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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 118 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To prohibit the use of forfeited funds made available to certain State or |
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| 6 | 6 | | local law enforcement agencies pursuant to equitable sharing for certain |
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| 7 | 7 | | purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY3, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. B |
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| 11 | 11 | | IGGSof Arizona introduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 12 | 12 | | Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy |
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| 13 | 13 | | and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak- |
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| 14 | 14 | | er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju- |
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| 15 | 15 | | risdiction of the committee concerned |
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| 16 | 16 | | A BILL |
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| 17 | 17 | | To prohibit the use of forfeited funds made available to |
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| 18 | 18 | | certain State or local law enforcement agencies pursuant |
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| 19 | 19 | | to equitable sharing for certain purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Federal Funds for 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Political Prosecutions Act’’. 5 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •HR 118 IH |
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| 28 | 28 | | SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON USE OF FORFEITED FUNDS MADE 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | AVAILABLE PURSUANT TO EQUITABLE SHAR-2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ING. 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (a) I |
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| 32 | 32 | | NGENERAL.—No funds or property received 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | pursuant to section 511(e) of the Controlled Substances 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Act (21 U.S.C. 811(e)), section 981 of title 18, United 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | States Code, or section 524 of title 28, United States 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Code, by a State or local law enforcement agency with the 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | authority to prosecute a criminal case may be used to in-9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | vestigate or prosecute the President or Vice President, a 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | former President or Vice President, or a candidate for the 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | office of President. 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (b) C |
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| 42 | 42 | | ERTIFICATION.—A State or local law enforce-13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ment agency referred to in subsection (a) shall certify to 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | the Attorney General that the law enforcement agency will 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | comply with subsection (a). 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (c) D |
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| 47 | 47 | | ISQUALIFICATION.—In the case of a State or 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | local law enforcement agency that the Attorney General 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | determines has failed to comply with this section, the At-19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | torney General may not transfer, under section 511(e) of 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 811(e)), section 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | 981 of title 18, United States Code, or section 524 of title 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | 28, United States Code, any property seized by the Attor-23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | ney General and forfeited to the United States, or any 24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | of the proceeds from the sale of such property to such 25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | State or local law enforcement agency. 26 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘can-1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | didate’’ has the meaning given such term in section 301 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | 30101). 4 |
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