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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · H.R. 4261 (Introduced in House) — To improve public safety, accountability, transparency, and respect for federalism in Federal criminal law by applyin... · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Table of contents

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The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Table of contents. Title I—Identifying and Reducing Over-Federalization and Over-Criminalization By Respecting the Balance of Powers Among the States and the Federal Government Sec. 101. Compilation and publication of criminal offenses to provide fair notice to address over-federalization. Sec. 102. Procedures to reduce over-federalization. Sec. 103. Procedures to reduce pretrial detention. Sec. 104.
Annual review and reports of the citizen complaint process. Sec. 105. Focusing Federal criminal penalties for simple possession to places of special Federal interest in recognition of the balance of power between the Federal Government and the States. Title II—Creating a Performance-Incentive Funding Program Sec. 201. Calculation of savings. Sec. 202. Distribution of performance incentive funding. Sec. 203. Use of performance incentive funding. Sec. 204. Definitions. Title III—Addressing Information Disparity and Accuracy in Criminal Prosecutions to Protect Innocence More Robustly and to Reduce the Number of Wrongful Convictions Sec. 301.
Findings and declarations. Sec. 302. Accuracy and reliability of evidence in criminal cases; addressing information disparity in criminal cases. Sec. 303. Notification relating to forensic, prosecutorial, or law enforcement misconduct. Sec. 304. Remedies. Sec. 305. Toolkits for State and local government. Title IV—Concentrating Prison Space on Violent and Career Criminals Subtitle A—Restoring Original Congressional Intent To Focus Federal Drug Mandatory Minimums Only on Managers, Supervisors, Organizers, and Leaders of Drug Trafficking Organizations and To Avoid Duplicative Prosecution with States Sec. 401.
Focusing the application of Federal mandatory minimums for certain drug offenses to restore original congressional intent respecting the balance of power between the Federal Government and the States. Sec. 402. Modification of criteria for safety valve limitation on applicability of certain mandatory minimums. Sec. 403. Consistency in the use of prior convictions for sentencing enhancements. Sec. 404. Clarification of applicability of the Fair Sentencing Act. Sec. 405. Eligibility for resentencing based on changes in law.
Sec. 406. Directives to the Sentencing Commission. Sec. 407. Exclusion of acquitted conduct and discretion to disregard manipulated conduct from consideration during sentencing. Subtitle B—Clarification of Congressional Intent on Certain Recidivist Penalties Sec. 408. Amendments to enhanced penalties provision. Subtitle C—Expanding the Ability To Apply for Compassionate Release Sec. 409. Ability to petition for release to extended supervision for certain prisoners who are medically incapacitated, geriatric, or caregiver parents of minor children and who do not pose public safety risks.
Title V—Encouraging Accountability With Greater Use of Evidence-Based Sentencing Alternatives for Lower-Level Offenders Sec. 501. Eligibility for prejudgement probation. Sec. 502. Sentence of probation. Sec. 503. Directive to the Sentencing Commission regarding use of probation. Sec. 504. Establishing accountability evidence-based problem-solving court programs. Title VI—Implementing Evidence-Based Practices to Reduce Recidivism Subtitle A—Revision of Statutory Sentence Credits Sec. 601.
Delivery and incentives to complete in-prison recidivism reduction programming. Sec. 602. Post-sentencing risk and needs assessment system and in-prison recidivism reduction programming. Subtitle B—De-escalation Training and Improving Community Relations Sec. 603. De-escalation training. Subtitle C—Oversight of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Sec. 604. Authorizing grants to States for the use of medication-assisted treatment for heroin, opioid, or alcohol abuse in residential substance abuse treatment.
Sec. 605. Performance-based contracting for residential reentry centers. Subtitle D—Implementing Swift, Certain, and Proportionate Sanctions for Violations of Conditions of Probation or Supervised Release Sec. 606. Graduated sanctioning system. Sec. 607. Graduated responses to technical violations of supervision. Sec. 608. Targeted and proportional penalties for revocation of probation. Sec. 609. Targeted and proportional penalties for violations of supervised release. Subtitle E—Focus Supervision Resources on High-Risk Offenders Sec. 610.
Earned discharge credits for compliant supervisees. Sec. 611. Elimination of mandatory revocation for minor drug violations. Subtitle F—Maximizing Public Safety Returns on Corrections Dollars Sec. 612. Clarification or original congressional intent regarding calculation of good time conduct credit. Sec. 613. Analysis of fiscal implications for inclusion in presentence reports. Sec. 614. Supporting safe law enforcement. Title VII—Increasing Government Transparency and Accuracy Sec. 701.
Report on mandatory minimums. Sec. 702. Federal defender added as a nonvoting member of the Sentencing Commission. Sec. 703. Budget and inmate population impact of legislation on the Federal corrections system. Sec. 704. Reports.
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