Open Air Drug Market Penalty Act of 1998
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Sep 18, 1998)
Open Air Drug Market Penalty Act of 1998 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to impose an additional five years' imprisonment for knowingly committing a Federal offense of which an element is the distribution of a controlled substance and for which the maximum term of imprisonment equals or exceeds five years within 500 feet of the place where such an offense was committed within the preceding 48 hours.
Prohibits: (1) the court from placing on probation or suspending the sentence of anyone convicted for such a violation; and (2) the term of imprisonment imposed from running concurrently with any other term of imprisonment.
What just happenedSep 30, 1998
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseSep 18, 1998
- Sep 30, 1998CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Sep 26, 1998CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee - Sep 18, 1998IntroReferralH11100
Referred to House Commerce
Energy and Commerce Committee - Sep 18, 1998IntroReferralH11100-A
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
- Sep 18, 1998IntroReferralH11100
Referred to House Judiciary
Judiciary Committee - Sep 18, 1998IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Sep 18, 1998IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House