[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3717 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3717

 To prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds for the distribution of 
   needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of illegal drugs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 23. 1998

Mr. Solomon (for himself, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Hastert, Mr. Barr of Georgia, 
and Mr. DeLay) 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 for the distribution of 
   needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection 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 REGARDING ILLEGAL DRUGS AND DISTRIBUTION OF 
              HYPODERMIC NEEDLES.

    Part B of title II of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following section:

 ``prohibition regarding illegal drugs and distribution of hypodermic 
                                needles

    ``Sec. 247. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
amounts made available under any Federal law for any fiscal year may be 
expended, directly or indirectly, to carry out any program of 
distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection 
of any illegal drug.''.

SEC. 2. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.

    Section 506 of Public Law 105-78 is repealed.
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