodermic needles or syringes for 
                       the use of illegal drugs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 22, 1998

 Mr. Solomon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds to provide or support 
programs to provide individuals with hypodermic needles or syringes for 
                       the use of illegal drugs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR HYPODERMIC NEEDLES.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds shall 
be made available or used to carry out or support, directly or 
indirectly, any program of distributing sterile hypodermic needles or 
syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.
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