[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4588 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4588

  To provide that the detention facility at Naval Station, Guantanamo 
  Bay, Cuba remains open indefinitely and to require that individuals 
detained at the facility be tried only by military commission, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 3, 2010

  Mr. Rooney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the 
 Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide that the detention facility at Naval Station, Guantanamo 
  Bay, Cuba remains open indefinitely and to require that individuals 
detained at the facility be tried only by military commission, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 ``Detainee Trials at Gitmo Act''.

SEC. 2. DETENTION FACILITY AT NAVAL STATION, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA TO 
              REMAIN OPEN AND REQUIREMENT THAT INDIVIDUALS DETAINED AT 
              THAT FACILITY BE TRIED ONLY BY MILITARY COMMISSION.

    (a) Detention Facility.--The detention facility at Naval Station, 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba shall remain in use indefinitely by the United 
States as a detention facility.
    (b) Trial by Military Commission.--Any individual who is detained 
at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as of the date of the enactment 
of this Act, may only be tried by military commission under chapter 47A 
of title 10, United States Code. Any trial of such an individual by 
military commission shall be conducted at Naval Station, Guantanamo 
Bay, Cuba.
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