[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 943 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 943

    To reimburse an individual who is the subject of an independent 
   counsel's investigation and is indicted but found not guilty for 
                            attorneys' fees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 1999

 Mr. Thompson of Mississippi (for himself, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Clay, Ms. 
McKinney, Mr. LaFalce, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Mr. King, Mrs. Mink of 
 Hawaii, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. Hilliard, Ms. Kilpatrick, Mr. 
  Faleomavaega, Mr. Lantos, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. Wynn, Mrs. 
 Clayton, Mr. Owens, Mr. Sabo, Mr. Ford, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Scott, and 
  Mr. Rush) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To reimburse an individual who is the subject of an independent 
   counsel's investigation and is indicted but found not guilty for 
                            attorneys' fees.

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

SECTION 1. ATTORNEYS' FEES FOR INDEPENDENT COUNSEL INVESTIGATION.

    Section 593(f)(1) of title 28, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``may, if no indictment is brought against such individual 
pursuant to that investigation, award reimbursement for those 
reasonable attorneys' fees'' and inserting ``may--
                    ``(A) if no indictment is brought against such 
                individual pursuant to that investigation, or
                    ``(B) if an indictment is brought against such 
                individual pursuant to that investigation but such 
                individual is found not guilty of any offense charged 
                in the indictment,
        award reimbursement for those reasonable attorneys' fees''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 1 shall take effect with respect to 
investigations begun before the date of the enactment of this Act.
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