A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the consideration of acquitted conduct at sentencing.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3483 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3483

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the consideration of 
                    acquitted conduct at sentencing.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 15, 2025

  Mr. Durbin (for himself and Mr. Grassley) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the consideration of 
                    acquitted conduct at sentencing.

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

SECTION 1. PROHIBITING PUNISHMENT OF ACQUITTED CONDUCT.

    (a) Use of Information for Sentencing.--
            (1) Amendment.--Section 3661 of title 18, United States 
        Code, is amended by inserting ``, except that a court of the 
        United States shall not consider, except for purposes of 
        mitigating a sentence, acquitted conduct under this section'' 
        before the period at the end.
            (2) Applicability.--The amendment made by paragraph (1) 
        shall apply only to a judgment entered on or after the date of 
        enactment of this section.
    (b) Definitions.--Section 3673 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking 
        ``As'' and inserting the following:
    ``(a) As''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) As used in this chapter, the term `acquitted conduct' means--
            ``(1) an act--
                    ``(A) for which a person was criminally charged and 
                adjudicated not guilty after trial in a Federal, State, 
                or Tribal court; or
                    ``(B) in the case of a juvenile, that was charged 
                and for which the juvenile was found not responsible 
                after a juvenile adjudication hearing; or
            ``(2) any act underlying a criminal charge or juvenile 
        information dismissed--
                    ``(A) in a Federal court upon a motion for 
                acquittal under rule 29 of the Federal Rules of 
                Criminal Procedure; or
                    ``(B) in a State or Tribal court upon a motion for 
                acquittal or an analogous motion under the applicable 
                State or Tribal rule of criminal procedure.''.
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