Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-90

§3 Reports by the Attorney General.

Title 18 › Part III— PRISONS AND PRISONERS › Chapter [CHAPTER 311— REPEALED] › § 3

Last updated May 14, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must send Congress a report by May 1 each year from 1998 through 2002 about the United States Parole Commission. If the Attorney General does not say that keeping the Commission is the most effective and cost‑efficient way to do its work, the report must include a plan to move the Commission’s functions. If the plan moves those functions to another part of the Department of Justice, it takes effect on November 1 of that year unless Congress changes it. When the plan takes effect, laws about the Commission’s authority over individual offenders stay in force despite section 2 of the Act, and paragraphs (3) and (4) of section 235(b) of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 are repealed.

Full Legal Text

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 L. 98–473, set out as a note under section 3551 of this title] (98 Stat. 2032) are repealed.”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

May 14, 2026

Release point: 119-90