US Congress House Bill 3781 (Prior Session Legislation)

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January 25 2012 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Law Enforcement Torture Prevention Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a prison term of up to 10 years on any person who, acting under color of law, commits, or attempts or conspires to commit, torture. Increases such prison term to any term of years or life if death results from such torture. Defines "torture" to mean intentionally inflicting severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, on a person for such purposes as obtaining from that person or another person information or a confession, punishing that person, or intimidating or coercing that person or another person, or for any reason based on discrimination, but does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in, or incidental to lawful sanctions.

Law Enforcement Torture Prevention Act of 2011

Rep Davis, Danny K.	Rep Clarke, Hansen	Rep Gutierrez, Luis V.	Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr.	Rep Rush, Bobby L.

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-01-25	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
2012-01-18	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN03781:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3781ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr3781ih.pdf