[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 18 (Monday, February 1, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E82-E83]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




INTRODUCTION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PAROLE AND SUPERVISED RELEASE 
                                  ACT

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                       HON. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON

                      of the district of columbia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, February 1, 2021

  Ms. NORTON. Madam Speaker, I rise today to introduce the District of 
Columbia Parole and Supervised Release Act. This bill would give the 
District of Columbia the authority to make parole and supervised 
release determinations for D.C. Code offenders beginning on November 1, 
2022.
  Currently, the U.S. Parole Commission (Commission) makes these 
determinations for D.C. Code offenders. This bill would give D.C. the 
same authority over parole and supervised release determinations for 
D.C. Code offenders that the Commission has today. The District has 
asked to have this authority for its own local offenders. D.C. would 
have the same authority the states possess over their own local 
offenders on these matters, including the authority to devise an 
adjudication system as it sees fit.

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  The National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement 
Act of 1997 transferred the functions of the D.C. Parole Board to the 
Commission. By transferring the Commission's work on D.C. Code 
offenders back to the District, the federal government would save money 
with enactment of this bill.
  I ask my colleagues to support this bill.

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