Number: RL33884
Title: Court Security Improvement Act of 2007: A Legal Analysis of Public Law 110-177 (H.R. 660 and S. 378)
Authors: Charles Doyle, American Law Division 
Abstract: Early in the 110th Congress, the Chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees introduced essentially identical versions of the Court Security Improvement Act of 2007, as H.R. 660 and S. 378, that mirrored legislation that passed the Senate at the close of the 109th Congress. Each House reported and passed somewhat different variations, although the basic structure of the legislation remained unchanged in both instances. The Senate subsequently accepted and passed H.R. 660 with slight amendments, which the House in turn accepted under suspension of the rules. The President the bill on January 7, 2008. The bill as passed, Public Law 110-177 (P.L. 110-177), consists of four components: adjustments to applicable provisions of criminal law, reenforcement of the authority and oversight features of the law that governs federal judicial security, grant programs to facilitate increased security for the judiciary of the states, and miscellaneous provisions whose relation to judicial security might initially appear remote.
Pages: 26
Date: January 14, 2008