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To improve public safety, accountability, transparency, and respect for federalism in Federal criminal law by applying evidence-based reforms already made by some States, and reinvesting the resulting savings from doing so in additional evidence-based criminal justice strategies that are proven to reduce recidivism and crime, and the burden of the criminal justice system on the taxpayer.
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Sponsor. Representative for Virginia's 3rd congressional district. Democrat.
Read Text »This bill was introduced on November 6, 2017, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote.
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Cosponsors15 Cosponsors (8 Republicans, 7 Democrats)
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