Ensuring Successful Reentry Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2988
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-06-21
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment

Criminal procedure and sentencing

Wages and earnings
Latest action: action_date: 2017-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-06-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Ensuring Successful Reentry Act of 2017</b></p> <p>This bill amends the federal criminal code to modify the conditions under which an inmate may be temporarily released from custody to work at paid employment in the community. Specifically, it eliminates the requirement for an inmate to pay certain costs incident to his or her detention.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2988 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 21, 2017 Ms. Norton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend title 18, United States Code, to remove the requirement that residents of residential reentry facilities pay 25 percent of any gross income earned during work release to offset the cost of being housed, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Successful Reentry Act of 2017 . 2. Requirement that prisoners on work release pay part of their gross income over for housing Section 3622(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking all that follows after facility if and inserting the following: the rates of pay and other conditions of employment will not be less than those paid or provided for work of a similar nature in the community. .