Emergency Community Supervision Act
United States116th CongressS-3646Senate
Updated: May 7, 2020
Summary
Emergency Community Supervision Act This bill establishes measures to reduce the number of individuals in federal custody during a national emergency relating to a communicable disease. Specifically, it does the following: requires certain categories of inmates to be released and placed in community supervision (e.g., home confinement); limits the use of pretrial detention; and modifies supervised release, including to suspend the request for detention and imprisonment as a sanction for a violation of probation, supervised release, or parole.
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Timeline
Latest companion bill action
HR-6400: Emergency Community Supervision ActReferred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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