To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the tolling of the statute of limitations with regard to certain offenses committed by the President of the United States during or prior to tenure in office, and for other purposes.
No President is Above the Law Act of 2020
This bill tolls (i.e., pauses) the statute of limitations for federal criminal offenses that are committed by the President or Vice President prior to or during their term of office. (Currently, most federal criminal offenses have a five-year statute of limitations.)
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, the Budget, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and House Administration, 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.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 116-705.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 116-705.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 589.
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