S. 1749: Cell Phone Contraband Act of 2010
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S. 1749: Cell Phone Contraband Act of 2010
111th Congress · introduced 2009-10-05 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Became Public Law No: 111-225.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2009-10-05 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Became Public Law No: 111-225. (final step reached)
- If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.
Official title
Cell Phone Contraband Act of 2010
Plain summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on July 20, 2010. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Cell Phone Contraband Act of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to include a phone or other device provided by a commercial mobile service as a "prohibited object" the provision of which to, or the possession of which by, a federal prisoner is prohibited. Directs the Comptroller General to submit a report to Congress within one year after the enactment of this Act on a study of: (1) telephone rates within federal prisons, to include information on interstate, intrastate, and collect calls made by prisoners; (2) state and federal efforts to prevent the smuggling of cell phones and other wireless devices into prisons; and (3) cell phone use by inmates in selected state and federal prisons. Provides for compliance of the budgetary effects of this Act with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
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Official text
Cell Phone Contraband Act of 2010
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] · 5 cosponsors
Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: S. 1749, Cell Phone Contraband Act of 2010 (2010-02-25); CBO cost estimate: S. 1749, Cell Phone Contraband Act of 2010 (2010-02-25); CBO cost estimate: S. 1749, Cell Phone Contraband Act of 2010 (2010-07-20); CBO cost estimate: S. 1749, Cell Phone Contraband Act of 2010 (2010-07-20)
Cosponsors on this site
Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Public Law)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-111s1749.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/111/s>
Record fed-us-cong111-s1749 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111