Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act
Acronyms (colloquial)
First Step Act
Enacted by
the 115th United States Congress
Effective
December 21, 2018
Citations
Public law
115-391
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 756 by Dan Sullivan (R–AK) on March 29, 2017
Committee consideration by Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Passed the Senate on August 3, 2017 (Unanimous consent)
Passed the House of Representatives on July 25, 2018 (Voice Vote) with amendment
Senate agreed to House of Representatives amendment on December 18, 2018 (Yeas: 87; Nays: 12) with further amendment
House of Representatives agreed to Senate amendment on December 20, 2018 (Yeas: 358; Nays: 36)
Signed into law by President Donald Trump on December 21, 2018
United States Supreme Court cases
Terry v. United States, No. 20-5904, 593 U.S. ___ (2021)
Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, 597 U.S. ___ (2022)
Pulsifer v. United States, No. 22-340, 601 U.S. ___ (2024)
The First Step Act, formally known as the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act, is a bipartisan criminal justice bill passed by the 115th U.S. Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in December 2018. The act enacted several changes in U.S. federal criminal law aimed at reforming federal prisons and sentencing laws in order to reduce recidivism, decreasing the federal inmate population, and maintaining public safety.[1]
^"The First Step Act of 2018: An Overview" (PDF). Congressional Research Service. March 4, 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 14, 2021. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
The FirstStepAct, formally known as the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act, is a bipartisan criminal...
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2018, Lee criticized Senator Tom Cotton for his stance on the proposed FirstStepAct, a criminal justice reform bill Lee supported. Cotton had said that...
sentence in a minimum security prison and he is not eligible to earn FirstStepAct Credits. He will not receive Good Time Credits since his sentence does...
Command Module Columbia. When Armstrong firststepped onto the lunar surface, he famously said: "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind...
Jobs Act of 2017, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act in 2018, the FirstStepAct, the Great American Outdoors Act, and...
Gambino boss. Gotti's requests for compassionate release under the FirstStepAct, citing his failing health, were both denied: that of July 2019 in September...
2020, Miedzianowski requested a reduction in his sentence under the FirstStepAct. This request was denied. In 2022 brothers Juan and Rosendo Hernandez...
applying to the sentencing court for compassionate release under the FirstStepAct, but relief was once again denied. On November 10, 2022, the Parole...
power to company hence called as regulating act. Ultimately, we can conclude that it was the firststep towards parliamentary control over the company...
December 21, 2018, President Donald Trump signed the FirstStepAct bill into law. The FirstStepAct has provisions to ease prison sentences for drug related...
together with Senate Republicans and The Heritage Foundation – to pass the FirstStepAct in 2018. Stand Together has cited this approach as a key to its effectiveness...
in the push to pass the FirstStepAct, a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill. He has introduced the Marijuana Justice Act, which would legalize cannabis...
Outdoors Act, reversed numerous environmental regulations, and withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change. He signed the FirstStepAct on job...
rest in the Supreme Court decision in Barber v. Thomas in 2010. The FirstStepAct, which provides for time credits for successful participation in recidivism...
Senate Judiciary Committee." Arguing against the bill in question, the FIRSTSTEPAct, Cotton asserted that "convicts of certain sex-related crimes could...
the first day, Schumer called the previous evening "a dark night for the Senate", when the White House, in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit...
lot worse" if he was elected. In 2018, Trump signed the bipartisan FirstStepAct in law, a bill aimed at reforming federal prisons and sentencing laws...
investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack. Paul supported the FirstStepAct. On cannabis legalization, Paul says the issue should be left up to...
in their first terms which they may tout in the 2024 campaign. Biden signed the American Rescue Plan, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Inflation...
the paperwork for compassionate early release under Donald Trump's FirstStepAct. Manna and DeSciscio had been sentenced to 80 and 75 years respectively...
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