[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 12, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3853]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2837. Mr. HATCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) 
to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle F of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1066. AUTHORITY OF PROBATION OFFICERS.

       (a) In General.--Section 3606 of title 18, United States 
     Code, is amended--
       (1) in the heading, by striking ``and return of a 
     probationer'' and by inserting ``authority of probation 
     officers'';
       (2) by striking ``If there'' and inserting ``(a) If 
     there''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(b) A probation officer, while in the performance of his 
     or her official duties, may arrest a person without a warrant 
     if there is probable cause to believe that the person has 
     forcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated, 
     or interfered with the probation officer, or a fellow 
     probation officer, in violation of section 111. The arrest 
     authority described in this subsection shall be exercised 
     under such rules and regulations as the Director of the 
     Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall 
     prescribe.''.
       (b) Table of Sections.--The table of sections for 
     subchapter A of chapter 229 of title 18, United States Code, 
     is amended by striking the item relating to section 3606 and 
     inserting the following:

``3606. Arrest authority of probation officers.''.
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