Save Our Children Act of 1999

Save Our Children Act of 1999 - Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend or promulgate sentencing guidelines to provide that certain drug offenses committed in the presence of a child receive a penalty enhancement of the greater of: (1) two offense levels or one year, for the first such offense; or (2) four offense levels or two years, for the second such offense.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 484 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 484

 To direct the United States Sentencing Commission to provide penalty 
 enhancements for drug offenses committed in the presence of children.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 2, 1999

Mr. Nethercutt introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the United States Sentencing Commission to provide penalty 
 enhancements for drug offenses committed in the presence of children.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Save Our Children Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. GUIDELINES.

    The United States Sentencing Commission shall amend or promulgate 
sentencing guidelines no later than 120 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act to provide that an offense under part D of the 
Controlled Substances Act which is committed in the presence of a child 
receives a penalty enhancement. The Sentencing Guidelines, as so 
amended or promulgated, shall reflect a minimum 2 offense levels 
greater than the offense level for the underlying offense or one year, 
whichever is greater, and in the case of a second such offense, not 
less than 4 offense levels greater or 2 years than the offense level, 
whichever is higher, for the underlying offense.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION.

    For the purposes of this Act, an offense is in the presence of a 
child if--
            (1) it takes place in the line of sight of an individual 
        who has not attained the age of 18 years; or
            (2) an individual who has not attained the age of 18 years 
        habitually resides in the place where the violation occurs.
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