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Version 01 · Reported to Senate with amendment(s) · Feb 26, 1998
Bulletproof Vest Partnership Act of 1998 - Authorizes the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to: (1) make grants to States, local governments, and Indian tribes to purchase armor vests for use by State, local, and tribal law enforcement officers; and (2) give preferential consideration to applications from jurisdictions that have a violent crime rate at or above the national average and that have not been providing each law enforcement officer assigned to patrol or other hazardous duties with body armor. Sets forth provisions regarding matching funds and allocation of funds, applications, and reimbursement of funds. Provides that a qualifying State, unit of local government, or Indian tribe may not receive more than five percent of the total amount appropriated in each fiscal year for such grants, except that a State, together with grantees within the State, may not receive more than 20 percent of the total amount appropriated in each fiscal year for such grants. Prohibits any State, local government, or Indian tribe that receives financial assistance made available by this Act from purchasing equipment or products manufactured using prison inmate labor. Expresses the sense of the Congress that entities receiving assistance under this Act should, in expending such assistance, purchase only American-made equipment and products. Authorizes appropriations.
People & committees
Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] · R–CO
Legislative record
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Became Public Law No: 105-181.
Became Public Law No: 105-181.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Senate agreed to House amendments by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4930)
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to House amendments by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4930)
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate bill.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
The title of the measure was amended to that of similar measure H.R. 2829. Agreed to without objection.
A similar measure H.R. 2829 was laid on the table without objection.
On passage Passed without objection.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.
The House struck all after the enacting clause and inserted in lieu thereof the provisions of a similar measure H.R. 2829. Agreed to without objection.
Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H3067-3068)
Mr. McCollum asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
Committee on Judiciary discharged.
Committee on Judiciary discharged.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Received in the House.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1803-1807)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S1803-1807)
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 315.
Committee on Judiciary. Reported to Senate by Senator Hatch with an amendment. Without written report.
Committee on Judiciary. Reported to Senate by Senator Hatch with an amendment. Without written report.
Committee on Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S380)
Introduced in Senate
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