Title 18, Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-110

§3608 Drug Testing of Federal Offenders on Post-conviction Release

Title 18 › PART II — CRIMINAL PROCEDURE › CHAPTER 229 — POSTSENTENCE ADMINISTRATION › SUBCHAPTER A — PROBATION › § 3608

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts must set up a drug-testing program for federal offenders on post-conviction release if funding is available. The Director must work with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services and create rules to make sure the tests are accurate and reliable. In each federal judicial district, the chief probation officer must arrange drug testing for people on post-conviction release after a felony conviction or another offense listed in section 3563(a)(4).

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Title 18, §3608

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The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall, subject to the availability of appropriations, establish a program of drug testing of Federal offenders on post-conviction release. The program shall include such standards and guidelines as the Director may determine necessary to ensure the reliability and accuracy of the drug testing programs. In each judicial district the chief probation officer shall arrange for the drug testing of defendants on post-conviction release pursuant to a conviction for a felony or other offense described in section 3563(a)(4).

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section 3563(a)(4), referred to in text, probably means the par. (4) of section 3563(a) added by section 20414(b)(3) of Pub. L. 103–322, which was renumbered par. (5) by Pub. L. 104–132, title II, § 203(1)(C), Apr. 24, 1996, 110 Stat. 1227.

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18 U.S.C. § 3608

Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110