Crack-Cocaine Equitable Sentencing Act of 2003

H.R. 10, the "9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act" H.R. 86, the "Traffic Stops Along the Border Statistics Study Act," would require the U.S. Attorney General to collect race and other data on traffic stops made by State and local law enforcement officers; H.R. 101, the "Law Enforcement Officers Flag Memorial Act," would provide the families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty with a flag that has been flown over the U.S. Capitol; H.R. 259, the "Civic Participation and Rehabilitation Act," would restore the right to vote in Federal elections to released felons who are denied that right by the State in which they reside; H.R. 293, which would amend 18 U.S.C. to prohibit taking a child hostage in order to evade arrest; H.R. 404, the "Open Air Drug Market Penalty Act," would amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide an additional five years imprisonment for knowingly committing a Federal drug offense within 500 feet of the place where any similar offense was committed in the preceding 48 hours; H.R. 1433, the "Ex-Offender Voting Rights Act," would restore the right to vote in Federal elections to released felons who are denied that right by the State in which they reside; H.R. 1435, the "Crack-Cocaine Equitable Sentencing Act" would amend the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to eliminate certain mandatory minimum penalties relating to crack cocaine offenses; H.R. 1708/S. 764 the "Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act," reauthorizes the grant program through 2007, which was incorporated into H.R. 2714, legislation that reauthorized the State Justice Institute; H.R. 1731, the "Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act," which provides significantly enhanced penalties by defining a new criminal offense, "aggravated identity theft" and expands the existing identify theft prohibition to close several gaps in the existing law by criminalizing the possession of stolen identification with intent to commit or further another crime; H.R. 1994, the "Public Safety Act" would ensure that the incarceration of inmates is not provided by private contractors or vendors and that persons charged or convicted of an offense against the United States shall be housed in facilities managed and maintained by Federal, State, or local governments; H.R. 2296, the "Federal No Frills Prison Act," would prohibit the use of Federal funds for certain amenities and personal comforts in the Federal prison system, including for in-cell TV viewing, instruction in boxing or karate, and the possession of any in-cell heating element; H.R. 2582, the "Foster Child Protection Act of 2003," which requires caseworkers to notify law enforcement immediately when a foster child goes missing; H.R. 2710, the "Public Safety Officers Flag Act," would require the Secretary of Homeland Security to furnish a flag to drape the coffin of each public safety officer killed in the line of duty, and to be given to the next of kin after burial; H.R. 2714, the "State Justice Institute Reauthorization Act" H.R. 3693, the the "Identity Theft Investigation and Prosecution Act," would authorize $100 million to the U.S. Department of Justice for the investigation and prosecution of identity theft and identity fraud cases; H.R. 3815, the "Badge and Uniform Security and Trustworthiness (BUST) Act of 2003," applies the current law prohibitions against the use of counterfeit police badges to the use of any public safety officer insignia or article of clothing; H.R. 4754, the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005; H.R. 5107, the "Scott Campbell, Stephanie Roper, Wendy Preston, Louarna Gillis, and Nila Lynn Crime Victims' Rights Act," which aims to protect crime victims' rights, to eliminate the substantial backlog of DNA samples collected from crime scenes and convicted offenders, to improve and expand the DNA testing capacity of Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to increase research and development of new DNA testing technologies, to develop new training programs regarding the collection and use of DNA evidence, to provide post-conviction testing of DNA evidence to exonerate the innocent, and to improve the performance of counsel in State capital cases. S. 132, the "National Death Penalty Moratorium Act," would impose a moratorium on the death penalty at the Federal level and urge the States to do the same until a National Commission on the Death Penalty studies its use; S. 402, the "Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act," would abolish the death penalty option for all Federal crimes which currently carry that penalty; S. 1177, the "Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking (PACT) Act," would lower the threshold on the number of cigarettes to be treated as contraband from 60,000 to 10,000, strengthen the reporting requirements for interstate cigarette vendors, making violations of those requirements a felony instead of a misdemeanor and increase the civil penalties for violating these reporting requirements and allow State Attorneys General to prosecute violators in Federal court; S. 1735, the "Gang Prevention and Effective Deterrence Act," is a comprehensive, national approach to the problem of gang violence which would provide Federal funding to support joint Federal, State and local law enforcement efforts to combat violent gangs and amend the Federal criminal code to define new offenses which will enable law enforcement to fight gangs and gang-related activity more effectively; S. 2742, legislation which extends, for an additional four years, the "sunset" provision on authority of the Supreme Court Police to protect the Justices and other Court officials and official guests away from the Court building and grounds and adds the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to the existing statute establishing venue for the prosecution of violations of statutes or regulations governing the Supreme Court building and grounds; S. 2760 (Kyl, R-AZ), the "Public Safety Officers' Defense Act," which ensure a reasonable and timely Federal review of State convictions for the murder of a law enforcement officer; S. 2836, the Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2005 through 2007; S. 2934, the "Combating Methamphetamine Act," which would create a supplemental grant program at the U.S. Department of Justice for States that develop a comprehensive, long-term plan to address the use, manufacture, and sale of methamphetamines, and has enacted or will enact a law to limit the sale of precursor products that are used to make this dangerous drug;