Criminal Law and Procedure Minor Substantive and Technical Amendments Act of 1987

Summary

Criminal Law and Procedure Minor Substantive and Technical Amendments Act of 1987 - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Federal criminal code. Provides increased criminal penalties where a bodily injury results during the commission of the crime of deprivation of rights under color of law. Grants the Associate Attorney General authority to: (1) approve certain civil rights prosecutions; (2) approve prosecutions for flight to avoid service of process; (3) summon special grand juries; (4) request a judicial grant of immunity; and (5) object to the disclosure of classified information under the Classified Information Procedures Act. Grants specially designated Assistant Attorneys General authority to approve certain civil rights prosecutions. Grants the Deputy Assistant Attorney General authority to request judicial grants of immunity. Permits the transmission of information on sports betting from a State where such betting is legal to a foreign country where such betting is legal. Permits prosecutions for certain obstruction of justice offenses to be brought in the district where the official proceeding was intended to be effected or in the district in which the conduct constituting the alleged offense occurred. Requires copies of certain periodic reports prepared by directors of psychiatric hospitals concerning persons hospitalized for threatening the President, the Vice President, or certain other persons protected by the Secret Service, to be submitted to the Director of the U.S. Secret Service.

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 22 June 1987

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 18 June 1987

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 28 April 1987

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