To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for appointment of United States marshals by the Attorney General.
United States Marshals Service Improvement Act of 1998 - Amends the Federal judicial code to require that each individual appointed as a United States marshal: (1) be a U.S. citizen, a person in the service of the United States who files a declaration of intention to become a citizen (subject to specified requirements), a person who owes allegiance to the United States, an alien from Cuba or specified other countries lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, a South Vietnamese, Cambodian, or Laotian refugee paroled in the United States after January 1, 1975, or a Chinese national who qualifies for adjustment of status under the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992; (2) have successfully completed a security background investigation conducted by the Department of Justice, a medical evaluation, one or more drug tests, and a firearms proficiency test established for criminal investigators of the Marshals Service; (3) hold a bachelor's degree; and (4) have not less than ten years of professional law enforcement experience, meeting specified requirements.
Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study relating to the most effective process for selecting individuals to serve as U.S. marshals, and report to specified congressional committees.
Expresses the sense of the Senate Judiciary Committee that, after reviewing such report, the Committee shall consider the most effective process for selecting individuals to serve as U.S. marshals, giving strong consideration to that report's results.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 105-27.
Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 105-27.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 18.
Mr. McCollum moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1052-1053)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
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Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Committee on Judiciary. Hearings held.
Committee on Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Judiciary. Reported to Senate by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. Without written report.
Committee on Judiciary. Reported to Senate by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. Without written report.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 332.