[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2314 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2314

 To clarify that prosecutors and other public officials acting in the 
    performance of their official duties may enter into cooperation 
  agreements and make other commitments, assurances, and promises, as 
        provided by law in consideration of truthful testimony.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 15, 1998

   Mr. Leahy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To clarify that prosecutors and other public officials acting in the 
    performance of their official duties may enter into cooperation 
  agreements and make other commitments, assurances, and promises, as 
        provided by law in consideration of truthful testimony.

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

SECTION 1. CLARIFICATION OF PROSECUTORIAL AUTHORITY.

    Section 201 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as 
                paragraphs (3) and (4), respectively;
                    (B) by striking ``Whoever'' and all that follows 
                through ``otherwise than'' and inserting ``Whoever, 
                otherwise than'';
                    (C) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as 
                paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively, and indenting 
                appropriately; and
                    (D) in paragraph (1), as so designated, by striking 
                ``or'' at the end; and
            (2) in subsection (d), by striking ``paragraphs (2) and 
        (3)'' and inserting ``paragraphs (3) and (4)''.
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