Combat Meth Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-314
Sponsor: Rep. Blunt, Roy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Attorneys general
Authorization
Business records
Child health
Commerce
Computer software
Computers
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
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 aid to research
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Hazardous wastes
Health
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Identification devices
Interstate relations
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Law
Law enforcement officers
Legal education
Medical records
Medical research
Medication abuse
Methamphetamine
Nonprofit organizations
Pharmacies
Pharmacists
Police
Police training
Prosecution
Public prosecutors
Recruiting of employees
Research centers
Rural crime
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Combat Meth Act of 2005 - Authorizes funds to provide training to State and local prosecutors and law enforcement agents for investigation and prosecution of methamphetamine offenses, including a set-aside for prosecutors and law enforcement agents for rural communities.
 
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; (2) the Controlled Substances Act to add pseudoephedrine to schedule V; and (3) the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants for the development of drug endangered children rapid response teams and grants to local governments, Indian tribes, 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: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-01-25
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: 2005-01-25
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: 2005-01-25
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: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House