Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-84

§3 REPORTS BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Title 18 › Part PART III— - PRISONS AND PRISONERS › Chapter [CHAPTER 311— - REPEALED] › § 3

Last updated Apr 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must send a report to Congress by May 1 each year from 1998 through 2002 about how the United States Parole Commission is doing. If the Attorney General does not say that keeping the Commission is the most effective and cost-efficient choice, the report must include a plan to move the Commission’s duties to another agency. If the plan would move those duties to another part of the Justice Department, the plan takes effect on November 1 of that year unless Congress says otherwise. If the plan takes effect, the laws that let the Commission act on individual offenders stay in place even if the time in section 2 of this Act ends, and paragraphs (3) and (4) of section 235(b) of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 are removed.

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Title 18, §3

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“(a)Beginning in the year 1998, the Attorney General shall report to the Congress not later than May 1 of each year through the year 2002 on the status of the United States Parole Commission. Unless the Attorney General, in such report, certifies that the continuation of the Commission is the most effective and cost-efficient manner for carrying out the Commission’s functions, the Attorney General shall include in such report an alternative plan for a transfer of the Commission’s functions to another entity.

“(b)“(1)If the Attorney General includes such a plan in the report, and that plan provides for the transfer of the Commission’s functions and powers to another entity within the Department of Justice, such plan shall take effect according to its terms on November 1 of that year in which the report is made, unless Congress by law provides otherwise. In the event such plan takes effect, all laws pertaining to the authority and jurisdiction of the Commission with respect to individual offenders shall remain in effect notwithstanding the expiration of the period specified in section 2 of this Act.

“(2)Effective on the date such plan takes effect, paragraphs (3) and (4) of section 235(b) of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 [Pub. L. 98–473, set out as a note under section 3551 of this title] (98 Stat. 2032) are repealed.”

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18 U.S.C. § 3

Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Last Updated

Apr 22, 2026

Release point: 119-84