Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-1917
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2017-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Chemical and biological weapons
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Justice
Detention of persons
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Judicial procedure and administration
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Mental health
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Nuclear weapons
Terrorism
Trade restrictions
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: 

Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2017

 
This bill amends various provisions of law and sets forth new provisions:
 
 
 to reduce mandatory minimum prison terms for certain nonviolent repeat drug offenses; 
 
to establish a mandatory sentencing enhancement for a drug offense involving heroin or fentanyl; 
 
to broaden the existing safety valve to permit a sentence below the mandatory minimum for certain nonviolent, cooperative drug offenders with a limited criminal history; 
 
to create a new safety valve for certain nonviolent, cooperative defendants convicted of a high-level first-time or low-level repeat drug offense; 
 
to create new mandatory minimum prison terms, including for interstate domestic violence that results in a victim's death and for providing goods or services to terrorists; 
 
to make the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 retroactive to permit resentencing of a convicted crack cocaine offender sentenced before August 3, 2010; 
 
 to require the Bureau of Prisons to expand recidivism reduction programs and productive activities to all eligible prisoners; 
 
to lengthen prerelease custody for prisoners who successfully complete such programs; 
 
to develop the Post-Sentencing Risk and Needs Assessment System; 
 
to create reentry demonstration projects in judicial districts; 
 
to require presentence investigation reports to include certain information such as substance abuse history, military service, and veteran status; 
 
to permit a court to reduce a life prison term imposed on a defendant convicted as an adult for an offense committed as a juvenile; 
 
to establish a process to seal and expunge certain records of juvenile nonviolent offenses; 
 
 to prohibit juvenile solitary confinement, except in limited circumstances; 
 
 to make permanent and modify eligibility for an elderly offender early release pilot program; and 
 
to establish the National Criminal Justice Commission. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate