To amend title 18, United States Code, and the Controlled Substances Act, with respect to the payment of the costs of court-appointed attorneys in certain criminal cases.

Amends the Federal criminal code (the code) to require public disclosure of amounts paid to court-appointed attorneys in certain criminal cases.

Amends the Controlled Substances Act to require: (1) in capital cases, the rate of compensation paid to court-appointed attorneys to be not less than $75, and not more than $125, per hour for in-court and out-of-court time, with fees and expenses paid for investigative, expert, and other reasonably necessary services authorized at the rates and in the amounts authorized under the code; and (2) public disclosure of such amounts paid.

[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3027 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3027

 To amend title 18, United States Code, and the Controlled Substances 
   Act, with respect to the payment of the costs of court-appointed 
                  attorneys in certain criminal cases.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 6, 1996

Mr. Bryant of Tennessee (for himself, Mr. Barr of Georgia, Mr. Duncan, 
 Mr. Gekas, Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. Heineman, Mr. Hostettler, Mr. McCollum, 
  Mr. Sensenbrenner, and Mr. Smith of Texas) introduced the following 
  bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in 
addition to the Committee on Commerce, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 18, United States Code, and the Controlled Substances 
   Act, with respect to the payment of the costs of court-appointed 
                  attorneys in certain criminal cases.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO TITLE 18.

    Section 3006A of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) 
                as paragraphs (5), (6), and (7), respectively; and
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
            ``(4) Disclosure of fees.--The amounts paid under this 
        subsection, for representation in any case, shall be made 
        available to the public.''; and
            (2) in subsection (e) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Disclosure of fees.--The amounts paid under this 
        subsection for services in any case shall be made available to 
        the public.''.

SEC. 2. FEES AND EXPENSES IN CAPITAL CASES.

    Section 408(q)(10) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
848(q)(10)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(10)(A) Compensation shall be paid to attorneys appointed under 
this subsection at a rate of not less than $75, and not more than $125, 
per hour for in-court and out-of-court time. Fees and expenses shall be 
paid for investigative, expert, and other reasonably necessary services 
authorized under paragraph (9) at the rates and in the amounts 
authorized under section 3006A of title 18, United States Code.
    ``(B) The amounts paid under this paragraph for services in any 
case shall be made available to the public.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act apply to cases commenced on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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