S. 2241: Drug-Free Playgrounds Safety Enhancement Act of 2014
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S. 2241: Drug-Free Playgrounds Safety Enhancement Act of 2014
113th Congress · introduced 2014-04-10 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2014-04-10 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
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Official title
Drug-Free Playgrounds Safety Enhancement Act of 2014
Plain summary
Drug-Free Playgrounds Safety Enhancement Act of 2014 - Amends provisions of the Controlled Substances Act prescribing enhanced penalties for distributing or manufacturing drugs in or near certain facilities, such as schools, playgrounds, youth centers, and swimming pools, to: (1) include among such facilities a video amusement game facility (currently, a video arcade facility); (2) define a "video amusement game facility" as any facility that is legally accessible to persons under 18 years of age, that is intended primarily for amusement, and that contains video game machines or other similar youth games; and (3) revise the definition of "playground" to mean any outdoor area that is intended for recreation, that is open to the public, and that contains one or more apparatus intended for the recreation of children, including play structures, sliding boards, swingsets, seesaws, merry-go-rounds, slides, jungle gyms, chin-up bars, sandboxes, spring riders, monkey bars, overhead ladders, trapeze rings, playhouses, rope bridges, and mazes.
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Drug-Free Playgrounds Safety Enhancement Act of 2014
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK] · 1 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-113s2241.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/113/s>
Record fed-us-cong113-s2241 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113