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The bill cleans up statutory numbering and cross-references to reduce legal confusion and citation errors, while creating modest, temporary disruption and small update costs for practitioners and research tools.
Court officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and state/local court administrators will have clearer, updated statutory cross-references that reduce confusion when applying release and detention rules.
Law enforcement and courts will face a lower risk of drafting, citation, and interpretation errors in prosecutions and judicial decisions because the codification clarifies statutory language and references.
Practitioners (attorneys, judges, and court staff) may experience short-term confusion when citing or locating the renumbered or struck subparagraph until official annotations and references are updated.
Publishers, legal researchers, and attorneys may incur modest time and expense to update statutory research tools, treatises, and databases to reflect the renumbering and edits.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Makes textual citation and subsection-numbering edits to 18 U.S.C. § 3142 and sets an official short title; no new substantive obligations or funding.
Official title: Give Federal courts additional discretion to determine whether pretrial detention is appropriate for defendants charged with nonviolent drug offenses in Federal criminal cases.
Introduced March 2, 2026 by Richard Joseph Durbin · Last progress March 2, 2026
Makes only textual and citation edits to the federal pretrial detention statute (18 U.S.C. § 3142) and establishes an official short title for the Act. It replaces certain cross-references with a parenthetical citation and removes and renumbers one subparagraph in the statute; it does not create new policy requirements, funding, or deadlines.