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H.R. 46: No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 2015

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H.R. 46: No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 2015

114th Congress · introduced 2015-01-06 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-01-06 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 2015

Plain summary

No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 201 5 This bill prohibits a state from receiving for a fiscal year any drug control and system improvement (Byrne) grant funds under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, or any amount from any other federal law enforcement assistance program, unless the state does not fund any antidrug task forces for that fiscal year or it has in effect laws that ensure that: (1) a person is not convicted of a drug offense unless the fact that a drug offense was committed and the person's commission of the offense are supported by evidence other than the eyewitness testimony of a law enforcement officer or those acting on an officer's behalf, and (2) an officer may participate in an antidrug task force only if that officer's honesty and integrity are evaluated and found to be at an appropriately high level. States receiving federal funds under this bill are directed to collect data on the racial distribution of drug charges, the nature of the criminal law specified in the charges, and the jurisdictions in which such charges are made.

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Official text

No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 2015

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] · 0 cosponsors

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Fiscal year
The 12-month period a government uses for its budget. The federal fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30 and is named for the calendar year in which it ends. Most states use July 1 to June 30.

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Record fed-us-cong114-hr46 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114