A bill to amend section 2254 of title 28, United States Code, with respect to Federal habeas corpus.

Limits the availability of the writ of habeas corpus in a Federal Court on behalf of a State prisoner to cases in which the prisoner is in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States; the claimed constitutional violation presents a substantial question which was not theretofore raised and which cannot thereafter be raised and determined in the State court; and the claimed constitutional right is one which has as its primary purpose the protection of the reliability of either the factfinding process at the trial or the appellate process on appeal from the judgment of conviction. (Amends 28 U.S.C. 2254)