[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4018 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4018

To provide that the amount of time that an elderly offender must serve 
before being eligible for placement in home detention is to be reduced 
  by the amount of good time credits earned by the prisoner, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 25, 2019

  Mr. Deutch introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that the amount of time that an elderly offender must serve 
before being eligible for placement in home detention is to be reduced 
  by the amount of good time credits earned by the prisoner, 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. CREDITS FOR CERTAIN ELDERLY NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS.

    Section 231(g)(5)(A)(ii) of the Second Chance Act of 2007 (34 
U.S.C. 60541(g)(5)(A)(ii)) is amended by striking ``to which the 
offender was sentenced'' and inserting ``reduced by any credit toward 
the service of the prisoner's sentence awarded under section 3624(b) of 
title 18, United States Code''.
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