[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 982 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 982

 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

                             March 4, 1999

 Mr. Goodlatte (for himself, Mr. Goode, Mr. Armey, Mr. Cox, Mr. Blunt, 
 Mr. Tiahrt, Mr. Barr of Georgia, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Barton of Texas, Mr. 
Pickering, Mr. Whitfield, Mr. Bryant, Mr. Shadegg, Mr. Mica, Mr. Goss, 
  Mr. Istook, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Bachus, Mr. Fossella, Mr. Largent, Mr. 
   English, Mr. Latham, Mr. Hostettler, Mr. Paul, Mr. Ballenger, Mr. 
Sessions, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Peterson of Pennyslvania, Mr. Packard, Mr. 
 Schaffer, Mr. Herger, Mr. Hayworth, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Franks of New 
    Jersey, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Knollenberg, Mr. Dickey, Mr. Weldon of 
Florida, Mr. Green of Wisconsin, Mr. LoBiondo, Mr. DeMint, Mrs. Myrick, 
Mr. Hilleary, Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Everett, Mr. Tancredo, Mr. Salmon, Mr. 
  Forbes, and Mr. McCollum) 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Keep Drug Needles Off the Streets 
Act''.

SEC. 2. 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.''.
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