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The bill clarifies and modernizes statutory cross‑references for release/detention rules—reducing legal errors and confusion in adjudication—while imposing only temporary citation disruption and modest update costs for practitioners and research resources.
Court officers, defendants, prosecutors, and judges will have clearer, updated statutory cross‑references and codification for release/detention rules, reducing confusion and lowering the risk of citation or drafting errors in prosecutions and judicial decisions.
Law‑enforcement personnel, local and state government practitioners, and courts may face temporary confusion when citing renumbered or amended provisions until official annotations and references are updated.
Attorneys, courts, and legal publishers will incur small time and administrative costs 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/codification edits to 18 U.S.C. § 3142 by updating cross-references to 34 U.S.C. 40702, removing one subparagraph, and renumbering remaining subparagraphs.
Introduced March 2, 2026 by Richard Joseph Durbin · Last progress March 2, 2026
Amends 18 U.S.C. § 3142 to update statutory cross-references to point to 34 U.S.C. 40702, removes one subparagraph of the detention/release provisions, and renumbers the remaining subparagraphs. These are textual and codification changes to the federal pretrial release and detention statute and do not create new obligations, authorize spending, or set deadlines.