[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2988 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2988

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to remove the requirement that 
residents of residential reentry facilities pay 25 percent of any gross 
 income earned during work release to offset the cost of being housed, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2017

  Ms. Norton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 18, United States Code, to remove the requirement that 
residents of residential reentry facilities pay 25 percent of any gross 
 income earned during work release to offset the cost of being housed, 
                        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 ``Ensuring Successful Reentry Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT PRISONERS ON WORK RELEASE PAY PART OF THEIR 
              GROSS INCOME OVER FOR HOUSING.

    Section 3622(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
striking all that follows after ``facility if'' and inserting the 
following: ``the rates of pay and other conditions of employment will 
not be less than those paid or provided for work of a similar nature in 
the community.''.
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