[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 199 (Thursday, December 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S7029]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
By Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Lee, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Booker,
Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Coons, Ms. Harris, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms.
Hirono, and Mr. Leahy):
S. 3035. 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; to the Committee on Banking,
Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of
the bill be printed in the Record.
There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be
printed in the Record, as follows:
S. 3035
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 ``Elderly Home Detention Pilot
Program Technical Corrections Act of 2019''.
SEC. 2. 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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