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Version 36 · Passed House amended · May 7, 1996
Revises Federal criminal code provisions regarding retaliating against or tampering with a witness, a victim, or an informant in a criminal case, or influencing or injuring an officer or juror in a criminal case through the threat or use of physical force, to provide for a maximum term of imprisonment of the higher of that otherwise provided by law or the maximum term that could have been imposed for any offense charged in the case.
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Rep. Fox, Jon D. [R-PA-13] · R–PA
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Became Public Law No: 104-214.
Became Public Law No: 104-214.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11054)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11054)
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 430.
Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4788)
Received in the Senate.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On passage Passed by voice vote.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by voice vote.
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 3120.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate.
The Speaker designated the Honorable Steven C. LaTourette to act as Chairman of the Committee.
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 422 and Rule XXIII.
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3120 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit. Providing for consideration of the bill in the Committee of the Whole. Bill is open to amendments. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 422. (consideration: CR H4494-4500)
Mr. McCollum asked unanimous consent that, during the consideration of the bill in the Committee of the Whole, pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 422, the Chairman may postponed until a time during further consideration in the Committee of the Whole a request for a recorded vote on any amendment, and that the chairman of the Committee of the Whole may reduce to not less than five minutes the time for voting by electronic device on any postponed question that immediately follows another vote by electronic device without intervening business, provided that the time for voting on the first in any series of questions shall be not less than 15 minutes. Agreed to without objection.
Rule H. Res. 422 passed House.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 422 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3120 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit. Providing for consideration of the bill in the Committee of the Whole. Bill is open to amendments. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 266.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 104-549.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 104-549.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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