[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1251 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1251

   To amend title 28, United States Code, to add a Federal defender 
 representative as a nonvoting member of the United States Sentencing 
                  Commission, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 4, 2015

   Mr. Scott of Virginia (for himself and Mr. Gowdy) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 28, United States Code, to add a Federal defender 
 representative as a nonvoting member of the United States Sentencing 
                  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. FEDERAL DEFENDER REPRESENTATIVE AS A NONVOTING MEMBER OF 
              U.S. SENTENCING COMMISSION.

    Subsection (a) of section 991 of title 28, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``one nonvoting member.'' at the end of the 
        first sentence and inserting ``two nonvoting members.''; and
            (2) by inserting before the last sentence the following: 
        ``A Federal defender representative designated by the Judicial 
        Conference of the United States shall be a nonvoting member of 
        the Commission.''.

SEC. 2. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.

    The final sentence of section 235(b)(5) of the Comprehensive Crime 
Control Act of 1984 (18 U.S.C. 3551 note) is amended by striking ``nine 
members, including two ex officio, nonvoting members'' and inserting 
``ten members, including three nonvoting members''.
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