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To improve the tools available to prosecute certain violent crimes, and for other purposes.

8/4/2007--Introduced.

Prosecutorial Tools Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to impose enhanced criminal penalties for serious violent felonies committed during and in relation to any drug trafficking crime.

Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) impose additional restrictions on the release of persons charged with certain firearms offenses; and (2) establish limitation periods for prosecuting certain noncapital crimes of violence and terrorism.
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Latest Actions
  • 09/10/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
  • 08/04/2007 - Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • 08/04/2007 - Referred to House Judiciary
  • 08/04/2007 - Referred to House Energy and Commerce
  • 08/04/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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H.R.3462 Introduced in House08/31/2007