Emergency Community Supervision Act

Summary

Emergency Community Supervision Act This bill establishes measures to reduce the number of individuals in federal custody during a national emergency relating to a communicable disease. Specifically, it does the following: requires certain categories of inmates to be released and placed in community supervision (e.g., home confinement); limits the use of pretrial detention; and modifies supervised release, including to suspend the request for detention and imprisonment as a sanction for a violation of probation, supervised release, or parole.

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Timeline

1. 7 May 2020

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 7 May 2020

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

Votes

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Versions

• Introduced in Senate · 7 May 2020 · Official file

Documents

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 7 May 2020

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• Introduced in Senate (PDF)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 7 May 2020

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• Introduced in Senate

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Sponsors

• Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA] · D · Sponsor
• Bernie Sanders · I · Sponsor
• Elizabeth Warren · D · Cosponsor
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