Methamphetamine Eradication Act

Bill: 109-hr-4763
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2006-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Authorization
Business records
Child abuse
Child health
Child welfare
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Community policing
Community-based corrections
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Criminal investigation
Custody of children
Data banks
Department of Justice
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drug courts
Drug law enforcement
Drug testing
Drug traffic
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Equipment and supplies
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Food safety
Forfeiture
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Hazardous wastes
Health
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Identification devices
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Law
Legal education
Mandatory sentences
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical tests
Mental health
Methamphetamine
Nonprofit organizations
Packaging
Paramedical personnel
Pharmacies
Police
Police training
Prisoners
Prisons
Prosecution
Public prosecutors
Rehabilitation of criminals
Research grants
Retail trade
Rural crime
Rural education
Rural health
School health programs
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Soil pollution

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-15
text: 
Methamphetamine Eradication Act - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to: (1) require fire departments seeking grants under such Act to provide its firefighters methamphetamine awareness training; and (2) allocate funds to rural fire departments for equipment needed for methamphetamine response. 
 
Requires public entities seeking Department of Justice grants to provide their law enforcement officers methamphetamine awareness training.
 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) reauthorize the public safety and community policing (&quot;cops on the beat&quot;) grant program for FY2007-FY2009; (2) allocate funds to rural police departments and drug task forces to purchase equipment needed for methamphetamine response; and (3) impose a substance abuse testing requirement for federal and state prisoners in residential substance abuse treatment programs. Allocates funds under such Act to assist in prosecuting methamphetamine offenses in rural areas.
 
Reauthorizes the Byrne Formula Grant Program for FY2007-FY2009. Requires that not less than 50% of funding under such program be available only for grants by the Attorney General to police departments and drug task forces in rural areas to purchase basic equipment to address situations involving methamphetamines.
 
Requires that not less than 50% of amounts available to the Drug Enforcement Administration in a fiscal year to combat methamphetamines be available only for rural areas. 
 
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to regulate retail sales and packaging of list I pseudoephedrine products.
 
Imposes a minimum mandatory penalty of 20 years for the manufacture of methamphetamine on premises in which an individual under the age of 18 years resides. 
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants for treatment of methamphetamine abuse, giving priority to rural areas; and (2) direct the Secretary to award grants for methamphetamine research, training, and technical assistance. 
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of the health effects on children from the unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine; and (2) award grants to address the mental health problems of children from homes where methamphetamines are manufactured. 
 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to award grants to educate students about methamphetamine abuse and its prevention and treatment, giving priority to schools in rural areas.
 
Authorizes appropriations and grants for methamphetamine laboratory cleanup in rural areas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1499)
action_date: 2006-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research.
action_date: 2006-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
action_date: 2006-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2006-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2006-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Science, Education and the Workforce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2006-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Science, Education and the Workforce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2006-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Science, Education and the Workforce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2006-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Science, Education and the Workforce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2006-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Science, Education and the Workforce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2006-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Science, Education and the Workforce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2006-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-15
text: Introduced in House