[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1959 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1959

  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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 21, 1998

Mr. Coverdell (for himself, Mr. Ashcroft, and Mr. Brownback) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                      on Labor and Human Resources

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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 to individuals for the hypodermic injection of any illegal 
drug.
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