[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6427 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6427

  To preclude the transfer of Federal prisoners during the emergency 
 period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 3, 2020

Mr. Keller (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Cartwright, 
  Mr. Bost, and Mr. Bucshon) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To preclude the transfer of Federal prisoners during the emergency 
 period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act, 
                        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 ``Pausing All New Detention and Ending 
Movement of Inmates for Coronavirus Act of 2020'' or as the ``PANDEMIC 
Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON PRISONER TRANSFER.

    During the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) of 
the Social Security Act--
            (1) notwithstanding section 3621 of title 18, United States 
        Code, no prisoner may be transferred between correctional 
        facilities;
            (2) no individuals in the custody of the U.S. Marshals 
        Service shall be transferred to the custody of the Bureau of 
        Prisons for placement in a facility operated by the Bureau of 
        Prisons; and
            (3) in the case of any person in the custody of a State, 
        pending transfer to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, the 
        Attorney General may take such actions as may be necessary to 
        provide for the service of any term of imprisonment by that 
        person in a correctional facility of that State.

SEC. 3. AUTHORITY FOR EXPANSION.

    The Director of the Bureau of Prisons may take such actions as may 
be necessary to expand capacity in any correctional facility.

SEC. 4. WAIVER OF POWER.

    The Attorney General may, on a case by case basis, waive the 
application of section 2. The authority under this section may not be 
delegated.
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