Empowers the Board of Parole for the District of Columbia with exclusive authority to release on parole, terminate the parole of, and to modify the terms and conditions of the parole of, any prisoner convicted for violating a District of Columbia law or a Federal law applicable exclusively to the District. Requires that individuals convicted of violating both a law of the District of Columbia and a law of the United States shall be given separate and distinct sentences for such convictions. Provides that the United States Parole Commission shall retain parole authority over individuals who, prior to the date of enactment of this Act, received unified sentences for violations of both a law of the District of Columbia and a law of the United States.
Requires, within one year after enactment of this Act, the Board of Parole for the District of Columbia to make parole eligibility determinations and set a date for full parole hearings for all individuals brought within the parole authority of such Board under this Act.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on District of Columbia.
Referred to Subcommittee on Judiciary and Education.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Subcommittee on Judiciary and Education Discharged.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported.
Reported to House by House Committee on District of Columbia. Report No: 99-323.
Reported to House by House Committee on District of Columbia. Report No: 99-323.
Placed on Union Calendar No: 191.
Called up by House as D.C. Business.
Measure Considered in House as in the Committee of the Whole.
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House by Voice Vote.
Passed House by Voice Vote.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Referred to Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency.
Committee on Governmental Affairs requested executive comment from District of Columbia, Justice Department.
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