Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-2965
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Alternative dispute resolution
Apprenticeship
Armed Forces and National Security
Blind
Buy American
Charitable contributions
Charities
Church and social problems
Citizen participation
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Classified defense information
Commerce
Compensation for victims of crime
Compensatory education
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Construction workers
Corporate finance
Corporate philanthropy
Corporation directors
Correctional personnel
Data banks
Department of Justice
Disabled
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational tests
Electric power transmission
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee rights
Employment of the disabled
Energy
Ex-offenders
Executive reorganization
Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Garnishment
Gas pipelines
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government contractors
Government corporations
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publications
Government publicity
Government statistics
Health
Import restrictions
Imports
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Labor unions
Law
Layoffs
Minimum wages
New products
Nonprofit organizations
Occupational health and safety
Official secrets
Parole
Payroll deductions
Petroleum pipelines
Pipelines
Presidential appointments
Prices
Prison administration
Prison labor
Prisoners
Profit
Public meetings
Public utilities
Quality of products
Recidivists
Rehabilitation of criminals
Religion
Right of privacy
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Service industries
Small business
Social Welfare
Subcontractors
Support of dependents
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Trade associations
Transfer of employees
Transportation and Public Works
Unemployment
Vocational and technical education
Volunteer workers
Wages
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: 
Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to replace provisions regarding the purchase of prison-made products by federal departments with provisions establishing a government-wide procurement policy relating to purchases from Federal Prison Industries (FPI), which shall generally require the use of competitive procedures.
 
Authorizes a contract award to be made to FPI using other than competitive procedures: (1) if a product or service is only available from FPI; and (2) by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (the Bureau).
 
Requires that an analysis of the probable impact of a proposed expansion of sales within the federal market by FPI on private sector firms and their non-inmate workers be made whenever FPI proposes to authorize the sale of a new specific product or service or to expand production of a current product or service. 
Prohibits the total dollar value of FPI sales to the government in FY 2007 through 2011 from exceeding specified percentages of FPI sales for the base period. 
Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to require an executive agency: (1) before purchasing a product listed in the latest edition of the FPI catalog, to determine whether the FPI product is comparable to products available from the private sector; and (2) if such product is not comparable, to use competitive procedures or make an individual purchase under a multiple award.
 
Authorizes FPI to enter into a contract with a federal contractor to produce products as a subcontractor or supplier in the performance of a federal procurement contract. Includes services within the scope of a prohibition against transporting (in interstate commerce or from a foreign country) goods produced by prisoners. 
Establishes within the Bureau of Prisons: (1) the Enhanced In-Prison Educational and Vocational Assessment and Training Program; and (2) the Cognitive Abilities Assessment Demonstration Program. 
Directs: (1) the Chief Operating Officer of FPI to develop proposals to have FPI donate products and services to eligible entities that provide goods or services to low-income individuals who would likely otherwise have difficulty purchasing such products or services; (2) the Director of the Bureau to afford to inmates opportunities to participate in programs and activities designed to help prepare such inmates to obtain employment upon release; and (3) the Comptroller General to undertake to have an independent study conducted on the effects of eliminating FPI's mandatory source authority.
action_date: 2006-07-21
text: 
Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act of 2006 - (Sec. 2) Amends federal criminal code provisions relating to Federal Prison Industries (FPI) (a wholly-owned government corporation) to establish governmentwide procurement policies for purchases from FPI based upon competitive procedures. Authorizes contract awards on a noncompetitive basis if the Attorney General determines that FPI cannot reasonably expect fair consideration to receive a contract award on a competitive basis and the contract award is necessary to maintain inmate work opportunities. 
 
Specifies conditions under which a contract award may be made to FPI using other than competitive procedures. Provides that a timely offer received from FPI to furnish a product or service to a federal agency shall be considered for award without limitation as to the dollar value of the proposed purchase, unless the contract opportunity has been reserved for competition for small businesses under the Small Business Act and its regulations. 
 
Allows FPI to exclude from its bids certain costs relating to security, educating and training inmates, and excess capital costs of machinery and inventories used in prisons.
 
Makes decisions by a federal contracting officer regarding the award of a contract to FPI or the performance of such contract final, unless reversed on appeal.
 
Requires federal agencies to report purchases from FPI to the Federal Procurement Data System.
 
Requires FPI to publish and maintain a catalogue of its products and services. 
 
Imposes federal occupational, health, and safety standards on FPI with respect to its industrial operations.
 
(Sec. 3) Revises rulemaking procedures for approving new FPI products or services. Requires the Chief Operating Officer of FPI to submit a proposal to the Board of Directors of FPI with a detailed analysis of the probable impact on the private sector of a proposed expansion of sales from such new products or services.
 
(Sec. 4) Requires a federal agency that has a requirement for a product that is authorized for sale by FPI and is listed in its catalog to first solicit an offer from FPI and make purchases on a noncompetitive basis. Requires, subject to specified limitations, a contract award to be made on a noncompetitive basis to FPI if the contracting officer determines that: (1) the FPI product will meet the procurement requirements; (2) timely performance of the contract by FPI can be reasonably expected; and (3) the negotiated price does not exceed a fair and reasonable price. 
 
Requires that the terms and conditions of a procurement contract and the price to be paid to FPI be determined by negotiation between FPI and the federal agency making the purchase. Prohibits the negotiated price from exceeding a fair and reasonable price as determined by the Federal Acquisition Regulation. 
 
Prohibits the total dollar value of FPI sales to the federal government in FY2007-FY2011 from exceeding specified percentages of FPI sales for the base period. Sets limits on FPI sales within various business sectors, relating to specific products, and arising from changes in design specifications. Prohibits the use of such preferential contracting authorities on or after October 1, 2011. Requires the Attorney General to make specified findings on the effect of such percentage limitations. 
 
Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to require the head of an executive agency, before purchasing a product listed in the latest FPI catalog, to conduct market research to determine whether the FPI product is comparable to products available from the private sector that best meet the agency's needs in terms of price, quality, and time of delivery.
 
Prohibits the head of an executive agency from entering into a contract with FPI under which an inmate would have access to sensitive or classified information.
 
(Sec. 5) Authorizes FPI to enter into a contract with a federal contractor or subcontractor to produce products as a subcontractor or supplier, but restricts FPI products or services from a subcontractor from entering the commercial market or infringing on procurement preferences for the blind or disabled or on certain Buy America requirements. Specifies that use of FPI as a subcontractor or supplier cannot be imposed upon prospective or actual federal prime contractors or subcontractors.
 
(Sec. 6) Requires the Board of Directors of FPI to prescribe hourly wage rates for inmates performing work for or through FPI. Requires an hourly minimum rate of $2.50 for inmates whose term of imprisonment will expire in two years or less. Requires a biannual review of inmate wage rates. 
 
Directs the Board of Directors of FPI, not later than September 30, 2008, to increase the maximum wage rate for inmates to 50% of the minimum wage rate under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and to 100% of such wage rate not later than September 30, 2013. Limits to 80% the maximum amount of deductions from inmates' gross. 
 
(Sec. 7) Includes services furnished by such convicts or prisoners within the prohibition against the transportation or importation of goods produced by prisoners or convicts in interstate or foreign commerce. Allows for the completion of existing contracts and programs involving federal inmates who are furnishing services in commerce. 
 
(Sec. 9) Provides that nothing in this Act shall establish: (1) an entitlement of any federal prison inmate to employment in a FPI facility or any particular wage or benefit; (2) inmates as employees for purposes of any law or program; or (3) any cause of action against the United States.
 
(Sec. 10) Establishes within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBP) the Enhanced In-Prison Educational and Vocational Assessment and Training Program to provide: (1) in-prison assessments of inmates' needs and aptitudes; (2) a full range of educational opportunities; (3) vocational training and apprenticeships; and (4) comprehensive release-readiness preparation. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY2008. Expresses the sense of Congress that FPI should use some of its net earnings to accomplish the purposes of this program. Phases in the implementation of the program in all federal prisons within eight years. 
 
Amends the federal criminal code to authorize inmates with work assignments within FPI to perform work for a tax-exempt charity, religious organization, or local governmental unit or school district (eligible entities) that have an agreement with FPI. Establishes the position of Inmate Work Training Administrator to create alternative inmate work opportunities with eligible entities. Sets forth requirements for proposals by eligible entities for participation in inmate work programs, including certain representations regarding the charitable nature of the entities' work, protections for non-inmate workers, wage rates for inmates, and deductions from inmate wages. Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2012. 
 
Directs the Chief Operating Officer of FPI to develop proposals to have FPI donate products and services to charitable entities that provide goods or services to low-income individuals.
 
Establishes with the FBP the Cognitive Abilities Assessment Demonstration Program to assess the cognitive abilities and perceptual skills of inmates to prepare such inmates to return to society and reduce recidivism. Requires such demonstration program to be conducted for three consecutive fiscal years beginning during FY2008 at 12 federal correctional institutions and to be offered to 6,000 inmates who are within five years of release. Directs the Director of the FPB to report to Congress on such demonstration programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2011.
 
Requires the Director of the FBP to offer prerelease employment assistance to inmates upon release.
 
(Sec. 11) Authorizes private for-profit business entities to participate in work-based training and apprenticeship programs for federal prison inmates. Sets forth requirements relating to training and wage rates for inmates. 
 
Prohibits FPI from offering for commercial sale products produced or services furnished by federal inmates.
 
Terminates authority for programs after September 30, 2016, and requires all agreements relating to programs to be performed before October 1, 2021. 
 
Requires the Attorney General to: (1) meet with officials of FPI to review inmate work-based training programs; and (2) report to the Judiciary and Appropriations Committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate on program progress.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) undertake an on-going assessment of inmate work-based training programs; (2) provide an opportunity for public comment on the scope and methodology of such assessment; and (3) make interim and final reports to Congress on such assessment.
 
(Sec. 12) Revises the membership structure and terms of the Board of Directors of FPI. 
 
(Sec. 13) Permits FPI to: (1) locate more than one workshop at a federal correctional facility; and (2) operate a workshop outside a facility if all inmates working in such workshop are classified as minimum security inmates.
 
(Sec. 14) Directs that correctional officers or other employees of FPI who are separated from employment due to reductions in FPI revenues be: (1) eligible for appointment in the competitive civil service; (2) registered on a Bureau of Prisons reemployment priority list; and (3) given priority for appropriate positions in the Bureau of Prisons. 
 
(Sec. 15) Revises and expands FPI annual reporting requirements to Congress. Requires copies of FPI's annual reports to be made available to the public.
 
(Sec. 17) Provides for proposed revisions to the Governmentwide Federal Acquisition Regulation for implementing this Act and final regulations within 180 days of enactment of this Act. Requires public participation in the formulation of such regulations.
 
Requires the Board of Directors of FPI to issue regulations defining &quot;prison-made product,&quot; &quot;prison-furnished service,&quot; &quot; specific product,&quot; and &quot;specific service.&quot; Requires the Board of Directors to use means designed to most effectively solicit public comment on proposed regulations, procedures, and policies and to conduct open meetings. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Labor to establish an inmate training wage pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
 
(Sec. 18) States that provisions of this Act relating to FPI bid protests are not intended to alter the protest rights of any other offeror of a federal contract bid. States that nothing in this Act is intended to modify the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act (concerning procurement from persons who are blind or severely disabled).

action_date: 2006-09-14
text: 
Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act of 2006 - (Sec. 2) Amends federal criminal code provisions relating to Federal Prison Industries (FPI) (a wholly-owned government corporation) to establish governmentwide procurement policies for purchases from FPI based upon competitive procedures. Authorizes contract awards on a noncompetitive basis if the Attorney General determines that FPI cannot reasonably expect fair consideration to receive a contract award on a competitive basis and the contract award is necessary to maintain inmate work opportunities. 

Specifies conditions under which a contract award may be made to FPI using other than competitive procedures. Provides that a timely offer received from FPI to furnish a product or service to a federal agency shall be considered for award without limitation as to the dollar value of the proposed purchase, unless the contract opportunity has been reserved for competition for small businesses under the Small Business Act and its regulations. 

Allows FPI to exclude from its bids certain costs relating to security, educating and training inmates, and excess capital costs of machinery and inventories used in prisons.

Makes decisions by a federal contracting officer regarding the award of a contract to FPI or the performance of such contract final, unless reversed on appeal.

Requires federal agencies to report purchases from FPI to the Federal Procurement Data System.

Requires FPI to publish and maintain a catalogue of its products and services. 

Imposes federal occupational, health, and safety standards on FPI with respect to its industrial operations.

(Sec. 3) Revises rulemaking procedures for approving new FPI products or services. Requires the Chief Operating Officer of FPI to submit a proposal to the Board of Directors of FPI with a detailed analysis of the probable impact on the private sector of a proposed expansion of sales from such new products or services.

(Sec. 4) Requires a federal agency that has a requirement for a product that is authorized for sale by FPI and is listed in its catalog to first solicit an offer from FPI and make purchases on a noncompetitive basis. Requires, subject to specified limitations, a contract award to be made on a noncompetitive basis to FPI if the contracting officer determines that: (1) the FPI product will meet the procurement requirements; (2) timely performance of the contract by FPI can be reasonably expected; and (3) the negotiated price does not exceed a fair and reasonable price. 

Requires that the terms and conditions of a procurement contract and the price to be paid to FPI be determined by negotiation between FPI and the federal agency making the purchase. Prohibits the negotiated price from exceeding a fair and reasonable price as determined by the Federal Acquisition Regulation. 

Prohibits the total dollar value of FPI sales to the federal government in FY2008-FY2012 from exceeding specified percentages of FPI sales for the base period. Sets limits on FPI sales within various business sectors, relating to specific products, and arising from changes in design specifications. Prohibits the use of such preferential contracting authorities on or after October 1, 2012. Requires the Attorney General to make specified findings on the effect of such percentage limitations. 

Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to require the head of an executive agency, before purchasing a product listed in the latest FPI catalog, to conduct market research to determine whether the FPI product is comparable to products available from the private sector that best meet the agency's needs in terms of price, quality, and time of delivery.

Prohibits the head of an executive agency from entering into a contract with FPI under which an inmate would have access to sensitive or classified information.

(Sec. 5) Authorizes FPI to enter into a contract with a federal contractor or subcontractor to produce products as a subcontractor or supplier, but restricts FPI products or services from a subcontractor from entering the commercial market or infringing on procurement preferences for the blind or disabled or on certain Buy America requirements. Specifies that use of FPI as a subcontractor or supplier cannot be imposed upon prospective or actual federal prime contractors or subcontractors.

(Sec. 6) Requires the Board of Directors of FPI to prescribe hourly wage rates for inmates performing work for or through FPI. Requires an hourly minimum rate of $2.50 for inmates whose term of imprisonment will expire in two years or less. Requires a biannual review of inmate wage rates. 

Directs the Board of Directors of FPI, not later than September 30, 2008, to increase the maximum wage rate for inmates to 50% of the minimum wage rate under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and to 100% of such wage rate not later than September 30, 2013. Limits to 80% the maximum amount of deductions from inmates' gross. 

(Sec. 7) Includes services furnished by such convicts or prisoners within the prohibition against the transportation or importation of goods produced by prisoners or convicts in interstate or foreign commerce. Allows for the completion of existing contracts and programs involving federal inmates who are furnishing services in commerce. 

(Sec. 9) Provides that nothing in this Act shall establish: (1) an entitlement of any federal prison inmate to employment in a FPI facility or any particular wage or benefit; (2) inmates as employees for purposes of any law or program; or (3) any cause of action against the United States.

(Sec. 10) Establishes within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBP) the Enhanced In-Prison Educational and Vocational Assessment and Training Program to provide: (1) in-prison assessments of inmates' needs and aptitudes; (2) a full range of educational opportunities; (3) vocational training and apprenticeships; and (4) comprehensive release-readiness preparation. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY2007. Expresses the sense of Congress that FPI should use some of its net earnings to accomplish the purposes of this program. Phases in the implementation of the program in all federal prisons within eight years. 

Amends the federal criminal code to authorize inmates with work assignments within FPI to perform work for a tax-exempt charity, religious organization, or local governmental unit or school district (eligible entities) that have an agreement with FPI. Establishes the position of Inmate Work Training Administrator to create alternative inmate work opportunities with eligible entities. Sets forth requirements for proposals by eligible entities for participation in inmate work programs, including certain representations regarding the charitable nature of the entities' work, protections for non-inmate workers, wage rates for inmates, and deductions from inmate wages. Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2012. 

Directs the Chief Operating Officer of FPI to develop proposals to have FPI donate products and services to charitable entities that provide goods or services to low-income individuals. Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2012. 

Establishes with the FBP the Cognitive Abilities Assessment Demonstration Program to assess the cognitive abilities and perceptual skills of inmates to prepare such inmates to return to society and reduce recidivism. Requires such demonstration program to be conducted for three consecutive fiscal years beginning during FY2008 at 12 federal correctional institutions and to be offered to 6,000 inmates who are within five years of release. Directs the Director of the FPB to report to Congress on such demonstration programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2011.

Requires the Director of the FBP to offer prerelease employment assistance to inmates upon release.

(Sec. 11) Authorizes private for-profit business entities to participate in work-based training and apprenticeship programs for federal prison inmates. Sets forth requirements relating to training and wage rates for inmates. 

Prohibits FPI from offering for commercial sale products produced or services furnished by federal inmates.

Terminates authority for programs after September 30, 2016, and requires all agreements relating to programs to be performed before October 1, 2021. 

Requires the Attorney General to: (1) meet with officials of FPI to review inmate work-based training programs; and (2) report to the Judiciary and Appropriations Committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate on program progress.

Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) undertake an on-going assessment of inmate work-based training programs; (2) provide an opportunity for public comment on the scope and methodology of such assessment; and (3) make interim and final reports to Congress on such assessment.

(Sec. 12) Revises the membership structure and terms of the Board of Directors of FPI. 

(Sec. 13) Permits FPI to: (1) locate more than one workshop at a federal correctional facility; and (2) operate a workshop outside a facility if all inmates working in such workshop are classified as minimum security inmates.

Directs FPI to establish a cost accounting system.

(Sec. 14) Directs that correctional officers or other employees of FPI who are separated from employment due to reductions in FPI revenues be: (1) eligible for appointment in the competitive civil service; (2) registered on a Bureau of Prisons reemployment priority list; and (3) given priority for appropriate positions in the Bureau of Prisons. 

(Sec. 15) Revises and expands FPI annual reporting requirements to Congress. Requires copies of FPI's annual reports to be made available to the public.

(Sec. 17) Provides for proposed revisions to the Governmentwide Federal Acquisition Regulation for implementing this Act and final regulations within 180 days of enactment of this Act. Requires public participation in the formulation of such regulations.

Requires the Board of Directors of FPI to issue regulations defining &quot;prison-made product,&quot; &quot;prison-furnished service,&quot; &quot; specific product,&quot; and &quot;specific service.&quot; Requires the Board of Directors to use means designed to most effectively solicit public comment on proposed regulations, procedures, and policies and to conduct open meetings. 

Requires the Secretary of Labor to establish an inmate training wage pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

(Sec. 18) States that provisions of this Act relating to FPI bid protests are not intended to alter the protest rights of any other offeror of a federal contract bid. States that nothing in this Act is intended to modify the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act (concerning procurement from persons who are blind or severely disabled).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S10003)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S10003)
action_date: 2006-09-15
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 362 - 57 (Roll no. 443).
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 362 - 57 (Roll no. 443).
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H6579)
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2965.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Scott (VA) amendment #5, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Scott (VA) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 997, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Scott (VA) amendment.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Scott (VA) amendment #2, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Scott (VA) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 997, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Scott (VA) amendment.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 997, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Sensenbrenner amendment.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 2965.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: The Speaker designated the Honorable John Boozman to act as Chairman of the Committee.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 997 and Rule XVIII.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2965 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 997. (consideration: CR H6561-6580; text of measure as reported in House: CR H6567-6575)
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: Rule H. Res. 997 passed House.
action_date: 2006-09-12
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 997 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2965 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill.
action_date: 2006-07-21
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 342.
action_date: 2006-07-21
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 109-591.
action_date: 2006-07-21
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 109-591.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Mr. King (IA) asked unanimous consent that the Committee on Judiciary have until midnight on July 21 to file a report on H.R. 2965. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-07-12
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2006-07-12
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-07-08
text: Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Discharged.
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House