Combat Meth Act

Bill: 108-hr-5188
Sponsor: Rep. Blunt, Roy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2004-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Attorneys general
Child health
Computer software
Computers
Criminal investigation
Data banks
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Drugs
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Environmental Protection
Equipment and supplies
Evidence (Law)
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-state relations
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Hazardous wastes
Health
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Interstate relations
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Law
Law enforcement officers
Legal education
Mandatory sentences
Medical records
Medication abuse
Methamphetamine
Nonprofit organizations
Police
Police training
Prosecution
Public prosecutors
Recidivists
Recruiting of employees
Rural crime
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State laws
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: 
Combat Meth Act - Directs the Attorney General to carry out a program to provide grants to qualified States (i.e., those which had more than 200 methamphetamine lab seizures in 2003 and that provide a specified mandatory minimum sentence for possession and/or distribution of five grams or more of methamphetamine or 50 grams or more of a substance containing methamphetamine) to combat methamphetamine abuse, focusing on the prosecution of repeat offenders.
 
Authorizes funds to provide training to: (1) State and local prosecutors and law enforcement agents for investigation and prosecution of methamphetamine offenses; and (2) State law enforcement personnel at the Drug Enforcement Administration's Clandestine Laboratory Training Facility in Quantico, Virginia.
 
Amends: (1) the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the public safety and community policing grant program to authorize the use of grant funds to hire personnel and purchase equipment to assist in enforcing and prosecuting methamphetamine offenses and in cleaning up methamphetamine-affected areas; and (2) the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to local governments and nonprofit private entities to provide treatment for methamphetamine abuse. 
 
Directs the Attorney General to allocate funds for the hiring and training of special assistant U.S. attorneys. Authorizes the Attorney General, acting through the Bureau of Justice Assistance, to award grants to States to establish methamphetamine precursor monitoring programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Introduced in House